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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

Asteroideneinschlag: Dinosaurier von äußerst seltenem Meteoritentyp ausgelöscht
Der Asteroid, der vor 66 Millionen Jahren die Dinosaurier ausgelöscht hat, gehörte wohl einer seltenen Klasse an. Das Aussterben lief anders ab als gedacht.

Asteroideneinschlag: Dinosaurier von äußerst seltenem Meteoritentyp ausgelöscht
Der Asteroid, der vor 66 Millionen Jahren die Dinosaurier ausgelöscht hat, gehörte wohl einer seltenen Klasse an. Das Aussterben lief anders ab als gedacht.

Oatly is proving that regenerative agriculture isn't just a farm-level challenge—it's a corporate responsibility issue.
Their ambitious timeline: 30% of global supply regenerative by 2030, ramping to 100% by 2050. The key insight? Success requires corporate transparency and bringing farmers into decision-making, not just asking them to change practices.

The race to regenerate: Why the tipping point for nature positive agriculture is a business problem, not a farming problem
The agrifood system drives 30% of global emissions. Regenerative agriculture can fix that. So why hasn't it gone exponential yet?

Just on the way to bed and to the South East on the horizon is a spectacular thunder storm. I checked my lightning app and I can see it a huge storm stretching from Amiens to Lille in France - 140 miles away across the Channel!
#weather #lightning

Google rolls out an embeddable "Preferred Sources" button, natural language Discover controls, and custom audio briefings in the Google News app on Android (Matt G. Southern/Search Engine Journal)
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google

Google Expands Personalization Across Search, Discover & News
Google is rolling out a new embeddable Preferred Sources button, natural language Discover controls, and customizable audio briefings in the Google News app.

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.

Blackstone agrees to invest an undisclosed sum in South Korea-based Futronic, which makes actuators used in industrial robots, sources say at a ~$675M valuation (Manuel Baigorri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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…