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Putin orders expansion of Ukraine ‘buffer zone’ as Russia touts advances in Kharkiv and Sumy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/putin-orders-expansion-of-ukraine.html

Das KI-Energie-Dilemma: Wenn der digitale Boom die Netze überlastet
Europa will KI-Kontinent werden. Doch die Expansion der dafür benötigten Rechenzentren führt laut AlgorithmWatch zu Engpässen bei Energie und Netzstabilität.
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Filing: China's top DRAM maker CXMT plans to raise $4.2B in a Shanghai IPO; CXMT held a 4% global share in Q2 2025 and targets HBM production by the end of 2026 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ch…

"You may not notice this—but perhaps, on some level, you do? Every presidential election since 2005’s DST expansion has arrived two days after the time change."
Is daylight saving time secretly helping Republicans win elections?
https://archive.ph/NJu8W#selection-1265.0-1265.158

🔌 Framework Laptop 16 DIY OCuLink x8 expansion module brings desktop GPU support to the modular laptop
https://liliputing.com/framework-laptop-16-diy-oculink-x8-expansion-module-brings-desktop-gpu-support-to-the-mod…

Framework Laptop 16 DIY OCuLink x8 expansion module brings desktop GPU support to the modular laptop - Liliputing
Framework Laptop 16 DIY OCuLink x8 expansion module brings desktop GPU support to the modular laptop

Western Australia just broke ground on its biggest electricity grid upgrade in over a decade. The Clean Energy Link will double transmission capacity in Perth's north, clearing the way for massive wind and solar expansion while enabling the state's coal exit by 2030.
Over 400 jobs created, completion set for 2027.

Construction kicks off on major upgrade of transmission links to host renewables and clear path for coal exit
Construction has begun on four key electricity transmission sites for the largest investment in state's electricity grid in more than a decade.

Foxconn plans to spend another $569M through 2029 to expand its Mount Pleasant, WI AI server manufacturing site, adding to $717M invested through 2024 (Joe Schulz/WPR)
https://www.wpr.org/news/foxconn-expansion-racine-county-wisconsin-jobs

Foxconn planning $569M expansion in Racine County that could create 1,300 jobs
Under the newest revision to Foxconn’s contract with the state, Foxconn could earn up to $96 million in state tax credits through 2029.

Reading stuff like the latest from @… I get the impression that a sound business strategy for the near future would be concentrating on doing stuff well, with competent people doing it, and making plans for rapid expansion for when the whole gigantic castle of half-burnt 6-fingered AI cards comes crashing down.

"COP30 Action Tracker: Brazil’s oil expansion controversies and Keir Starmer’s U-turn"
#Brazil #COP30 #ClimateSummit

A pretty blistering report on UK airport expansion - from the House of Commons Audit Committee.
-No evidence of net benefits.
-Will impair net zero.
-Decisions being taken without the benefit of updated policy.
Airport expansion and climate and nature targets https://

US wine sales are way down, I have seen analyses saying it is people turning from alcohol,
but also Canadians dropped US wine almost completely (see graph). Pissing off your neighbors has consequences.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/a

Northampton on the Eve of Change: Life in 1913 and 1924 https://edintone.com/northampton-eve-of-change/ Over 75 years, Northampton’s expansion was steady and undramatic. @…

Northampton on the Eve of Change: Life in 1913 and 1924 - Miscellanea Edintone
Over 75 years, Northampton’s expansion was steady and undramatic. Outlying villages had become suburbs; only Dallington still remained for future absorption.

Warm Inflation with the Standard Model: #cosmology

Weitere Expansion: Lyft nimmt Kanada stärker in den Blick
Lyft baut seine Präsenz außerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten weiter aus. Der Fahrdienstvermittler eröffnet ein Technologiezentrum im kanadischen Toronto.
http…

Newsletter platform Beehiiv announces new features, including for AI website creation, podcast hosting, digital product sales, and real-time analytics (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/13/news

Newsletter platform beehiiv adds AI website building, creator tools in major expansion | TechCrunch
Newsletter platform beehiiv announced a massive expansion to its platform on Thursday, including offering real-time analytics and AI website creation.

