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Record growth of UAV production in Russia: a threat to Ukraine?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/record-growth-of-uav-production.html

<<Global growth of power demand last overwhelmed growth of wind and solar. Power generation grew by 4.3%, or 1,293 TWh from 29,963 to 31,256 TWh. Combined wind and solar generation grew by just half that total, 649 TWh. The gap between the two, 644 TWh, was filled by 1) nuclear and hydro generation grew by a combined 272 TWh -unreliable growth technologies. Meanwhile, 2) coal generation continued to grow, by 152 TWh.>>
- Gregor Macdonald

Not Fast Enough
Monday 7 July 2025

Q&A with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Anthropic's growth to ~$5B in ARR, focusing on B2B, AI talent wars, open-source models, safety regulations, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/a-cheeky-pint-with-anthropic-ceo

A Cheeky Pint with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei joins John Collison to talk about Anthropic's growth to almost $5 billion in ARR, how AI models show capitalistic impulses, predictions for an agentic future, the economics of model businesses, and the 19th-century concept of vitalism.

"What's slimy, green and flourishing thanks to climate change?"
#Canada #Climate #ClimateChange

What's slimy, green and flourishing thanks to climate change? | CBC News
Canada's lakes are changing because of warming caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Here's why scientists are concerned.

wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…

Trump voters are 'taking it on the chin': Bad job numbers are worse for 'Cletus' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-voters-economy-job-growth/

Trump's economy remains pretty strong, but some warning signs are flashing (Rachel Lerman/Washington Post)
https://washingtonpost.com/business/2025/07/05/trump-policies-economic-growth/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250706/p7#a250706p7

Optimal velocity fields for instantaneous magnetic field growth
Nicholas J. Moore, Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03573 https://arxiv…

Optimal velocity fields for instantaneous magnetic field growth
We consider a variant of the kinematic dynamo problem. Rather than prescribing a velocity field and searching for high-growth magnetic fields via an eigenvalue problem, we treat the seed magnetic-field structure as given and ask which velocity field maximally enhances its instantaneous growth. We show this second problem has an elegant formulation in terms of variational calculus. Upon simultaneously constraining the velocity's kinetic energy and enstrophy, the Euler-Lagrange equation leads to …

An interview with Newsquest CEO Henry Faure Walker on the regional publisher's focus on local news; paid digital subs have risen 35% YoY to 135K (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Focus on local, not 'trending', news fuels record Newsquest digital growth
Newsquest CEO Henry Faure Walker discusses how the publishers has reached record digital subscriptions and page views.

AppLovin Q2: revenue up 77% YoY to $1.26B, vs. $1.22B est., adjusted EBITDA up 99% YoY to $1.02B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; APP drops 5% after hours (Adam Levine/Barron's Online)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/applovin-growth-earnings-app-adtec…

Manufacturing employment has been falling since April,
and job growth is slower than it was between January 2024 and August 2024.
The timing of the manufacturing declines corresponds with the Trump administration’s disastrous tariff policies,
which are projected to cost American households $2,400 annually.
Since Donald Trump’s tariff announcement in April 2025,
overall manufacturing employment has declined by 42,000,
while job openings and hires have fall…

And the most recent jobs report has many hints that ICE is indeed having that desired effect: in an otherwise stagnant or contracting labor market, there was job group in leisure and hospitality, private health care, and (somewhat less) construction — all job markets with a concentration of immigrant labor.
I am not an economist and this is not a proper analysis — grain of salt, please! — but a quick skim of these stats is at least superficially consistent with a good chunk of current job growth coming from decreased immigrant participation in the labor force.
https://www.bls.gov/ces/publications/highlights/2025/current-employment-statistics-highlights-06-2025.pdf
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(addressed, hypothetically, to some people I sometimes have to work with)
my dudes, *CANCER* is a "growth mode".
let's slow down a little and fix some of the things we broke to get here

Growth of few-layer molecular crystals of PTCDI on hexagonal boron nitride by microspacing air-gap sublimation
Nils LeCoutre, Tolibjon Abdurakhmonov, Paul Weinbrenner, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Tobias Korn, Franziska Fennel, Oliver K\"uhn, Friedemann Reinhard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04591

Growth of few-layer molecular crystals of PTCDI on hexagonal boron nitride by microspacing air-gap sublimation
Extended two-dimensional (2D) crystals of dye molecules adsorbed on 2D material substrates like boron nitride have recently become a subject of intense study, with potential applications ranging from quantum technology to optoelectronics. The most established technique for the production of these films is physical vapor transport in vacuum. We demonstrate that few-layer crystalline films of the organic dye molecule PTCDI on boron nitride can be produced by microspacing in-air sublimation, a rad…

📈 Cutting the fat: Oat oil breakthrough paves way for industry growth
#food

Cutting the fat: Oat oil breakthrough paves way for industry growth
New University of South Australia research is providing evidence of biological triggers of oil production in oats, a discovery that will help processing and potentially drive further demand for Australian-grown oats.

Eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholders https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/eucalyptus-boom-in-brazils-cerrado-dries-up-springs-forces-out-smallholders/

Eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholders
A eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s biodiverse Cerrado savanna is drying up land and water springs, making subsistence farming more difficult, local authorities and farmers tell Mongabay. Adilso Cruz, a 46-year-old rancher from the Alecrim settlement in Mato Grosso do Sul state, said the water shortages began around 2013, coinciding with the growth of eucalyptus plantations […]

Self-improving estimates of growth of subharmonic and analytic functions
Glenier Bello, Dmitry Yakubovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04496 https://arxiv.or…

Self-improving estimates of growth of subharmonic and analytic functions
Given a bounded open subset $Ω$ and closed subsets $A,B$ of $\mathbb{R}^k$, we discuss when an estimate $u(x)\le g(dist(x,A\cup B))$, $x\inΩ\setminus(A\cup B)$, for a function $u$ subharmonic on $Ω\setminus B$, implies that $u(x)\le h(dist(x,B))$, $x\inΩ\setminus B$, where $g,h:(0,\infty)\to (0,\infty)$ are decreasing functions and $g(0^+)=h(0^+)=\infty$. We seek for explicit expressions of $h$ in terms of $g$. We give some results of this type and show that Domar's work (On the existence o…

LRDDv2: Enhanced Long-Range Drone Detection Dataset with Range Information and Comprehensive Real-World Challenges
Amirreza Rouhi, Sneh Patel, Noah McCarthy, Siddiqa Khan, Hadi Khorsand, Kaleb Lefkowitz, David K. Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03331

LRDDv2: Enhanced Long-Range Drone Detection Dataset with Range Information and Comprehensive Real-World Challenges
The exponential growth in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) usage underscores the critical need of detecting them at extended distances to ensure safe operations, especially in densely populated areas. Despite the tremendous advances made in computer vision through deep learning, the detection of these small airborne objects remains a formidable challenge. While several datasets have been developed specifically for drone detection, the need for a more extensive and diverse collection of drone ima…

Really cool video about why the video games industry is struggling: everybody has to compete with addictive social media for eyeballs and time. And unless whole new markets are opened up (humans are not born quickly enough) there's just no longer a way to create exponential growth. But billionaire investors need that. That's why they are rather investing in AI.
By the way, this is the same reason that cinemas have gotten in trouble (and now even streaming services...)

Panthers coach reveals how QB Bryce Young earned respect of team after early season benching in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/panther

Data Overdose? Time for a Quadruple Shot: Knowledge Graph Construction using Enhanced Triple Extraction
Taine J. Elliott, Stephen P. Levitt, Ken Nixon, Martin Bekker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03438

Data Overdose? Time for a Quadruple Shot: Knowledge Graph Construction using Enhanced Triple Extraction
The rapid expansion of publicly-available medical data presents a challenge for clinicians and researchers alike, increasing the gap between the volume of scientific literature and its applications. The steady growth of studies and findings overwhelms medical professionals at large, hindering their ability to systematically review and understand the latest knowledge. This paper presents an approach to information extraction and automatic knowledge graph (KG) generation to identify and connect b…

Lipschitz regularity of almost-minimizers in one-phase problems with generalized Orlicz growth
Chiara Leone, Giovanni Scilla, Francesco Solombrino, Anna Verde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01393

Lipschitz regularity of almost-minimizers in one-phase problems with generalized Orlicz growth
The optimal local Lipschitz regularity for scalar almost-minimizers of Alt-Caffarelli-type functionals $$ \mathcal{F}({v}; Ω) = \int_Ωφ(x,\left|\nabla v(x) \right|)+ λχ_{\{{v} >0\}} (x) \, \mathrm{d}x\,, $$ with growth function $φ$ a generalized Orlicz function, is established.

Twisted Conjugacy Growth of the Generalised Heisenberg Groups
Lukas Vandeputte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02231 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02231

Twisted Conjugacy Growth of the Generalised Heisenberg Groups
We determine the twisted conjugacy growth function for automorphisms on generalised Heisenberg groups. In particular we demonstrate for these groups that up to a natural equivalence this function is either given by $n^k$ or $n^k\ln(n)$ for some constant $k$. We give a precise description for which of these functions we obtain in terms of dimensions and ranks on the upper and lower central series. In particular we obtain that the twisted conjugacy growth is always bounded by the conjugacy growth.

Cowboys 3x All-Pro has found another dimension to add to elite game, leadership https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/02/cowboys-ceedee-lamb-leadership-growth-2025-season/85936919007/

Growth of block diagonal operators and symmetry-resolved Krylov complexity
Pawel Caputa, Giuseppe Di Giulio, Tran Quang Loc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02033

Growth of block diagonal operators and symmetry-resolved Krylov complexity
This work addresses how the growth of invariant operators is influenced by their underlying symmetry structure. For this purpose, we introduce the symmetry-resolved Krylov complexity, which captures the time evolution of each block into which an operator, invariant under a given symmetry, can be decomposed. We find that, at early times, the complexity of the full operator is equal to the average of the symmetry-resolved contributions. At later times, however, the interplay among different charg…

Kremlin's war economy shows cracks as military spending boom fades: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/06/kremlins-war-economy-shows-cracks.html

Data Scheduling Algorithm for Scalable and Efficient IoT Sensing in Cloud Computing
Noor Islam S. Mohammad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04334 https://arxiv.o…

