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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.
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💗 Forest expansion increases agricultural output, new study shows
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Forest expansion increases agricultural output, new study shows
Agriculture is the largest cause of deforestation. So, it follows that forest expansion efforts would displace agriculture—but new research from Georgia Tech's School of Economics reports that that's not necessarily the case. And not only that, forest expansion actually increased agricultural output in the study.

Regulating AI use could stop its runaway energy expansion - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-09-17/regulating-ai-use-could-stop-its-runaway-energy-expansion/

Regulating AI use could stop its runaway energy expansion
So, we are left with pressing questions. Can we harness the benefits of AI without accelerating environmental collapse? Can AI be made truly sustainable – and if so, how?

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

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/

Cardinality-Constrained Bilevel Capacity Expansion
Lei Guo, Jiayang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13209 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13209

Cardinality-Constrained Bilevel Capacity Expansion
As a fundamental problem in transportation and operations research, the bilevel capacity expansion problem (BCEP) has been extensively studied for decades. In practice, BCEPs are commonly addressed in two stages: first, pre-select a small set of links for expansion; then, optimize their capacities. However, this sequential and separable approach can lead to suboptimal solutions as it neglects the critical interdependence between link selection and capacity allocation. In this paper, we propose …

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)

A complete asymptotic expansion for the semi-exponential Post-Widder operators
Ulrich Abel, Octavian Agratini, Radu Paltanea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12270 https://

A complete asymptotic expansion for the semi-exponential Post-Widder operators
In the present paper, we study the asymptotic properties of the semi-exponential Post-Widder operator. It is connected with $p(x) = x^2$. The main result is a pointwise complete asymptotic expansion valid for locally smooth functions of exponential growth. All coefficients are derived and explicitly given. As a special case we recover the complete asymptotic expansion for the classical Post-Widder operator.

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.

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 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

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

The Gamma Expansion of the Level Two Large Deviation Rate Functional for Reversible Diffusion Processes
Claudio Landim, Jungkyoung Lee, Mauro Mariani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13222

The Gamma Expansion of the Level Two Large Deviation Rate Functional for Reversible Diffusion Processes
Fix a smooth Morse function $U\colon \mathbb{R}^{d}\to\mathbb{R}$ with finitely many critical points, and consider the solution of the stochastic differential equation \begin{equation*} d\bm{x}_ε(t)=-\nabla U(\bm{x}_ε(t))\,dt \,+\,\sqrt{2ε}\, d\bm{w}_{t}\,, \end{equation*} where $(\bm{w}_{t})_{t\ge0}$ represents a $d$-dimensional Brownian motion, and $ε>0$ a small parameter. Denote by $\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R}^{d})$ the space of probability measures on $\bb R^d$, and by $\mathcal{I}_ε \colon…

Neuralink returns to South San Francisco as Bay Area neurotech regroups https://www.neurofounders.co/post/neuralink-returns-to-south-san-francisco-bay-area How does a patient registry of roughly 10,000 people compare to well over 500,000 Android app i…

Neuralink Returns to South San Francisco as Bay Area Neurotech Regroups
Neuralink has leased a 144,000-square-foot building at 499 Forbes Boulevard in South San Francisco, placing the company back inside the region’s biotech belt after a period of Texas-focused expansion. The move lands alongside a patient registry of roughly 10,000 people, an initial paper submitted to The New England Journal of Medicine, and ongoing first-in-human work. The signals point to a company accelerating rather than slowing.Details on how the new site will be used have not been disclos…

Origin of Reverse Size Effect in Ferroelectric Hafnia Thin Films
Tianyuan Zhu, Shi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12952 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12952

Origin of Reverse Size Effect in Ferroelectric Hafnia Thin Films
The persistence of ferroelectricity in ultrathin HfO$_2$ films challenges conventional theories, particularly given the paradoxical observation that the out-of-plane lattice spacing increases with decreasing thickness. We resolve this puzzle by revealing that this anomalous lattice expansion is counterintuitively coupled to suppressed out-of-plane polarization. First-principles calculations combined with analytical modeling identify two mechanisms behind this expansion: a negative longitudinal …

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…

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.

