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Sources: Polymarket considers an offer valuing it at ~$9B, up from $1B in the summer; Kalshi is close to raising money at a $5B valuation, up from $2B in June (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/pr

Prediction Startup Polymarket Fields Offer for $9 Billion Valuation; Kalshi Nears $5 Billion Financing
Startups that enable people to bet on events such as the New York mayoral race, NFL games and the Federal Reserve rate decisions are in talks to raise more money at multi-billion-dollar valuations, as trading volume and rivalry between the two apps intensifies. Polymarket has considered an offer ...

Active Learning and Explainable AI for Multi-Objective Optimization of Spin Coated Polymers
Brendan Young, Brendan Alvey, Andreas Werbrouck, Will Murphy, James Keller, Mattias J. Young, Matthew Maschmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08988

Active Learning and Explainable AI for Multi-Objective Optimization of Spin Coated Polymers
Spin coating polymer thin films to achieve specific mechanical properties is inherently a multi-objective optimization problem. We present a framework that integrates an active Pareto front learning algorithm (PyePAL) with visualization and explainable AI techniques to optimize processing parameters. PyePAL uses Gaussian process models to predict objective values (hardness and elasticity) from the design variables (spin speed, dilution, and polymer mixture), guiding the adaptive selection of sa…

Darren Palmer's Almost Home
From dream to reality, every home is a story waiting to be told — and beloved Aussie interior designer Darren Palmer is on a mission to tell them...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/darren-palm…

LAOStrain response of carbon black-polymer hydrogels: insights from rheo-TRUSAXS and rheo-electric experiment
Gauthier Legrand, Guilhem P. Baeza, William Ch\`evremont, S\'ebastien Manneville, Thibaut Divoux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08966

LAOStrain response of carbon black-polymer hydrogels: insights from rheo-TRUSAXS and rheo-electric experiment
Colloid-polymer hydrogels are encountered in various applications, from flow batteries to drug delivery. Here, we investigate hydrogels composed of hydrophobic colloidal soot particles -carbon black (CB)- and carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), a food-grade polymer functionalized with hydrophobic groups binding physically to CB. As described in [Legrand et al., Macromolecules 56, 2298-2308 (2023)], CB-CMC hydrogels exist in two flavors: either electrically conductive when featuring a percolated netwo…

First Plan Then Evaluate: Use a Vectorized Motion Planner for Grasping
Martin Matak, Mohanraj Devendran Ashanti, Karl Van Wyk, Tucker Hermans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07162 ht…

First Plan Then Evaluate: Use a Vectorized Motion Planner for Grasping
Autonomous multi-finger grasping is a fundamental capability in robotic manipulation. Optimization-based approaches show strong performance, but tend to be sensitive to initialization and are potentially time-consuming. As an alternative, the generator-evaluator-planner framework has been proposed. A generator generates grasp candidates, an evaluator ranks the proposed grasps, and a motion planner plans a trajectory to the highest-ranked grasp. If the planner doesn't find a trajectory, a new tr…

#Reform der Pflegevericherung #Interview mit Katarina Planer, Professorin für #Pflege und Pflegemangement

Abschaffung des Pflegegrad 1: Bringt sie überhaupt etwas?
Die Bundesregierung überlegt, den Pflegegrad 1 abzuschaffen. Warum das Problem nicht am Pflegegrad 1, sondern woanders liegt, erklärt Pflegewirtin Katarina Planer von der Hochschule Esslingen.

Planar Juggling of a Devil-Stick using Discrete VHCs
Aakash Khandelwal, Ranjan Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08085 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08085

Planar Juggling of a Devil-Stick using Discrete VHCs
Planar juggling of a devil-stick using impulsive inputs is addressed using the concept of discrete virtual holonomic constraints (DVHC). The location of the center-of-mass of the devil-stick is specified in terms of its orientation at the discrete instants when impulsive control inputs are applied. The discrete zero dynamics (DZD) resulting from the choice of DVHC provides conditions for stable juggling. A control design that enforces the DVHC and an orbit stabilizing controller are presented. …

A profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated 11% stake is now worth $1B following ICE's $2B investment, as its rivalry with Kalshi intensifies (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciap…

Crypto’s Fastest-Growing Startup Mints World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire
A $2 billion investment from NYSE parent ICE vaults Polymarket’s 27 year-old founder Shayne Coplan into the three-comma club and intensifies its rivalry with prediction market competitor Kalshi.

OmniEVA: Embodied Versatile Planner via Task-Adaptive 3D-Grounded and Embodiment-aware Reasoning
Yuecheng Liu, Dafeng Chi, Shiguang Wu, Zhanguang Zhang, Yuzheng Zhuang, Bowen Yang, He Zhu, Lingfeng Zhang, Pengwei Xie, David Gamaliel Arcos Bravo, Yingxue Zhang, Jianye Hao, Xingyue Quan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09332

OmniEVA: Embodied Versatile Planner via Task-Adaptive 3D-Grounded and Embodiment-aware Reasoning
Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have opened new opportunities for embodied intelligence, enabling multimodal understanding, reasoning, and interaction, as well as continuous spatial decision-making. Nevertheless, current MLLM-based embodied systems face two critical limitations. First, Geometric Adaptability Gap: models trained solely on 2D inputs or with hard-coded 3D geometry injection suffer from either insufficient spatial information or restricted 2D generalizat…

Opendoor's new chairman Keith Rabois says "I don't know what most" of its 1400 employees do and the company doesn't need "more than 200 of them" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/opendoors-

Opendoor board chair Rabois says company is 'bloated,' needs to cut 85% of workforce
Keith Rabois was named chairman of Opendoor this week and the company, which he co-founded, hired former Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as its new CEO.