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AI agents are the ultimate Aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an end, and offering them is tech's biggest prize, with Meta and Microsoft well-poised (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/apps-agents-and-aggregation/

Apps, Agents, and Aggregation
Agents are the ultimate Aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an ends, and providing them is tech’s biggest prize.

Trump’s agriculture secretary commits to ‘waiving red tape’ to allow ranchers to process and sell their own beef –
Brooke Rollins, Trump's agriculture secretary said it was
a “matter of national security” that the US is able to “feed and fuel ourselves”.
She outlined that her department would waive “red tape in processing” and expand ranchers ability to “sell across state lines”, as well as other measures.
The agriculture secretary previously defended the preside…

Trump’s agriculture secretary commits to ‘waiving red tape’ to allow ranchers to process and sell their own beef – live
Brooke Rollins teases ‘big announcements’ next week to facilitate Trump’s pledge to allow ranchers and farmers to process their own food and avoid the ‘nasty monopoly’ of large processing plants

Denzel Ward agrees to extension with Browns, regains status as highest-paid DB in NFL history, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/denzel-ward-agrees-…

«Wenn KI-Services so super sind, warum werden sie uns dann so aggressiv aufgedrängt?
Ein Appell an die Hersteller, sämtliche KI-Dienste konsequent optional zu machen und sie von Haus aus zu deaktivieren. Echte Wahlfreiheit statt Zwangsbeglückung»
Gute Frage und um deren Macht und Profitgier der Konzerne kann es wohl kaum gehen oder…, oder…, oder nicht?!?? Wenn die von "Sicherheit" und "Produktivität" sprechen, dann wohl um ihre Eigene.
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Wenn KI-Services so super sind, warum werden sie uns dann so aggressiv aufgedrängt?
Ein Appell an die Hersteller, sämtliche KI-Dienste konsequent optional zu machen und sie von Haus aus zu deaktivieren. Echte Wahlfreiheit statt Zwangsbeglückung

Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/socure-raises-acquires-a…

Socure Secures $156M at $5.2B Valuation, Acquires AI Fraud Investigation Startup Fravity
Identity verification and fraud prevention company Socure announced Thursday that it raised $156 million in a strategic growth investment valuing it at $5.2 billion. The Incline Village, Nevada-based company also says it is acquiring agentic AI startup Fravity, which will be incorporated into its RiskOS platform as RiskOS_Agents.

Donald Trump is pushing the longtime vaccine opponent and current health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be more aggressive on cutting vaccines in the US, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal.
Trump has a long record of anti-vaccine statements,
but the White House recently put a hold on vaccine changes after polling indicated they were a losing issue in the midterm elections.
Kennedy, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, recently…

Trump reportedly pushing RFK Jr to cut vaccines more aggressively
White House has halted changing vaccine schedule as it is unpopular, but anti-vaxx Trump set on ‘alleviating autism’

Security- and AI-related startups have raised $855M across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, on track for an all-time high (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/cybersecurity/seed-trends-ai-security-startup-fund…

AI Seed Investors Flock To Cybersecurity
Startups at the intersection of AI and security have raised $855 million across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, per Crunchbase data.

Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/meta

Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India | TechCrunch
Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

New York-based AI detection startup Pangram raised $9M led by Menlo, and releases Pangram 4.0 and its first AI image detection model, claiming 99.5% accuracy (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/busines

Sick of A.I.-Generated Content? The ‘Slop Janitor’ Is Here to Help.
Pangram, an A.I. detection start-up, promises near-perfect accuracy in sniffing out writing and imagery that wasn’t made by humans. It’s raising some big questions along the way.

Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billion

Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source Model Repository Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, a company known for its GitHub-like repository of open-source AI models, for $12.9 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement. The move will put Nvidia in charge of a strategic asset in the race among open-source model developers to ...