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NFL Week 16 injuries to monitor for Sunday's games: Falcons WR Drake London expected to play https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-16-injuries-to-monitor-for-sunday-s-games-falcons-wr-drake-london-expected-to-play

The UK FCA sues Justin Sun-linked crypto exchange HTX in London's High Court for alleged illegal promotion of "cryptoasset services" to UK consumers (Lucca De Paoli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Day 26: Emily Short
If you know who Short is, you know exactly why she's on this list. If you don't, you're probably in the majority. She's an absolutely legendary author within the interactive fiction (IF) community, which gets somewhat pigeonholed by stuff like Zork when there's actually a huge range of stuff in the medium some of which isn't even puzzle-focused, and Short has been writing & coding on the bleeding edge of things for decades.
I was lucky enough to be introduced to Short's work in graduate school, where we played "Galatea" as part of an interactive fiction class. Short uses a lot of clever parser tricks to make your conversation with a statue feel very fluid and conversational, giving to contemporary audiences a great example of how vibrant interaction with a well-designed agent can be in contrast to an LLM, if you're willing to put in some work on bespoke parsing & responses (although the user does need to know basic IF conventions). While I didn't explore the full range of Galatea's many possible outcomes, it left a strong impression on me as a vision for what IF could be besides dorky puzzles, and I think that "visionary" is a great term to describe Short.
If you'd like you get a feel for her (very early) work, you can play Galatea here: #30AuthorsNoMen

London-based PolyAI, which makes call center AI voice assistants, raised an $86M Series D led by Georgian, Hedosophia, and Khosla, after raising $50M in 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/15/polyai-raises-86m/

PolyAI raises $86M
London-based AI startup PolyAI has raised $86m in a Series D funding round.The funding round in the AI assistant developer for call centres was co-led by existing investors Canadian B2B software investor Georgian, London-based investor Hedosophia and US VC firm Khosla Ventures.Additional investors were NVentures (Nvidia’s VC arm), Sands Capital, Squarepoint Ventures, Citi Ventures, Point72 Ventures and the British Business Bank, which invested £15m ($20.1m). The British Business Bank is also…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Niccolò Paganini, Chloë Hanslip, London Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann:
🎵 Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 7: III. Rondo "La Campanella"
#NiccolòPaganini
https://open.spotify.com/track/07DhbDVK0TuC2whbtlB0uc

Good morning from Brentford
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #London

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to expand its lending to commodities traders "dramatically" after extending ~$1.5B worth of credit to the sector (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11…

Tether Plans ‘Dramatic’ Expansion in Commodity-Trade Lending
Stablecoin giant Tether Holdings SA plans to expand “dramatically” in lending to commodities traders after extending roughly $1.5 billion worth of credit to the sector, Chief Executive Officer Paolo Ardoino said.

England's Esme Morgan on making America home and why she loves the Jacksonville Jaguars https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6715854/2025/10/17/esme-morgan-washington-spirit-nwsl-jacksonville-jaguars-nfl/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #MusicMatters
Franz Schubert, Paul Lewis & Mark Padmore:
🎵 Der Lindenbaum (Winterreise)
#FranzSchubert #PaulLewis #MarkPadmore
https://open.spotify.com/track/00TvbkJQT1TO9Zn2dnxvv5

Jets LB Johnson to play after missing 3 games https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46551823/jets-de-jermaine-johnson-play-vs-broncos-missing-3-games