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}(…

Mitigating the sign problem by quantum computing
Kwai-Kong Ng, Min-Fong Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13017 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13017

Mitigating the sign problem by quantum computing
The notorious sign problem severely limits the applicability of quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, as statistical errors grow exponentially with system size and inverse temperature. A recent proposal of a quantum-computing stochastic series expansion (qc-SSE) method suggested that the problem could be avoided by introducing constant energy shifts into the Hamiltonian. Here we critically examine this framework and show that it does not strictly resolve the sign problem for Hamiltonians with …

The community in Sololo, Papua New Guinea, is safeguarding their rainforest by partnering with Cool Earth to resist logging and oil palm expansion, ensuring a sustainable future and preserving vital ecosystems. https://www.coolearth.org/news/best-rainforest-protectio…

How one community is protecting 16,500 hectares of rainforest
Local people have safeguarded the Papua New Guinea rainforest for generations. With a steady income stream, communities can refuse loggers and invest in what they most need.

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Chapter 5: Magic of Faerûn opener illustration created for Dungeon & Dragon's Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn player expansion.
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The seventh Blackstaff of Waterdeep, Vajra Safahr is seen here awakening The Hawkman, one of the might walking statues of Waterdeep.
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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…

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…

Self-intersection of the Torelli map
Lycka Drakengren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12449 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12449

Self-intersection of the Torelli map
The Torelli map $t\colon \mathcal{M}^{ct}_g \to \mathcal{A}_g$ is far from an immersion for $g\geq 3$: the self-fiber product of the Torelli map for $g\geq 3$ has several components with nontrivial intersections. We give a stratification of the self-fiber product for arbitrary genus and describe how components in the fiber product intersect. In genus $4$, the Torelli fiber product is nonreduced, which we prove by analyzing the expansion of the period map near a nodal curve. We use the geometry …

On the Hardness of Order Finding and Equivalence Testing for ROABPs
C. Ramya, Pratik Shastri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13238 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13…

On the Hardness of Order Finding and Equivalence Testing for ROABPs
The complexity of representing a polynomial by a Read-Once Oblivious Algebraic Branching Program (ROABP) is highly dependent on the chosen variable ordering. Bhargava et al. prove that finding the optimal ordering is NP-hard, and provide some evidence (based on the Small Set Expansion hypothesis) that it is also hard to approximate the optimal ROABP width. In another work, Baraskar et al. show that it is NP-hard to test whether a polynomial is in the $\mathrm{GL}_n$ orbit of a polynomial of spa…

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.

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 ...

Past and future isotropization in $f(R)$ dark energy models
Adnaan Nauthoo, Peter Dunsby, \'Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12300 https://

Past and future isotropization in $f(R)$ dark energy models
We perform the dynamical system analysis for the homogeneous and anisotropic Bianchi I cosmology in the context of Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ gravity with parameters $\{n,C_{1}\}=\{1,1\}$. Deriving the corresponding four-dimensional dynamical system from the field equations allows us to find the fixed points of the system in both the vacuum and matter cases alongside their stability. This approach also provides analytical expressions for both the cosmic expansion and shear of each fixed point. We show t…

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…

Asymptotics of the solution of the Cauchy problem for a singularly perturbed system of hyperbolic equations. Part 2. Initial conditions
Andrey Nesterov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12550

Asymptotics of the solution of the Cauchy problem for a singularly perturbed system of hyperbolic equations. Part 2. Initial conditions
An asymptotic small parameter expansion of a single Cauchy problem is constructed for a singularly perturbed system of hyperbolic equations describing vibrations of two rigidly connected strings. Equations (such as generalized Korteweg-de Vriesequations) and initial conditions for the terms of the asymptotic expansion of the solution are determined, and under certain assumptions, the residual term is estimated from the residual.

Generalized Non-Standard Finite Difference Method for Fractional PDEs on Non-Uniform Grids
Devank Mishra, Sheerin Kayenat, Amit K. Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12209 https:/…

Generalized Non-Standard Finite Difference Method for Fractional PDEs on Non-Uniform Grids
This paper proposes a novel Generalized Non-Standard Finite Difference (GNSFD) scheme for the numerical solution of a class of fractional partial differential equations (FrPDEs). The formulation of the method is grounded in optimization and leverages the fractional Taylor series (FrTS) expansion associated with Caputo fractional derivatives (FrDs). To discretize the time derivatives, the non-trivial denominator functions are utilized. The theoretical analysis establishes the consistency, stabil…

Fake saddles and their transition maps
David Mar\'in
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12941 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12941…

Fake saddles and their transition maps
We study degenerate singular points of planar vector fields inside a (degenerated) flow-box. These kind of singularities are called fake saddles and their linear parts are always zero. We characterize fake saddles with non-zero second order jet and we give the first term of an uniform asymptotic expansion of the Poincaré map between two transverse sections to their corresponding singular fiber, determining its stability.

