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Titanic collapse: How the Titans went from No. 1 seed in the loaded AFC to the No. 1 pick

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titanic-collapse-h…

Deterministic Cryptographic Seed Generation via Cyclic Modular Inversion over $\mathbb{Z}/3^p\mathbb{Z}$
Michael A. Idowu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03000 …

Deterministic Cryptographic Seed Generation via Cyclic Modular Inversion over $\mathbb{Z}/3^p\mathbb{Z}$
We present a deterministic framework for cryptographic seed generation based on cyclic modular inversion over $\mathbb{Z}/3^p\mathbb{Z}$. The method enforces algebraic admissibility on seed inputs via the identity $d_k \equiv -\left(2^{k-1}\right)^{-1} \bmod 3^p$, thereby producing structured and invertible residue sequences. This mapping yields entropy-rich, cycle-complete seeds well-suited for cryptographic primitives such as DRBGs, KDFs, and post-quantum schemes. To assess the quality of ran…

Det här är en studie där man mätt omega-6 nivåer i blodet och sen tittat på korrelationer. Men det här är även vad interventionsstudier och tidigare bättre observationsstudier också har visat.
Seed oils: Omega-6 fatty acids may lower diabetes, heart disease risk https://www.

The seed-carrying stalk of the linden diaspore ensures autorotating flight
Annette Cazaubiel, Andreas Carlson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05106 https://arxi…

The seed-carrying stalk of the linden diaspore ensures autorotating flight
The dispersal of seeds by wind is one of the most evolved mechanisms plants use to invade new territories. Linden trees grow diaspores with a curved bract acting as a wing, where the seed pods are connected underneath by a stalk. Besides the seed-carrying capacity, the other functions of the stalk remain unknown. We demonstrate that the stalk of linden (genus Tilia L.) diaspores plays an essential role in their flight. The stalk length to wing span ratio is found to be the key parameter for fac…

Resilience Media, which aims to be the defense tech industry's "publication of record", adds several ex-TechCrunch staff, including Ingrid Lunden and Matt Burns (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Former Techcrunch staff join rapidly expanding defence technology title
Veteran Techcrunch staffers are leading Resilience Media for the defence tech industry which has expanded due to seed fundraising.

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.

Decades of data show African weather disturbances intensify during La Niña #Africa…

Decades of data show African weather disturbances intensify during La Niña
A recent study reveals how a major global climate pattern influences the African weather systems that help seed Atlantic hurricanes. The findings, published in the Journal of Climate, could lead to better seasonal forecasts of rainfall, drought, and tropical cyclone activity across the Atlantic basin.

Poppies I saw this weekend near the visitor's center for Cornell's Botanic Gardens
#photo #photography #flowers

Source: Meta has acquired WaveForms AI, which is working on AI that understands and mimics emotion in audio and debuted in December with a $40M seed led by a16z (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-acquires-ai-audio-star…

Meta Acquires AI Audio Startup WaveForms
Meta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a small startup working on artificial intelligence capable of understanding emotion and mimicking it in audio form, according to a person with direct knowledge. The acquisition comes as Meta continues to overhaul its efforts in AI, after stumbles earlier ...

Hydrodynamic Effects in Cryogenic Buffer Gas Cells: Design Insights from Hybrid Simulations
Nick Vogeley, Bernd Bauerhenne, Daqing Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04364 https://…

Hydrodynamic Effects in Cryogenic Buffer Gas Cells: Design Insights from Hybrid Simulations
Cryogenic buffer gas beam sources have become an essential tool for experiments requiring cold molecular beams with low forward velocities. Although recent experimental advances have led to significant progress in source optimization, numerical studies remain limited due to the challenges posed by the large parameter ranges required to describe both the dense buffer gas and the dilute seed molecules. In this work, we report a numerical evaluation of cryogenic buffer gas beam cells operating in …

Reversing what was undisputable knowledge
Branded as false-factual information
A game of sovereigns
Masters of deceit
Weapons of art
Tables turn on the overpowering
Balance to be restored
Force fed fabricated quandaries of diplomatic myth, untruths
Consequences of pride, and misplaced malice
The dialogues fall through
Oh, but they ingest it
Undoing from the inside begins as a seed
Until it grows
Lies form
Blind and targ…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
SEED:
🎵 Mirrors
#SEED
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Z9m3J4V10fsBfLAamIsl5

Genesis AI, which generates its own synthetic data for training an AI model for robots, emerges from stealth with a $105M seed co-led by Eclipse and Khosla (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/gene

Genesis AI launches with $105M seed funding from Eclipse, Khosla to build AI models for robots | TechCrunch
Genesis AI, which aims to build a foundational model for powering all kinds of robots, has emerged from stealth with $105M in seed funding.

I kid you not.
"The company's technology consists of cockroaches equipped with custom-built backpacks that enable control, sensing, & secure communication. This approach allows for precise navigation & real-time data collection in environments that conventional robots cannot access."
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SWARM Biotactics raises €10M in Seed funding
SWARM Biotactics develops fully controllable bio-robotic systems for defense, national security, disaster response, and industrial inspection.

