Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab reportedly raising $2B would be the largest seed round ever, far surpassing Yuga Labs' $450M seed round in 2022 (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/biggest-seed-ro…
Eagles make third trade of week, bring back OL Fred Johnson from Jaguars for seventh-round pick, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eagles-
Source: OpenAI's $40B round announced in March is reopening on July 28; SoftBank's commitment could be cut to $10B if OpenAI does not restructure by end of 2025 (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fundraising-round-softbank-sam-altman/
System Report for CCL25-Eval Task 10: SRAG-MAV for Fine-Grained Chinese Hate Speech Recognition
Jiahao Wang, Ramen Liu, Longhui Zhang, Jing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18580 h…
Just picked up this #Salter Improved Family Scale to gift a friend who's getting married and is into old-fashioned stuff and British stuff.
But, it doesn't quite sit at 0. Does anyone have any experience on how to tare a machine like this? There's no knob as far as I can see. The plate on top also doesn't seem like it can be removed without force.
More pictures below. …
Does anyone have data on the efficiency of energy harvesting HVAC systems?
Scenario:
* Area A generates X kW of waste heat at a pretty constant rate year round which is currently dumped outside by a heat pump and lost
* Area B, close by, is air conditioned in the summer and heated in the winter by a second, isolated, heat pump. During the winter, it uses an average of Y kW to do this.
If I wanted to dump the waste heat from area A into area B to heat it, what kind of en…
Life is a biochemical reaction to the stimulus of the surrounding
environment in a stable ecosphere, while a bowl of cherries is a
round container filled with little red fruits on sticks.
Just hearing about a guy who is going round taking down these England flags and then selling them on eBay back the the very people who are putting them up.
Made £217 so far, apparently.
#ukpolitics
Another round of pulmonary function tests at UCLA today. This time I passed out in the Magic Box. Is that a result?
#LongCovid
Centific, an AI "data foundry" that works with businesses to develop, train, and deploy their AI models, raised a $60M Series A led by Granite Asia (Nicholas Gordon/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/asia/2025/06/25/centi…
Just nipped round the corner to the pharmacy in my slippers. Am I a chav?
Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: Our air is running out.
AVON: [V.O.] Yes, I was afraid of that. How long?
BLAKE: Minutes. Get Zen to manoeuvre the ship 'round and bring the entire projectile on board.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/143 B7B5
Funny how half of companies gave up on any branding or differentiation, and round down to “Your AI agent for work”
For no particular reason...
Don't perform
Integration by parts.
When you perform,
It flies straight to the heart.
Lemon stream;
Consciousness flows down.
Stop-recline:
Inquistive, twist round.
Don't perform
Vivaldi's Gloria.
When you perform,
It flies straight to the heart:
Tear it apart.
#TOTP
Urban Diaspora 🌐
城市放逐 🌐
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
The full frequency sweep won't finish before I leave for REcon but I think I've finally got the ARF6 launch dialed in: better than -20 dB return loss from DC to 11.9 GHz, and better than -15.8 dB from DC to 30 GHz.
* Shrink vias from 0.45 pad / 0.25 drill to 0.35 / 0.15
* Use round vias for the signal lines as coupling seemed to be significant vs the square ones I tried to use to simplify meshing
* Keep non-functional via pads
* Single large ground plane cutout o…
Sources: Microsoft is planning a round of Xbox layoffs next week, with managers expecting substantial cuts, the fourth big layoff at Xbox in the past 18 months (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
Cardinals first-round pick Walter Nolen injures calf, Jonathan Gannon unsure of return timeline
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cardina
A Probabilistic Inference Scaling Theory for LLM Self-Correction
Zhe Yang, Yichang Zhang, Yudong Wang, Ziyao Xu, Junyang Lin, Zhifang Sui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16456 https:…
A Survey of LLM-Driven AI Agent Communication: Protocols, Security Risks, and Defense Countermeasures
Dezhang Kong, Shi Lin, Zhenhua Xu, Zhebo Wang, Minghao Li, Yufeng Li, Yilun Zhang, Zeyang Sha, Yuyuan Li, Changting Lin, Xun Wang, Xuan Liu, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Ningyu Zhang, Chaochao Chen, Meng Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506…

A Survey of LLM-Driven AI Agent Communication: Protocols, Security Risks, and Defense Countermeasures
In recent years, Large-Language-Model-driven AI agents have exhibited unprecedented intelligence, flexibility, and adaptability, and are rapidly changing human production and lifestyle. Nowadays, agents are undergoing a new round of evolution. They no longer act as an isolated island like LLMs. Instead, they start to communicate with diverse external entities, such as other agents and tools, to collectively perform more complex tasks. Under this trend, agent communication is regarded as a found…
The Laude Institute, a nonprofit that runs the K Prize multi-round AI coding challenge, says a Brazilian prompt engineer won with just 7.5% of the right answers (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/a-ne
Dolphins cornerback, former first-round pick Artie Burns feared to have torn ACL, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphins-co…
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise $3B to $5B, including from Middle Eastern investors, in a round that could more than double its valuation to $150B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3c8cf028-e49f-4ac3-8d95-6f6178cf2aac
First round PI workup on the switch line card is done.