Man muss inzwischen beim Einkaufen ja echt ein ganzes Buch mit No-Go Marken dabei haben..
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/expansion-theo-mueller-uebernimmt-joghurtmarken-luenebest-und…

#ICE Is holed up in a #Milwaukee bldg owned by a local Universisty and despite previous 2023 assurances it would soon move on , are now refusing to leave.
The local Milwaukee School of Engineering is now in an awkward position as it's planned expansion site is now engineered to be off limits to them as it is a…

ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It
The Milwaukee School of Engineering is largely powerless to kick ICE out of a building it wanted to turn into a new academic center, according to audio of a meeting obtained by 404 Media.

Source: President Trump has picked Michael Selig, the chief counsel for the SEC's crypto task force, to chair the CFTC, amid a crypto push (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/trump-to-pick-michael-selig-for-…

Trump to Pick Michael Selig for CFTC Chair Amid Crypto Expansion
President Donald Trump has picked Michael Selig to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, according to an administration official, who asked not to be identified discussing personnel matters.

Trump said this week that the ballroom will seat almost 1,000 people, up from an earlier estimate of about 650.
The White House announced plans in January, initially projecting the expansion backed by private donors would cost $200 million. Trump has since revised that figure to upward of $300 million
https://wapo.st/3WjyJv8

How Trump’s ballroom will dwarf the White House
Trump’s new 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom would be almost as large as the rest of the complex.

Replaced article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- A simple fourth order propagator based on the Magnus expansion in the Liouville space: Applicatio...
Taner M. Ture, Changbong Hyeon, Seogjoo J. Jang

from Reece Martin Transit
The Transit "Experts" That Derail Transit.
My Grand Theory of North America's Transit Expansion Failures.
"saying that if Montreal was building major transit again in the 21st century it wouldn’t build a metro, because no city would is laughable, or painful, depending on ones state of mind when you read that."

The Transit "Experts" That Derail Transit.
My Grand Theory of North America's Transit Expansion Failures.

from my link log —
Tour of a Scheme pattern matcher: expression and pattern expansion.
https://crumbles.blog/posts/2025-11-09-extensible-match-front-end.html
saved 2025-11-14

As NFL stars deal with season-ending injuries, let's end the 18-game season talk https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6892060/2025/12/16/nfl-18-game-expansion-injuries-mahomes-parsons/

Standardmodell der Kosmologie falsch? Expansion des Universums verlangsamt sich
Seit Jahrzehnten geht man davon aus, dass sich die Expansion des Universums beschleunigt – dafür gab es gar den Nobelpreis. Nun werden die Zweifel noch lauter.

#NATO expansion according to #Russian #propaganda:
American: Let's expand into Poland!
NATO expansion according to the rest of the world:

Iterated sumset expansion in $\mathbb{F}_p^n$
Manik Dhar, Sammy Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08857 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08857

Iterated sumset expansion in $\mathbb{F}_p^n$
Given a set $A \subseteq \mathbb{F}_p^n$, what conditions does one need to guarantee that iterated sumsets of the form $A+\cdots+A$ expand quickly (say, within $O(p)$ terms) to the whole space? When only the size of $A$ is known, such expansion results are only possible when $|A|>\frac{1}{p}|\mathbb{F}_p^n|$. However, heuristic considerations suggest that expansion should begin with much smaller sets under just mild ``nondegeneracy'' conditions. In this paper, we confirm thi…

Port of Seattle Commission condemns Trump travel ban expansion as discriminatory - The B-Town (Burien) Blog
https://b-townblog.com/port-of-seattle-commission-condemns-trump-travel-ban-expansion-as-discriminatory/

Paul Tagliabue, NFL commissioner of 17 years who led an era of riches and expansion, dies at 84 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/paul-tagliabue-nfl-commissioner-of-17-years-who-led-an-era-of-riches-and-expan…

Personalize Before Retrieve: LLM-based Personalized Query Expansion for User-Centric Retrieval
Yingyi Zhang, Pengyue Jia, Derong Xu, Yi Wen, Xianneng Li, Yichao Wang, Wenlin Zhang, Xiaopeng Li, Weinan Gan, Huifeng Guo, Yong Liu, Xiangyu Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08935

Personalize Before Retrieve: LLM-based Personalized Query Expansion for User-Centric Retrieval
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) critically depends on effective query expansion to retrieve relevant information. However, existing expansion methods adopt uniform strategies that overlook user-specific semantics, ignoring individual expression styles, preferences, and historical context. In practice, identical queries in text can express vastly different intentions across users. This representational rigidity limits the ability of current RAG systems to generalize effectively in personali…