"Animals boost tropical forests' carbon absorption by aiding seed dispersal"
#Animals #Trees #Forests

Animals boost tropical forests' carbon absorption by aiding seed dispersal
A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can drive biodiversity loss. Now, MIT researchers have shown that the reverse is also true: Reductions in biodiversity can jeopardize one of Earth's most powerful levers for mitigating climate change.

The impact of kilonova seed photons on GRB VHE emission
John P. Hope, Hendrik J. van Eerten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21233 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.212…

The impact of kilonova seed photons on GRB VHE emission
Over the last few years, an increasing number of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) have been detected with very high energy (VHE) emission in excess of 100 GeV, with a few cases above 1 TeV. In several instances, synchrotron seed photons do not fully explain the emission observed, suggesting the presence of other seed photon sources to up-scatter. In this work, we consider the kilonova as a source of seed photons for up-scattering in the afterglow. We model the kilonova as a thermal source injecting into …

The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place.
Since 2008, the "Svalbard Global Seed Vault" — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops.
⭐️ But, the island is warming six to seven times faster than the rest of the planet, making even winters freakishly hot -- at least by Arctic standards.
Indeed, in 2017, an access tunnel to the…

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."

You can run the whole #HEY test suite in a bit over a minute.
Also @… provides a local #CI run DSL syntax now‽

Punchup Live, a ticketing and analytics platform for stand-up comedians, raised a $2.3M seed led by Social Leverage, and plans to expand into more live events (Matt Grobar/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/punchup-live-raises-new-seed-round-1236439…

Stand-Up Ticketing Platform Punchup Live Raises $2.3 Million Seed Round
Punchup Live has raised a new $2.3 Million seed round that will allow the company to continue expanding its influence in comedy and beyond.

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.

I spread 5 lbs of grass seed today but somehow, that wasn’t enough.

"While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks #Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."

Optimal velocity fields for instantaneous magnetic field growth
Nicholas J. Moore, Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03573 https://arxiv…

Optimal velocity fields for instantaneous magnetic field growth
We consider a variant of the kinematic dynamo problem. Rather than prescribing a velocity field and searching for high-growth magnetic fields via an eigenvalue problem, we treat the seed magnetic-field structure as given and ask which velocity field maximally enhances its instantaneous growth. We show this second problem has an elegant formulation in terms of variational calculus. Upon simultaneously constraining the velocity's kinetic energy and enstrophy, the Euler-Lagrange equation leads to …

CYCLE-INSTRUCT: Fully Seed-Free Instruction Tuning via Dual Self-Training and Cycle Consistency
Zhanming Shen, Hao Chen, Yulei Tang, Shaolin Zhu, Wentao Ye, Xiaomeng Hu, Haobo Wang, Gang Chen, Junbo Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16100

CYCLE-INSTRUCT: Fully Seed-Free Instruction Tuning via Dual Self-Training and Cycle Consistency
Instruction tuning is vital for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human intent, but current methods typically rely on costly human-annotated seed data or powerful external teacher models. While instruction back-translation techniques reduce this dependency, they remain fundamentally tethered to an initial seed set, which limits full automation, introduces biases, and can lead to inefficient use of unlabeled corpora. In this paper, we propose Cycle-Instruct, a novel framework that achie…

Augment, founded by Deliverr's Harish Abbott, raised an $85M Series A led by Redpoint to scale its AI assistant for logistics, five months after a $25M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/ai-l

AI logistics startup Augment, from Deliverr's founder, raises massive $85M Series A | TechCrunch
The new funding, which was led by Redpoint, comes just five months after the startup launched out of stealth with a $25 million seed round.

Ensemble Fuzzing with Dynamic Resource Scheduling and Multidimensional Seed Evaluation
Yukai Zhao, Shaohua Wang, Jue Wang, Xing Hu, Xin Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22442 http…

Ensemble Fuzzing with Dynamic Resource Scheduling and Multidimensional Seed Evaluation
Fuzzing is widely used for detecting bugs and vulnerabilities, with various techniques proposed to enhance its effectiveness. To combine the advantages of multiple technologies, researchers proposed ensemble fuzzing, which integrates multiple base fuzzers. Despite promising results, state-of-the-art ensemble fuzzing techniques face limitations in resource scheduling and performance evaluation, leading to unnecessary resource waste. In this paper, we propose Legion, a novel ensemble fuzzing fram…

Animals boost tropical forests' carbon absorption by aiding seed dispersal #environment

Animals boost tropical forests' carbon absorption by aiding seed dispersal
A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can drive biodiversity loss. Now, MIT researchers have shown that the reverse is also true: Reductions in biodiversity can jeopardize one of Earth's most powerful levers for mitigating climate change.

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…

Thinking Machines Lab’s $2B Seed Round Is Biggest By A Long Shot
The $2 billion Andreessen Horowitz-led financing that Thinking Machines reportedly just closed at a $10 billion valuation is by far the largest seed round in the Crunchbase dataset. We take a look at that, as well as the runner's up in seed funding.