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…

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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…

EvoluteIQ, which offers a low-code AI platform for companies to design, deploy, and scale business processes, raised $53M led by Baird Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/09/17/evoluteiq-raises-53m-led-by-baird-capi…

EvoluteIQ raises $53M led by Baird Capital to scale its agentic AI platform
EvoluteIQ, a native AI platform, secured $53 million in minority growth capital from Baird Capital to accelerate global expansion and strengthen its leadership in enterprise-grade agentic AI automation. Baird Capital’s Daina Spedding and Mark Donnelly will join the EvoluteIQ Board of Directors.Founded in 2019, EvoluteIQ develops the EIQ platform for automating complex business processes. Built on its Agentic Mesh Architecture (aMa) and an AI Workbench, EIQ orchestrates end-to-end workflo…

A note on polynomials for character degrees
Yuval Roichman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13190 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13190…

A note on polynomials for character degrees
A recent result of Cohen and Zemel provides an elegant expansion of the Rasala polynomials for symmetric group character degrees. In this note we present an alternative short algebraic proof. Extensions to polynomials of character values follow.

A proof of Witten's asymptotic expansion conjecture for WRT invariants of Seifert fibered homology spheres
J{\o}rgen Ellegaard Andersen, Li Han, Yong Li, William Elb{\ae}k Misteg{\aa}rd, David Sauzin, Shanzhong Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10678

A proof of Witten's asymptotic expansion conjecture for WRT invariants of Seifert fibered homology spheres
Let $X$ be a general Seifert fibered integral homology $3$-sphere with $r\ge3$ exceptional fibers. For every root of unity $ζ\not=1$, we show that the SU(2) WRT invariant of $X$ evaluated at $ζ$ is (up to an elementary factor) the non-tangential limit at $ζ$ of the GPPV invariant of $X$, thereby generalizing a result from [Andersen-Mistegard 2022]. Based on this result, we apply the quantum modularity results developed in [Han-Li-Sauzin-Sun 2023] to the GPPV invariant of $X$ to prove Witten'…

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Standardmodell der Kosmologie falsch? Expansion des Universums verlangsamt sich

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 …

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…

Replaced article(s) found for math-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/math-ph/new
[1/2]:
- Asymptotic expansion of the hard-to-soft edge transition
Luming Yao, Lun Zhang

Collective Variables Based on Multipole Expansion of Ewald Summation for Crystallization
YaoKun Lei, MaoDong Li, Yi Isaac Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08960 https://

Collective Variables Based on Multipole Expansion of Ewald Summation for Crystallization
Crystallization, a fundamental phase transition process governing material formation in natural and industrial contexts, involves the spontaneous emergence of long-range structural order from disordered phases. This long-range periodicity involves spatial and molecular orientation order. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of crystallization require collective variables (CVs) that accurately distinguish this long-\range periodicity. Existing CVs based on local descriptors (e.g., bond-orientatio…

Universality of the chiral soliton lattice in the low energy limit of QCD
Fabrizio Canfora, Nicol\'as Grandi, Marcela Lagos, Luis Urrutia-Reyes, Aldo Vera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11946

Universality of the chiral soliton lattice in the low energy limit of QCD
In this paper, we show that the chiral soliton lattice (ChSL) is, in a precise sense, a universal feature of the low-energy limit of QCD minimally coupled to Maxwell theory. Here, we disclose that not only can the ChSL be obtained from the gauged Skyrme model in $3+1$ dimensions, including the back-reaction of the Maxwell $U(1)$ gauge field, we also show that the ChSL remains unchanged if the sub-leading corrections to the Skyrme model in the 't Hooft large $N_c$ expansion are included. Taking …

It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/09/tapanuli-orangutan-ape-indonesia-sumatra-martabe-gold-mine-aoe

“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,...