What Are We Clustering For? Establishing Performance Guarantees for Time Series Aggregation in Generation Expansion Planning
Luca Santosuosso, Bettina Klinz, Sonja Wogrin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09357

What Are We Clustering For? Establishing Performance Guarantees for Time Series Aggregation in Generation Expansion Planning
Generation expansion planning (GEP) is a prominent example of capacity expansion problems in operations research. Being generally NP-hard, GEP optimization models can become intractable when nonconvex dynamics, time-coupling constraints, and complex asset interactions are involved. Time series aggregation (TSA) tackles this by reducing temporal complexity via input data clustering. However, existing TSA methods either focus solely on preserving the statistical features of the input data, yieldi…

CrowdStrike and Nvidia announce an expanded partnership to deepen the use of each other's technologies for creating and deploying AI agents for cybersecurity (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/ai/2025/5-big-moves-in-crowdstrike-nvidia-ai-partner…

5 Big Moves In CrowdStrike-Nvidia AI Partnership
A newly announced partnership expansion between CrowdStrike and Nvidia will see the technology giants utilizing each other’s capabilities more deeply for the creation and deployment of AI agents.

Paul Tagliabue, NFL commissioner of 17 years who led an era of riches and expansion, dies at 84 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/paul-tagliabue-nfl-commissioner-of-17-years-who-led-an-era-of-riches-and-expan…

A closer look at Peru’s Amazon reveals new mining trends, deforestation https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/a-closer-look-at-perus-amazon-reveals-new-mining-trends-deforestation/

A closer look at Peru’s Amazon reveals new mining trends, deforestation
For years, gold mining has been one of Peru’s most pressing environmental challenges, with illegal operations clearing the Amazon Rainforest and polluting rivers with chemicals. The industry continues to grow, as miners spread into new parts of the country and adopt different ways of working. One recent project that maps mining operations and their expansion […]

Quantum $f$-divergences and Their Local Behaviour: An Analysis via Relative Expansion Coefficients
Paula Belzig, Shreyas Iyer, Graeme Smith, Peixue Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06183

Quantum $f$-divergences and Their Local Behaviour: An Analysis via Relative Expansion Coefficients
Any reasonable measure of distinguishability of quantum states must satisfy a data processing inequality, that is, it must not increase under the action of a quantum channel. We can ask about the proportion of information lost or preserved and this leads us to study contraction and expansion coefficients respectively, which can be combined into a single \emph{relative expansion coefficient} for study. We focus on two prominent families: (i) standard quantum $f$ divergences and (ii) their local …

Gradient-flowed operator product expansion without IR renormalons
Martin Beneke (TU Munich), Hiromasa Takaura (Kyoto University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12193 https://…

Gradient-flowed operator product expansion without IR renormalons
A long-standing problem concerns the question how to consistently combine perturbative expansions in QCD with power corrections in the context of the operator product expansion (OPE), since the former exhibit ambiguities due to infrared renormalons, which are of the same order as the power corrections. We propose to use the gradient flow time $1/\sqrt{t}$ as a factorization scale and to express the OPE in terms of IR renormalon-free subtracted perturbative expansions and unambiguous matrix elem…

Safely simplifying redshift drift computations in inhomogeneous cosmologies: Insights from LTB Swiss-cheese models
David R{\o}nne Sallingboe, Sofie Marie Koksbang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09377

Safely simplifying redshift drift computations in inhomogeneous cosmologies: Insights from LTB Swiss-cheese models
One of the most important discoveries in cosmology is the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Yet, the accelerated expansion has only ever been measured {\em in}directly. Redshift drift offers a direct observational probe of the Universe's expansion history, with its sign revealing whether there has been acceleration or deceleration between source and observer. Its detection will mark a major milestone in cosmology, offering the first direct measurement of an evolving expansion rate. Given i…

Many people suggest that coal-fired power is on the rise in China. In real life, it's not anymore. Massive expansion of wind and solar capacities does eat into coal's share, whether or not new power plants come online.
https://energyandcleanair.org/china-en

China energy and emissions trends: December 2025 snapshot – Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air

From kinetic gasses to an exponentially expanding universe: #universe: https://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/en/news-list/news-display/new-attempt-to-explain-the-accelerated-expansion-of-the-universe

Non-unitary Time Evolution via the Chebyshev Expansion Method
\'Aron Holl\'o, D\'aniel Varjas, Cosma Fulga, L\'aszl\'o Oroszl\'any, Viktor K\"onye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10643

