Tootfinder

New pre-print out: "Types, equations, dimensions and the Pi theorem".
We formalized the covariance principle (physical laws must be independent of units) as a homomorphism between the algebra of physical quantities and real numbers.
While the Pi Theorem from Dimensional Analysis (DA) is non-constructive, we introduce a constructive method for applying it. This could enable DA-driven program derivation where the type checker helps identify valid physical laws.
📝 Bl…

Cowboys fans will love Dak Prescott's quote about physical Lions matchup https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-fans-will-love-dak-prescotts-quote-about-physical-li…

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/phys…

A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley's buzziest robot brains | TechCrunch
If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it. He’s working with people who've been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.

Yay! Colorado officially recognizes that mental health IS physical health! Our bodies DO include our brains.
Next, we need to legislate financial support for medical problems with ears, eyes and teeth. Hell, throw in food, water and housing--NOW we're getting civilized. https://newsbeep.org/@us/1158286950032

United States News Beep (@us@newsbeep.org)
Attached: 1 image New Colorado law requires insurers to cover mental health like physical illness Advocates said the law ensures that Coloradans can access the care they are paying for without facing a… #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mentalhealth #Health #MentalHealth https://www.newsbeep.com/us/384528/

Did you know? Using physical media makes you at least 25% more attractive.

(LinkedIn) #Paradromics: "A #BCI capable of capturing and delivering rich neural signals could stream visual information directly to the cortex, bypassing external displays and generating experiences indistinguishable from the physical world."

#bci #technology #biotech #augmentedreality #virtualreality #arvr #braincomputerinterfaces | Paradromics
Our daily mission is to restore independence for those living with severe motor impairment. But as our CEO Matt Angle and CSO Reema Khan (Green Sands Equity) discuss at the OPEN Silicon Valley Annual Forum, the long-term potential of high data rate BCIs extends even further.   A #BCI capable of capturing and delivering rich neural signals could stream visual information directly to the cortex, bypassing external displays and generating experiences indistinguishable from the physical world.   …

Nvidia announces Alpamayo-R1, an AI model for autonomous driving research, and calls it the "first industry-scale open reasoning vision language action model" (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/01/nvid

Nvidia announces new open AI models and tools for autonomous driving research | TechCrunch
Nvidia continues its push into physical AI with the release of a new reasoning world model and other tools for physical AI.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 16439 nodes and 440135 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Frank Ragnow fails physical, will not rejoin Lions after attempting to end retirement https://www.nfl.com/news/frank-ragnow-fails-physical-will-not-rejoin-lions-after-attempting-to-end-retirement

The Dalai Lama — has won his first Grammy.
His audiobook, Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is a collection of thoughts
— on mindfulness, compassion, and mental and physical health
— with a soundtrack of Hindustani classical music
https://www.

Grammy award for Dalai Lama is ‘anti-China manipulation’, says Beijing
The 90-year-old spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists was recognised for his Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Today I learned a new word (or pair of words): "executive physical".
In other words, medical care for the wealthy and powerful, but not for us peons.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-mri-is-not-standard-preve…

Trump’s MRI Is Not Standard ‘Preventive’ Care, Say Experts
“It is certainly not standard medical practice to perform screening MRIs of the heart and abdomen,” says one expert

White House insists Trump's recent physical shows 'perfectly normal' health (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/01/trump-mri-results
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p78#a251201p78

Different species in #StarTrek have different physical requirements. And a very obvious example of this is the subject of today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h…

In #SanFrancisco recently a robbery victim was attacked and gave up $11 million in #Crypto during a broad daylight #HomeInvasion that occurred after he opened the door for a fake

Mission home invasion highlights danger of crypto-related violence
A weekend robbery serves as a reminder of physical security imperatives for virtual currency.

Ragnow fails physical, won't join Lions this season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47138093/center-frank-ragnow-fails-physical-not-rejoin-lions

New Cowboys Mock Draft Lands Physical Anomaly at EDGE, Polished LB https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-cowboys-mock-draft-lands-physical-anomaly-at-edge-polished-lb

The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library https://www.404media.co/the-last-video-rental-store-is-your-public-library/

Trump says he'll release MRI results; he doesn't know what part of his body was scanned (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-mri-physical-white-house-0c66f2f9fca865d842ee94329a210a42
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p56#a251130p56

Arizona AG Kris Mayes sues Temu for allegedly stealing customers' data, including their physical location, and counterfeiting local brands (Sejal Govindarao/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-temu-lawsuit-14615cec4bb7927493a7208f9d23431b…

Arizona targets Chinese retailer Temu in data privacy lawsuit
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is suing online retailer Temu and its parent company PDD Holdings Inc., claiming the Chinese company is stealing customers' data and violating state consumer protection laws. She announced the lawsuit during a news conference Tuesday. Arkansas, Nebraska and Kentucky have outlined similar allegations in separate lawsuits filed in those states. Mayes is calling for Arizonans to delete their Temu accounts and scan their devices for malware.