Trump's H-1B Visa Crackdown to Accelerate Wall Street's Expansion in India (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-11/trump-s-h-1b-visa-curbs-banks-to-add-more-finance-specialist-jobs-in-india
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p116#a251111p116

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-…

Green's function expansion for multiple coupled optical resonators with finite retardation using quasinormal modes
Robert Fuchs, Juanjuan Ren, Stephen Hughes, Marten Richter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12511

Green's function expansion for multiple coupled optical resonators with finite retardation using quasinormal modes
The electromagnetic Green's function is a crucial ingredient for the theoretical study of modern photonic quantum devices, but is often difficult or even impossible to calculate directly. We present a numerically efficient framework for calculating the scattered electromagnetic Green's function of a multi-cavity system with spatially separated open cavities (with arbitrary shape, dispersion and loss) and finite retardation times. The framework is based on a Dyson scattering equation that enable…

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…

IntrinTrans: LLM-based Intrinsic Code Translator for RISC-V Vector
Liutong Han, Zhiyuan Tan, Hongbin Zhang, Pengcheng Wang, Chu Kang, Mingjie Xing, Yanjun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10119

IntrinTrans: LLM-based Intrinsic Code Translator for RISC-V Vector
The use of intrinsic functions to exploit hardware-specific capabilities is an important approach for optimizing library performance. Many mainstream libraries implement a large number of vectorized algorithms on Arm or x86 SIMD intrinsic functions. With the rapid expansion of the RISC-V hardware-software ecosystem, there is a growing demand for support of the RISC-V Vector (RVV) extension. Translating existing vectorized intrinsic code onto RVV intrinsics is a practical and effective approach.…

Relaxation and Its Effects on Electronic Structure in Twisted Systems: An Analytical Perspective
Junxi Yu, Bingbing Wang, Cheng-Cheng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13114 https:…

Relaxation and Its Effects on Electronic Structure in Twisted Systems: An Analytical Perspective
Lattice relaxation profoundly reshapes electronic structures in twisted materials. Prevailing treatments, however, typically rely on large-scale density functional theory (DFT), which is computationally costly and mechanistically opaque. Here, we develop a unified analytical framework to overcome these limitations. From continuum elastic theory, we derive closed-form solutions for both in-plane and out-of-plane relaxation fields. We further introduce an analytical phase factor expansion theory …

Optimal run-tumble navigation in disordered landscapes
Yang Bai, Caiyun He, Weirong Liu, Songtao Cheng, Pan Chu, Liang Luo, Chenli Liu, Xiongfei Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12106

Optimal run-tumble navigation in disordered landscapes
Active navigation in disordered media is governed by the interplay between self-propulsion and environmental constraints. Using the chemotaxis of E. coli in agar gels as a model system, we uncover a universal trade-off between persistence and obstacle avoidance that dictates optimal search strategies. We find that populations evolving under pressure for rapid expansion adapt by shortening their mean run time (τ_f), counter to the intuition that longer runs always favor faster migration. Contro…

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

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.

"Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time"
#Energy #Renewables #FossilFuels

Replaced article(s) found for math.ST. https://arxiv.org/list/math.ST/new
[1/1]:
- Identifiability and Falsifiability: Two Challenges for Bayesian Model Expansion
Collin Cademartori

H-harmonic reproducing kernels on the ball
Mat\v{e}j Morav\'ik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11821 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11821

H-harmonic reproducing kernels on the ball
We consider the Szegő reproducing kernel associated with the space of $H$-harmonic functions on the unit ball in n-dimensional space, i.e. functions that are characterized by being annihilated by the hyperbolic Laplacian. This paper derives an explicit series expansion for the reproducing kernel in terms of a triple hypergeometric function introduced of Exton. Moreover, we demonstrate that the Szegő kernel admits a representation as a finite sum of hypergeometric functions. We further show th…

Can Representation Gaps Be the Key to Enhancing Robustness in Graph-Text Alignment?
Heng Zhang, Tianyi Zhang, Yuling Shi, Xiaodong Gu, Yaomin Shen, Zijian Zhang, Yilei Yuan, Hao Zhang, Jin Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12087

Can Representation Gaps Be the Key to Enhancing Robustness in Graph-Text Alignment?
Representation learning on text-attributed graphs (TAGs) integrates structural connectivity with rich textual semantics, enabling applications in diverse domains. Current methods largely rely on contrastive learning to maximize cross-modal similarity, assuming tighter coupling between graph and text representations improves transfer performance. However, our empirical analysis reveals that both natural gap expansion and forced gap reduction result in performance degradation by disrupting pre-tr…