Data Scheduling Algorithm for Scalable and Efficient IoT Sensing in Cloud Computing
The rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices produces massive, heterogeneous data streams, demanding scalable and efficient scheduling in cloud environments to meet latency, energy, and Quality-of-Service (QoS) requirements. Existing scheduling methods often lack adaptability to dynamic workloads and network variability inherent in IoT-cloud systems. This paper presents a novel hybrid scheduling algorithm combining deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) to ad…

Quantum Dynamics and Information Measures in PT and Anti-PT-Symmetric Systems
Amir Ahmadi, Roozbeh H. Asgari, Javad T. Firouzjaee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03169 https://

Quantum Dynamics and Information Measures in PT and Anti-PT-Symmetric Systems
In this study, we investigate qubit dynamics under PT and Anti-PT-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, focusing on phase evolution, decoherence, quantum speed limits (QSL), and Rényi entanglement entropies. Using similarity transformations and Dyson maps, we analyze the reduced density matrix evolution in bosonic environments. Anti-PT-symmetric systems show enhanced robustness against decoherence, with slower entropy growth and longer coherence times compared to PT-symmetric counterparts. QSL…

A Non-leveled and Reliable Approximate FHE Framework through Binarized Polynomial Rings
Baigang Chen, Dongfang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02943 https://

A Non-leveled and Reliable Approximate FHE Framework through Binarized Polynomial Rings
Homomorphic encryption (HE) enables secure computation on encrypted data, safeguarding user privacy in domains such as cloud computing, healthcare, and finance. Among fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes, CKKS is notable for supporting approximate arithmetic over complex numbers, a key requirement for machine-learning and numerical workloads. However, CKKS incurs rapid noise growth, complex parameter tuning, and relies on costly modulus switching. We propose a binary variant of CKKS that …

The cheap embedding property
Kevin Li, Clara Loeh, Marco Moraschini, Roman Sauer, Matthias Uschold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01347 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

The cheap embedding property
We provide upper bounds for logarithmic torsion homology growth and Betti number growth of groups, phrased in the language of measured group theory.

Replaced article(s) found for math.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/math.CO/new
[1/1]:
- Growth of bilinear maps III: Decidability
Vuong Bui
https://

Something I'll never understand, when a company announces layoffs, they still say they're looking at growth in the future. That's some fuckin bullshit, as they say, right there

The U.S. could tumble into recession before seeing Trump’s promised golden age
The labor market has basically stalled since Trump kicked off his “Liberation Day” tariff offensive in April.
Some on Wall Street are mulling the likelihood of a recession.

“The odds are close to 50/50, maybe more,” said Neil Dutta,
head of economic research at Renaissance Macro Research in New York.
“The case for a slowdown is pretty compelling.”

Administration officials dismiss …

Analysis | The U.S. could tumble into recession before seeing Trump’s promised golden age
The U.S. economy is at risk of entering a recession before President Trump’s promised golden age, with weak job growth and high inflation blamed on his policies.

Upper bound of transient growth in accelerating and decelerating wall-driven flows using the Lyapunov method
Zhengyang Wei, Weichen Zhao, Chang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01410

Upper bound of transient growth in accelerating and decelerating wall-driven flows using the Lyapunov method
This work analyzes accelerating and decelerating wall-driven flows by quantifying the upper bound of transient energy growth using a Lyapunov-type approach. By formulating the linearized Navier-Stokes equations as a linear time-varying system and constructing a time-dependent Lyapunov function, we obtain a rigorous upper bound on transient energy growth by solving linear matrix inequalities (LMI). The LMI approach can obtain the upper bound of transient energy growth that closely matches transi…

Donald Trump's economy falters as US jobs growth grinds to a halt (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f98caaf8-545b-41cb-abdf-d9ea674799fc
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p36#a250906p36

The Daily Mail names Greta Lawn to the newly created position of president for North America to lead revenue growth (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/daily-mail…

Daily Mail names first president for North America to lead revenue growth
Daily Mail has created the role of president, North America to lead revenue growth in the world's largest media market. Greta Lawn appointed

Entire conformal curves are affine or have super-Euclidean energy growth
Toni Ikonen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04414 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04414

Entire conformal curves are affine or have super-Euclidean energy growth
We prove that entire conformal curves $\mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^m$ fall into two classes: either the curve is affine or the average energy in a ball is strictly increasing for large radii and diverges to infinity. This rigidity follows from a blow-down argument and the strong interaction of the generalized Cauchy--Riemann equations with calibrated geometries and the sharp isoperimetric inequality for integral currents due to Almgren. As an application, we prove that every entire Lips…

Learning to Incentivize: LLM-Empowered Contract for AIGC Offloading in Teleoperation
Zijun Zhan, Yaxian Dong, Daniel Mawunyo Doe, Yuqing Hu, Shuai Li, Shaohua Cao, Zhu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03464

Learning to Incentivize: LLM-Empowered Contract for AIGC Offloading in Teleoperation
With the rapid growth in demand for AI-generated content (AIGC), edge AIGC service providers (ASPs) have become indispensable. However, designing incentive mechanisms that motivate ASPs to deliver high-quality AIGC services remains a challenge, especially in the presence of information asymmetry. In this paper, we address bonus design between a teleoperator and an edge ASP when the teleoperator cannot observe the ASP's private settings and chosen actions (diffusion steps). We formulate this as …