2025 NFC No. 1 Seed Odds: Can Lions Repeat As Conference's Top Team? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2025-nfc-no-1-seed-odds

JoyTTS: LLM-based Spoken Chatbot With Voice Cloning
Fangru Zhou, Jun Zhao, Guoxin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02380 https://arxiv…

JoyTTS: LLM-based Spoken Chatbot With Voice Cloning
JoyTTS is an end-to-end spoken chatbot that combines large language models (LLM) with text-to-speech (TTS) technology, featuring voice cloning capabilities. This project is built upon the open-source MiniCPM-o and CosyVoice2 models and trained on 2000 hours of conversational data. We have also provided the complete training code to facilitate further development and optimization by the community. On the testing machine seed-tts-zh, it achieves a SS (speaker similarity) score of 0.73 and a WER (…

Replaced article(s) found for math.NA. https://arxiv.org/list/math.NA/new
[1/1]:
- Single-seed generation of Brownian paths and integrals for adaptive and high order SDE solvers
Andra\v{z} Jelin\v{c}i\v{c}, James Foster, Patrick Kidger

G-SEED: A Spatio-temporal Encoding Framework for Forest and Grassland Data Based on GeoSOT
Xuan Ouyang, Xinwen Yu, Yan Chen, Guang Deng, Xuanxin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18094

G-SEED: A Spatio-temporal Encoding Framework for Forest and Grassland Data Based on GeoSOT
In recent years, the rapid development of remote sensing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and IoT technologies has led to an explosive growth in spatio-temporal forest and grassland data, which are increasingly multimodal, heterogeneous, and subject to continuous updates. However, existing Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based systems struggle to integrate and manage of such large-scale and diverse data sources. To address these challenges, this paper proposes G-SEED (GeoSOT-based Scalable Encod…

Nice new models from Mistral
https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral?utm_source=superhuman&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=thinking-machines-lan…

Voxtral | Mistral AI
Introducing frontier open source speech understanding models.

After the contractors put in the French drain, tearing up the lawn, I bought a bunch of grass seed and spent a lot of time trying to get the yard back up to par. The problem is that the new grass looks so much better than the old grass.

Isotopes, co-founded by Scale AI's former CTO Arun Murthy to build an AI agent for enterprise business analytics, raised a $20M seed (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/scale-ais-former-cto-launche…

Scale AI’s former CTO launches AI agent that could solve big data’s biggest problem | TechCrunch
Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who later joined Scale AI.

#GiftLink
Opinion | Seed Oils Are Fine, Really - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/opinion/seed-oils-nutrition-ingredients-science.html?smid=url-share

I'm right chuffed! Even just after watering it, and having the door open for a while, our greenhouse is between 25-40 degrees C, in the last week of winter. We've already got a bunch of seedlings coming up. I think it's going to be a good summer for veggies in our household. Now if I can just find a good spot to plant that Avocado tree... 🤔

Superradiant Axionic Black-Hole Clouds as Seeds for Graviton Squeezing
Panagiotis Dorlis, Nick E. Mavromatos, Sarben Sarkar, Sotirios-Neilos Vlachos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01689

Superradiant Axionic Black-Hole Clouds as Seeds for Graviton Squeezing
It is shown that both, standard general relativity (GR) and Chern-Simons (CS) gravity, the latter containing chiral gravitational anomaly terms, seed the production of pairs of entangled gravitons in a multi-mode squeezed state. This involves the interaction of gravitons with the axionic cloud surrounding a superradiant Kerr (rotating) black hole background. The order of magnitude of the squeezing effect, specifically the number of graviton excitations in the squeezed vacuum, is estimated in th…

Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing data and running predictive models from natural language prompts, raised a $10M seed led by Bessemer (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/ai-data-analyst-startup-julius-nabs…

AI data analyst startup Julius nabs $10M seed round | TechCrunch
The seed round for Julius AI was led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

Buttonbush with two Bees with the Biotechnology Building in the far background
#flowers #photo #photography

Seed-dispersing animals are in decline, impacting forests and the climate: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/seed-dispersing-animals-are-in-decline-impacting-forests-and-the-climate-study/

Seed-dispersing animals are in decline, impacting forests and the climate: Study
A lot of attention has been paid to the decrease in bee populations and other pollinators, but a recent review article makes the case that we should be equally alarmed by the declining numbers of seed-dispersing animals, which are crucial for growing healthy forests. “Both are important and should be taken into account in restoration […]

Age Sensitive Hippocampal Functional Connectivity: New Insights from 3D CNNs and Saliency Mapping
Yifei Sun, Marshall A. Dalton, Robert D. Sanders, Yixuan Yuan, Xiang Li, Sharon L. Naismith, Fernando Calamante, Jinglei Lv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01411

Age Sensitive Hippocampal Functional Connectivity: New Insights from 3D CNNs and Saliency Mapping
Grey matter loss in the hippocampus is a hallmark of neurobiological aging, yet understanding the corresponding changes in its functional connectivity remains limited. Seed-based functional connectivity (FC) analysis enables voxel-wise mapping of the hippocampus's synchronous activity with cortical regions, offering a window into functional reorganization during aging. In this study, we develop an interpretable deep learning framework to predict brain age from hippocampal FC using a three-dimen…