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Leveraging LLMs to Streamline the Review of Public Funding Applications
Joao D. S. Marques, Andre V. Duarte, Andre Carvalho, Gil Rocha, Bruno Martins, Arlindo L. Oliveira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09674

Leveraging LLMs to Streamline the Review of Public Funding Applications
Every year, the European Union and its member states allocate millions of euros to fund various development initiatives. However, the increasing number of applications received for these programs often creates significant bottlenecks in evaluation processes, due to limited human capacity. In this work, we detail the real-world deployment of AI-assisted evaluation within the pipeline of two government initiatives: (i) corporate applications aimed at international business expansion, and (ii) cit…

FeNOMS: Enhancing Open Modification Spectral Library Search with In-Storage Processing on Ferroelectric NAND (FeNAND) Flash
Sumukh Pinge, Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi, Keming Fan, Prasanna Venkatesan Ravindran, Tanvir H. Pantha, Po-Kai Hsu, Zheyu Li, Weihong Xu, Zihan Xia, Flavio Ponzina, Winston Chern, Taeyoung Song, Priyankka Ravikumar, Mengkun Tian, Lance Fernandes, Huy Tran, Hari Jayasankar, Hang Chen, Chinsung Park, Amrit Garlapati, Kijoon Kim, Jongho Woo, Suhwan Lim, Kwangsoo Kim, Wa…

FeNOMS: Enhancing Open Modification Spectral Library Search with In-Storage Processing on Ferroelectric NAND (FeNAND) Flash
The rapid expansion of mass spectrometry (MS) data, now exceeding hundreds of terabytes, poses significant challenges for efficient, large-scale library search - a critical component for drug discovery. Traditional processors struggle to handle this data volume efficiently, making in-storage computing (ISP) a promising alternative. This work introduces an ISP architecture leveraging a 3D Ferroelectric NAND (FeNAND) structure, providing significantly higher density, faster speeds, and lower volt…

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…

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…

Trust Modeling and Estimation in Human-Autonomy Interactions
Daniel A. Williams, Airlie Chapman, Daniel R. Little, Chris Manzie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09013 https://

Trust Modeling and Estimation in Human-Autonomy Interactions
Advances in the control of autonomous systems have accompanied an expansion in the potential applications for autonomous robotic systems. The success of applications involving humans depends on the quality of interaction between the autonomous system and the human supervisor, which is particularly affected by the degree of trust that the supervisor places in the autonomous system. Absent from the literature are models of supervisor trust dynamics that can accommodate asymmetric responses to aut…

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 …

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).

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…

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-…

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

Non-linear causal bulk viscosity in Unified Dark Matter Cosmologies
Guillermo Palma, Gabriel Gomez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11900 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Non-linear causal bulk viscosity in Unified Dark Matter Cosmologies
We propose a bulk viscous unified dark matter scenario based on a nonlinear extension of the full causal Israel-Stewart theory. This framework allows the viscous fluid to remain far from equilibrium, an essential feature for a physically consistent description of viscosity-driven accelerated expansion. We adopt the standard parametrization for the bulk viscosity, $ξ= ξ_{0} ρ_{m}^{s}$, treating $s$ as a free parameter, and study the model in a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker backgro…

Temperature and conditions for thermalization after canonical quenches
Lennart Dabelow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12696 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12696

Temperature and conditions for thermalization after canonical quenches
We consider quenches of a quantum system that is prepared in a canonical equilibrium state of one Hamiltonian and then evolves unitarily in time under a different Hamiltonian. Technically, our main result is a systematic expansion of the pre- and post-quench canonical ensembles in the quench strength. We first demonstrate how this can be used to predict the system's temperature after the quench from equilibrium properties at the pre-quench temperature. For a thermalizing post-quench system, it …

MIARec: Mutual-influence-aware Heterogeneous Network Embedding for Scientific Paper Recommendation
Wenjin Xie, Tao Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12054 https://

MIARec: Mutual-influence-aware Heterogeneous Network Embedding for Scientific Paper Recommendation
With the rapid expansion of scientific literature, scholars increasingly demand precise and high-quality paper recommendations. Among various recommendation methodologies, graph-based approaches have garnered attention by effectively exploiting the structural characteristics inherent in scholarly networks. However, these methods often overlook the asymmetric academic influence that is prevalent in scholarly networks when learning graph representations. To address this limitation, this study pro…

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…

"Global Renewable Power Capacity Expected to More than Double by 2030"
#Energy #Renewables
https://

Global Renewable Power Capacity Expected to More than Double by 2030 - Inside Climate News
The expansion comes despite a dramatic decrease in the projection for growth in the United States.

