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“It is RTÉ’s position that Ireland will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if the participation of Israel goes ahead … RTÉ feels that Ireland’s participation would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza.”
https://about.rte.ie/2025/09/11/rte-st

Moonvalley, which is developing "ethical" AI video models trained on licensed content, raised $84M led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $154M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/moonva…

Moonvalley Rises $84 Million Funding Round From Comcast, CAA and More
AI research start-up Moonvalley announced $84 million in funding led by existing investor General Catalyst, with participation by CAA and Comcast.

Non-participant externalities reshape the evolution of altruistic punishment
Zhao Song, Chen Shen, Valerio Capraro, The Anh Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08302 https://

Non-participant externalities reshape the evolution of altruistic punishment
While voluntary participation is a key mechanism that enables altruistic punishment to emerge, its explanatory power typically rests on the common assumption that non-participants have no impact on the public good. Yet, given the decentralized nature of voluntary participation, opting out does not necessarily preclude individuals from influencing the public good. Here, we revisit the role of voluntary participation by allowing non-participants to exert either positive or negative impacts on the…

Talk about a SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation - doomed for failure:
Of all of the "first ladies" (few would really voluntarily apply the word "lady" to Melanoma except in the anatomical sense) Melanoma is the only one who is, as seen in published photographs, truly a "pubic figure".

Moonvalley, which is developing "ethical" AI video models trained on licensed content, raised $84M led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $154M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/moonva…

Moonvalley Rises $84 Million Funding Round From Comcast, CAA and More
AI research start-up Moonvalley announced $84 million in funding led by existing investor General Catalyst, with participation by CAA and Comcast.

Energy Management for Renewable-Colocated Artificial Intelligence Data Centers
Siying Li, Lang Tong, Timothy D. Mount
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08011 http…

Energy Management for Renewable-Colocated Artificial Intelligence Data Centers
We develop an energy management system (EMS) for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers with colocated renewable generation. Under a profit-maximizing framework, the EMS of renewable-colocated data center (RCDC) co-optimizes AI workload scheduling, on-site renewable utilization, and electricity market participation. Within both wholesale and retail market participation models, the economic benefit of the RCDC operation is maximized. Empirical evaluations using real-world traces of electricit…

👽 Conspiracy theory participation expands as research reveals participatory culture appeal
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-conspiracy-theory-reveals-participatory-culture.html

Conspiracy theory participation expands as research reveals participatory culture appeal
A five-year study dispels the stereotype of conspiracy theorists as angry loners or keyboard warriors. Rather, social and emotional connections provided by conspiracy theorists are recruiting diverse participants on a growing scale.

Efficient High-Order Participation Factor Computation via Batch-Structured Tensor Contraction
Mahsa Sajjadi, Kaiyang Huang, Kai Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08968 https://

Efficient High-Order Participation Factor Computation via Batch-Structured Tensor Contraction
Participation factors (PFs) quantify the interaction between system modes and state variables, and they play a crucial role in various applications such as modal analysis, model reduction, and control design. With increasing system complexity, especially due to power electronic devices and renewable integration, the need for scalable and high-order nonlinear PF (NPF) computation has become more critical. This paper presents an efficient tensor-based method for calculating NPFs up to an arbitrar…

LyS at SemEval 2025 Task 8: Zero-Shot Code Generation for Tabular QA
Adri\'an Gude, Roi Santos-R\'ios, Francisco Prado-Vali\~no, Ana Ezquerro, Jes\'us Vilares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09012

LyS at SemEval 2025 Task 8: Zero-Shot Code Generation for Tabular QA
This paper describes our participation in SemEval 2025 Task 8, focused on Tabular Question Answering. We developed a zero-shot pipeline that leverages an Large Language Model to generate functional code capable of extracting the relevant information from tabular data based on an input question. Our approach consists of a modular pipeline where the main code generator module is supported by additional components that identify the most relevant columns and analyze their data types to improve extr…

Decentralising LLM Alignment: A Case for Context, Pluralism, and Participation
Oriane Peter, Kate Devlin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08858 https://arxiv.org…

Decentralising LLM Alignment: A Case for Context, Pluralism, and Participation
Large Language Models (LLMs) alignment methods have been credited with the commercial success of products like ChatGPT, given their role in steering LLMs towards user-friendly outputs. However, current alignment techniques predominantly mirror the normative preferences of a narrow reference group, effectively imposing their values on a wide user base. Drawing on theories of the power/knowledge nexus, this work argues that current alignment practices centralise control over knowledge production …

Robot can reduce superior's dominance in group discussions with human social hierarchy
Kazuki Komura, Kumi Ozaki, Seiji Yamada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08767 https://

Robot can reduce superior's dominance in group discussions with human social hierarchy
This study investigated whether robotic agents that deal with social hierarchical relationships can reduce the dominance of superiors and equalize participation among participants in discussions with hierarchical structures. Thirty doctors and students having hierarchical relationship were gathered as participants, and an intervention experiment was conducted using a robot that can encourage participants to speak depending on social hierarchy. These were compared with strategies that intervened…