The effect of local magnetic fields in quiet regions of stellar atmospheres simulated with MANCHA
Andrea Perdomo Garc\'ia, Nikola Vitas, Elena Khomenko, Manuel Collados
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00636

The effect of local magnetic fields in quiet regions of stellar atmospheres simulated with MANCHA
Our aim is to characterize the effects of the local magnetic fields in quiet regions of stellar atmospheres. We compute magneto-hydrodynamic and purely hydrodynamic simulations of G2V, K0V and M2V star. The magnetic simulations are started from the hydrodynamical ones, adding the Biermann battery term in the induction equation to produce a magnetic seed, that is enhanced by the action of the small-scale dynamo. Once the magnetic field is saturated, we compare the simulations with and without ma…

FriendliAI, which aims to help companies run AI model inference faster and cheaper, raised a $20M extension to its $6M seed fund from late 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/inference-platform-friendliai-raises-seed…

Exclusive: FriendliAI Raises $20M Seed Extension To Grow AI Inference Platform
FriendliAI, an AI inference platform startup that provides “last mile” artificial intelligence engagement, has raised $20 million in a seed extension round, the company told Crunchbase News in this exclusive.

Can We Conjugate the Orbital Angular Momentum of a Single Photon with Nonlinear Optics? A Theoretical Analysis
Tobey Luck, Aar\'on Aguilar-Cardoso, Cheng Li, Manuel Ferrer-Garcia, Jeremy Upham, Jeff Lundeen, Robert Boyd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01792

Can We Conjugate the Orbital Angular Momentum of a Single Photon with Nonlinear Optics? A Theoretical Analysis
Stimulated parametric down-conversion (StimPDC) produces an idler beam that exhibits a phase conjugate of the spatial structure of the classical seed beam. Extending this effect to the single-photon regime can, in principle, enable the control of the orbital angular momentum of single photons. However, its experimental implementation remains challenging due to the lower photon flux of realistic single-photon sources compared to a classical pump beam, which causes the StimPDC process to occur le…

Building multi-BTZ black holes through Riemann-Hilbert problem
Jun-ichi Sakamoto, Shinya Tomizawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19310 https://

Building multi-BTZ black holes through Riemann-Hilbert problem
We construct a recently found class of non-BPS black hole solutions with asymptotically $AdS_3\times S^3\times T^4$ in type IIB supergravity, consisting of multiple BTZ black holes localized on an $S^3$, within the group theoretical framework of Breitenlohner and Maison (BM). Starting with the multi-neutral black string solution as a seed, we solve the associated Riemann-Hilbert problem for the BM linear system. First, we determine the monodromy matrix corresponding to this seed solution by gen…

Operational Validation of Large-Language-Model Agent Social Simulation: Evidence from Voat v/technology
Aleksandar Toma\v{s}evi\'c, Darja Cvetkovi\'c, Sara Major, Slobodan Maleti\'c, Miroslav An{\dj}elkovi\'c, Ana Vrani\'c, Boris Stupovski, Du\v{s}an Vudragovi\'c, Aleksandar Bogojevi\'c, Marija Mitrovi\'c Dankulov
https://…

Operational Validation of Large-Language-Model Agent Social Simulation: Evidence from Voat v/technology
Large Language Models (LLMs) enable generative social simulations that can capture culturally informed, norm-guided interaction on online social platforms. We build a technology community simulation modeled on Voat, a Reddit-like alt-right news aggregator and discussion platform active from 2014 to 2020. Using the YSocial framework, we seed the simulation with a fixed catalog of technology links sampled from Voat's shared URLs (covering 30+ domains) and calibrate parameters to Voat's v/technolo…

Penalized FCI for Causal Structure Learning in a Sparse DAG for Biomarker Discovery in Parkinson's Disease
Samhita Pal, Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Shu Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00173

Penalized FCI for Causal Structure Learning in a Sparse DAG for Biomarker Discovery in Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that lacks reliable early-stage biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic monitoring. While cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, such as alpha-synuclein seed amplification assays (alphaSyn-SAA), offer diagnostic potential, their clinical utility is limited by invasiveness and incomplete specificity. Plasma biomarkers provide a minimally invasive alternative, but their mechanistic role in PD remains unclear. A major…

Pasta can be made with sunflower seed flour, often combined with other flours like lupin flour for a gluten-free, high-protein option. This type of pasta is known for its nutritional benefits, including being low in net carbs and high in protein.
#Sgambaro #Pasta

My project that I completed yesterday. An old patio umbrella base, a fence post from a big box store, two old wall brackets for flower baskets, a couple of bird feeders that were on sale at CanTire, and a repurposed squirrel baffle. About $100 in total cost, not including the black oil seed. It's positioned right outside our sunroom for bifd watching, by us and our cat Casper.
#DIY #Birdwatching #Gardening

Constraining the magnetic field in the galaxy cluster Abell 2142 using MeerKAT L-band polarisation data
A. Pagliotta, C. J. Riseley, A. Bonafede, C. Stuardi, F. Loi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00114

Constraining the magnetic field in the galaxy cluster Abell 2142 using MeerKAT L-band polarisation data
Magnetic fields permeate the Universe, including galaxy clusters, and affect the thermodynamical properties of the intra-cluster medium (ICM). Cosmological simulations predict that seed magnetic fields are amplified up to the $μ$G-level in the ICM, but the magnetic field strength and structure have been studied in only a few clusters. Abell 2142 is a local massive cluster that shows evidence of a post-merger dynamical state. In this work, we aim to constrain the magnetic field intensity, radia…

Seedlings (XPd on PC)
There's some strange new forms of life in the New Zealand forests, take control of one and explore.
So this is a short puzzle platformer with a neat catch: most of what you'll see on the screen are images captured directly from the forests of New Zealand. Using real images as a backdrop is certainly not a new idea, but it's used remarkably well here.
The gameplay is simple enough: as an apparently sentient seed, you are tasked with travers…

A seed!

