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The Gemini mobile app now lets users create "personalized, illustrated storybooks complete with read-aloud narration" that can incorporate uploaded photos (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/05/gemini-storybooks/

Gemini app can now create custom storybooks, comics, and more
The latest Gemini app feature lets you create “personalized, illustrated storybooks complete with read-aloud narration.” 

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W melancholii tchnienia [żywotne; ang. "animal spirits"] unosi pewne wzburzenie, jednak dosyć słabe, pozbawione siły i energii — rodzaj bezwładnego przepychania, które nie trzyma się ustalonych kierunków ani otwartych dróg (aperta opercula), ale przechodzi przez materię mózgową tworząc coraz to nowe pory; jednakże tchnienia nie snują się zbyt daleko po torach, jakie zakreślają; podniecenie szybko opada, siła się wyczerpuje, a ruch zostaje zatrzymany: „non lo…

SustainableQA: A Comprehensive Question Answering Dataset for Corporate Sustainability and EU Taxonomy Reporting
Mohammed Ali, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Adam Jatowt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03000

SustainableQA: A Comprehensive Question Answering Dataset for Corporate Sustainability and EU Taxonomy Reporting
The growing demand for corporate sustainability transparency, particularly under new regulations like the EU Taxonomy, necessitates precise data extraction from large, unstructured corporate reports. Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, requires high-quality, domain-specific question-answering (QA) datasets to excel at particular domains. To address this, we introduce SustainableQA, a novel dataset and a scalable pipeline for generating a comprehensive …

TacMan-Turbo: Proactive Tactile Control for Robust and Efficient Articulated Object Manipulation
Zihang Zhao, Zhenghao Qi, Yuyang Li, Leiyao Cui, Zhi Han, Lecheng Ruan, Yixin Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02204

TacMan-Turbo: Proactive Tactile Control for Robust and Efficient Articulated Object Manipulation
Adept manipulation of articulated objects is essential for robots to operate successfully in human environments. Such manipulation requires both effectiveness -- reliable operation despite uncertain object structures -- and efficiency -- swift execution with minimal redundant steps and smooth actions. Existing approaches struggle to achieve both objectives simultaneously: methods relying on predefined kinematic models lack effectiveness when encountering structural variations, while tactile-inf…

How Shein is leveraging its Reliance Retail partnership in its return to India, as fashion now accounts for 27% of India's online sales, up from 16% in 2020 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
https://indiadispatch.com/p/reliance-shein

Why India's Retail King Needs Shein
India's fast-fashion segment grew 30-40% in the year through March

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1 to paid Claude users, in Claude Code, via its API, and more, featuring broad improvements over Opus 4 for the same cost (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-1

Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

A profile of Steam developer Valve, which has a flat corporate structure and high profit per head; Ampere: Steam hit 170M MAUs in May, versus 153M a year prior (Louis Ashworth/Financial Times)
https://on.ft.com/4nC87SA

AppLovin stock jumps 7% and Robinhood jumps 8% in extended trading after S&P Global said the two will join the S&P 500 index on September 22 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/applovin-robinhood-sp-500.html

AppLovin and Robinhood added to S&P 500

Toronto-based Blue J, which provides AI-powered tax research software, raised a $122M Series D led by Oak HC/FT and Sapphire Ventures at a $300M valuation (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/blue-j-series-d-after-doubling-revenue/

Blue J raises $167.4-million CAD Series D after AI tax research platform more than doubles its revenue
Funding to bolster Toronto startup’s team expansion, product development, and market reach.

Anthropic's Mike Krieger: Opus 4.1 is better at coding, agentic tasks, and more, and Anthropic was previously too focused on only shipping "really big upgrades" (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)