High-energy evolution in planar QCD to three loops: the non-conformal contribution
Giacomo Brunello, Simon Caron-Huot, Giulio Crisanti, Mathieu Giroux, Sid Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03794

High-energy evolution in planar QCD to three loops: the non-conformal contribution
The Balitsky-Kovchegov (BK) equation offers a tractable description of the high-energy growth of gauge-theory scattering amplitudes and the nonlinear saturation effects that eventually tame it. Motivated by the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), whose extended kinematic reach promises more decisive tests of saturation at high energies, we present a framework based on the spacelike-timelike correspondence that streamlines the computation of multi-loop corrections to the BK equation. We explic…

The interplay of $\mu$-dichotomy, bounded growth, and spectral properties via growth rate comparisons
N\'estor Jara, Claudio A. Gallegos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21940 htt…

The interplay of $μ$-dichotomy, bounded growth, and spectral properties via growth rate comparisons
We investigate the behavior of the dichotomy spectrum of nonautonomous linear systems under general growth rates. By introducing comparison criteria we clarify how $μ$-dichotomy and $μ$-bounded growth interact. We also study the evolution of the dichotomy spectrum under these comparisons, revealing that faster growth rates compress the spectrum, while slower growth rates expand it. Moreover, we introduce equivalence relations on the set of growth rates, which enable us to establish that, for …

“Degrowth Donald” - Legal Planet
https://legal-planet.org/2025/09/06/degrowth-donald/

C3 AI, whose NYSE ticker symbol is AI, has fallen 32% in the past month on growth concerns, after its Q1 revenue fell 19% YoY to $70.3M, below $100M est. (Hyunsoo Rim/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/the-company-with-t…

The company with the world’s most enviable stock ticker isn’t cashing in on AI
When your ticker is “AI,” people expect you to be riding the wave better than anyone else — that hasn’t happened for C3.ai.

🐮 Now on Wall Street, JBS eyes growth amid scrutiny on deforestation & graft
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/now-on-wall-street-jbs-eyes-growth-amid-scrutiny-on-deforestation-graft/

Now on Wall Street, JBS eyes growth amid scrutiny on deforestation & graft
The world's largest meatpacker had a long journey to the U.S. stock market, one full of reports of greenwashing and corruption.

Robust Econometrics for Growth-at-Risk
Tobias Adrian, Yuya Sasaki, Yulong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00263 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00263

Robust Econometrics for Growth-at-Risk
The Growth-at-Risk (GaR) framework has garnered attention in recent econometric literature, yet current approaches implicitly assume a constant Pareto exponent. We introduce novel and robust econometrics to estimate the tails of GaR based on a rigorous theoretical framework and establish validity and effectiveness. Simulations demonstrate consistent outperformance relative to existing alternatives in terms of predictive accuracy. We perform a long-term GaR analysis that provides accurate and in…

Solar and wind now almost meeting global electricity demand growth, even in a high-growth year. They're close to forcing down fossil fuel use for electricity on their own, and perhaps already there with the help of some additional hydro and nuclear.
https://www.iea.org/reports/…

Supermassive black hole growth from stellar binary encounters
Aubrey Jones, Benjamin C. Bromley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02316 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Supermassive black hole growth from stellar binary encounters
The growth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) remains a central problem in astrophysics, with current observations providing only limited constraints on the underlying mechanisms. One possible growth channel is stellar accretion via the Hill's mechanism, wherein a SMBH tidally breaks up a passing binary star, capturing and eventually accreting a member of the binary. We adopt a model to predict capture rates from parameters that include the central number density of stars, the stellar velocity…

Gas Pressure Driven Screening Forces and Pebble Aggregation: A Pathway for Growth in Planet Formation
Mukesh Kumar Vyas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02570 ht…

Gas Pressure Driven Screening Forces and Pebble Aggregation: A Pathway for Growth in Planet Formation
The formation of planetesimals from cm-sized pebbles in protoplanetary disks faces significant barriers, including fragmentation and radial drift. We identify a previously unaccounted screening force, arising from mutual shielding of thermal gas particles between pebbles when their separation falls below the gas mean free path. This force facilitates pebble binding, overcoming key growth barriers under turbulent disk conditions. Unlike conventional mechanisms, screening forces operate independe…

Tensor powers of representations of (diagram) monoids
David He, Daniel Tubbenhauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04054 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.04054…

Tensor powers of representations of (diagram) monoids
We study tensor powers of representations of finite monoids, focusing on the growth behavior of their composition length and the number of indecomposable summands. Special attention is given to diagram monoids such as the Temperley-Lieb, Motzkin, and Brauer monoids. For these examples, we compute explicit data, including some character tables, and analyze patterns in the decomposition of their tensor powers.