A seed!

SEED: A Structural Encoder for Embedding-Driven Decoding in Time Series Prediction with LLMs
Fengze Li, Yue Wang, Yangle Liu, Ming Huang, Dou Hong, Jieming Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20167

SEED: A Structural Encoder for Embedding-Driven Decoding in Time Series Prediction with LLMs
Multivariate time series forecasting requires models to simultaneously capture variable-wise structural dependencies and generalize across diverse tasks. While structural encoders are effective in modeling feature interactions, they lack the capacity to support semantic-level reasoning or task adaptation. Conversely, large language models (LLMs) possess strong generalization capabilities but remain incompatible with raw time series inputs. This gap limits the development of unified, transferabl…

Type-1.5 SNSPD: Interacting vortex theory of two bandgap superconducting single photon detectors
Leif Bauer, Daien He, Sathwik Bharadwaj, Shunshun Liu, Prasanna V. Balachandran, Zubin Jacob
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01240

Type-1.5 SNSPD: Interacting vortex theory of two bandgap superconducting single photon detectors
Photon detectors based on type-2 superconductors have found widespread applications from on-chip quantum computing to quantum remote sensing. Here, we develop the theory for a new class of type-1.5 superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) based on two bandgap superconductors with high transition temperatures such as MgB2 (Tc ~38.6K). We show that vortex-vortex interactions in two component condensates lead to a unique operating regime where single photons can seed multiple vort…

One of the young starlings, now quite independent.

Origin-Destination Travel Demand Estimation: An Approach That Scales Worldwide, and Its Application to Five Metropolitan Highway Networks
Chao Zhang, Neha Arora, Christopher Bian, Yechen Li, Willa Ng, Andrew Tomkins, Bin Yan, Janny Zhang, Carolina Osorio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00306 …

Origin-Destination Travel Demand Estimation: An Approach That Scales Worldwide, and Its Application to Five Metropolitan Highway Networks
Estimating Origin-Destination (OD) travel demand is vital for effective urban planning and traffic management. Developing universally applicable OD estimation methodologies is significantly challenged by the pervasive scarcity of high-fidelity traffic data and the difficulty in obtaining city-specific prior OD estimates (or seed ODs), which are often prerequisite for traditional approaches. Our proposed method directly estimates OD travel demand by systematically leveraging aggregated, anonymiz…

Legion, a security operations center that uses AI to detect threats within users' computer browsers, emerges from stealth with a $38M seed and Series A (Alexandra Sternlicht/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/30/legion-cybersecurity-st…

Cybersecurity upstart Legion emerges from stealth with $38 million from Accel, Coatue, and others
This also marks the U.S. launch of VC firm Picture Capital, who co-led the round.

Efficient black hole seed formation in low metallicity and dense stellar clusters with implications for JWST sources
M. C. Vergara, A. Askar, F. Flammini Dotti, D. R. G. Schleicher, A. Escala, R. Spurzem, M. Giersz, J. Hurley, M. Arca Sedda, N. Neumayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14260

Efficient black hole seed formation in low metallicity and dense stellar clusters with implications for JWST sources
Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal young massive clusters (YMCs) as key building blocks of early galaxies. They are not only important constituents of galaxies, but also potential birthplaces of very massive stars (VMSs) and black hole (BH) seeds. We explore stellar dynamics in extremely dense clusters with initial half-mass densities of $ρ_h \gtrsim 10^8M_\odot{\rm pc}^{-3}$ at very low metallicity, comparable to some of the densest clusters seen by JWST. Us…

Piloting Drones as a Reforestation Tool
Tree planting typically occurs two years after a fire. Alternatively, aerial drone seeding can occur a couple of months after a fire, once the seed vessels are ready and the winter rains arrive to water the seeds. https://www.nationalforests.org/blog/piloting-drones-as-a-reforestation-tool

Phase Competition and Rutile Phase Stabilization of Growing GeO2 Films by MOCVD
Imteaz Rahaman, Botong Li, Hunter D. Ellis, Kathy Anderson, Feng Liu, Michael A. Scarpulla, Kai Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22430

Phase Competition and Rutile Phase Stabilization of Growing GeO2 Films by MOCVD
Rutile germanium dioxide (r-GeO2) is an ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor with potential for ambipolar doping, making it a promising candidate for next-generation power electronics and optoelectronics. Growth of phase-pure r-GeO2 films by vapor phase techniques like metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) is challenging because of polymorphic competition from amorphous and quartz GeO2. Here, we introduce seed-driven stepwise crystallization (SDSC) as a segmented growth strategy for obtain…

