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«AI Slop flutet soziale Netzwerke – ausgerechnet LinkedIn ist besonders betroffen»
Überraschend ist dies nicht, da viele durch min Aufwand Aufmerksamkeit oder sogar Gewinn erwarten. Nun werden wohl noch die letzten realen Menschen dies verlassen (nehme ich mal an).
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AI Slop flutet soziale Netzwerke – ausgerechnet LinkedIn ist besonders betroffen
Jeder Leser dürfte schon mitbekommen haben, dass in sozialen Netzwerken wie Facebook, Instagram oder X immer mehr AI Slop gepostet wird. ...

Stripe agrees to buy New York-based OpenRouter for an undisclosed amount; Stripe had reportedly agreed to pay more than $7B for OpenRouter (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/stripe-agrees-to-buy-ai-firm…

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116946439206222657
this may be one of my favorite accounts on fedi

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116946439206222657
this may be one of my favorite accounts on fedi

"How reflective roof paint is cooling homes across Africa"
#Africa #Climate #ClimateChange

How reflective roof paint is cooling homes across Africa | The Optimist Daily
Across four African communities, reflective roof paint dropped indoor temperatures by 3 to 4 degrees. The effects go well beyond comfort.

Interesting study commissioned by European Commission's DG ENER on smart and bidirectional charging of EVs.
Smart charging is already mature tech and ready for use. It is important to use time-varying energy and network prices, and for TSOs and DSOs to remove barriers to small-scale flexibility.

Study on the assessment of use cases and business models for smart and bidirectional recharging in the context of energy system integration - Publications Office of the EU
demand patterns across the European Union. As electrification progresses across private, commercial, and fleet segments, charging behaviour has become a material factor for peak demand, grid utilization, and system balancing. Within this context, smart charging (SC) and bidirectional charging (BDC) have growing relevance as demand-side flexibility and energy-system integration instruments. This study first assesses the system relevance, maturity, and deployment conditions of SC and BDC across t…

VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/physical-ai-funding-startups…

VCs Pour Billions Into Physical AI As The Next Wave Of AI Investing Takes Shape
In the first half of 2026, global venture funding in the physical AI space totaled $47.4 billion across 521 deals, per Crunchbase data. That’s up dramatically — almost 4x — compared to the second half of 2025 when startups in the sector raised $12 billion across 470 deals.

Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/source-elastic-…

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M | TechCrunch
DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.

Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/orchestration…

Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rk71zhxeml

Cribl acquires Israeli cyber startup CardinalOps for around $100 million
The U.S. telemetry company will establish a Tel Aviv office after buying the AI-powered detection engineering startup. The acquisition marks Cribl’s push into security operations and its effort to challenge traditional SIEM platforms.