Asymptotic behavior of zeros of Bessel function derivatives
\'Arp\'ad Baricz, Pranav Kumar, Saminathan Ponnusamy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12353 https://

Asymptotic behavior of zeros of Bessel function derivatives
We derive two distinct asymptotic expansions for the zeros $j_{ν,k}^{(n)}$ of the $n$-th derivative of Bessel function $J_ν^{(n)}(x)$. The first is a McMahon-type expansion for the case when $k \to \infty$ with fixed $ν$, for which we also establish an explicit error bound. The second addresses the case when $ν\to \infty$ with fixed $k$ and it involves the zeros of Airy functions and their derivatives. These results extend and refine the classical work of Wong, Lang, and Olver on the zeros …

Hidden zeros for higher-derivative YM and GR amplitudes at tree-level
Kang Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11070 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11070

Hidden zeros for higher-derivative YM and GR amplitudes at tree-level
We extend the recently discovered phenomenon of hidden zeros to tree amplitudes for Yang-Mills (YM) and general relativity (GR) theories with higher-derivative interactions. This includes gluon amplitudes with a single insertion of the local $F^3$ operator, as well as graviton amplitudes at sub-leading and sub-sub-leading orders in the low-energy expansion of bosonic closed string amplitudes -- referred to as $R^2$ and $R^3$ amplitudes, respectively. The kinematic condition for hidden zeros lea…

SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
Mandira Roy, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08981 https://

SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
The rapid expansion of software development has significant environmental, technical, social, and economic impacts. Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 compels developers to adopt sustainable practices. Existing methods mostly offer high-level guidelines, which are time-consuming to implement and rely on team adaptability. Moreover, they focus on design or implementation, while sustainability assessment should start at the requirements engineering phase. In this p…

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

Column Generation for Periodic Timetabling
Stephanie Riedm\"uller, Niels Lindner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12466 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12466

Column Generation for Periodic Timetabling
Periodic timetabling for public transportation networks is typically modelled as a Periodic Event Scheduling Problem (PESP). Solving instances of the benchmark library PESPlib to optimality continues to pose a challenge. As a further approach towards this goal, we remodel the problem by a time discretization of the underlying graph and consider arc-based as well as path-based integer programming formulations. For the path-based case, we use cycles on the graph expansion of the operational lines…

It’s the world’s rarest ape. Now a billion-dollar dig for gold threatens its future https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/09/tapanuli-orangutan-ape-indonesia-sumatra-martabe-gold-mine-aoe

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.

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.

The Popkov-Sch\"{u}tz two-lane lattice gas: Universality for general jump rates
Herbert Spohn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12678 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

The Popkov-Schütz two-lane lattice gas: Universality for general jump rates
We consider the asymmetric version of the Popkov-Schütz two-lane lattice gas with general jump rates, subject to the stationary measure being of product form. This still leaves five free parameters. At density $\tfrac{1}{2}$ the eigenvalues of the flux Jacobian are degenerate. We compute the second order expansion of the average fluxes at density $\tfrac{1}{2}$ and thereby identify the universality classes.

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…

Richardson tableaux and Schubert positivity
Hunter Spink, Vasu Tewari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12391 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12391

Richardson tableaux and Schubert positivity
We compute the Schubert cycle expansion of those irreducible components of Springer fibers equal to Richardson varieties. This generalizes work of Güemes in the case of a hook shape and answers a question of Karp-Precup.

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…

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 …

Reuters launches its Arabic website, the company's third dedicated language platform after English and Japanese, and says it will provide 100 stories daily (Reuters)
https://reutersagency.com/media-centre/reuters-launches-a…

Reuters launches Arabic website as key part of its Middle East expansion
Reuters launches Arabic website as key part of its Middle East expansion

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-…

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.

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.

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.

A profile of digital microlender Tala, which has an annualized revenue of $340M but remains unprofitable 11 years in, as it plans to double its lending in 2027 (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2

Inside Microlender Tala's Big Bet On Global Expansion
After 11 years, Tala still isn’t profitable. But it has revamped its technology and developed a new underwriting approach, and it aims to enter six new countries and break even by early 2026.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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