InstaLILY, whose industry-specific AI agents called InstaWorkers integrate with legacy systems, raised $25M from Insight Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/27/instalily-gets-25m-accelerate-industr…
HITSZ's End-To-End Speech Translation Systems Combining Sequence-to-Sequence Auto Speech Recognition Model and Indic Large Language Model for IWSLT 2025 in Indic Track
Xuchen Wei, Yangxin Wu, Yaoyin Zhang, Henglyu Liu, Kehai Chen, Xuefeng Bai, Min Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19616
Great blog about EuroStack, we need to BUILD !
"We need to think about this first and foremost as an industrial project. With some public support but one where “industry” (the supply side) needs to be given the incentive to build, and the opportunity to scale and expand. We don’t need more “events” and pensive stuff about “our European values” and “democracy” around digital sovereignty. Industry should do its thing, or nothing will happen. Wake up."
When an Alaska Native group asked state law enforcement officials in June for a list of murders investigated by state police
— one of the most fundamental pieces of data needed to understand the issue
— the state said no.
Charlene Aqpik Apok launched
"Data for Indigenous Justice"
in 2020 after trying to collect the names of missing and murdered Indigenous people to read at a rally,
only to discover no government agency had been keeping track.
In 1985, Sol Wachtler, the chief justice of New York's Supreme Court, famously said, "Any good prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich."
That's what makes it so funny that prosecutors failed to get a felony indictment for the guy who threw a sandwich at National Guard occupiers in Washington, DC.
In Ecuador’s Amazon, Big Oil exploits Indigenous communities in the absence of the state https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/in-ecuadors-amazon-big-oil-exploits-indigenous-communities-in-the-absence-of-the-state/
Structural Decomposition of Moran's Index by Getis-Ord's Indices
Yanguang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19908 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19908
Spatial Data Science Symposium 2025 is announced. Check it out, it's hybrid!
http://sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net/index.html