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General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning using Medal.tv game clips, raised a $133.7M seed led by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/gene

General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips | TechCrunch
Late last year, OpenAI reportedly tried to buy Medal and its vast trove of video game data for $500M. Today, the company spun out a frontier research lab that's using that data to build AI agents that understand how they move through space and time, a concept called spatial-temporal reasoning.

SNAP cuts and changes are taking effect immediately
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5606295-snap-is-back-but-these-cuts-and-changes-are-taking-effect-immediately/

Sparkassen dringen auf Wero statt digitalem Euro
Europa will auch beim Bezahlen unabhängiger von den USA werden. Banken treiben jetzt den Zahldienst Wero – sehen sich aber von einer EZB-Initiative gebremst.
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The Cowboys Mock Draft Philly Would Veto Immediately https://insidethestar.com/the-cowboys-mock-draft-philly-would-veto-immediately

So I've a medical thing that I need to buy once a month on Amazon and they cancelled my subscription delivery for it last time (but not the subscription itself), without telling me.
I tried to just order it for one time delivery, but the delivery date was a month out and they immediately cancelled my order.
My wife told me to use my developer brain—and yes, imagining a bug with some row in a database being in a fugue state, the exactly a month out delivery date being the biggest hint to something going into a default state when a calculation fails.
So I removed the subscription to the item (they make it hard to find where to do this).
Bingo: I can now order immediately for delivery in two days and for working subscrpition delivery.

Auch was für Deutschland?
"In Großbritannien wird darüber diskutiert, ob Clubs und kleine Konzerthallen durch Ticketverkäufe von großen Künstlern mitfinanziert werden sollen."
Audio: Initiative in Großbritannien will kleine Konzerthallen retten
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Initiative in Großbritannien will kleine Konzerthallen retten

Imitation Learning as Return Distribution Matching
Filippo Lazzati, Alberto Maria Metelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12026 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12026…

Imitation Learning as Return Distribution Matching
We study the problem of training a risk-sensitive reinforcement learning (RL) agent through imitation learning (IL). Unlike standard IL, our goal is not only to train an agent that matches the expert's expected return (i.e., its average performance) but also its risk attitude (i.e., other features of the return distribution, such as variance). We propose a general formulation of the risk-sensitive IL problem in which the objective is to match the expert's return distribution in Wasserstein dist…

CoIRL-AD: Collaborative-Competitive Imitation-Reinforcement Learning in Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
Xiaoji Zheng, Ziyuan Yang, Yanhao Chen, Yuhang Peng, Yuanrong Tang, Gengyuan Liu, Bokui Chen, Jiangtao Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12560

CoIRL-AD: Collaborative-Competitive Imitation-Reinforcement Learning in Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving
End-to-end autonomous driving models trained solely with imitation learning (IL) often suffer from poor generalization. In contrast, reinforcement learning (RL) promotes exploration through reward maximization but faces challenges such as sample inefficiency and unstable convergence. A natural solution is to combine IL and RL. Moving beyond the conventional two-stage paradigm (IL pretraining followed by RL fine-tuning), we propose CoIRL-AD, a competitive dual-policy framework that enables IL an…

Learning Representations in Video Game Agents with Supervised Contrastive Imitation Learning
Carlos Celemin, Joseph Brennan, Pierluigi Vito Amadori, Tim Bradley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11880

Learning Representations in Video Game Agents with Supervised Contrastive Imitation Learning
This paper introduces a novel application of Supervised Contrastive Learning (SupCon) to Imitation Learning (IL), with a focus on learning more effective state representations for agents in video game environments. The goal is to obtain latent representations of the observations that capture better the action-relevant factors, thereby modeling better the cause-effect relationship from the observations that are mapped to the actions performed by the demonstrator, for example, the player jumps wh…

India officially notifies its first data protection law to establish a framework for data processing, protection, and governance, including verifiable consent (The Economic Times)
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India notifies its first data protection law to strengthen privacy, security
India has officially notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, establishing a framework for data processing, protection, and governance. These rules, enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, introduce verifiable consent, breach notification mandates, and data retention limits. They aim to enhance individual control and foster safer digital ecosystems.