Suspensions of small ultra-soft colloids remain liquids in overcrowded conditions
Nikolaos A. Burger, Alexander V. Petrunin, Ann E. Terry Ralf Schweins, Andrea Scotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04244

Suspensions of small ultra-soft colloids remain liquids in overcrowded conditions
Concentrated suspensions of small ultra-soft colloids (ultra-low crosslinked microgels) are investigated with scattering and steady shear rheology to capture their equilibrium dynamics. The suspensions lack dynamic arrest, although the slow relaxation time $τ_2$ follows exponential growth with increasing generalized packing fraction, $ζ$. The zero-shear viscosity grows weakly with $ζ$, and never diverges in contrast to other soft glass formers, e.g.~star-polymers, microgels, green particles.…

FX-constrained growth: Fundamentalists, chartists and the dynamic trade-multiplier
Marwil J. Davila-Fernandez, Serena Sordi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02252 https://

FX-constrained growth: Fundamentalists, chartists and the dynamic trade-multiplier
Behavioural finance offers a valuable framework for examining foreign exchange (FX) market dynamics, including puzzles such as excess volatility and fat-tailed distributions. Yet, when it comes to their interaction with the `real' side of the economy, existing scholarship has overlooked a critical feature of developing countries. They cannot trade in their national currencies and need US dollars to access modern production techniques as well as maintain consumption patterns similar to those of …

Follow the user meaningfully and product growth will follow: A mixed methods case study tying UX Point of View & Growth leading to measurable impact
Neha Raghuvanshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21195

Follow the user meaningfully and product growth will follow: A mixed methods case study tying UX Point of View & Growth leading to measurable impact
Have you wondered how cross-functional teams balance between maximizing value that users derive and business growth leading to win-win situations? This case study shows how User Experience Research (UXR) and Data Science teams used mixed methods research to strategically influence Product Led Growth (PLG) for a Password Manager used by million+ users, thus allowing our users, internal teams, and business to win. The audience will take away practical lessons/techniques related to leveraging mixe…

Radiance Fields in XR: A Survey on How Radiance Fields are Envisioned and Addressed for XR Research
Ke Li, Mana Masuda, Susanne Schmidt, Shohei Mori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04326

Radiance Fields in XR: A Survey on How Radiance Fields are Envisioned and Addressed for XR Research
The development of radiance fields (RF), such as 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), has revolutionized interactive photorealistic view synthesis and presents enormous opportunities for XR research and applications. However, despite the exponential growth of RF research, RF-related contributions to the XR community remain sparse. To better understand this research gap, we performed a systematic survey of current RF literature to analyze (i) how RF is envisioned for X…

TikTok says it now has more than 200M MAUs in Europe, up from 175M in 2024, the latest sign of its rapid growth among teenagers (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/tiktok-users-top-200-million-eu…

Why Drake Maye's best day of training camp could foreshadow second-year fireworks for Patriots quarterback

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/drake-m

Seaweed-Based Growth Media Could Replace Traditional Cell Culture Media in Cultivated Meat Production https://vegconomist.com/algae-microalgae-seaweed/seaweed-based-growth-media-replace-traditional-cell-…

Seaweed-Based Growth Media Could Replace Traditional Cell Culture Media in Cultivated Meat Production - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new research project led by James Cook University (JCU) and the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) is investigating the use of seaweed as a potential

"Washington State Protects the Old-Growth Forests of Tomorrow, Creates 77,000 Acres of ‘Legacy Forests’"
#US #USA #America #Washington

Washington to Protect the Old-Growth Forests of Tomorrow, Creates 77,000 Acres of 'Legacy Forests'
The legacy forest announcement raises an interesting question for forest management and conservation to consider around the world over.

News Corp reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $2.11B, vs. $2.1B est., and WSJ subscriptions up 7% YoY to 4.5M on average, 4.1M of which were digital-only (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/en/news-corp-beats-revenue-est…

The Bulwark's top editor shares how the anti-Trump site tripled its subscriber base in a year -- and why it's betting on YouTube (James Faris/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-bulwark-jonathan-last-interview-growth-youtube-cable-msnbc-cnn-2025-7
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p68#a250704p68

Reciprocity of Magnetism and Nanostructure Growth
Felix Zahner, Kirsten von Bergmann, Roland Wiesendanger, Andr\'e Kubetzka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03202 https://

Reciprocity of Magnetism and Nanostructure Growth
The growth of thin films and nanostructures is a fundamental process for constructing both model-type systems and nanoscale devices, where performance and functionalities can be controlled by the choice of parameters. For magnetic systems the crystal structure, material composition, size, and shape determine already most of the magnetism-related properties. Here, we investigate the reciprocal route, which is controlling nanostructure growth via magnetism. To this end we deposit Co on a uniaxial…

Data-Driven Transient Growth Analysis
Zhicheng Kai, Peter Frame, Aaron Towne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02525 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Data-Driven Transient Growth Analysis
The transient growth of disturbances made possible by the non-normality of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations plays an important role in bypass transition for many shear flows. Transient growth is typically quantified by the maximum energy growth among all possible initial disturbances, which is given by the largest squared singular value of the matrix exponential of the linearized Navier-Stokes operator. In this paper, we propose a data-driven approach to studying transient growth wherein …

🦠 Common food bacteria could help make vitamins cheaper and greener
#food

Common food bacteria could help make vitamins cheaper and greener
A new study reveals how Lactococcus lactis (L. lactis), a common food bacterium, regulates the production of a key precursor in vitamin K₂ (menaquinone) biosynthesis. The bacteria produce enough of this precursor to support their growth while preventing toxic buildup.

