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Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tencent-poaches-bytedance-…

Tencent Poaches ByteDance Researchers as China AI Race Heats Up
Throughout the past couple of years, as AI fever swept China’s technology sector, one giant—Tencent—seemed to mostly be sitting on the sidelines. The company, which owns the hugely popular WeChat app, didn’t seem enthusiastic to win a fierce race in the country to develop cutting-edge AI models, ...

Tencent Music reports Q3 revenue up 20.6% YoY to $1.19B, online music services revenue up 27.2% YoY to $979M, and subscription revenue up 17.2% YoY to $632M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/tencent-music-q3-revenue-2025-1236577827…

Tencent Music Entertainment Reports 27% Revenue Growth in Q3
China's Tencent Music Entertainment Group reported strong Q3 financial results, with online music service revenues climbing 27.2% to $979 million.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Tanks and Tears:
🎵 Timewave
#TanksandTears
https://tanksandtears.bandcamp.com/album/timewave
https://open.spotify.com/track/1QbCVHKaX1LncYP5EQKtFG

On the True Significance of the Hubble Tension: A Bayesian Error Decomposition Accounting for Information Loss
Nathalia M. N. da Rocha, Andre L. B. Ribeiro, Francisco B. S. Oliveira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09034

On the True Significance of the Hubble Tension: A Bayesian Error Decomposition Accounting for Information Loss
The Hubble tension, a persistent discrepancy between early and late Universe measurements of $H_0$, poses a significant challenge to the standard cosmological model. In this work, we present a new Bayesian hierarchical framework designed to meticulously decompose this observed tension into its constituent parts: standard measurement errors, information loss arising from parameter-space projection, and genuine physical tension. Our approach, employing Fisher matrix analysis with MCMC-estimated l…

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch has left to join Meta; he reportedly declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B package in August (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/thinking-machines-lab-co-founder-departs-for-m…

Base Models Know How to Reason, Thinking Models Learn When
Constantin Venhoff, Iv\'an Arcuschin, Philip Torr, Arthur Conmy, Neel Nanda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07364 https…

Base Models Know How to Reason, Thinking Models Learn When
Why do thinking language models like DeepSeek R1 outperform their base counterparts? Despite consistent performance gains, it remains unclear to what extent thinking models learn entirely new reasoning capabilities or repurpose pre-existing base model ones. In this work, we propose a hybrid model where we activate reasoning mechanisms in base models at the right time to elicit thinking-model-level reasoning chains, implying that thinking models exploit already existing capabilities. To ground o…

The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire (Thomas Zimmer/Democracy Americana)
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-right-wants-a-reichstag-fire
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p47#a250912p47

Anticline in the Paleoproterozoic Thomson Formation, near Jay Cooke State Park, Northeast #Minnesota. Deformation due to the
Penokean Orogeny, ca 1850–1900 Ma. This is a favorite fieldtrip stop; included in the GSA Centennial Guidebook. An October picture from the archives. #geology

E-Autos laden ist nicht wie Tanken – und genau das macht die Sache kompliziert. 🚗⚡
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11111843

John Lynch rejects idea that Mac Jones' play has created tension in 49ers' QB room https://www.nfl.com/news/john-lynch-rejects-idea-that-mac-jones-play-has-created-tension-in-49ers-qb-room