CoSight: Exploring Viewer Contributions to Online Video Accessibility Through Descriptive Commenting
Ruolin wang, Xingyu Liu, Biao Wang, Wayne Zhang, Ziqian Liao, Ziwen Li, Amy Pavel, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08582

CoSight: Exploring Viewer Contributions to Online Video Accessibility Through Descriptive Commenting
The rapid growth of online video content has outpaced efforts to make visual information accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) audiences. While professional Audio Description (AD) remains the gold standard, it is costly and difficult to scale across the vast volume of online media. In this work, we explore a complementary approach to broaden participation in video accessibility: engaging everyday video viewers at their watching and commenting time. We introduce CoSight, a Chrome extension th…

Brock Bowers injury update: Latest news on Raiders star's status for Week 2 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/brock-bowers-injury-update-latest-news-raiders-stars-sta…

Seahawks legend Shaun Alexander talks participation in USAA Salute to Service NFL Boot Camp

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawks-le…

ONION: A Multi-Layered Framework for Participatory ER Design
Viktoriia Makovska, George Fletcher, Julia Stoyanovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08702 https:…

ONION: A Multi-Layered Framework for Participatory ER Design
We present ONION, a multi-layered framework for participatory Entity-Relationship (ER) modeling that integrates insights from design justice, participatory AI, and conceptual modeling. ONION introduces a five-stage methodology: Observe, Nurture, Integrate, Optimize, Normalize. It supports progressive abstraction from unstructured stakeholder input to structured ER diagrams. Our approach aims to reduce designer bias, promote inclusive participation, and increase transparency through the modeli…

Isto é interessante. Relatório sobre educação nos países da OCDE.
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/education-at-a-glance-2024_c00cad36-en.html

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel takes part.
https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/0911/1532957-rte-eurovision/

Ireland won't contest Eurovision if Israel takes part
RTÉ has announced that it will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song contest "if the participation of Israel goes ahead."

IDSO-Managed Bid-Based Transactive Distribution Systems Design for DER Participation in Wholesale Markets While Preserving T-D Interactions
Swastik Sharma, Swathi Battula, Sri Niwas Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08187

IDSO-Managed Bid-Based Transactive Distribution Systems Design for DER Participation in Wholesale Markets While Preserving T-D Interactions
Participation of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in bid-based Transactive Energy Systems (TES) at the distribution systems facilitates strongly coupled, bidirectional interactions between Transmission-Distribution (T-D) systems. Capturing these interactions is critical for ensuring seamless integration within an Integrated Transmission and Distribution (ITD) framework. This study proposes a methodology to preserve such tight T-D linkages by developing an Independent Distribution System Oper…

Temporal Motif Participation Profiles for Analyzing Node Similarity in Temporal Networks
Maxwell C. Lee, Kevin S. Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06465 https…

Temporal Motif Participation Profiles for Analyzing Node Similarity in Temporal Networks
Temporal networks consisting of timestamped interactions between a set of nodes provide a useful representation for analyzing complex networked systems that evolve over time. Beyond pairwise interactions between nodes, temporal motifs capture patterns of higher-order interactions such as directed triangles over short time periods. We propose temporal motif participation profiles (TMPPs) to capture the behavior of nodes in temporal motifs. Two nodes with similar TMPPs take similar positions with…

Respect for Irish broadcaster RTÉ
"Ireland threatens to withdraw from Eurovision if Israel participates"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvd8158ywo

RTÉ: Ireland threatens to withdraw from Eurovision if Israel participates
The Irish broadcaster said that Ireland's participation in the contest "would be unconscionable given the ongoing and appalling loss of lives in Gaza".

Britain’s intelligence and military support to Israel since October 7, as well as the continued authorisation of components of F35 jets, “crosses the line into participation,” Mr Kennard added.
Forz Khan, the lawyer who represented the family of Jim Henderson, an aid worker with World Central Kitchen who was killed in April 2024, said it was ”highly likely that Sir Keir Starmer is guilty of genocide.”
'This is not complicity, this is participation' | Morning Star

Emergence of Cooperation and Commitment in Optional Prisoner's Dilemma
Zhao Song, The Anh Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06702 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Emergence of Cooperation and Commitment in Optional Prisoner's Dilemma
Commitment is a well-established mechanism for fostering cooperation in human society and multi-agent systems. However, existing research has predominantly focused on the commitment that neglects the freedom of players to abstain from an interaction, limiting their applicability to many real-world scenarios where participation is often voluntary. In this paper, we present a two-stage game model to investigate the evolution of commitment-based behaviours and cooperation within the framework of t…

Analysis: YC picked just four Indian startups in 2024 vs. 66 in 2021, amid a growing trend of startups shifting their parent entities to India for domestic IPOs (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.…

From 66 to 4: Why Y Combinator backed fewer Indian startups in 2024
Y Combinator's selection of Indian startups has decreased significantly. This decline is attributed to factors like YC's US incorporation requirement and the rise of domestic IPOs. Indian startups are shifting focus to local funding options. They find domestic markets favorable for listing. YC is also prioritizing AI-focused startups. This shift impacts Indian participation. Domestic capital is growing with regulatory support.