A look at the annual Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, Ethereum's flagship European event, held in Cannes this year to showcase the network's growth (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/the-ethcc-

Ethereum is powering Wall Street's future. The crypto scene at Cannes shows how far it's come
Ethereum’s institutional adoption is accelerating, with BlackRock, Deutsche Bank, Coinbase, and Kraken all building directly on its rails.

IMF slashes Russia's growth forecast, says war-driven economy to 'slow down': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/imf-slashes-russias-growth-forecast.html

flickr_growth: Flickr friendship network (2008)
A network of declared friendships among Frickr users. Nodes represent Frickr users and a directed edge (i,j) represents a directed declaration of friendship from i to j. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 2302925 nodes and 33140017 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Timestamps
h…

Thomson Reuters reports Reuters News Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $218M, driven by its agency and professional business and a contractual price increase from LSEG (Kenneth Li/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/tho

A Practical Finite Element Approach for Simulating Dynamic Crack Growth in Cu/Ultra Low-k Interconnect Structures
Yuxi Xie, Ethan J. Wu, Lu Xu, Jimmy Perez, Shaofan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00193 …

A Practical Finite Element Approach for Simulating Dynamic Crack Growth in Cu/Ultra Low-k Interconnect Structures
This work presents a practical finite element modeling strategy, the Crack Element Method (CEM), for simulating the dynamic crack propagation in two-dimensional structures. The method employs an element-splitting algorithm based on the Edge-based Smoothed Finite Element Method (ES-FEM) to capture the element-wise crack growth while reducing the formation of poorly shaped elements that can compromise numerical accuracy and computational performance. A fracture energy release rate formulation is …

Sydney-based Lorikeet, which provides AI agents as "customer concierges", raised a AU$54M Series A led by QED Investors at a AU$200M valuation (Paul Smith/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/technology/ai-agent-bo

Lorikeet AI: Canva founders invest in Sydney start-up amid rapid growth
The success of Lorikeet’s AI agent technology has attracted investors including Canva founders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht.

Free boundary regularity for a tumor growth model with obstacle
Giulia Bevilacqua, Matteo Carducci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02837 https://

Free boundary regularity for a tumor growth model with obstacle
We develop an existence and regularity theory for solutions to a geometric free boundary problem motivated by models of tumor growth. In this setting, the tumor invades an accessible region $D$, its motion is directed along a constant vector $V$, and it cannot penetrate another region $K$ acting as an obstacle to the spread of the tumor. Due to the non variational structure of the problem, we show existence of viscosity solutions via Perron's method. Subsequently, we prove interior regularity f…

On the rapid growth of SMBHs in high-z galaxies: the aftermath of Population III.1 stars
Mahsa Sanati, Julien Devriendt, SergioMartin-Alvarez, Adrianne Slyz, Jonathan C. Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02058

On the rapid growth of SMBHs in high-z galaxies: the aftermath of Population III.1 stars
The vast amount of energy released by active galactic nuclei (AGN) is increasingly recognized as a key driver of evolution not only in massive galaxies and clusters, but also in low-mass dwarf galaxies. Despite this, their role in the early stages of galaxy formation and in self-regulating the rapid growth of the first and abundant supermassive black holes (SMBHs) remains poorly understood. Through new high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulations, we follow the co-evolution of $10^5 M_\odot…

Russia cuts 2025 economic growth forecast from 2.5% to 1.5%: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/russia-cuts-economic-growth-forecast.html

OpenAI told investors that it projects its cash burn this year through 2029 will rise to a total of $115B, about $80B higher than it previously expected (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-says-business-will-bur…

OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029
OpenAI recently had both good news and bad news for shareholders. Revenue growth from ChatGPT is accelerating at a more rapid rate than the company projected half a year ago. The bad news? The computing costs to develop artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, and other data ...

Moisture-driven CO2 direct air capture and delivery for cultivating cyanobacteria
Justin Flory, Shuqin Li, Samantha Taylor, Sunil Tiwari, Garrett Cole, Marlene Velazco Medel, Amory Lowe, Jordan Monroe, Sara Sarbaz, Nick Lowery, Joel Eliston, Heidi P. Feigenbaum, Heather Emady, Jason C. Quinn, Matthew Green, John McGowen, Klaus Lackner, Wim Vermaas
https://

Moisture-driven CO2 direct air capture and delivery for cultivating cyanobacteria
A moisture-driven air capture system was developed and demonstrated for cultivating cyanobacteria and microalgae at the flask (50 mL), bench (12 L) and small pilot (840 L) scale. Purolite A501 anion exchange resin beads were found to be biocompatible and rapidly deliver air-captured CO2 when immersed directly in an alkaline cultivation medium containing cyanobacteria or microalgae. Flask-scale cultivation trials showed A501 could sustain rapid growth (190 mg/L/d) of the cyanobacterium Synechocy…

A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth, according to a Guardian investigation.
The gold standard peer-reviewed process used by the NSF to support cutting-edge, high-impact science is being undermined by the chaotic cuts to staff, programs a…

"Global electricity demand to rise in 2026 as renewables lead, says IEA"
#Renewables #Energy