All of the other rails are fine, the only one with any significant issues of concern is 1V0 which I am suspecting might be a nothingburger (test point too close to the DC-DC so the local bypass caps dont have much of an impact).
Gonna solder a probe on to get a measurement at the actual BGA vias and see how noisy the rail is there, then probably put some diff probes on the QSGMII while I've got the thing decabled.
Google adds new features to Google Photos, including a Veo 2-powered photo-to-video tool and a Remix tool that applies styles like anime and sketches to photos (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/23/google-photos-photo-to-video/
KnowledgeLake, which uses AI and RPA to help organizations automate their work with documents, raised $65M in a majority growth round led by Edison Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/20/kn
One takeaway from every AFC team's offseason workouts: Chiefs seeing early flashes from first-round rookie
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…
Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, an open-source public blockchain for regulated financial institutions, raised $135M co-led by DRW and Tradeweb (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/24/goldman-sachs-citadel-digital-asset.html
LegalOn, whose contract review tool uses AI to identify risks and suggest edits, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $200M (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/softbank-backed-legalon-fuels-ai…
Derrick Harmon injury: Steelers first-round pick carted off after hurting knee in preseason game vs. Panthers
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/derrick
Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can "steer" laser light and is an alternative to lidar, extends its Series B from $45M to $59M, including from Amazon's IIF (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/amazon-backs-program…
Could Shedeur Sanders start a game in 2025? Ranking rookie QBs not taken in first round likely to make debut
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/could-s…
Renner's NFL Draft preseason WR rankings: Here's the catch; finding a true first-round talent might be a reach
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl…
Brian Robinson Jr. trade: Commanders deal running back to 49ers in exchange for sixth-round pick, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brian-r
Sources: Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky could get a multibillion-dollar payout if he drives the fintech's valuation to ~$150B, under an Elon Musk-style pay deal (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c93e33ad-450d-446f-b9c5-e877e3b07b25
Miami-based Pelico, which offers a supply chain orchestration platform, raised a $40M Series B led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $72M (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-dea
Former Raiders first-round pick could be poised for breakout season after strong showing in training camp
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-…
Anthony Pompliano's ProCap raised $750M , including $235M in convertible debt, and is going public via a SPAC; the new firm aims to hold up to $1B in bitcoin (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/pompliano-procap-spac-bitcoin.html…
Titans' Treylon Burks, former first-round pick, out to 'prove myself right' in recovery from torn ACL
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tita…
Amsterdam-based Finom, a neobank targeting SMBs, raised a €115M Series C led by AVP after raising €92.7M from General Catalyst in May (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/smb-focused-finom-closes-e115m-as-european-…
Compliance tech startup Vanta raised a $150M Series D led by Wellington Management at a $4.15B valuation, up from $2.45B after raising $150M in July 2024 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-2…
Skyy Moore trade: Chiefs reportedly send former second-round pick to 49ers, who get much-needed help at WR
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/skyy-mo…
PostHog, which offers dev tools to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features, raised a $70M Series D led by Stripe at a $920M valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/startup-posthog-tweet-funding-round-stripe/
Patriots Day 2 training camp takeaways: Second-year WR continues to be MIA, further risking roster spot
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patriot