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Internal email: Cognition offers buyouts to the ~200 newly acquired Windsurf staff, with Cognition CEO Scott Wu writing "we don't believe in work-life balance" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cognition-off…

Cognition Offers Buyouts to Newly Acquired Windsurf Staff
Cognition, a two-year-old artificial intelligence coding startup last valued at $4 billion, has offered buyouts to the roughly 200 employees it acquired in a takeover of rival Windsurf three weeks ago, saying they will receive nine months of salary in return, according to an e-mail seen by The ...

Fortune told staff that former editor Nick Lichtenberg was returning to "test ways to use AI to deliver breaking news faster" via a Fortune Intelligence section (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2025/fortune-and-axios-warm-to-ai

Fortune and Axios warm to AI
Media companies are continuing to push the boundaries of how they’re using AI.

A probabilistic quantum algorithm for Lyapunov equations and matrix inversion
Marcello Benedetti, Ansis Rosmanis, Matthias Rosenkranz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04689 https://…

A probabilistic quantum algorithm for Lyapunov equations and matrix inversion
We present a probabilistic quantum algorithm for preparing mixed states which, in expectation, are proportional to the solutions of Lyapunov equations -- linear matrix equations ubiquitous in the analysis of classical and quantum dynamical systems. Building on previous results by Zhang et al., arXiv:2304.04526, at each step the algorithm either returns the current state, applies a trace non-increasing completely positive map, or restarts depending on the outcomes of a biased coin flip and an an…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Stevie Wonder:
🎵 Master Blaster (Jammin')
#StevieWonder
https://djeddyredrums.bandcamp.com/track/stevie-wonder-master-blaster-dj-eddy-redrum
https://open.spotify.com/track/3X2DWkLXNVGCMxB23Zeg7I

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is threatening to remove Democratic lawmakers from office
for fleeing the state
and claiming they could be charged with crimes,
-- escalating tensions overnight
in a showdown over redrawing congressional lines
ahead of the midterm elections.

Most of the Democrats in the Texas state House exited the state Sunday
— many of whom arrived in Chicago in the evening
— to prevent Republicans from overhauling the state’s map t…

Abbott threatens to try to expel Democrats who fled Texas, escalating tensions
The Texas state House is set to reconvene at 3 p.m. CT Monday. Democrats have left the state to try to stop Republicans from moving ahead with enacting a new congressional map that would give the GOP five more safe seats.

Raiders 2025 Outlook: Can Michael Mayer Have a Bounce-Back Season? https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/03/raiders-2025-outlook-michael-mayer-season/

Not just the CDC. Needlessly fight traffic to do what months ago was multiple people’s jobs, plus handle constant institutional shake-ups and potential violence. A surefire way to lose your best people.
CDC Workers Told to Return to Office on September 15, Weeks After Gunman Attacked Headquarters https://ground.news/article/cdc-asks-all-staff-to-return-to-office-sept-15-five-weeks-after-shooting-at-headquarters

At Berlin Buzzwords 2025, Kevin Liang discussed how Apache Solr/Lucene builds dense vector indexes and talked about how he and his team optimised their dense vector setup, sharing the challenges they faced and the best practices they learned along the way.
Watch the full session: https://youtu.be/cDiCX3mVAlQ?si=YWMkpEVpA-lWrH04
Berlin Buzzwords returns on 7-9 June 2026! Get 36% off with our Trust Us Ticket: https://tickets.plainschwarz.com/bbuzz26/c/8Hvk0ZvJA/

"Global temperatures to remain above average despite return of La Niña, says UN"
#UN #UnitedNations #LaNina #Climate

Exchange tensors, generalized RKKY interactions, and magnetization dynamics in heterostructures of ferromagnets and topological insulators
Christian Svingen Johnsen, Asle Sudb\o
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03572

Exchange tensors, generalized RKKY interactions, and magnetization dynamics in heterostructures of ferromagnets and topological insulators
We present a comprehensive theoretical analysis of magnetic heterostructures composed of ferromagnetic (FM) layers interfaced with three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs). Integrating out the topological surface states and computing the spin determinant to second order in spins, we derive the effective generalized Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) exchange interactions mediated by topological surface states. These interactions inherently incorporate spin-momentum locking and anisotrop…