"Rollins said that the mass deportations of farm laborers would "continue in a strategic way" and administration policy would be to "move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which, again, with 34 million people, able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do fairly quickly."
Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/brook-rollins-immigrant-farm-workers

LLMs in Wikipedia: Investigating How LLMs Impact Participation in Knowledge Communities
Moyan Zhou, Soobin Cho, Loren Terveen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07819 https://

LLMs in Wikipedia: Investigating How LLMs Impact Participation in Knowledge Communities
Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping knowledge production as community members increasingly incorporate them into their contribution workflows. However, participating in knowledge communities involves more than just contributing content - it is also a deeply social process. While communities must carefully consider appropriate and responsible LLM integration, the absence of concrete norms has left individual editors to experiment and navigate LLM use on their own. Understanding how LLMs i…

Jerry Jones defends Dallas Cowboys' participation in new Netflix documentary https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/jerry-jones-defends-dallas-cowboys-participation-new-netflix-documentary

Right now there's an ACM design technology conference happening with hundreds of people flying in to a conference facility on a remote island to discuss the conference theme of how to make their work more sustainable. In-person participation only.

Global Supply Chain Reallocation and Shift under Triple Crises: A U.S.-China Perspective
Wei Luo (GeospatialX Lab, Geography Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore), Siyuan Kang (GeospatialX Lab, Geography Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore), Qian Di (Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing)
https://

Global Supply Chain Reallocation and Shift under Triple Crises: A U.S.-China Perspective
US-China trade tensions, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Russia-Ukraine conflict have disrupted and reshaped global supply chains. Existing studies caution that these tensions may not meaningfully reduce U.S. dependence on China-linked supply chains. This study examines the drivers of this unmet reallocation under overlapping geopolitical and public health disruptions. It investigates how these shocks jointly reconfigured bilateral trade and global value chain (GVC) participation and positioning…

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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Leveraging LLMs for Privacy-Aware Predictions in Participatory Budgeting
Juan Zambrano, Cl\'ement Contet, Jairo Gudi\~no, Felipe Garrido-Lucero, Umberto Grandi, Cesar A Hidalgo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06577

Leveraging LLMs for Privacy-Aware Predictions in Participatory Budgeting
Participatory Budgeting (PB) empowers citizens to propose and vote on public investment projects. Yet, despite its democratic potential, PB initiatives often suffer from low participation rates, limiting their visibility and perceived legitimacy. In this work, we aim to strengthen PB elections in two key ways: by supporting project proposers in crafting better proposals, and by helping PB organizers manage large volumes of submissions in a transparent manner. We propose a privacy-preserving app…

'This is a disgrace' — Ukraine condemns Woody Allen's participation in Moscow film festival: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/this-is-a-disgrace-ukraine.html

Israeli chip monitoring startup ProteanTecs raised a $51M Series D led by IAG, with participation from Arm, Samsung, and more, taking its total funding to $250M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjbpoqaqgg

Chip monitoring startup proteanTecs raises $51M with backing from Arm, Samsung, and Siemens
The Israeli company has now raised more than $250M, expanding global footprint across automotive, cloud, and telecom.

Buried within 32 U.S.C. § 502(f)(2),
an otherwise mundane statute about the normal functioning of the National Guard system is a broad catch-all:
“Support of operations or missions undertaken by the member’s unit at the request of the President or Secretary of Defense.”
Not order, or command, or after going through the process of federalizing them.
But merely at the “request” for participation of state troops who remain under state, not federal, command.

Trump’s Leaked Plan to Deploy the Texas National Guard Against Illinois Will Tear Apart the Union
If it goes forward, it will plunge the country into an unprecedented constitutional crisis

Incentives for Digital Twins: Task-Based Productivity Enhancements with Generative AI
Catherine Wu, Arun Sundararajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08732 https://

Incentives for Digital Twins: Task-Based Productivity Enhancements with Generative AI
Generative AI is a technology which depends in part on participation by humans in training and improving the automation potential. We focus on the development of an "AI twin" that could complement its creator's efforts, enabling them to produce higher-quality output in their individual style. However, AI twins could also, over time, replace individual humans. We analyze this trade-off using a principal-agent model in which agents have the opportunity to make investments into training an AI twin…

NOWJ@COLIEE 2025: A Multi-stage Framework Integrating Embedding Models and Large Language Models for Legal Retrieval and Entailment
Hoang-Trung Nguyen, Tan-Minh Nguyen, Xuan-Bach Le, Tuan-Kiet Le, Khanh-Huyen Nguyen, Ha-Thanh Nguyen, Thi-Hai-Yen Vuong, Le-Minh Nguyen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08025

