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Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/811340/perplexity-ai-patent-research-tool

Perplexity’s new AI tool aims to simplify patent research
Perplexity is launching an AI-powered patent research tool that allows you to search for patents using natural language.

from my link log —
The math mode problem in Typst.
https://laurmaedje.github.io/posts/math-mode-problem/
saved 2025-10-30 https://

Apple Creator Studio: Kein Upgrade für Pixelmator Pro – Problem mit Doppelabos
Während Final Cut Pro & Co. als Bezahlversion weitergepflegt werden, ist das bei Pixelmator Pro offenbar nicht so. Auf dem iPad gibt es ein anderes Problem.

Stefanski mum on future, 'privileged' to have job https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47446171/kevin-stefanski-mum-future-privileged-browns-coach

Please remember: when an officer stops somebody based on racial profiling to challenge their immigration status, the correct and proper term for that is a “Kavanaugh stop.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/brett-kavanaugh-stops-immigration-racial-profiling-ice.html

One question is why did Trump wait until he was president to file this lawsuit?
-- Lawrence Hurley
https://bsky.app/profile/bradheath.bsky.social/post/3mdm3tacibc2o

Brad Heath (@bradheath.bsky.social)
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172.1.0_3.pdf

Perplexity signs a deal with Microsoft; sources say the $750M, three-year commitment will let Perplexity deploy AI models through Microsoft's Foundry service (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29…

Swiss voters rejected
a 50% inheritance tax
for the super-rich
https://bsky.app/profile/financialtimes.com/post/3m6ugxb7ahx2l

Financial Times (@financialtimes.com)
On Sunday more than 80% of those who voted rejected the initiative to impose an inheritance levy on the super-rich on.ft.com/4ruKm0x

TechCreate's shares surged ~1,995% in the past week; the payment software company says it is not aware of any info that would account for the trading activity (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/techcreate-keeps-going-pa…

TechCreate keeps going parabolic and the company doesn’t know why
There are short squeezes, and then there’s this.

The U.S. may deny migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border access to asylum under a newly finalized regulation drafted during the COVID-19 pandemic in Donald Trump's first term.
https://bsky.app/profile/legal.reuters.com/post/3mb5ct5yzol2j

Reuters Legal (@legal.reuters.com)
The U.S. could deny migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border access to asylum under a newly finalized regulation drafted during the COVID-19 pandemic in President Donald Trump's first term. https://reut.rs/45lOW7P