Global electricity demand to rise in 2026 as renewables lead, says IEA
Global electricity demand is set to rise more than 3% per year through 2026, driven by growth in Asia and greater use across industry, data centers, and transport, with renewables, gas, and nuclear meeting most of the increase, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Airbnb reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $3.1B, vs. $3.03B est., net income of $642M, vs. $599.3M est., Q3 outlook above est., and authorizes a $6B share buyback (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A GPU-Accelerated Three-Dimensional Crack Element Method for Transient Dynamic Fracture Simulation
Yuxi Xie, C. T. Wu, Wei Hu, Lu Xu, Tinh Q. Bui, Shaofan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04076

A GPU-Accelerated Three-Dimensional Crack Element Method for Transient Dynamic Fracture Simulation
This work presents a novel three-dimensional Crack Element Method (CEM) designed to model transient dynamic crack propagation in quasi-brittle materials efficiently. CEM introduces an advanced element-splitting algorithm that enables element-wise crack growth, including crack branching. Based on the evolving topology of split elements, an original formulation for computing the fracture energy release rate in three dimensions is derived. A series of benchmark examples is conducted to demonstrate…

wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…

The continuous version of the generalized exchange-driven growth model
Prasanta K. Barik, Fernando P. da Costa, Jo\~ao T. Pinto, Rafael Sasportes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01316

The continuous version of the generalized exchange-driven growth model
In this article, we discuss the continuous version of the generalized exchange-driven growth model which is a variant of the coagulation model in which a smaller size particle is detached from a bigger one and merges with another particle. This new model is a continuous extension of the generalized exchange-driven growth model originally formulated in a discrete context [4]. In this work, we examine the existence of weak solutions to the continuous version of the generalized exchange-driven gro…

Phase field simulation of dendrite growth in solid-state lithium batteries based on mechanical-thermo-electrochemical coupling
Pengyang Hou, Jiamiao Xie, Jingyang Li, Peng Zhang, Zhaokai Li, Wenqian Hao, Jia Tian, Zhe Wang, Fuzheng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02013

Phase field simulation of dendrite growth in solid-state lithium batteries based on mechanical-thermo-electrochemical coupling
Solid-state lithium batteries possess numerous advantages, such as high energy density, excellent cycle stability, superior mechanical strength, non-flammability, enhanced safety, and extended service life. These characteristics make them highly suitable for applications in aerospace, new energy vehicles, and portable electronic devices. However, the growth of lithium dendrite at the electrode/electrolyte interface remains a critical challenge, limiting both performance and safety. The growth o…

Rediscovering the Milky Way with an orbit superposition approach and APOGEE data V. The disc growth and history of star formation
Bridget Ratcliffe, Sergey Khoperskov, Nathan Lee, Ivan Minchev, Paola Di Matteo, Glenn van de Ven, Misha Haywood, L\'ea Marques, John Paul Bernaldez, Davor Krajnovi\'c, Matthias Steinmetz
https://arxiv.o…

Rediscovering the Milky Way with an orbit superposition approach and APOGEE data V. The disc growth and history of star formation
The Milky Way's (MW's) star formation history (SFH) offers insight into the chronology of its assembly and the mechanisms driving its structural development. In this study, we present an inference and analysis of the spatially resolved SFH and the MW disc growth. Our approach leverages both stellar birth radii estimates and the complete reconstruction of the MW stellar disc using a novel orbit superposition method from APOGEE data, allowing us to trace the orbit-mass weighted SFH based on forma…

Bears coach Ben Johnson details Caleb Williams' growth: 'He is so much more comfortable right now'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bears-c

Trump is ‘killing jobs and jacking up prices’, Democrats say,
as global markets fall over tariff turmoil – US politics live
Senate minority leader Jeffreys says
‘chickens are coming home to roost for Trump’
amid markets slump and meagre job growth figures
🔸Trump signs order increasing tariffs on Canadian goods
🔸Full list of new tariff rates

🌲 A Sequoia Forest Grows in Detroit
#detroit

A Sequoia Forest Grows in Detroit
Using the DNA of the world’s mightiest trees, a tree grower in Michigan aims to replenish old-growth forests, one sapling at a time.

Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo has topped 50K paying subscribers and its YouTube channel has surpassed 1M subscribers, 15 months after its launch (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/mehdi-hasan-zeteo-substack-growth

The Zeteo Zoom
In just 15 months, Mehdi Hasan has transformed Zeteo from a risky post-MSNBC gamble into a thriving, independent media company.