NOWJ@COLIEE 2025: A Multi-stage Framework Integrating Embedding Models and Large Language Models for Legal Retrieval and Entailment
This paper presents the methodologies and results of the NOWJ team's participation across all five tasks at the COLIEE 2025 competition, emphasizing advancements in the Legal Case Entailment task (Task 2). Our comprehensive approach systematically integrates pre-ranking models (BM25, BERT, monoT5), embedding-based semantic representations (BGE-m3, LLM2Vec), and advanced Large Language Models (Qwen-2, QwQ-32B, DeepSeek-V3) for summarization, relevance scoring, and contextual re-ranking. Specific…

Mon commentaire après cette première participation Š la conférence : Pass the Salt, c'est vraiment le feu 🔥
#pts25
😇🤣

In-person, Online and Back Again -- A Tale of Three Hybrid Hackathons
Abasi-amefon Obot Affia-Jomants, Alexander Serebrenik, James D. Herbsleb, Alexander Nolte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07301

In-person, Online and Back Again -- A Tale of Three Hybrid Hackathons
Hybrid hackathons, which combine in-person and online participation, present unique challenges for organizers and participants. Although such events are increasingly conducted, research on them remains fragmented, with limited integration between hackathon studies and hybrid collaboration. Existing strategies for in-person or online-only events often fail to address the unique challenges of hybrid formats, such as managing communication across physical and virtual spaces. Our work addresses thi…

The SEMANTiCS 2025 agenda is packed: keynotes, workshops, paper sessions, posters, and networking opportunities every day. You can still register for on site or online participation
👉 #SemanticsConf

Der Thread von @… über die Zerstörung des US-Amerikanischen Rechtsstaats.
Vorbereitet wurde das mit einer gezielten Besetzung des US-Verfassungsgerichts mit Trumps Handlangern in seiner ersten Amtszeit.
Ein Spiel das CDU und CSU derzeit auch spielen: sie versuchen die Besetzung des deutschen Verfassungsgerichts mit Richter*innen, die nicht auf Partei- son…

toad.social
Mastodon server operated by David Troy, a tech pioneer and investigative journalist addressing threats to democracy. Thoughtful participation and discussion welcome.

The new @… recommendations for making network tariffs future-proof and reducing energy system costs are here, and they're good. I think this section of the document provides a good summary. More granular time- and location-based signals to adjust and shift energy use.

To all professionals & retirees in the VFX industry, join the #vfxPeopleChallenge to post a photo of yourself at work. Just share a picture along with a brief description. The goal is to demonstrate that people are working on movies & shows that are supposed to have no CGI!
Thanks for your participation and boots on this project!

Penn Agrees to Limit Participation of Transgender Athletes (Alan Blinder/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/penn-title-ix-transgender-swimmer-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p3#a250702p3

🎉 Meet the new GÉANT Community Committee (GCC) - Part 1
Announced at the latest GÉANT Community Programme workshop in Prague, the committee guides & strengthens our vibrant community.
🔗 Read the workshop highlights & meet the members: https://connect.gean…

I used to tell my kids my own version of Cinderella, where the Prince was romatically ensnared by Cinderella's radical social justice focused politics.
After their wedding her commitment to constituonal reform leads to the introduction of genuine democratic participation in politics in the kingdom with fulll workers rights, universal healthcare and free education for all children.

For some reason., they always preferred the traditional story?

https://writing.exchange/@golgaloth/114934064392785110

Ouch, very familiar:
> I maintain the project alone, as over the years the community has not expressed a need for more active participation. This is typical for infrastructure-level solutions that users don’t interact with directly.
From https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/pop

Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev
updated: Fast-glob is widely used in government, security lab says

Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy
https://ift.tt/jwXndTc
CFP: The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture, Association of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Pentagon halts participation in research, think tank events
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5419318-pentagon-halts-participation-in-research-think-tank-events/

Heterogeneous participation and allocation skews: when is choice "worth it"?
Nikhil Garg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03600 https://

Heterogeneous participation and allocation skews: when is choice "worth it"?
A core ethos of the Economics and Computation (EconCS) community is that people have complex private preferences and information of which the central planner is unaware, but which an appropriately designed mechanism can uncover to improve collective decisionmaking. This ethos underlies the community's largest deployed success stories, from stable matching systems to participatory budgeting. I ask: is this choice and information aggregation ``worth it''? In particular, I discuss how such systems…

Warming Up for Zeroth-Order Federated Pre-Training with Low Resource Clients
Gwen Legate, Irina Rish, Eugene Belilovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03503 https://

Warming Up for Zeroth-Order Federated Pre-Training with Low Resource Clients
Federated learning enables collaborative model training across numerous edge devices without requiring participants to share data; however, memory and communication constraints on these edge devices may preclude their participation in training. We consider a setting in which a subset of edge devices are below a critical memory or communication threshold required to conduct model updates. Under typical federated optimization algorithms, these devices are excluded from training which renders thei…

Other countries’ participation to Horizon Europe was suspended for less.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114935507331414600

Other countries’ participation to Horizon Europe was suspended for less.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114935507331414600

Other countries’ participation to Horizon Europe was suspended for less.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114935507331414600

#NowPlaying Guided by Julian Cope’s “The Modern Antiquarian” and Aurbrey Burl’s “A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain”, Llyn Y Cwn aka Ben Powell makes abyssal dark ambient soundscapes with site-specific field recordings from Wales and beyond. https://…

Llyn Y Cwn
Llyn Y Cwn is a field recording based dark ambient project with focus on atmosphere, immersion and environment. Ben Powell has been making electronic music since the 90s, drawing inspiration from his native North Wales landscape and his participation on Arctic research cruises. Llyn Y Cwn (Welsh - lake of the dogs) is a small lake at 715m in the Glyder mountain range of Snowdonia, North Wales.