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance
https://openbuddhism.org/justice/2025/french-judge-investigating-robert-spatz-81-requests-spains-judicial-assistance/

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance
Elodie Emery reports in ‘Le Monde’ that French judge has requested judicial assistance from the Spanish authorities in relation to an ongoing investigation into allegations of physical and sexual…

Simon Hooper is being gamed here. Complete lack of confidence he will be able to keep the spice out of this game.
Newcastle are effective when they are allowed to play physical football. LFC are decidedly not, being a bit soft overall.
#LFC

I'm trying to play through the implications of some software I've been thinking about maybe designing.
It's legal to make a digital copy of the media that you own (videos, audio) physical copies of. It's legal to give a physical copy of your media to someone else or loan it out, which transfers your viewing license while they have It. Then it should also be legal to let someone else use a digital copy of your media given that you don't also use it at the same time. So as long as you keep track of your license, you should be able to let exactly one person stream some media you own.
If someone else then "steals" that content and views it without a license then that has to be legally on them, otherwise streaming platforms would be liable whenever someone cracks some DRM.
So then, it should be completely legal to set up a local community media library streaming service where you can share content you own licenses to as long as you track your license count and don't let more people stream at any given time than there are licenses available.
Is there something obvious I'm missing (aside from the MPAA and RIAA don't care about the law and will just sue anyone they can just to make an example)?

Make 2026 the year you cancel streaming services and start buying physical media.

Transit system isn't reliable. Work space is limited and not enough parking...
Home office is better equipped.
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/public-servants-offices-opinion

#journalism #rights #usa

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is a project that aims to comprehensively document press freedom incidents in the United States — such as the arrests of journalists, seizures of their equipment, interrogations and searches at the U.S. border, subpoenas to testify about sources, leak prosecutions and physical attacks. The Press Freedom Tracker documents cases across the country, involving national, state and local authorities.

Lions center Frank Ragnow fails physical, won't come out of retirement to rejoin team https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6847495/2025/11/29/frank-ragnow-lions-failed-physical-retirement-comeback/

Trump is very, very angry about a New York Times piece
that carefully documents his obvious physical decline.
Trump raged over the piece,
letting out a stream of lies about his performance in office
and even attacking the reporter who wrote the piece as ugly.
This may seem typical of Trump,
but we think it gets at something deeper.
Trump’s entire political mystique is premised on the fiction that he’s a strong, virile, formidable figure
who …

Transcript: Trump Fury Erupts at NYT as Mental Decline Visibly Worsens
As Trump’s rage at the paper of record reveals too much, the author of piece on Trump as “lame duck dictator” explains how devastating it is for him that his carefully-cultivated illusion of strength is collapsing.

from my link log —
Putting rigid bodies to rest: analysis and design of resting configurations of rolling dice, without physical simulation.
https://hbaktash.github.io/projects/putting-rigid-bodies-to-rest/
saved 2025-11-28

Researchers Are Hunting America for Hidden Datacenters https://www.404media.co/researchers-are-hunting-america-for-hidden-datacenters/

In 2026, if you are shipping a physical product with a rechargeable battery, you'd better have a damned good reason for not using high power USB-C for the charger.
There are no doubt valid reasons but they're few and far between and the onus is on you to prove yours is.

Cowboys' top 2026 NFL draft fits include 'physical tone-setter' at safety https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-top-2026-nfl-draft-fits-physical-tone-setter-safety

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 7747 nodes and 19843 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…

Lions' Frank Ragnow fails physical: Pro Bowl center will not rejoin team after coming out of retirement

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/detroit-lions-frank-ragnow-fails-p…

This interview from 4 years ago mentions Konate's father being ill.
"Hamadi has never been to see him play, because of illness, but watches his matches on TV and Konaté calls him every day."
My uninformed speculation: his father's health took a turn for the worse this season and the strain of worry and concern affected Ibou deeply. It would explain a lot. He is a fairy private person, so we likely won't know, but if that's right and he's carried thi…

Ibrahima Konaté: I asked Jürgen Klopp, ‘If I was your son, what would you advise?’
Everyone who has coached and played with Ibrahima Konaté says the same, that he’s a young man with an old soul, and for all the outsized physical and technical

Trying to bring up IPC between the CPU1 and CPU2 subsystems on STM32MP2.
Doing shared memory compute between a 32 and 64 bit processor that need to share pointers (the physical address spaces overlap and are zero extended on the 64 bit side) makes things... interesting.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/WIRED
Wired was breached.