Non-unitary Time Evolution via the Chebyshev Expansion Method
The Chebyshev expansion method is a well-established technique for computing the time evolution of quantum states, particularly in Hermitian systems with a bounded spectrum. Here, we show that the applicability of the Chebyshev expansion method extends well beyond this constraint: It remains valid across the entire complex plane and is thus suitable for arbitrary non-Hermitian matrices. We identify that numerical rounding errors are the primary source of errors encountered when applying the met…

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Standardmodell der Kosmologie falsch? Expansion des Universums verlangsamt sich

America is numb to this infrastructure problem
Maryland needs to replace the Chesapeake Bay Bridge,
as everyone who has driven on it knows.
Yet construction to replace the structure is only scheduled to begin in 💥2032.
The most shocking aspect of this story is that locals aren't more shocked.

Tens of thousands of drivers cross the Bay Bridge every day. -- It’s a vital link to the Eastern Shore.
The bridge has no shoulders.
No new lanes have b…

America is numb to this infrastructure problem
The timeline for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge replacement project is an indictment of a broken system.

Minnesota is making energy history at the Sherco Energy Hub. Xcel Energy is retiring all remaining coal plants and replacing them with massive solar arrays and battery storage systems—proving renewables can handle the heavy lifting once done by fossil fuels.
Construction starts in 2026. Plus, nearly 2,000 sheep are maintaining the solar panels through grazing.

Massive Solar Plus Storage Facility To Replace Coal And Gas, Too
Sheep graze among the panels at the Sherco Solar power plant in Minnesota, which is slated for a major solar plus storage expansion.

Blackstone invests $50M into compliance agent-focused Norm Ai, which is launching an independent law firm offering "AI-native legal services" (Norm Ai)
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/n<…

"Chip Expansion" has got to be a fetish https://youtu.be/5--LfHdshco?t=121

Double Double 🛗
成双 🛗
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

On the $b$-ary expansion of a real number whose irrationality exponent is close to 2
Yann Bugeaud, Dong Han Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02059 https://ar…

On the $b$-ary expansion of a real number whose irrationality exponent is close to 2
Let $b \ge 2$ be an integer and $ξ$ an irrational real number. We establishes that, if the irrationality exponent of $ξ$ is less than $2.324 \ldots$, then the $b$-ary expansion of $ξ$ cannot be `too simple', in a suitable sense. This improves the results of our previous paper [Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa Cl. Sci., 2017].

New D&D art! Check it out!
Chapter 5: Magic of Faerûn opener illustration created for Dungeon & Dragon's Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn player expansion.
AD: Emi Tanji
The seventh Blackstaff of Waterdeep, Vajra Safahr is seen here awakening The Hawkman, one of the might walking statues of Waterdeep.
https://www.…

"Brazil greenlights oil drilling in Amazon as environmentalists raise alarm"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #FossilFuels

Trump set to expand immigration crackdown in 2026 and increase workplace raids | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-immigration-expansion-workplace-raids-deportations-b2888611.html

Assassins Creed Mirage expansion is out today, but my internet connection has been terrible and the download is just crawling.

Defensive Model Expansion for Robust Bayesian Inference
Antonio R. Linero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09598 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09598

Defensive Model Expansion for Robust Bayesian Inference
Some applied researchers hesitate to use nonparametric methods, worrying that they will lose power in small samples or overfit the data when simpler models are sufficient. We argue that at least some of these concerns are unfounded when nonparametric models are strongly shrunk towards parametric submodels. We consider expanding a parametric model with a nonparametric component that is heavily shrunk toward zero. This construction allows the model to adapt automatically: if the parametric model …

Viscoelastic flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a slowly varying contraction-expansion channel: pressure drop and elastic stress relaxation
Yali Kedem, Bimalendu Mahapatra, Evgeniy Boyko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07166

Viscoelastic flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a slowly varying contraction-expansion channel: pressure drop and elastic stress relaxation
Viscoelastic fluid flows in narrow non-uniform geometries are ubiquitous in various engineering applications and physiological flow systems. For such flows, one of the key interests is understanding how fluid viscoelasticity affects the flow rate-pressure drop relation, which remains not fully understood. We analyze the flow of the Oldroyd-B fluid in slowly varying contraction-expansion channels, commonly referred to as constrictions. Unlike most previous theoretical studies focusing on contrac…

“Google also announced the expansion of its 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy (CFE) partnership with Engie in Germany [..] now scaling up to contribute to Germany's energy transition and grid stability.
[..] Google's German operations are projected to run at or near 85% carbon-free energy in 2026.”

