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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)
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.

Unscripted producer Wheelhouse acquires Anomaly Entertainment, best known for delivering a slate of unscripted programs for Discovery's annual Shark Week (Loree Seitz/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/wheelhouse-acquires-anomaly-en…

Wheelhouse Acquires Matthew Kelly and Michael Sorensen's Anomaly Entertainment
Unscripted producer Wheelhouse has acquired Matthew Kelly and Michael Sorensen's production company, Anomaly Entertainment.

Extreme fire conditions are forecast through this weekend across the interior western United States,
adding to the wildfires that have erupted across the region recently.
Multiple wildfires, most notably the Cottonwood and Iron fires in Utah, have erupted across the Southwest in recent days
amid hot, dry and breezy conditions.
The Cottonwood Fire has consumed 71,000 acres and was 0% contained as of Thursday night.

EU webinar on unlocking demand-side flexibility from buildings: Practical examples from across the EU
Online, Wednesday 24 June 9:00 - 13:00
https://energy.ec.europa.eu/events/unlocking-demand-side-flexibility-bu…

Unlocking demand-side flexibility from buildings: Practical examples from across the EU
Unlocking demand-side flexibility from buildings: Practical examples from across the EU

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.

"8 Acres of Rewilding Completed Along Santa Monica Coastline: ‘It’s Still Your Beach, Only Better’'"
#Environment #Nature #LosAngeles

8 Acres of Rewilding Completed Along Santa Monica Coastline: 'It's Still Your Beach, Only Better'
It's part of The Bay Foundation's effort to rebuild the ecosystems of Southern California's dune landscapes, lost, but not forgotten.

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 ...

"Climate crisis is accelerating antibiotic resistance across world, study says"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Health

The rapid pace of AI progress has created a pervasive fear of missing out across Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders, executives, employees, and VCs (Bloomberg)