Ya know who ran for president on a promise to get us out of wars and then expanded our participation in wars and so Congress told him they were gonna impeach and remove him so he resigned?
This question should have two answers.
#USpol

Ensemble Debates with Local Large Language Models for AI Alignment
Ephraiem Sarabamoun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00091 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00091

Ensemble Debates with Local Large Language Models for AI Alignment
As large language models (LLMs) take on greater roles in high-stakes decisions, alignment with human values is essential. Reliance on proprietary APIs limits reproducibility and broad participation. We study whether local open-source ensemble debates can improve alignmentoriented reasoning. Across 150 debates spanning 15 scenarios and five ensemble configurations, ensembles outperform single-model baselines on a 7-point rubric (overall: 3.48 vs. 3.13), with the largest gains in reasoning depth …

QuLTRA: Quantum hybrid Lumped and TRansmission lines circuits Analyzer
Simona Zaccaria, Antonio Gnudi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03651 https://arxiv.org/pd…

QuLTRA: Quantum hybrid Lumped and TRansmission lines circuits Analyzer
We present QuLTRA (Quantum hybrid Lumped and TRansmission lines circuits Analyzer), an open-source Python package for the accurate simulation of superconducting quantum circuits containing both lumped and distributed elements. QuLTRA directly models coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission lines and multi-line couplers without discretization into lumped-element equivalents, and extracts the circuit Hamiltonian parameters using the energy participation ratio (EPR) method. This approach enables fast…

Helsinki-based DataCrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised a €55M Series A, bringing its total funding to €76.5M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/09/08/datacrunch-raises-eur5…

DataCrunch raises €55M to boost EU AI sovereignty with green cloud infrastructure
Helsinki-based DataCrunch, a provider of high-performance AI infrastructure, has raised €55 million in a Series A round to scale its compute platform and advance its ambition to become Europe’s first AI cloud hyperscaler.The round was led by byFounders, Skaala, Varma pension fund, and Tesi, with participation from J12 Ventures and angel investors. Debt financing came from Nordea and Armada Credit Partners, alongside Danske Bank, Norion Bank, and Local Tapiola. With this raise, DataCru…

I sometimes wonder if somewhere around y2k I slipped through a cross-timeline rift, coming from a universe in which the Oasis bros killed each other before forming a band.
Seriously, this story included 4 clips from Oasis songs and I didn’t recognize ANY of them. I don’t recall ever hearing of them until recently. Not particularly impressed either, although there was a lot of drunken Brit crowd participation in the clips.

Oasis returns to Wembley Stadium
At the Oasis reunion in the U.K., we hear from fans and journalists about why the band's comeback has garnered so much attention.

Efficient and Secure Sleepy Model for BFT Consensus
Pengkun Ren, Hai Dong, Zahir Tari, Pengcheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03145 https://arxiv.org/p…

Efficient and Secure Sleepy Model for BFT Consensus
Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols for dynamically available systems face a critical challenge: balancing latency and security in fluctuating node participation. Existing solutions often require multiple rounds of voting per decision, leading to high latency or limited resilience to adversarial behavior. This paper presents a BFT protocol integrating a pre-commit mechanism with publicly verifiable secret sharing (PVSS) into message transmission. By binding users' identities to t…

Challenges and Lessons from MIDOG 2025: A Two-Stage Approach to Domain-Robust Mitotic Figure Detection
Euiseop Song, Jaeyoung Park, Jaewoo Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02630 …

Challenges and Lessons from MIDOG 2025: A Two-Stage Approach to Domain-Robust Mitotic Figure Detection
Mitotic figure detection remains a challenging task in computational pathology due to domain variability and morphological complexity. This paper describes our participation in the MIDOG 2025 challenge, focusing on robust mitotic figure detection across diverse tissue domains. We developed a two-stage pipeline combining Faster R-CNN for candidate detection with an ensemble of three classifiers (DenseNet-121, EfficientNet-v2, InceptionResNet-v2) for false positive reduction. Our best submission …

Please join the Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club this weekend for our 50th participation in ARRL's annual Field Day. Tens of thousand of amateur radio operators take part in this event every year, and CVARC is always one of the largest events out there. Kids welcome, too!
377 W. Potrero Rd, Westlake Villagae, CA 91361 from 11:00 am Saturday to 11:00 am Sunday. LOADS of stuff going on.

Democracies should stop focusing on efficiency: Lack thereof and friction are important parts of what defines a healthy democracy. Efficiency will always sacrifice participation, representation and meaningful political discourse. The focus on it is a path into authoritarianism. In the essay ...