Google Announces €5.5 Billion Investment in Germany, including AI Infrastructure, through 2029
BERLIN — November 11, 2025 — Google today announced a new €5.5 billion investment (2026-2029) in infrastructure and offices in Germany — including a new data center in Dietzenbach,...

Generalized Time-Coarse Graining via an Operator Cumulant Expansion
Leon Bello, Tal Rubin, Wentao Fan, Nathaniel Fisch, Hakan T\"ureci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00380 http…

Generalized Time-Coarse Graining via an Operator Cumulant Expansion
We introduce a general framework for deriving effective dynamics from arbitrary time-dependent generators, based on a systematic operator cumulant expansion. Unlike traditional approaches, which typically assume periodic or adiabatic driving, our method applies to systems with general time dependencies and is compatible with any dynamics generated by a linear operator -- Hamiltonian or not, quantum or classical, open or closed. This enables modeling of systems exhibiting strong modulation, diss…

Tiny birds, and their tiny superfood, could decline due to ‘irreversible’ effects of Vancouver port expansion
The Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion at Canada’s busiest cargo port could be fast-tracked by the federal government. It’s a major stop for 3.5 million western sandpipers to eat and recharge while travelling the entire Pacific
From The Narwhal

Port of Vancouver expansion threatens superfood ecocsystem | The Narwhal
Roberts Bank Terminal 2 could lead to ‘irreversible’ change in the Fraser estuary, a critical feeding ground for western sandpiper flocks

A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan's subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, leading Meituan to a big Q3 loss and internal debate over global expansion (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ab22c799-6370-4f8c-9256-d5bfd28e0aa1

‘It’s been an expensive year’: Meituan counts cost of China’s delivery wars
Competition from Alibaba and JD.com for fast-growing instant retail market has hit the Beijing-based group

Doc2Query : Topic-Coverage based Document Expansion and its Application to Dense Retrieval via Dual-Index Fusion
Tzu-Lin Kuo, Wei-Ning Chiu, Wei-Yun Ma, Pu-Jen Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09557

Doc2Query++: Topic-Coverage based Document Expansion and its Application to Dense Retrieval via Dual-Index Fusion
Document expansion (DE) via query generation tackles vocabulary mismatch in sparse retrieval, yet faces limitations: uncontrolled generation producing hallucinated or redundant queries with low diversity; poor generalization from in-domain training (e.g., MS MARCO) to out-of-domain data like BEIR; and noise from concatenation harming dense retrieval. While Large Language Models (LLMs) enable cross-domain query generation, basic prompting lacks control, and taxonomy-based methods rely on domain-…

The anisotropic expansion rate of the local Universe and its covariant cosmographic interpretation
Basheer Kalbouneh, Christian Marinoni, Roy Maartens, Julien Bel, Jessica Santiago, Chris Clarkson, Maharshi Sarma, Jean-Marc Virey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02510

The anisotropic expansion rate of the local Universe and its covariant cosmographic interpretation
Without making any assumption on the underlying geometry and metric of the local Universe, we provide a measurement of the expansion rate fluctuation field using the Cosmicflows-4 and Pantheon+ samples in the redshift range $0.01 < z < 0.1$ ($30 \,h^{-1}\,\mathrm{Mpc} < R < 300\,h^{-1}\,\mathrm{Mpc}$). The amplitude of the anisotropic fluctuations is found to be of order a few percent relative to the monopole of the expansion rate. We further decompose the expansion rate fluctuation field int…

Swedish news giant Bonnier takes a majority stake in Danish digital outlet Zetland, which has 70,000 members, with subscriptions making up 80% of revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/zetland-bonnier-n…

CEO of Danish publisher Zetland: 'It's bullshit to say young people aren't willing to pay for news'
Bonnier News has taken a majority stake in Danish publisher Zetland which reaches a strong base of young people with digital subscriptions.