Seed&Steer: Guiding Large Language Models with Compilable Prefix and Branch Signals for Unit Test Generation
Shuaiyu Zhou, Zhengran Zeng, Xiaoling Zhou, Rui Xie, Shikun Zhang, Wei Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17271

Seed&Steer: Guiding Large Language Models with Compilable Prefix and Branch Signals for Unit Test Generation
Unit tests play a vital role in the software development lifecycle. Recent advances in Large Language Model (LLM)-based approaches have significantly improved automated test generation, garnering attention from both academia and industry. We revisit LLM-based unit test generation from a novel perspective by decoupling prefix generation and assertion generation. To characterize their respective challenges, we define Initialization Complexity and adopt Cyclomatic Complexity to measure the difficu…

AI startup Aurasell, which aims to automate sales tools built on top of CRM software like Salesforce, emerges from stealth with $30M seed led by Next47 (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-sales-startup-aurasell-raise…

AI startup Aurasell raised $30M seed in 28 hours to take on Salesforce
AI sales startup Aurasell is emerging from stealth with a $30 million seed round that its founders said closed in roughly a day.

Can WIMPs Survive a Magnetized Early Universe?
Malcolm Fairbairn, Mar\'ia Olalla Olea-Romacho, Pranjal Ralegankar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18692 https://

Can WIMPs Survive a Magnetized Early Universe?
Primordial magnetic fields (PMFs) can seed additional small-scale matter fluctuations, leading to the formation of dense, early-collapsing dark matter structures known as minihalos. These minihalos may dramatically amplify the dark matter annihilation signal if dark matter is composed of self-annihilating thermal relic particles such as WIMPs. In this work, we explore the viability of this scenario by analysing the annihilation signal from minihalos with prompt central cusps, $ρ\propto r^{-3/2…

Wimbledon 2025:
Coco Gauff will be the No 2 seed for the second straight Grand Slam event following her victory at the 2025 French Open.
https://www.tennis365.com/tennis-news/wimbledon-2025-womens-seeds-confir…

Wimbledon 2025 women's singles seeds confirmed: Sabalenka & Gauff lead, Swiatek's lowest position since 2021
The full list of women's singles seeds for the 2025 Wimbledon Championships.

OK, so FFOTUS is making noises that he knew about Israel's plans to attack Iran, or that FFOTUS actually approved and supported that attack.
Whether that is true of not, FFOTUS has planted a very dangerous seed.
Now, there is plausible reason for Iran and Islamic radicals to conclude that there is an actual, but undeclared, war by the US on Iran.
Iran is not a stupid country, it knows that it can not directly attack the US, especially with anything nuclear.
But Ir…

Emerald AI, whose software lets AI data centers flexibly adjust power consumption, raised a $24.5M seed led by Radical Ventures, with NVentures participating (Ben Geman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/nvidia-startup-data-center-power

Nvidia stakes new startup that flips script on data center power
Emerald AI is emerging from stealth as the AI surge risks straining grids, and hyperscalers are limited by power availability.

Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/ai-p

AI-powered fintech Alaan raises $48M, one of the largest Series A rounds in MENA | TechCrunch
When Parthi Duraisamy was a consultant at McKinsey’s Dubai office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied on for corporate

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Novel duality-invariant theories of electrodynamics
\'Angel J. Murcia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16502 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507…

Novel duality-invariant theories of electrodynamics
We identify new families of duality-invariant theories of electrodynamics. We achieve this in two different ways. On the one hand, we present an algorithm to construct a one-parameter family of exactly duality-invariant theories from a single seed duality-invariant theory. If the seed theory is causal, the theories constructed from this method will also be causal when the parameter is non-negative. On the other hand, we find two additional novel families of duality-invariant theories which incl…

"I made this (sort of)": Negotiating authorship, confronting fraudulence, and exploring new musical spaces with prompt-based AI music generation
Bob L. T. Sturm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23365

"I made this (sort of)": Negotiating authorship, confronting fraudulence, and exploring new musical spaces with prompt-based AI music generation
I reflect on my experience creating two music albums centered on state-of-the-art prompt-based AI music generation platforms. The first album explicitly poses the question: What happens when I collide my junk mail with these platforms? The second album is a direct response to the first, and toys with the inability of state-of-the-art prompt-based AI music generation platforms to generate music that is not ``practiced'', ``polished'', and ``produced''. I seed a large language model (LLM) with in…

LLAMA: Multi-Feedback Smart Contract Fuzzing Framework with LLM-Guided Seed Generation
Keke Gai, Haochen Liang, Jing Yu, Liehuang Zhu, Dusit Niyato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12084

LLAMA: Multi-Feedback Smart Contract Fuzzing Framework with LLM-Guided Seed Generation
Smart contracts play a pivotal role in blockchain ecosystems, and fuzzing remains an important approach to securing smart contracts. Even though mutation scheduling is a key factor influencing fuzzing effectiveness, existing fuzzers have primarily explored seed scheduling and generation, while mutation scheduling has been rarely addressed by prior work. In this work, we propose a Large Language Models (LLMs)-based Multi-feedback Smart Contract Fuzzing framework (LLAMA) that integrates LLMs, evo…

AIUC, which offers enterprises insurance policies and audits for AI agents, emerges from stealth with a $15M seed led by Nat Friedman at NFDG (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-agent-insurance-startup-aiuc-stealth-1…

Exclusive: Who covers the damage when an AI agent goes rogue? This startup has an insurance policy for that
As AI agents start taking on real-world tasks, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) is offering a new kind of safety net: audits, standards—and liability insurance.