Security guarantees for Ukraine can't be discussed without Russia's participation, Lavrov claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/security-guarantees-for-ukraine-cant.html

Understanding the Video Content Creation Journey of Creators with Sensory Impairment in Kenya
Lan Xiao, Maryam Bandukda, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Mark Colley, Catherine Holloway
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08108

Understanding the Video Content Creation Journey of Creators with Sensory Impairment in Kenya
Video content creation offers vital opportunities for expression and participation, yet remains largely inaccessible to creators with sensory impairments, especially in low-resource settings. We conducted interviews with 20 video creators with visual and hearing impairments in Kenya to examine their tools, challenges, and collaborative practices. Our findings show that accessibility barriers and infrastructural limitations shape video creation as a staged, collaborative process involving truste…

A quorum of local Bluetooth Low Energy devices that can vote to silence all non-emergency sounds. Required participation.
No one needs to hear your slot machine game jingle for 3 hours, train guy.

A Schema.org Mapping for Brazilian Legal Norms: Toward Interoperable Legal Graphs and Open Government Data
Hudson de Martim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00827 https://

A Schema.org Mapping for Brazilian Legal Norms: Toward Interoperable Legal Graphs and Open Government Data
Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives aim to enhance transparency and public participation by making government data openly accessible. However, structuring legal norms for machine readability remains a critical challenge for advancing Legal Tech applications such as Legal Knowledge Graphs (LKGs). Focusing on the Normas.leg.br portal initiative by the Brazilian National Congress, we propose a unified mapping of Brazilian legislation to the schema.org/Legislation vocabulary via JSON-LD and Link…

#TotalEnergies investiert 160 Mio. € in sechs neue #Batteriespeicherprojekte mit 221 MW in #Deutschland.
Die Anlagen, entwickelt von Tochterunternehmen

Germany: TotalEnergies Pursues Growth in Electricity by Launching Six New Battery Storage Projects
Paris, March 26, 2025 – On the occasion of Patrick Pouyanné’s participation in the Europe 2025 conference in Berlin, and in connection with the Company’s integrated development in the country’s electricity sector, TotalEnergies is announcing investment decisions for six battery storage projects.

FreeBSD survey awareness and participation – July 2025
https://pad.envs.net/form/#/2/form/view/ssgoDx8FELvad43GO-8LNOjgiRNFJ-NKDFw2rMQGXwg/
Pictured: a preview of the form.

Even before the war with Iran started it was clear that even the best bunker buster bombs probably couldn't destroy the deepest facilities in Iran. It makes the rationality of a US participation in the war less clear, Israel doesn't need US help to destroy other kinds of targets.

Women in Physics in the United Kingdom: A Review of Recent Policy and Initiatives
Sally Jordan, Sarah Bakewell, Holly Jane Campbell, Josie Coltman, Wendy Sadler, Chethana Setty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06825

Women in Physics in the United Kingdom: A Review of Recent Policy and Initiatives
Across the United Kingdom, initiatives designed to increase the participation and outcomes for women in physics continue, working with children of various ages as well as with adults. Improvements have been achieved by a combination of these initiatives and an accompanying strengthening of policy, but significant gender imbalances remain.

Austin-based Hello Patient, whose AI agents let healthcare organizations handle patient communications, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners (Marissa Plescia/MedCity News)
https://medcitynews.com/2025/09/hello-patient-conversational-ai/

Hello Patient Secures $22.5M for Conversational AI Solution
Hello Patient's Series A round was led by Scale Venture Partners and included participation from 8VC, Bling Capital, Max Ventures, Remus Capital and FirstLook Partners.

Marsha P. Johnson has become an icon of gay, trans, and queer liberation,
and yet little is known about her life beyond her participation in the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 and the decades long controversy after her lifeless body was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992.
In "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson",
Tourmaline, an award-winning Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist who has dedicated her life to uplifting Marsha P. Johnson’s l…

What We Can Learn From the Defiant Life and Legacy of Marsha P. Johnson
Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline discusses her new book about Marsha’s trailblazing life.

Disproportionate Voices: Participation Inequality and Hostile Engagement in News Comments
Sangbeom Kim, Seonhye Noh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16040 https://

Disproportionate Voices: Participation Inequality and Hostile Engagement in News Comments
Digital platforms were expected to foster broad participation in public discourse, yet online engagement remains highly unequal and underexplored. This study examines the digital participation divide and its link to hostile engagement in news comment sections. Analyzing 260 million comments from 6.2 million users over 13 years on Naver News, South Korea's largest news aggregation platform, we quantify participation inequality using the Gini and Palma indexes and estimate hostility levels with a…

Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy
https://ift.tt/wji3Fq6
CFP: The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture, Association of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Assessing Value of Renewable-based VPP Versus Electrical Storage: Multi-market Participation Under Different Scheduling Regimes and Uncertainties
Hadi Nemati, Ignacio Egido, Pedro S\'anchez-Mart\'in, \'Alvaro Ortega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22496