Expansion of trivariate polynomials using proximity
Orit E. Raz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12191 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12191

Expansion of trivariate polynomials using proximity
We extend the proximity technique of Solymosi and Zahl [J. Combin. Theory, Ser. A (2024)] to the setting of trivariate polynomials. In particular, we prove the following result: Let $f(x,y,z)=(x-y)^2+(φ(x)-z)^2$, where $φ(x)\in \mathbb{R}[x]$ has degree at least 3. Then, for every finite $A,B,C\subset \mathbb{R}$ each of size $n$, one has $|f(A,B,C)|=Ω(n^{5/3-\varepsilon})$, for every $\varepsilon>0$, where the constant of proportionality depends on $\varepsilon$ and on ${\rm deg}(…

"Sea levels are rising faster than at any time in the last 4,000 years. Here’s why"
#Sea #Climate #ClimateChange

Sea levels rising faster than they have in 4,000 years, study warns
Melting glaciers and thermal expansion are driving the ‘acceleration’ of sea level rise to record levels.

📈 The U.S. LNG Boom Could Make Energy More Expensive for Americans
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-US-LNG-Boom-Could-Make-Energy-More-Expensive-for-Americans.html

The U.S. LNG Boom Could Make Energy More Expensive for Americans
America's rapid expansion of liquefied natural gas LNG exports is tightening domestic supply and could drive up heating, electricity, and industrial costs for U.S. consumers.

According to sociologist
Tressie McMillan Cottom,
the AI future is for the rich.
Cottom’s contention is a bleak one — the idea that the most powerful billionaires in the world are using AI to seize total control of humanity
But she isn’t short on hope.
“I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansion vision of the future...
That’s my daring idea."

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
Renowned sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says that AI is a tool for the rich to cement control over society.

Strong progenitor age bias in supernova #cosmology – I. Robust and ubiquitous evidence from a larger sample of host galaxies in a broader redshift range / II. Alignment with DESI BAO and signs of a non-accelerating universe: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/4/3340/8098234 / https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/544/1/975/8281988 -> Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up': https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/universes-expansion-now-slowing-not-speeding (this has been claimed by the group since at least 2023 - http://vietnam.in2p3.fr/2023/windows/transparencies/02_tuesday/Astro_5/01_Son.pdf - and is rejected by the SN cosmology community as https://bsky.app/profile/astromarc.bsky.social/post/3m4xmikwfds26 explains).

Appeals Court Blocks Trump Administration's Expansion of Rapid Deportations |Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/appeals-court-blocks-trump-administration/2025/11/22/id/1235683/

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to expand its lending to commodities traders "dramatically" after extending ~$1.5B worth of credit to the sector (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11…

Tether Plans ‘Dramatic’ Expansion in Commodity-Trade Lending
Stablecoin giant Tether Holdings SA plans to expand “dramatically” in lending to commodities traders after extending roughly $1.5 billion worth of credit to the sector, Chief Executive Officer Paolo Ardoino said.

Diffusion Codes: Self-Correction from Small(er)-Set Expansion with Tunable Non-locality
Adithya Sriram, Vedika Khemani, Benedikt Placke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07179 https://…

Diffusion Codes: Self-Correction from Small(er)-Set Expansion with Tunable Non-locality
Optimal constructions of classical LDPC codes can be obtained by choosing the Tanner graph uniformly at random among biregular graphs. We introduce a class of codes that we call ``diffusion codes'', defined by placing each edge connecting bits and checks on some graph, and acting on that graph with a random SWAP network. By tuning the depth of the SWAP network, we can tune a tradeoff between the amount of randomness -- and hence the optimality of code parameters -- and locality with respect to …

Q&A with Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz on the patient scheduling platform's telehealth expansion, its policy of not providing medical advice through AI, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/801767/zocdoc-ceo-oli…

Zocdoc CEO: ‘Dr. Google is going to be replaced by Dr. AI’
Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz joins Decoder to discuss where AI really belongs in healthcare.

oh hell yes https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/115343246885448739

Singapore-based wealth management platform Endowus raised $70M , bringing its total funding to $130M , and says the new capital will boost its AI advisory tools (Katrina Bianca Cuaresma/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/endowus-70-m-round-460635/…

Endowus closes $70m round to deepen AI, regional expansion
The funding round was led by Illuminate Financial.

"China's power paradox: record renewables, continued coal"
#China #Energy #Renewables

China's power paradox: record renewables, continued coal
Call it the China power paradox: while Beijing leads the world in renewable energy expansion, its coal projects are booming too.