The role of Lagrangian drift in the generation of surface waves by wind
L. R. Seitz, Mara A. Freilich, Nick Pizzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02580 https://…

The role of Lagrangian drift in the generation of surface waves by wind
A nonlinear stability analysis entirely in the Lagrangian frame is conducted, revealing the fundamental role of the wave-induced mean flow in modifying further wave growth and providing new insight into the classic problem of wave generation by wind. The prevailing theory, a critical-layer resonance mechanism proposed by Miles (1957), has seen numerous refinements; yet, the role of Lagrangian drift -- the velocity a fluid parcel actually experiences -- in wave growth was not understood. Our ana…

Cloudflare reports Q2 revenue up 28% YoY to $512.3M, vs. $501.21M est., and forecasts Q3 revenue of $543.5M to $544.5M, vs. $538.6M est. (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/31/cloudflare-beats-second-quart…

Cloudflare beats earnings estimates with strong revenue and customer growth - SiliconANGLE
Cloudflare beats earnings estimates with strong revenue and customer growth - SiliconANGLE

Optimal strategies for measuring gas-phase metallicities in intermediate-redshift non-AGN and AGN-host galaxies using future instrumentation
Song-lin Li, Trevor J. Mendel, Mark R. Krumholz, Emily Wisnioski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04203

Optimal strategies for measuring gas-phase metallicities in intermediate-redshift non-AGN and AGN-host galaxies using future instrumentation
Resolved measurements of gas-phase metallicities in galaxies that both do and do not host active galactic nuclei (AGN) are crucial for understanding the role of AGN in regulating galaxy growth over cosmic time. Recent work at $z=0$ has demonstrated that a self-consistent comparison of metallicities in AGN-host and non-AGN galaxies can be conducted within a Bayesian framework given sufficient coverage of rest-frame optical emission lines. The next generation of adaptive optics-assisted optical a…

The Trump Economy Stumbles (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-economy-tariffs-trade-jobs-growth-federal-reserve-a51eccaf?st=pTjusm&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p15#a250802p15

wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…

Ukraine receives $500 million in IMF funding, maintaining growth forecasts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/ukraine-receives-million-in-imf.html

Ampd: premium VOD added 1.5M net new subscribers in Q2 in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand; Netflix, Viu and iQiyi drove 60% of growth (Sara Merican/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/southeast-asia-streaming-new-…

Southeast Asia Adds 1.5 Million Net New Subscribers Across Premium VOD In Q2, Nearly Doubling Q1’s Growth — Report
The premium video-on-demand market in Southeast Asia has seen a bumper quarter, adding more than 1.5 million net new subscribers in Q2 2025, nearly double the first quarter's growth.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 28, the number is 100%.
Happy Labor Day.
https://bsky.app/profile/sundaedivine.bsky.soc…

Stagflation fears are back -- America is showing new signs of stagflation ... (Courtenay Brown/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/02/stagflation-economy-inflation-growth-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250802/p11#a250802p11

DOJ charges ex-IRL CEO Abraham Shafi with securities and wire fraud for allegedly misleading investors about user growth, concealing personal expenses, and more (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/04/tech-ceo-vcs-unicorn-irl-fraud-softbank/

CEO who ran tech unicorn once valued at $1.2 billion charged with fraud after allegedly spending millions on his wedding and art classes
Abraham Shafi ran a buzzy startup called IRL (which stands for 'in real life') but now faces more than 20 years in prison.

"It seemed tariffs were already boosting inflation and dampening growth at the margin, albeit not to a sufficient degree to tip the economy into recession," writes Josh Barro.
"Now the jobs numbers are also showing significant weakness, even though they're not yet showing the bottom falling out of the labor market.
The last remaining bullish economic indicator is the stock market.
Like Furman, I can't explain why stocks are doing so well in spite o…

Well, This Jobs Report Clarifies Some Things
Trump will get his rate cut, but there's little other good news for the president.

Miami-based MyPrize, which offers free-to-play social games in the US and crypto games elsewhere, raised $21M at a $250M valuation, taking total raised to $38M (Fiona Simmons/GamblingNews)
https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/myprize-secures-21m-from-in…

MyPrize Secures $21M from Investors, Eyes Further Growth
MyPrize, which launched in 2024, has just closed its latest funding round, securing $21 million from its investors.

The economy created only 33,000 jobs in May and June combined
— anemic growth the likes of which we haven’t seen the final months of President Trump’s first term.
In contrast, under President Biden, the economy gained some 420,000 jobs in May and June 2024.
Trump’s response was as unhinged and authoritarian as you’d expect.
In an unprecedented move, he abruptly firedErika McEntarfer,
the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
-- and as an excuse lied th…

The looming Trump-cession
Orange man bad (for the economy).

Spinning an endless growth story isn't merely ideological. It's a firmly materialistic undertaking.
Companies that appear to be growing have market caps that are an order of magnitude larger than companies that are consisdered "mature" and at the end of their growth phase.
For every dollar that Ford brings in, the market is willing to spend $8.60 on its stock.
For every dollar Tesla brings in, the market is willing to spend $118 on its stock.
That…

Counterpoint Research: Apple's iPhone sales in China grew 8% YoY in Q2 2025, the first time Apple has recorded growth in China since Q2 2023 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/apple-china-iphone-sales-grew-fo…

Apple's China iPhone sales grows for the first time in two years
Apple is facing intense competition in China from a resurgent Huawei.

Indian quick commerce companies like Swiggy, Zepto and Flipkart are slowing down dark store expansion to rein in cash burn after an aggressive year of growth (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiat…

Quick commerce companies slow dark stores buildout to control cash burn
Quick commerce firms are hitting pause on expansion of dark stores to keep cash burn in check. Industry executives said companies are renegotiating their lease agreements for these mini-warehouses. An exception is Blinkit, which is backed by parent Eternal’s $2 billion war chest and plans to expand its network to 3,000 stores from 1,544 dark stores as of June 30.