Assessing Value of Renewable-based VPP Versus Electrical Storage: Multi-market Participation Under Different Scheduling Regimes and Uncertainties
This paper compares the participation of Renewable-only Virtual Power Plants (RVPPs) and grid-scale Electrical Storage Systems (ESSs) in energy and reserve markets, evaluating their technical performance, market strategies, and economic outcomes. To ensure a fair comparison, scheduling is analyzed over representative sample days that capture seasonal operating regimes, and the associated uncertainties are explicitly modeled. Two-stage robust optimization frameworks are employed: the RVPP model …

Predoc, which uses AI to automate medical records management, raised $30M seed and Series A led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Northzone and others (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/09/02/predoc-raises-30-million-t…

Predoc raises $30 million to stop document chasing in healthcare
Predoc—which uses AI to automate medical records management—has raised $30 million in funding, Fortune has exclusively learned.

Week 1 Injury Report: Raiders at Patriots https://www.patriots.com/news/week-1-injury-report-raiders-at-patriots

Invisible Labor, Visible Barriers: The Socioeconomic Realities of Women's Work in Pakistan
Sana Khalil, Angela Warner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16664 https://

Invisible Labor, Visible Barriers: The Socioeconomic Realities of Women's Work in Pakistan
We provide a short note on the barriers shaping womens economic opportunities in Pakistan, where female labor force participation remains among the lowest in the world. Recent labor force surveys (2020-21) show a sharp rural-urban divide: rural womens participation is 28 percent compared to 69 percent for rural men, while urban womens participation is 10 percent compared to 66 percent for urban men. Unemployment is higher for women in both rural (7 percent) and urban (16 percent) areas than for…

NOTICE OF PUBLIC FORUM
(Public Participation Hearing)
Southern California Edison Company and San Diego Gas and Electric Company’s
Joint Application for the 2024 Nuclear Decommissioning Cost Triennial Proceeding
APPLICATION A.24-12-003
Southern California Edison Company (SCE), San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E), and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) would like to hear from you. You are invited to participate in a Public Forum, also calle…

Social Dynamics of DAOs: Power, Onboarding, and Inclusivity
Victoria Kozlova, Ben Biedermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06163 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06…

Social Dynamics of DAOs: Power, Onboarding, and Inclusivity
This report explores the often-overlooked cultural and social dynamics shaping participation and power in DAOs. Drawing on qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations, it shows how factors such as financial privilege, informal gatekeeping, visibility bias, and onboarding structures create barriers to meaningful inclusion. While DAOs are frequently framed as permissionless and egalitarian, the lived experiences of contributors reveal a more complex reality, one in which soft power and i…

Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy
https://ift.tt/SygaMhU
APPLY: LGBTQ Religious Archives Network Fall Intership—$1500 Stipend Riot Mueller 07/25/2024 -…
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Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/uzbekistans-first-unicorn-…

Uzbekistan's first unicorn, Uzum, leaps to a $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Uzbekistan's Uzum has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China's Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital.

Kim Jong Un reportedly awards troops who fought for Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/kim-jong-un-reportedly-awards.html

Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy
https://ift.tt/h6zSPrA
APPLY: LGBTQ Religious Archives Network Fall Intership—$1500 Stipend Riot Mueller 07/25/2024 -…
via Input 4 RELCFP

The Open Platform, a key TON developer that is behind Telegram's Wallet, raised a $28.5M Series A at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $70M (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/03/telegram-…

Exclusive: Telegram blockchain startup TOP raises $28.5 million as messaging platform expands crypto footprint
Ribbit Capital led the Series A fundraise, with participation from Pantera Capital.

As Trump contemplates direct US participation in Israel’s war with Iran,
including the possible use of “bunker buster” bombs on the heavily fortified Fordo uranium enrichment site,
William Kristol has made it known that he still has that hawk in him.
“You’ve got to go to war with the president you have,” he told The New York Times on Wednesday.
“If you really think that Iran can’t have nuclear weapons, we have a chance to try to finish the job.”
In a series o…

Those Sometimes-Trump Neocons Are Returning to the Fold Over Iran
As the president backs Israel’s long-awaited war with Iran, his neoconservative critics find themselves in an awkward position.

Techno-economic optimization of hybrid steam-electric energy systems with excess heat utilization and reserve market participation
Olav Galteland, Jacob Hadler-Jacobsen, Hanne Kauko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14252

Techno-economic optimization of hybrid steam-electric energy systems with excess heat utilization and reserve market participation
This study investigates the economic viability and optimal configuration of a hybrid industrial energy system combining an electrode boiler, steam accumulator, and battery energy storage system (BESS). This study optimizes system operation for a specific configuration to minimize net energy costs, defined as energy costs minus profits from price arbitrage and reserve markets. The optimization uses load shifting, peak shaving, and frequency containment reserve market participation with hourly 20…

Lavrov says Russia wants to join China, the US, Britain and France in providing Ukraine security guarantees: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/lavrov-says-russia-wants-to.html

Subzero Labs, which is building Rialo, a blockchain designed for non-crypto developers to build "real-world" apps, raised a $20M seed led by Pantera Capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/01/subzero-labs-seed-r…

Subzero Labs raises $20 million to build a blockchain for the ‘real world’
Pantera Capital led the fundraise, with participation from Variant, Coinbase Ventures, and Susquehanna Crypto.