Disney says Hulu will replace the Star hub on Disney on October 8 in international markets as part of Disney's plan to expand Hulu globally (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/790403/disney-plus-hulu-integration-global-expa…

Hulu isn’t going away after all — it’s going global
Disney is expanding Hulu to worldwide streaming audiences in preparation for the “unified” Disney Plus app experience that’s launching next year.

A recursive definition for the polymatroid Tutte polynomial
Xiaxia Guan, Xian'an Jin, Weiling Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11046 https://arxiv.org/p…

A recursive definition for the polymatroid Tutte polynomial
The Tutte polynomial is a significant invariant of graphs and matroids. It is well-known that it has three equivalent definitions: bases expansion, rank generating function, and deletion-contraction formula. The polymatroid Tutte polynomial $\mathscr{T}_{P}$ generalizes the Tutte polynomial from matroids to polymatroids $P$. In \emph{[Adv. Math. 402 (2022) 108355.]} and \emph{[J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 188 (2022) 105584]}, the authors provided bases expansion and rank generating function constru…

Is the REM the Future of Canadian Transit Expansion?
Reflections with the big REM Opening, and the idea of CanadaMetro.
Reece Martin Nov 15

Is Dark Energy Changing? Probing the Universe's Expansion with present and future astronomical probes
Mehdi Rezaei, Supriya Pan, Weiqiang Yang, David F. Mota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09766

Is Dark Energy Changing? Probing the Universe's Expansion with present and future astronomical probes
This study explores the possibility of a time-varying dark energy (DE) equation of state (EoS) deviating from -1. We employ a comprehensive dataset of usual astronomical probes (Type Ia supernovae, baryon acoustic oscillations, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, Hubble data, and Planck 2018 CMB) alongside future mock gravitational wave (GW) distance measurements from the Einstein Telescope. We utilize the Pad'e approximation, a versatile framework encompassing well-known DE models like constant EoS, Che…

Australian energy innovator Amber secures $10 million for global expansion, revolutionizing the energy market with real-time dynamic prices and technology. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Australian energy innovator Amber secures another $10 million in fund for global expansion
Australian energy innovator Amber has secured another $10 million in funding, including from one of the biggest energy utilities in Europe.

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised a $100M Series F led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, bringing its total funding to $250M as it ramps up AI investment (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/goldm…

Goldman Sachs doubles down on MoEngage in new round to fuel global expansion | TechCrunch
MoEngage already has customers across 75 countries, with North America being its biggest business driver.

Scaling up AI requires staggering amounts of power and water
— especially when considering that many areas are already dealing with strained grids or drought conditions.
Even when optimized, a single hyperscale facility can draw as muchpower as a mid-sized city
and millions of gallons of water annually.
Professor Romany Webb, deputy director of Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, explained the challenge:
"Data centers are incred…

New map and research expose disturbing side effects of AI industry boom: 'There are going to be challenges'
As part of the latest wave of Big Tech's spending on AI, Google announced a $9 billion investment to build a new data center campus in Virginia.

New York-based emergency alerts platform RapidSOS raised $100M led by Apax Digital Funds, a source says at a $1B valuation, for US and international expansion (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/rapid…

Disney Asia Pacific president Luke Kang says the company aims to add more live sports to Disney and gradually roll out ESPN across Asia (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-12/disney-eyes-espn-…

Anthropic and Google officially announce their cloud partnership worth tens of billions, giving Anthropic access to 1M TPUs and 1 GW of capacity in 2026 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/anthropic-google-cloud-deal-tpu.html

Google and Anthropic announce cloud deal worth tens of billions of dollars
While Google is powering Anthropic's next phase of compute expansion, Amazon remains its most deeply embedded partner.

The US supreme court on Monday appeared poised to support the Trump administration’s argument that the president should be able to fire independent board members
-- dismissing a precedent that for nearly a century they have been protected from presidential interference.
The case gives the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority,
an opportunity to overturn a New Deal era supreme court precedent in a case called
"Humphrey’s Executor v United States"
…

Waymo says California authorized it to operate across the entire Bay Area and Sacramento, and between LA and San Diego, where it plans to expand to in mid-2026 (Aidin Vaziri/San Francisco Chronicle)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/california…

Amazon now offers same-day perishable grocery delivery in 2,300 US markets and has expanded the service's grocery offerings by 30% since its August launch (Peyton Bigora/Grocery Dive)
https://www.grocerydive.com/news/amazon-sam…

Amazon reaches milestone in same-day perishables delivery rollout
The company has expanded the service to 2,300 markets and said customers who buy perishables through the offering shop twice as often as those who don’t.