Tel Aviv-based Wonderful, which develops customer support AI agents for businesses in non-English speaking countries, raised a $34M seed led by Index Ventures (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wonderfu…

Characterization of non-planar ring oscillators at a wavelength of 1064 nm for high precision metrology
Henning Vahlbruch, Fabian Meylahn, Benno Willke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10477

Characterization of non-planar ring oscillators at a wavelength of 1064 nm for high precision metrology
Ultra-stable laser light is essential for high-precision interferometric measurements, in particular for the next generation of gravitational wave detectors, where high power lasers with unprecedented low power and frequency noise are demanded. Since the seed laser for high-power laser system has a large influence on the overall noise characteristics, the use of the lowest noise seed laser is beneficial. This study compares a newly developed seed laser, based on a non-planar ring oscillator (NP…

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Stable, which is building a new Layer 1 blockchain for stablecoins, raised a $28M seed co-led by Bitfinex and Hack VC (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/364952/tether-focused-layer-1-stable-raises-28-mi…

Dynamics of low-mass black hole seeds in the BRAHMA simulations using subgrid-dynamical friction: Impact on merger-driven black hole growth in the high redshift Universe
Aklant K. Bhowmick, Laura Blecha, Luke Z. Kelley, Aneesh Sivasankaran, Paul Torrey, Rainer Weinberger, Nianyi Chen, Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist, Priyamvada Natarajan
https://…

Dynamics of low-mass black hole seeds in the BRAHMA simulations using subgrid-dynamical friction: Impact on merger-driven black hole growth in the high redshift Universe
We analyze the dynamics of low-mass black hole (BH) seeds in the high-redshift ($z\gtrsim5$) Universe using a suite of $[4.5~\mathrm{Mpc}]^3$ and $[9~\mathrm{Mpc}]^3$ BRAHMA cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. The simulations form seeds with mass $M_{\mathrm{seed}}=2.2\times10^3~M_{\odot}$ in halos that exceed critical thresholds of dense & metal-poor gas mass ($5-150~M_{\mathrm{seed}}$) and the halo mass ($1000-10000~M_{\mathrm{seed}}$). While the initial BRAHMA boxes pinned the BHs to the …

HF-DGF: Hybrid Feedback Guided Directed Grey-box Fuzzing
Guangfa Lyu, Zhenzhong Cao, Xiaofei Ren, Fengyu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23063 https://

HF-DGF: Hybrid Feedback Guided Directed Grey-box Fuzzing
Directed Grey-box Fuzzing (DGF) has emerged as a widely adopted technique for crash reproduction and patch testing, leveraging its capability to precisely navigate toward target locations and exploit vulnerabilities. However, current DGF tools are constrained by insufficient runtime feedback, limiting their efficiency in reaching targets and exploring state spaces. This study presents HF-DGF, a novel directed grey-box fuzzing framework. Its seed scheduling is guided by a hybrid feedback mechani…

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…

🍓 How TRIC Robotics is reducing pesticide use on strawberries using UV light
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/how-tric-robotics-is-reducing-pesticide-use-on-strawberries-using-uv-light/

How TRIC Robotics is reducing pesticide use on strawberries using UV light | TechCrunch
TRIC Robotics just raised a $5.5 million seed round for its tractor-sized robots that help eliminate bacteria and pests on strawberry plants.

Poseidon, an AI-focused decentralized data layer built on the Story protocol, raised a $15M seed led by a16z (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/363702/a16z-leads-15-million-seed-roun…

Tel Aviv- and NYC-based Datafy, which offers an autonomous cloud storage optimization service, raised a $20M seed led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/10/datafy-…

Datafy raises $20M in seed funding to optimize cloud storage costs autonomously - SiliconANGLE
Datafy raises $20M in seed funding to optimize cloud storage costs autonomously - SiliconANGLE

DialogueForge: LLM Simulation of Human-Chatbot Dialogue
Ruizhe Zhu, Hao Zhu, Yaxuan Li, Syang Zhou, Shijing Cai, Malgorzata Lazuka, Elliott Ash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15752

DialogueForge: LLM Simulation of Human-Chatbot Dialogue
Collecting human-chatbot dialogues typically demands substantial manual effort and is time-consuming, which limits and poses challenges for research on conversational AI. In this work, we propose DialogueForge - a framework for generating AI-simulated conversations in human-chatbot style. To initialize each generated conversation, DialogueForge uses seed prompts extracted from real human-chatbot interactions. We test a variety of LLMs to simulate the human chatbot user, ranging from state-of-th…