AI-based Approach in Early Warning Systems: Focus on Emergency Communication Ecosystem and Citizen Participation in Nordic Countries
Fuzel Shaik, Getnet Demil, Mourad Oussalah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18926

AI-based Approach in Early Warning Systems: Focus on Emergency Communication Ecosystem and Citizen Participation in Nordic Countries
Climate change and natural disasters are recognized as worldwide challenges requiring complex and efficient ecosystems to deal with social, economic, and environmental effects. This chapter advocates a holistic approach, distinguishing preparedness, emergency responses, and postcrisis phases. The role of the Early Warning System (EWS), Risk modeling and mitigation measures are particularly emphasized. The chapter reviews the various Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabler technologies that can be …

San Mateo-based observability service Observe raised a $156M Series C led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, Madrona, and others (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/observe-contin…

Observe continues to adapt to the changing world of software observability | TechCrunch
Observe just raised a $156 million Series C round as the company looks to offer support for Apache Iceberg by the end of the year.

Southern California Gas Company (SCG),
San Diego Gas and Electric Company (SDG&E),
Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E),
Southwest Gas Corporation (Southwest Gas)
(collectively, the Gas Utilities)
and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
⭐️invite customers to participate in a Public Forum,
also called a Public Participation Hearing (PPH).
These Public Forums are part of a formal rulemaking proceeding
Customer c…

On the Smart Coordination of Flexibility Scheduling in Multi-carrier Integrated Energy Systems
Christian Doh Dinga, Sander van Rijn, Laurens de Vries, Milos Cvetkovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03126

On the Smart Coordination of Flexibility Scheduling in Multi-carrier Integrated Energy Systems
Coordinating the interactions between flexibility assets in multi-carrier integrated energy systems (MIES) can lead to an efficient integration of variable renewable energy resources, and a cost-efficient energy transition. However, the proliferation of flexibility assets and their participation in active demand response increases the complexity of coordinating these interactions. This paper introduces different approaches to model the coordination of flexibility scheduling in MIES. We propose …

Turkey-based Good Job Games, which develops Match-3 games like the popular Match Villains, raised a $60M Series A, after raising a $23M seed six months ago (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/07/31/good-job-games-secures-60m-seri…

Good Job Games secures $60M Series A to build the future of Match-3 gaming
Turkish mobile games dev company Good Job Games has raised a $60 million Series A round, co-led by Menlo Ventures and Anthos Capital, with additional participation by Bessemer Venture Partners.  The round brings the total investment amount to date to $83 million, after a seed round of $23 million just six months ago. Good Job Games aims to build a generational entertainment brand through timeless, socially-driven games. An example is its popular Match Villains, a game designed to be endless…

Dutch web design automation startup Framer raised $100M led by Meritech and Atomico with Accel participation at a $2B valuation, after raising $27M in 2023 (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

M0, which develops stablecoin infrastructure to boost interoperability and liquidity, raised a $40M Series B led by Polychain and Ribbit Capital (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/28/m0-series-b-40-million-polychain-ribbi…

Exclusive: Crypto startup M0 raises $40 million to build out stablecoin network
Polychain and Ribbit Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors like Pantera and Bain Capital Crypto.

Berlin-based Buena, which is building AI-powered software to automate property management tasks, raised $58M, including a Series A led by GV (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/07/23/gv-and-20vc

GV and 20VC back Buena’s vision to reinvent property management through AI-powered rollups
Berlin proptech Buena has raised a total of $58 million in funding, including a Series A funding round led by GV, with participation from 20VC, Stride, and Capnamic.  Property management is incredibly fragmented, with over 30,000 firms in Germany employing an average of just five people each… Meanwhile, the industry is notorious for talent shortage and record-low customer NPS scores, with 96.3 per cent of German property managers.  Buena is changing the industry in two ways: first, by bui…

London-based Attio, which offers a CRM service where AI agents and humans work together, raised a $52M Series B led by GV, bringing its total funding to $116M (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/08/26/attio-raises-52m-series-b-to-scale-crm-platform/…

Attio raises $52M Series B to scale CRM platform
London-based CRM startup Attio has raised $52 million in Series B funding to expand its CRM platform. The round was led by GV (Google Ventures), with participation from existing investors Redpoint Ventures, 01A, Point Nine, and Balderton Capital, bringing Attio’s total funding to $116 million.With the new funding, Attio plans to scale its engineering team, accelerate product development, and double down on go-to-market outreach. Investment will focus particularly on features that enhance agen…

AI compliance startup Delve raised a $32M Series A at a $300M valuation led by Insight Partners with participation from CISOs at Fortune 500 companies (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/21-year-old-mit-dropou…

21-year-old MIT dropouts raise $32M at $300M valuation led by Insight | TechCrunch
Delve gets $32 million from Insight Partners to scale its platform that automates regulatory compliance with AI agents.