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Ordering popcorn. If #Trump does this the #BBC will claim he suffered no loss. Litigation over that means detailed discovery on his finances since.
BBC News - Trump says he will take legal action against BBC over #Panorama

EfficientUICoder: Efficient MLLM-based UI Code Generation via Input and Output Token Compression
Jingyu Xiao, Zhongyi Zhang, Yuxuan Wan, Yintong Huo, Yang Liu, Michael R. Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12159

EfficientUICoder: Efficient MLLM-based UI Code Generation via Input and Output Token Compression
Multimodal Large Language Models have demonstrated exceptional performance in UI2Code tasks, significantly enhancing website development efficiency. However, these tasks incur substantially higher computational overhead than traditional code generation due to the large number of input image tokens and extensive output code tokens required. Our comprehensive study identifies significant redundancies in both image and code tokens that exacerbate computational complexity and hinder focus on key UI…

Google says it hit a milestone of 1.3 quadrillion monthly tokens processed across its services this summer, up from 980T monthly tokens announced in July (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/google-boasts-1-3…

Google boasts 1.3 quadrillion tokens each month, but the figure is mostly window dressing
Google says it now processes more than 1.3 quadrillion tokens every month with its AI models. But this headline number mostly reflects computing effort, not real usage or practical value, and it raises questions about Google's own environmental claims.

ViCO: A Training Strategy towards Semantic Aware Dynamic High-Resolution
Long Cui, Weiyun Wang, Jie Shao, Zichen Wen, Gen Luo, Linfeng Zhang, Yanting Zhang, Yu Qiao, Wenhai Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12793

ViCO: A Training Strategy towards Semantic Aware Dynamic High-Resolution
Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from increased inference costs due to the additional vision tokens introduced by image inputs. In this work, we propose Visual Consistency Learning (ViCO), a novel training algorithm that enables the model to represent images of varying semantic complexities using different numbers of vision tokens. The key idea behind our method is to employ multiple MLP connectors, each with a different image compression ratio, to downsample the vision …

MetaBreak: Jailbreaking Online LLM Services via Special Token Manipulation
Wentian Zhu, Zhen Xiang, Wei Niu, Le Guan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10271 https://

MetaBreak: Jailbreaking Online LLM Services via Special Token Manipulation
Unlike regular tokens derived from existing text corpora, special tokens are artificially created to annotate structured conversations during the fine-tuning process of Large Language Models (LLMs). Serving as metadata of training data, these tokens play a crucial role in instructing LLMs to generate coherent and context-aware responses. We demonstrate that special tokens can be exploited to construct four attack primitives, with which malicious users can reliably bypass the internal safety ali…

Alibaba halves Qwen3-Max prices, from $0.861 to $0.459 per 1M input tokens and $3.441 to $1.836 per 1M output tokens for API users, amid China's AI price wars (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

Alibaba slashes Qwen3-Max model charges up to 50% amid latest AI price war
The new pricing strategy reflects heightened competition in China’s foundational model market.

#China shows support for #Trump view of regional powers. The USA can have #venezuela. Presumably the quid pro quo is that China gets

Paxos says it "mistakenly minted" $300T worth of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday and "burned" the tokens a little over 20 minutes later (Ryan S. Gladwin/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/344463/printing-money-paxos-mints-bur…

Printing Money: Paxos Mints, Then Burns $300 Trillion in PayPal Stablecoins
A fat-finger mistake, or a hack? Crypto traders are confounded after $300 trillion worth of PayPal's PYUSD was minted and then burned.

How OpenSea reinvented itself from an NFT marketplace to a crypto trading aggregator, facilitating $1.6B in trades in the first two weeks of October (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2

OpenSea Is Remaking Itself Into A Crypto Trading Aggregator
The crash of the NFT market led OpenSea to fire more than half of its staff. But the startup has reinvented itself into a place for buying and selling all tokens, especially memecoins, and trading volume is surging once again.