A look at ASML's planned 100-hectare expansion project in Eindhoven, set to create 20,000 jobs and that is focused on expanding production of its EUV machines (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-09/asml-gears-…

Disney says Hulu will replace the Star hub on Disney on October 8 in international markets as part of Disney's plan to expand Hulu globally (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/790403/disney-plus-hulu-integration-global-expa…

Hulu isn’t going away after all — it’s going global
Disney is expanding Hulu to worldwide streaming audiences in preparation for the “unified” Disney Plus app experience that’s launching next year.

Sources: Binance has been exploring ways to reboot its Binance.US affiliate, including a recapitalization to cut CZ's stake, which is a hurdle to expansion (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/binan…

OpenAI hires former UK chancellor George Osborne to lead OpenAI for Countries, the global expansion arm of its $500B Stargate data center initiative (Financial Times)

London-based Sokin, which develops tech for B2B cross-border payments, raised a $50M Series B led by Prysm Capital at a $300M valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/01/cross-border-payment-fintech-sokin-lands-50m-funding-round/…

Cross-border payment fintech Sokin lands $50M funding round
Cross-border payment fintech Sokin has received $50m in a funding round, valuing the UK fintech at $300m.UK-headquartered Sokin says it will use the funding to speed up overseas expansion and on product development.The Series B funding round was led by US investment firm Prysm Capital, with Watershed Ventures participating. Existing investors, including investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Aurum Partners, also participated.Founded in 2019 and headquartered in London…

A look at Apple's iPhone roadmap; sources say the iPhone 18 Pro lineup will get under-screen Face ID, and the front camera will move to the top-left corner (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-apples-ip…

Inside Apple’s iPhone Road Map, From Foldable Screens to Curved Glass Cases
The iPhone family is growing again. Over the next two years, Apple is planning a major expansion of its smartphone product line that could see it selling at least seven new models of its flagship device by fall 2027, up from five iPhone models today, according to multiple people working directly ...

Sources: Apple is lobbying India to modify its income tax law to ensure Apple is not taxed for owning high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its manufacturers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/apple-lob…

Qargo, which offers a cloud-based transport management service for carriers, freight forwarders, and third-party logistics, raised a $33M Series B led by Sofina (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/11/qargo-expands-ai-driven-transpor…

Qargo expands AI-driven transport management with $33M Series B
Qargo, an intelligent transport management system (TMS), has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round led by Sofina, with participation from existing investor Balderton Capital. The round follows Qargo’s rapid expansion across key European logistics hubs over the last 18 months. This latest investment brings Qargo’s total funding to $54 million.Founded in 2020, Qargo is a cloud-based transport management platform designed for carriers, freight forwarders, and 3PLs. It helps log…

CoreWeave reports Q3 revenue up 134% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.29B est., and a net loss of $110M, down from $360M a year ago; CRWV is up 164% since its March IPO (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/coreweave-crwv-q3-earnings-report-2025.html…

CoreWeave's revenue more than doubles as AI buildout expansion accelerates
On top of deals with Meta and OpenAI, CoreWeave pointed to expansions from a large unnamed customer in the third quarter.

Sources: Morgan Stanley told its financial advisors it will broaden access to crypto investments to all clients and allow such investments in any account type (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/morgan-stanley-drops-crypto-fun…

Morgan Stanley drops restrictions on which wealth clients can own crypto funds
Morgan Stanley's move marks the latest expansion of access to crypto at the world's largest wealth management firm.

Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanburgos/2…

The Asian Billionaires Riding The Data Center Boom
The buildout of AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific is in high gear. Masayoshi Son and Mukesh Ambani are among the region's wealthiest taking the lead.

Singapore-based banking and payments startup Airwallex raised $330M at an $8B valuation, after raising $300M at a $6.2B valuation in May, and plans a US HQ (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/925815f6-d1d7-46c4-862d-da39acc712a2

Airwallex plots Silicon Valley expansion after securing $8bn valuation
Payments company opens San Francisco base and reduces Tencent’s holding in US pivot

Coinbase reopens app registration in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/07/coin

Coinbase starts onboarding users again in India, plans for fiat on-ramp next year | TechCrunch
Coinbase is exploring expansion into India with a staggered relaunch and hiring for different roles.