Have I Been Pwned: WIRED Data Breach
In December 2025, 2.3M records of WIRED magazine users allegedly obtained from parent company Condé Nast were published online. The most recent data dated back to the previous September and exposed email addresses and display names, as well as, for a small number of users, their name, phone number, date of birth, gender, and geographic location or full physical address. The WIRED data allegedly represents a subset of Condé Nast brands the hacker also claims to have obtained.

A 2016 civil lawsuit found in the Epstein files alleges that
Trump raped a 13-year-old girl at parties hosted by Jeffrey Epstein in NY.
Epstein raped her too.
For anyone wondering why the victim dropped the case…
Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened Plaintiff that,
were she ever to reveal any of the details of the sexual and physical abuse of her by Defendant Trump,
Plaintiff and her family would be physically harmed if not killed.”<…

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

Picked up the Home Assistant addon project again. Notes:
- Home Assistant was evidently designed by a committee of crackheads.
- Nothing works like it logically should: not the UI, not the backend.
- Physical directories do not correspond to paths in the application: /www/community/something/somefile.js is called /hacsfiles/something/somefile.js when you're adding it as a resource.
- I fucking hate json.
- AAAAAAAAAAAAA
- stab stab stab
- deep breath <…

Argh... woke up in so much pain, but luckily had physical therapy this morning. We're shifting gears on my stretches and exercises (good!) but also a little confused about what is going on with my body (bad!)

"Étonnamment [?], les temps de réaction lors de l'utilisation d'écrans au volant sont pires que ceux d'une personne ivre ou sous l'emprise de stupéfiants. Pas étonnant que 90 % des conducteurs détestent utiliser les écrans tactiles dans les voitures. L'industrie automobile revient enfin Š la raison."

I guess we can look forward to physical fitness tests for marriage in the US.
https://bsky.app/profile/jaywillis.net/post/3ma7hbtosu22x
I expect the straight, white, and employed checks will come in other channels.

Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net)
Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 325 nodes and 322 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

It's #meme day! (Memedays are days that end in y).
#KidsintheHall #meme

Ahhh. I've 'downgraded' to a (dell) laptop with physical touchpad buttons and dedicated pgup/pgdn keys, and it's sooooo much nicer.
When I finally need to upgrade from this laptop (a latitude 5410 which was originally released in 2020), hopefully lenovo will have continued their trend of going back to non-soldered ram in their t14 laptops.

Paperless-ngx
Paperless-ngx is a community-supported open-source document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper.
🌱 https://docs.paperless-ngx.com

#eDNA Environmental DNA
The Core Concept: A non-invasive monitoring technique that detects the presence of species by extracting and analyzing genetic material shed into the environment (water, soil, air) rather than isolating the organism itself.
Key Distinction/Mechanism: Unlike traditional ecology which relies on physical capture or visual observation ("macro-organismal" interaction),…

What Is: Environmental DNA (eDNA)
The Silent Archive: Environmental DNA and the Revolution in Planetary Surveillance

"Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected"
#Climate #ClimateChange #CoralReef

Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected
In 1888, researchers aboard the R/V Albatross began the world’s first concentrated marine research expeditions off California’s Pacific coast. The team collected untold plant and animal specimens, including orange cup corals, which they carefully preserved and stored in collections at the Smithsonian Institution. These specimens have now become rare physical evidence of ongoing changes in […]

In retirement, true wealth is indeed found in our health. 💪 While financial stability matters, it's well-being that allows us to savor the golden years. I prioritize daily walks and physiotherapy for physical and mental vitality. What do you do to stay energized? Share your insights – I'm eager to learn!

Karplus–Strong string synthesis is a method of physical modelling synthesis that loops a short waveform through a filtered delay line to simulate the sound of a hammered or plucked string or some types of percussion.

