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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)
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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.

OpenAI-Abschlussbericht: Rund 700 Agenten griffen Hugging Face an
OpenAIs Bericht zum Hugging-Face-Vorfall zeigt, dass riskante Verhaltensmuster schon beim Training auftraten und Warnsignale nicht ausreichend eskaliert wurden.

OpenAI-Abschlussbericht: Rund 700 Agenten griffen Hugging Face an
OpenAIs Bericht zum Hugging-Face-Vorfall zeigt, dass riskante Verhaltensmuster schon beim Training auftraten und Warnsignale nicht ausreichend eskaliert wurden.

For the next two days, Mark Turner is visiting @… for a rich program discussing overlaps between Blending Theory and our work on Metaphors of Religion. https://

Conceptual Blending Across Cultures, Texts, and Traditions
27 Aug. 2026, 09:30 a.m. – 28 Aug. 2026, 05:30 p.m. , GB 5/150–152 “Ruhrpott” . Program of the Visit of Professor Mark Turner to the CRC 1475.Thursday, 27 AugustWorkshop: Conceptual BlendingTimeProgram9:45Welcome and Introduction – Volkhard Krech10:00Keynote Lecture: Blending and Compression: Fitting the Divine to the Human Mind – Mark TurnerHuman beings possess biological, local, here-and-now minds, yet religious thought depends upon vast, transcendent structures spanning …

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 ...

Meet six baby animals from across the globe.
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Animal Babies: First Year on Earth | Preview
Meet six baby animals from across the globe.

The Pennsylvania department of health (DoH) announced on Friday that
55 new measles cases had been reported in the state since Wednesday,
with officials continuing efforts to contain an outbreak of the disease that has spread across dozens of counties.
In a news release, the DoH said that 890 measles cases had been confirmed across 39 counties in the state so far for the year.
The outbreak had resulted in 173 hospitalizations in the state and four measles-associated …

Pennsylvania measles outbreak spreads, with 55 new cases reported since Wednesday
Less than 1% of infected have been vaccinated, with 173 people hospitalized and four deaths so far

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.

After the candidates he backed swept their democratic congressional primaries,
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his democratic socialist message can win nationally.
"I think a democratic socialist can get elected anywhere across this country for any position,"
Mamdani told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl

Mamdani: Democratic socialist candidates ‘can get elected anywhere across this country for any position’
ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl sat down with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for an exclusive interview.

Five months after the United States and Israel started a historically unpopular war against Iran that was going to supposedly last weeks,
the fighting has refused to resolve in victory, defeat or peace.
Iran’s Supreme Leader had been killed in the opening strikes,
ceasefires broke down,
and the strait of Hormuz has been closed and re-opened.
For voters interviewed across the country, while the damage may be distant, the residual effects have shown up
at t…

Americans feel pinch of continued Iran war: ‘It’s screwed everything up’
Whether in favor of or against the US-Israel war on Iran, people across the country are left holding the bill and wondering on its purpose

TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to allegations that the short-form video platform misled users about safety
and was designed to addict children.
The case was scheduled to go to trial on Monday.
According to the Alabama attorney general’s office, TikTok could end up paying the state a total of $300 million
depending on “certain conditions.”
The company also agreed to introduce a two-hour daily time limit for underage users,

TikTok agrees to pay at least $100M in Alabama settlement | TechCrunch
TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to allegations that the short-form video platform misled users about safety and was designed to addict children.