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Asana acquires StackAI, a no-code platform for building AI agents, for $75M as part of Asana's broader AI pivot; PitchBook: StackAI raised ~$20M (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/asana-acquires-no-code-agent-builder-stack-ai/

Asana acquires no-code agent-builder Stack AI | TechCrunch
Asana will incorporate Stack AI into its growing suite of AI workflow tools.

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-…

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.

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 …

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.

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)

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.

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 ...