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Crypto investor Roger Ver, aka "Bitcoin Jesus", reaches a deferred prosecution agreement with the US DOJ and pays ~$50M to resolve a tax evasion indictment (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/10/14/roger…

‘Bitcoin Jesus’ reaches $50 million deal with DOJ to dismiss tax evasion charges
Roger Ver’s agreement with prosecutors is the latest sign that President Donald Trump’s administration is scaling back its crackdown on crypto.

SAG-AFTRA announces a new agreement tailored for serialized microdramas, or "verticals", with budgets under $300K that it plans to circulate later this month (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

SAG-AFTRA Gets In the Verticals Game
The union will be circulating a new agreement for microdramas with budgets under $300,000 later this month.

Secret-Key Agreement Through Hidden Markov Modeling of Wavelet Scattering Embeddings
Nora Basha, Bechir Hamdaoui, Attila A. Yavuz, Thang Hoang, Mehran Mozaffari Kermani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09773

Secret-Key Agreement Through Hidden Markov Modeling of Wavelet Scattering Embeddings
Secret-key generation and agreement based on wireless channel reciprocity offers a promising avenue for securing IoT networks. However, existing approaches predominantly rely on the similarity of instantaneous channel measurement samples between communicating devices. This narrow view of reciprocity is often impractical, as it is highly susceptible to noise, asynchronous sampling, channel fading, and other system-level imperfections -- all of which significantly impair key generation performanc…

10 years on, believe it or not, the Paris Agreement was signed.
This was our very short reaction at the time. Prescient, you might think.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly. | Steady State Manchester https://…

Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly.
A lot has been written on the Paris international agreement on climate change.  To try and cut through all those words to the essential issues, here is our very brief analytic summary. The good Asp…

Echoes of Agreement: Argument Driven Opinion Shifts in Large Language Models
Avneet Kaur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09759 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09759

Echoes of Agreement: Argument Driven Opinion Shifts in Large Language Models
There have been numerous studies evaluating bias of LLMs towards political topics. However, how positions towards these topics in model outputs are highly sensitive to the prompt. What happens when the prompt itself is suggestive of certain arguments towards those positions remains underexplored. This is crucial for understanding how robust these bias evaluations are and for understanding model behaviour, as these models frequently interact with opinionated text. To that end, we conduct experim…

Putin says Alaska agreements with Trump on Ukraine still relevant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/putin-says-alaska-agreements-with.html

Broadcom closes up 9.88% following the announcement of its custom chip deal with OpenAI; its stock is up over 50% in 2025 after more than doubling in 2024 (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/openai-partners-with-bro…

Broadcom stock pops 7% on OpenAI custom chip deal, adding to Nvidia and AMD agreements
OpenAI is teaming up with Broadcom to jointly develop and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators starting in 2026.

Managed security services provider LevelBlue to acquire cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which raised $850M in total funding and undergone multiple restructurings (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/cybereason-levelblue-acquistion/

LevelBlue to acquire Cybereason in latest cybersecurity industry consolidation
LevelBlue announced Tuesday it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cybereason, a Boston-based cybersecurity firm specializing in extended detection and response platforms and digital forensics. 

OpenAI and Microsoft say they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the next phase of their partnership, and are working to finalize terms (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/11/open-ai-microsoft-agreement-deal

OpenAI and Microsoft reach tentative deal to revise partnership
The deal resolves a major hurdle to OpenAI's planned corporate restructuring.

OpenAI projects that it will reduce the revenue share it pays to Microsoft from 20% this year to ~8% by 2030, potentially retaining over $50B more in revenue (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-gain-50-billi…

OpenAI to Gain $50 Billion From Cutting Revenue Share with Microsoft, Partners
As OpenAI irons out new terms of a partnership with Microsoft, it has told some shareholders that the percentage of revenue it will hand over to Microsoft will drop considerably in the coming years. As part of their original partnership agreement, Microsoft is entitled to 20% of the startup’s ...