These are two REALLY gross flicks. Loved em. Some of the best, nastiest horror I've seen in a while. Sometimes you like something so much you need to buy physical copies. I try to be kinda picky and only keep physical copies of things I like a lot and might actually rewatch.
#horror #bluray

good christmas so far for this alone, couldnt find a physical copy of this in every single library system ive ever had access to so i tricked my family into getting me shit they'd never if they actually looked into it

"I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool."
—Judy Greer
#acting #coaching …

My #silentsunday... Do you know that? You're lazy but you also know that you want some physical activity?
The weather wasn't motivating either. But I finally did one of my standard loops. It was indeed silent as there were almost no people out today.
No more than an occasional "hi". Besides that, no talking, nothing but a fox 🦊 in the distance on a field.

Gutierrez: Michael Mayer’s career day cuts through the fog of a tough season https://www.raiders.com/news/gutierrez-michael-mayer-s-career-day-cuts-through-the-fog-of-a-tough-season

"In summary, #AGI, as commonly conceived, will not happen because it ignores the physical constraints of computation, the exponential costs of linear progress, and the fundamental limits we are already encountering. Superintelligence is a fantasy because it assumes that intelligence can recursively self-improve without bound, ignoring the physical and economic realities that constrain all systems. …

These students from Cornell Physical Intelligence told me-as-a-🦊 that this drone works together with a rover on the ground
#photo

Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B (Joan Verdon/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanverdon/2025/…

Black Friday Data Shows Online Sales Strong, Store Results Mixed
U.S. ecommerce sales jumped 9.1% on Black Friday according to Adobe, but the verdict is still out on how well physical stores performed.

Javonte Williams injury update provided after physical Cowboys win https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/javonte-williams-injury-update-provided-physical-dallas-cowboys-win

Bloomberg News: «There is still a very real gap in the current value, or stock, of all the investments that the US and China have out in the world. At the end of 2024, the total value of US companies' long-term physical investments overseas was some $6.8 trillion», 5 more than China.
https://archive.is/WR8NN…

The side HDMI on my old plasma TV broke. After that it wont turn on. Not by the button or the remote. The TV situation is Black Friday solved (and I had decided to not buy anything this year), but it annoys me that I can't figure out why it's not turning on.
The sode port is not really needed, so I removed it completely. Can't find any physical damage, and it seems like everything has the correct voltages. Schematics would have been really useful, but I haven't found a…

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/data-breach-victims-0b01a5ab
“Nearly one-third said a breach had affected their physical well-being. And nearly a quarter said their relationships were negatively affected.”
Now triple that for cybersecurity defender…

The Hidden Emotional Toll on Victims of Data Breaches
We all know there’s a potential financial impact when a company’s data is hacked. But victims’ suffering goes far beyond that.

It's also interesting that we're only tangentially making the connection between shit social media and fascism. What we are not saying is that control of social space *is* a form of governance. Humans have the right to free social spaces, both physical and digital.
When we think about social media as a system of control, as a government, we see that capitalist social media results in incredibly abusive dictatorships. These dictatorships exist solely to exploit their citizens, extracting both labor and attention, for the gain of a few. They manipulate their citizens to keep them locked in. It's not a coincidence that these systems algorithmically promote fascist ideology. They are themselves a type of fascist government that pushes fascism into the physical space.

When people say "Thank god!" I often answer "You're welcome".
(There are situations, to be avoided, in which such an answer might invite a physical confrontation.)
(Although there have been times when I looked like Moses - long beard and hair - and stood on the beach in Santa Monica with a wooden staff trying to command the Catalina channel to part, I hew to the position that if there were to be a god it would be in each individual creature, not in some bu…

New Cowboys 2026 Mock Draft Lands Physical Leader on Defense https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-cowboys-2026-mock-draft-lands-physical-leader-on-defense

Gutierrez: Michael Mayer’s career day cuts through the fog of a tough season https://www.raiders.com/news/gutierrez-michael-mayer-s-career-day-cuts-through-the-fog-of-a-tough-season

New York-based Sword Health, which develops AI-powered tech for managing pain and offers remote physical therapy, agrees to acquire rival Kaia Health for $285M (Henrique Almeida/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

New Cowboys 2026 Mock Draft Lands Physical Leader on Defense https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/new-cowboys-2026-mock-draft-lands-physical-leader-on-defense

According to journalist Jen Psaki of The Briefing with Jen ,
Trump’s administration has
seized the physical ballots from the 2020 election,
all tabulator tapes,
and all ballot images from the original ballot count,
breaking the line of custody
and contaminating the files.
Crucially, they also seized all voter rolls from Fulton County.
“This is a seismic event,”
Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) told Psaki.
“This should have people across…

