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Interesting early version release of iconclass-vlm, a specialised small vision language model that automatically generates ICONCLASS metadata for cultural heritage collections by Daniel van Strien
iconclass-vlm: https://huggingface.co/davanstrien/iconclass-vlm
model evaluatio…

Anthropic raised a $13B Series F led by Iconiq at a $183B post-money valuation, up from $61.5B in March 2025, and says it has a $5B revenue run-rate (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-series-f-at-usd183b-post-money-valuation

Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation
Anthropic has completed a Series F fundraising of $13 billion led by ICONIQ. This financing values Anthropic at $183 billion post-money. Along with ICONIQ, the round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The investment reflects Anthropic’s continued momentum and reinforces our position as the leading intelligence platform for enterprises, developers, and power users.

Als Vater, Grossvater und Urgrossvater rate ich meinen Nachkommen und allen Generationen, die mir nachfolgen, Aufklärung zu suchen und mit philosophischer Vernunft und menschlichem Verstand zu handeln. - Paul Ignaz Vogel (86), Publizist
https://www.generationentandem…

«Jenes Gelände»: Lebenserinnerungen von Paul Ignaz Vogel - UND Generationentandem
Der Publizist und Nonkonformist Paul Ignaz Vogel (PIV) hat diesen Sommer im NZZ Libro Verlag seine Lebenserinnerungen «Jenes Gelände» veröffentlicht. Das biografisch geschriebene Buch beschäftigt sich mit Fragen von psychologischer – wie zeithistorischer – Relevanz. Die Leserschaft erfährt viel über Fichenaffaire, Ostspionage, Krieg und Antisemitismus.

A Continuous Energy Ising Machine Leveraging Difference-of-Convex Programming
Debraj Banerjee, Santanu Mahapatra, Kunal Narayan Chaudhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01928 https:…

A Continuous Energy Ising Machine Leveraging Difference-of-Convex Programming
Many combinatorial optimization problems can be reformulated as the task of finding the ground state of a physical system, such as the Ising model. Most existing Ising solvers are inspired by simulated annealing. Although annealing techniques offer scalability, they lack convergence guarantees and are sensitive to the cooling schedule. We propose to solve the Ising problem by relaxing the binary spins to continuous variables and introducing a potential function (attractor) that steers the solut…

From negligible to neglecton: making Ising anyons braiding universal
Filippo Iulianelli, Sung Kim, Joshua Sussan, Aaron D. Lauda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02843 https://…

From negligible to neglecton: making Ising anyons braiding universal
We introduce a new framework for achieving universal topological quantum computation using Ising anyons via braiding alone. Our approach builds on recent developments in non-semisimple topological quantum field theories in (2+1)-dimensions, which extend the traditional semisimple paradigm. While standard Ising anyons are limited to Clifford operations and thus not computationally universal, we show that their non-semisimple counterparts give rise to new anyon types we call \emph{neglectons}; ad…

¡Este es de los regresos que me gustan! 🤩
Después de que volvieron Los Santos Dumont ahora vuelve Casanova. Estuve muy pegado con esa banda como a principios de los 2010.
Ojalš quw saquen presentación en vivo pronto.
https://www.futuro.cl/2025/09/regres…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
Ale Hop:
🎵 Mayu Islapi
#AleHop
https://alehop.bandcamp.com/track/mayu-islapi-collab-with-ana-quiroga-fil-uno-ignacio-brice-o
https://open.spotify.com/track/7EIKMYIOusgyzcE1CEwiwr

The frustrated Ising model on the honeycomb lattice: Metastability and universality
Denis Gessert, Martin Weigel, Wolfhard Janke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03414 https://…

The frustrated Ising model on the honeycomb lattice: Metastability and universality
We study the Ising model with competing ferromagnetic nearest- and antiferromagnetic next-nearest-neighbor interactions of strengths $J_1 > 0$ and $J_2 < 0$, respectively, on the honeycomb lattice. For $J_2 > - J_1 / 4$ it has a ferromagnetic ground state, and previous work has shown that at least for $J_2 \gtrsim -0.2 J_1$ the transition is in the Ising universality class. For even lower $J_2$ some indicators pointing towards a first-order transition were reported. By utilizing population anne…

“Israel’s army is using remote-controlled vehicles packed with explosives to demolish entire neighbourhoods in besieged Gaza City after issuing a ‘last chance’ to leave warning to hundreds of trapped Palestinians.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/livebl…

LIVE: Israel bombs Gaza homes; military intercepts last flotilla boat
Israel’s army issues ‘final warning’ for hundreds of thousands of people to flee Gaza City as attacks escalate.

Stripe launches Open Issuance, a stablecoin issuance platform built on Stripe's Bridge, which lets companies create their own stablecoins with minimal coding (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/…

Stripe Unveils Stablecoin Issuance Tool With Phantom's Token, Expands Into AI Commerce with OpenAI
With Open Issuance and AI payment standards, Stripe is doubling down on its bet on the rising role of blockchain and digital agents in payments.