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Sources: xAI prepares a new fundraising round, its third in two months, targeting a valuation of $170B to $200B, up 10x from its May 2024 valuation of $18B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/25aab987-c2a1-4fca-8883-38a617269b68

Sources: OpenAI talked with Saudi Arabia's PIF, India's Reliance, and the UAE's MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40B round led by SoftBank (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Money From Saudi Arabia, Indian Investors
OpenAI has talked to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries and existing shareholder United Arab Emirates’ MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40 billion financing led by SoftBank, according to two people familiar with the fundraise. The ...

Top five NFL draft values of the millennium at edge rusher: Chiefs uncovered two mid-round gems https://www.nfl.com/news/top-five-nfl-draft-values-of-the-millennium-at-edge-rusher-chiefs-uncovered-two-mid-round-gems…

First to reach $n$ game
Stanislav Volkov, Magnus Wiktorsson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08782 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08782

First to reach $n$ game
We consider a game with two players, consisting of a number of rounds, where the first player to win $n$ rounds becomes the overall winner. Who wins each individual round is governed by a certain urn having two types of balls (type 1 and type 2). At each round, we randomly pick a ball from the urn, and its type determines which of the two players wins. We study the game under three regimes. In the first and the third regimes, a ball is taken without replacement, whilst in the second regime, it …

The harvest from the third honeyberry bush. It's been enough to provide two breakfasts as fruit with porridge. (Not me, J).

Mailbag: Late-round rookies you want to see? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-late-round-rookies-you-want-to-see

Here’s Why Raiders’ Second-Round Pick Jack Bech Remains Unsigned https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/heres-why-jack-bech-remains-unsigned/?adt_ei=[email]

Gathering Teams of Bounded Memory Agents on a Line
Younan Gao, Andrzej Pelc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04172 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Gathering Teams of Bounded Memory Agents on a Line
Several mobile agents, modelled as deterministic automata, navigate in an infinite line in synchronous rounds. All agents start in the same round. In each round, an agent can move to one of the two neighboring nodes, or stay idle. Agents have distinct labels which are integers from the set $\{1,\dots, L\}$. They start in teams, and all agents in a team have the same starting node. The adversary decides the compositions of teams, and their starting nodes. Whenever an agent enters a node, it sees…

I propose the following contest for the Apple designers and engineers working on the UI:
Round 1: create a folder with two apps
Round 2: after placing the folder at one the side of the screen, add two more apps to the folder.
Round 3: add four more apps to the folder but on the second screen of the folder
Round 4: move top left and 3rd icons from the 2nd screen to another, new folder
Each round should be timed.
If you are proud with your result, all good.

Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
I’m just too fabulously queer and genderfluid to function like anyone expects. My identity is a whole spectrum, shifting and sparkling with every color and every gender. 🌈✨
Some days I’m femme, some days I’m masc, and some days I’m something totally unique and undefined. 💖💙🤍
My

Sorting by pile shuffles on queue-like and stack-like piles can be hard
Kyle B. Treleaven
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05518 https://ar…

Sorting by pile shuffles on queue-like and stack-like piles can be hard
Inspired by a common technique for shuffling a deck of cards on a table without riffling, we continue the study of a prequel paper on the pile shuffle and its capabilities as a sorting device. We study two sort feasibility problems of general interest concerning pile shuffle, first introduced in the prequel. These problems are characterized by: (1) bounds on the number of sequential rounds of shuffle, and piles created in each round; (2) the use of a heterogeneous mixture of queue-like and stac…

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生活样本 🈚️
📷 Nikomat FT
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan SS, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Mailbag: Late-round rookies you want to see? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-late-round-rookies-you-want-to-see

Two related news stories that hint of the destruction of US assets and infrastructure that are critical to the safety of all of us:
"Severe weather hits the US hard as key forecast offices reel from Trump cuts"
"Trump delays plan to cut satellite data access crucial to hurricane forecasting"

So my mother-in-law is making some Ukrainian "potatoes" (they're basically cocoa and rum and some kind of binder.. crackers? balled up) for the 7yo's bday party. My wife made these amazing signs for the attendees in case of allergies. 😂

Propose or Vote: A simple Democratic Procedure
Hans Gersbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05998 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05998…

Propose or Vote: A simple Democratic Procedure
This paper introduces a simple democratic procedure. In a first stage, all members of a polity decide whether to apply for proposal-making or later vote on proposals made in the second stage. This procedure is called Propose or Vote (PoV). With appropriate default points and majority voting over two randomly selected proposals, the PoV procedure can implement the Condorcet winner with only one round of voting if a Condorcet winner exists. We explore ways to establish uniqueness, alternative vot…

Ex-Super Bowl champion doubts Travis Hunter's two-way NFL stardom, says Jaguars should 'test his armor'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

Semiconductor giant Intel has officially begun a new round of layoffs, following through on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's warning two months ago that job cuts were "inevitable" as part of a wider restructuring strategy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/inte

Intel begins laying off 10,000 under CEO Lip-Bu Tan
Plus: Microsoft readies another wave of Xbox cuts

I have never opened a Reddit account. However they send me emails with titles like "Updates to Reddit’s Privacy Policy and User Agreement"
I think someone must be posing as me - or just using my gmail address. I have had a persistent "Stephen Rees" who uses gmail with the two names the other way round.
I can't close this Reddit account as I didn't open it. But its address is u/BagOk7706 - which you might be able to access and disabuse