Emission enhanced exciton-polariton condensates with optical feedback
R. Mirek, M. Furman, A. Opala, M. Kr\'ol, W. Pacuski, J. Szczytko, H. Sigur{\dh}sson, B. Pi\k{e}tka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20235

Emission enhanced exciton-polariton condensates with optical feedback
Optical feedback is a well-known method of controlling laser dynamics, which has been widely studied in photonic systems to induce complex behaviors such as chaos or enhanced coherence. However, its application to systems in the strong light-matter coupling regime remains unexplored. In this work, we introduce a delayed optical feedback loop into a nonresonantly pumped polariton condensate. By feeding part of the emission back into the cavity to seed the next condensate, we observe a strong inc…

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Multiplier, which acquires accounting services firms and scales them with AI, raised $27.5M across a seed and Series A, with the latter led by Lightspeed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/mult

Multiplier, founded by ex-Stripe exec, nabs $27.5M to fuel AI-powered accounting roll-ups | TechCrunch
Multiplier raised Series A and seed funding from Lightspeed and Ribbit Capital.

Maisa AI, which offers an enterprise agentic automation service that uses a proprietary system to limit hallucinations, raised $25M seed led by Creandum (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/27/maisa-ai-gets-25m-to-fix-enterprise-ais…

Maisa AI gets $25M to fix enterprise AI's 95% failure rate | TechCrunch
Maisa AI is built on the premise that enterprise automation requires accountable AI agents, not opaque black boxes.

Daydream, which raised a $50M seed in June 2024 to build a generative AI shopping agent for fashion, launches in beta, with an app expected later this summer (Hilary Milnes/Vogue Business)
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/techno

Is Daydream’s AI platform the answer to fashion’s discovery problem?
Founder Julie Bornstein raised $50 million last year to create the ultimate AI shopping experience. Today, it launches in beta.

Yupp, which rewards users in crypto for comparing answers from multiple AI models and giving feedback, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed led by a16z crypto (James Hunt/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/358094/a16zcrypto-3…

Eventual, which develops Daft, a Python-native open-source data processing engine, raised a $7.5M seed led by CRV and a $20M Series A led by Felicis (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/how-a-data-pro…

How a data processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual | TechCrunch
Eventual's data processing engine Daft was inspried by the founders' experience working on Lyft's autonomous vehicle project.

Snowcap Compute, which is working on building AI computing chips using superconducting tech, raised a $23M seed and says Pat Gelsinger will join its board (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/snowcap-comp…

Arago, which is developing a photonic chip, codenamed JEF, that is designed to cut AI energy use by ten times at a comparable cost, raised a $26M seed (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/07/08/arago-raises-2…

Arago raises $26M to slash AI energy consumption with breakthrough photonic chip
Arago, a deeptech startup pioneering a new class of energy-efficient AI chips powered by light, has raised $26 million in seed funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its photonic processor, codenamed “JEF”. At the core of “JEF” is a proprietary photonic technology that processes data using lasers instead of transistors. By using photons, light particles that generate much less heat than electrons, this chip can deliver the same performance as top GPUs while consuming 10× less …

Cluely, which wants to help users "cheat on everything", including job interviews and exams, raised a $15M Series A led by a16z, two months after a $5.3M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/clue

Cluely, a startup that helps 'cheat on everything,' raises $15M from a16z | TechCrunch
The controversial AI startup was founded earlier this year.

Observability and site reliability startup Traversal emerges from stealth with $48M in seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/18…

Traversal emerges from stealth with $48 million from Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins to reimagine site reliability in the AI era
Traversal launches from stealth with $48 million in funding from Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, Fortune has exclusively learned.

London-based Noah, which is developing API-focused stablecoin infrastructure to enable real-time cross-border payments, raised a $22M seed led by LocalGlobe (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/10/noah-thijn-lamers-stable…

Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Noah raises $22 million, adds Adyen vet as cofounder
“I feel like I have the energy of [when I was] 25,” said Thijn Lamers, who is 66 years old.

Berlin-based Motor Ai, which develops neuroscience-driven Level 4 autonomous driving tech and plans to deploy it on German roads in 2025, raised a $20M seed (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
https://gamesbeat.com/after-8-years-motor-ai-raises-20m-for-autonom…

After 8 years, Motor Ai raises $20M for autonomous driving software
After eight years of work, Motor Ai has raised $20 million for autonomous driving software that prioritizes compliance.

Sola, which wants to use AI agents to automate businesses' repetitive, manual tasks, raised $21M, including a $3.5M seed and a $17.5M Series A led by a16z (Emma Hinchliffe/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/14/sola-solutions-ai-startup-r…

Exclusive: Two MIT dropouts raised $21 million for their AI startup that does legacy businesses’ grunt work
Sola Solutions' technology, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sarah Guo, automates grunt work for businesses, replacing RPA.

LGND, which uses vector embeddings to analyze geospatial data and has an enterprise app to query it, raised a $9M seed led by Javelin Venture Partners (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/lgnd-wants-to-make-chatgpt-for-the-earth/

Exclusive: LGND wants to make ChatGPT for the Earth | TechCrunch
LGND has raised $9 million to convert geographic data into vector embeddings to power AI models that understand the Earth.