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When Hallucination Costs Millions: Benchmarking AI Agents in High-Stakes Adversarial Financial Markets
Zeshi Dai, Zimo Peng, Zerui Cheng, Ryan Yihe Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00332

When Hallucination Costs Millions: Benchmarking AI Agents in High-Stakes Adversarial Financial Markets
We present CAIA, a benchmark exposing a critical blind spot in AI evaluation: the inability of state-of-the-art models to operate in adversarial, high-stakes environments where misinformation is weaponized and errors are irreversible. While existing benchmarks measure task completion in controlled settings, real-world deployment demands resilience against active deception. Using crypto markets as a testbed where $30 billion was lost to exploits in 2024, we evaluate 17 models on 178 time-anchore…

Disney and YouTube settle their legal dispute over YouTube's hiring in May of former Disney executive Justin Connolly to be global head of media and sports (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/disney-youtube-settle-executive-poa…

Disney & YouTube Settle Poaching Dispute Over Video Giant’s Justin Connolly Hiring
Disney & YouTube have put down their legal weapons & come to a settlement over exec Justin Connolly

WTF? #Trump announced that nuclear-weapons tests will be resumed despite the US having signed (but not ratified) the Comprehensive #NuclearTest-Ban Treaty.
As happened numerous times during the ages-old arms race, this move – justified with other nations' alleged

USA wollen wieder Atomwaffen testen
Seit 1992 testen die USA keine Atomwaffen mehr, nun will der US-Präsident wieder damit anfangen. Die Tests sollen "unverzüglich" wieder aufgenommen werden, erklärte Trump kurz vor einem Treffen mit Chinas Staatschef Xi.

Day 5: Robin Wall Kimmerer
I'm taking these liberty of changing my hashtag and expanding the intent of this list to include all non-men, although Kimerer is a woman so I'll get to more gender diversity later... I've also started planning this out more and realized that I may continue a bit beyond 20...
In any case, Robin Wall Kimmerer is an Indigenous academic biologist and excellent non-fiction author whose work touches on Potawotomi philosophy, colonialism (including in academic spaces), and ideas for a better future. Anyone interested in ecology, conservation, or decolonization in North America will probably be impressed by her work and the rich connections she weaves between academic ecology and Indigenous knowledge offer a critical opportunity to expand your understanding of the world if like me you were raised deeply enmeshed in "Western" scientific tradition. I suppose a little background in skepticism helped prepare me to respect her writing, but I don't think that's essential.
I've only read "Braiding Sweetgrass," but "Gathering Moss" and her more recent "The Serviceberry" are high on my to-read list, despite my predilection for fiction. Kimmerer incorporates a backbone of fascinating anecdotes into "Braiding Sweetgrass" that makes it surprisingly easy reading for a work that's philosophical at its core. She also pulls off an impressive braided organization to the whole thing, weaving together disparate knowledges in a way that lets you see both their contradictions and their connections.
The one criticism I've seen of her work is that it's not sufficiently connected to other Indigenous philosophers & writers, and that it's perhaps too comfortable of a read for colonizers, and that seems valid to me, even though (perhaps because I am a colonizer) I still find her book important.
An excellent author in any case, and one doing concrete ideological work towards a better world.
#20AuthorsNoMen

In the latest act of retributIion targeting public servants in the federal government’s intelligence community
— the Trump administration moved Tuesday to revoke the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials
A memo posted online by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence,
accuses the targeted officials of having engaged in the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence” to advance partisan goals,
as well as failure to …

Trump administration revokes security clearances of 37 current and former government officials
The Trump administration says it's revoking the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials. It's the latest act of retribution targeting public servants in the federal government’s intelligence community. A memo posted Tuesday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accuses the targeted officials of having engaged in the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence” to advance partisan goals. It also accuses them of failing to safeguard classif…

Protests from american cities, where people just take over entire streets.. and then protest pics from the suburbs, where people are standing on sidewalks waving signs. This despite large numbers where they COULD take over the streets.
Just another reminder of how badly we've built our public spaces..

Jaxon Smith-Njigba leads NFL in receiving despite Seahawks' league-low pass rate: Makes 'offense go' https://www.nfl.com/news/jaxon-smith-njigba-leads-nfl-receiving-seahawks-league-low-pass-rate

Fascist Paramilitary (ERO) Invade and Deploy Chemical Weapons in Community Despite Restraining Orders [Chicago]
Source: #politics

DegDiT: Controllable Audio Generation with Dynamic Event Graph Guided Diffusion Transformer
Yisu Liu, Chenxing Li, Wanqian Zhang, Wenfu Wang, Meng Yu, Ruibo Fu, Zheng Lin, Weiping Wang, Dong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13786

DegDiT: Controllable Audio Generation with Dynamic Event Graph Guided Diffusion Transformer
Controllable text-to-audio generation aims to synthesize audio from textual descriptions while satisfying user-specified constraints, including event types, temporal sequences, and onset and offset timestamps. This enables precise control over both the content and temporal structure of the generated audio. Despite recent progress, existing methods still face inherent trade-offs among accurate temporal localization, open-vocabulary scalability, and practical efficiency. To address these challeng…

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is,
‘Love your neighbor, love your God,
save your soul and quit your job,’”
said David Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago.
“Everybody chants that.”

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who would Jesus deport?’