Tyler Guyton or Mazi Smith, who needs a bigger leap this year? https://insidethestar.com/tyler-guyton-or-mazi-smith-who-needs-a-bigger-leap-this-year

Tournament Robustness via Redundancy
Klim Efremenko, Hendrik Molter, Meirav Zehavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03701 https://arxiv.org…

Tournament Robustness via Redundancy
A knockout tournament is one of the most simple and popular forms of competition. Here, we are given a binary tournament tree where all leaves are labeled with seed position names. The players participating in the tournament are assigned to the seed positions. In each round, the two players assigned to leaves of the tournament tree with a common parent compete, and the winner is promoted to the parent. The last remaining player is the winner of the tournament. In this work, we study the probl…

A new best-speller
https://apnews.com/article/scripps-national-spelling-bee-2025-champion-70f6767e4f30a29b52dfc3dfc77eb553

Faizan Zaki wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee
Faizan Zaki has seized the title of best speller in the English language at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 13-year-old from Allen, Texas, was runner-up last year after he lost in a lightning-round tiebreaker. He ousted eight other accomplished spellers to win the title on Thursday night, including two that he let back into the competition after his own careless flub. Told to take a deep breath before his final word, “eclaircissement,” he didn’t ask a single question before spellin…

Falcons DC Jeff Ulbrich sees great potential in first-round DE James Pearce Jr.: 'He's got the full arsenal' https://www.nfl.com/news/falcons-dc-jeff-ulbrich-sees-great-potential-in-first-round…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07409 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMS_…

RLibm-MultiRound: Correctly Rounded Math Libraries Without Worrying about the Application's Rounding Mode
Our RLibm project generates a single implementation for an elementary function that produces correctly rounded results for multiple rounding modes and representations with up to 32-bits. They are appealing for developing fast reference libraries without double rounding issues. The key insight is to build polynomials that produce the correctly rounded result for a representation with two additional bits when compared to the largest target representation and with the "non-standard" round-to-odd r…

🔥 Ribeye magic in the making! Just dry-brined this beauty for tonight’s cook. Gave it a light coat of Pam to help the rub stick, then hit it with Hardcore Carnivore Texas Jalapeño Salt and a generous dusting of coarse black pepper. Can’t wait to see how this crust turns out! 🥩💥 #CookWithWes

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14124 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The APX-hardness of the Traveling Tournament Problem
The Traveling Tournament Problem (TTP-$k$) is a well-known benchmark problem in sports scheduling, which asks us to design a double round-robin schedule such that each pair of teams plays one game in each other's home venue, no pair of teams plays each other on two consecutive days, each team plays at most $k$ consecutive home games or away games, and the total traveling distance of all the $n$ teams is minimized. TTP-$k$ allows a polynomial-time approximation scheme when $k=2$ and becomes APX-…

Cowboys need 6th-round pick to prove he's better than 2 million-dollar signings https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/04/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-69-og-ajani-…

Top five NFL draft values of the millennium at interior DL: Cameron Heyward one of two active players https://www.nfl.com/news/best-nfl-draft-values-of-the-millennium-defensive-line

fun fact: It's faster to drive to Ottawa from Vancouver than take the train (also alot cheaper for more than 1 person) 🙄 North America is so stoopid #stupid #NorthAmericaIsStupid #Trains
For fun if you're interested: Here's a rough breakdown of options to get one or two or 4 people across Canada and back from Port Alberni, BC on Vancouver Island to Ottawa Ontario in as quick and cheap as possible.
This is a 9900km round trip, so it's not like it's a hop skip jump :)
#planning #travel

Happy #AutisticPrideDay! ♾️💙
I’m proudly autistic, my brain works in its own unique way, full of different thoughts and feelings all at once. Being autistic is part of who I am, not something to fix. 🧠🧠
I’m also queer and genderfluid, and that’s just another part of my colorful identity. Some days I feel one way, some days another, and that’s okay. 🏳️‍🌈☂️
Neurodiver…

Miami-based Guardz, which offers a detection and response service for managed service providers protecting SMBs, raised a $56M Series B led by ClearSky (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw

Exclusive: Guardz locks up $56M Series B for cybersecurity
The new round brings Guardz's total funding to $84 million in just more than two years.

Browns embracing harsh reality after failed Deshaun Watson trade: What it means for Shedeur Sanders, others

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/b…

Cowboys Urged to Take Drastic Step on Former 2nd-Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/urged-take-drastic-step-former-2nd-round-pick/?adt_ei=[email]

Jon Gruden Sounds Off on Former Raiders 1st-Rounder https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/jon-gruden-las-vegas-houston-texans-damon-arnette

Filings: Bengaluru-based fintech Cred, which offers rewards for paying credit card bills and more, raised ~$72M at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.4B in 2022 (The Economic Times)
https://ec…

Cred raises fresh funds from GIC, others; valuation cut by 45% to $3.5 billion
The fintech major was valued at $6.4 billion in 2022 during its last major fund infusion. The current fund infusion is in the form of primary capital, which means that existing investors have not sold any shares in this round. The drop in valuation was in line with the company's plans to list in India over the next two years, people in the know said.

Cowboys lineman projected for $76 million deal to run numbers up if they wait too long https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/28/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-73-og-tyler-s…

Cowboys lineman projected for $76 million deal to run numbers up if they wait too long https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/28/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-73-og-tyler-s…