January 28, 2026
Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 2946 nodes and 23484 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Eagles to bring 'fire' to fight Lions' physicality https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46967428/eagles-ramping-physical-prime-matchup-vs-lions

As Emily Waldorf languished in an Arkansas hospital,
she felt like “a ticking time bomb”.
It was 2024, and the physical therapist was in the midst of miscarrying a much-wanted pregnancy.
But because her fetus still had a heartbeat, hospital officials said Arkansas’s near-total abortion ban blocked them from taking steps to induce labor and end her pregnancy.
Instead, Waldorf had to wait and hope that she didn’t develop a deadly infection.
Waldorf’s sister, Eli…

Archetype, which builds AI to interpret sensor data from the physical world, raised a $35M Series A and launches tools to build and deploy physical agents (Grace Priscilla Teo/Tech in Asia)
https://www.techinasia.com/news/samsung-joins-35m-series-a-for-…

Gifts to the US President are generally considered to be the property of the United States rather than of the president as a person or the president as an office.
So it seems to me that the US National Archives is now the proud owner of a the physical object of a Nobel Peace Prize.
(Of course, el cheato will try to retain physical possession and we will have to pry it from his cold dead fingers, a task that , I suspect, many of us would find rather appealing.)

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 7747 nodes and 19843 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwe…

Spadaro: Vic Fangio previews showdown with physical Chargers offense https://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/vic-fangio-previews-showdown-with-physical-chargers-offense

Sources: AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence raised $600M led by CapitalG at a $5.6B valuation, with participation from Jeff Bezos, Lux, Thrive, and more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

Amazon plans to discontinue its Amazon One palm recognition system on June 3 and will automatically delete all user data; One remains for healthcare check-ins (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-is-en

Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/montreal-industrial-ai-scaleup-vention-raises-1…

Montréal industrial AI scaleup Vention raises $110-million USD Series D
Company says it crossed $100-million CAD annual run rate as it looks to expand in Europe.

The six-car ICE convoy came to a stop and instantly dozens of people swarmed it,
cellphones in hand,
while others ran out of nearby houses
—I saw a woman in gym shorts in the 20-degree weather
—and began surrounding the masked and heavily armed agents who had spilled out of their black SUVs.
The fury in the crowd felt almost like a physical force,
as real as the cacophony of whistles and honking cars and angry chants:
“ICE out! Fuck you! Go home!”

The Minneapolis Uprising
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (Physical Intelligence)
https://www.physicalintelligence.company/research/human_to_robot

Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models
Exploring how transfer from human videos to robotic tasks emerges in robotic foundation models as they scale.

Amazon plans to close all 57 Fresh and 15 Go locations in the US, as it pivots its physical retail strategy to focus exclusively on Whole Foods (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-closing-all-am…

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 624 nodes and 1992 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

For the last year, the nation has witnessed Trump’s rapid physical and mental decline.
The 79-year-old president has repeatedly lost track of his thoughts, his whereabouts, and even his grasp on the English language.
The New Republic’s breaking news team has put together a list of the president’s most senile moments in his first year in office

Cognitive Decline? These Were Trump’s 11 Most Senile Moments This Year
When Donald Trump wasn’t busy falling asleep in front of the cameras, he spent his first year in office struggling to form coherent thoughts.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 516 nodes and 2241 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 155 nodes and 188 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & Engineering News)
https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry

New York AI chemistry start-up raises $95 million 
Excelsior Sciences cofounders say the company will make new molecules using robots and artificial intelligence

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

LiveKit, which offers tools for building voice, video, and physical AI models, including for ChatGPT's voice mode, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 536 nodes and 3600 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwei…

Finland-based NestAI raised €100M led by Finland's sovereign fund Tesi and Nokia to build AI products for defense applications, including for unmanned vehicles (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/finl

Finland's NestAI lands €100M, partners with Nokia to build AI for defense applications | TechCrunch
Finnish startup NestAI said it has raised €100 million to build "Europe's leading physical AI lab."

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 264 nodes and 288 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Arm creates a "Physical AI" unit to focus on robotics and automotive sectors, as part of a reorganization that includes "Cloud and AI" and "Edge" business units (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 975 nodes and 3928 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Circana: EA's Battlefield 6 became 2025's best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut; Pokémon is 2025's fastest-selling physical game (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini to become a sort of robot OS (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-hires-cto-boston-dynamics-demis-hassabis-…

Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics
DeepMind's chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.

Sources: China broadens its probe into Temu owner PDD, dispatching 100 investigators to its Shanghai HQ, after staff exchanged physical blows with regulators (John Liu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01…