Sen. Josh Hawley launches a probe of Meta following a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids, tells Zuckerberg to produce docs by September 19 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/meta-ai-bot-child-investigation.html
Mgmt: We don't have the resources to make our own LLM. Can we just monetize AI prompts?
Business School Student: Hold my beer 🍺
#blockchain
As usual we watched the "Stoertebekker" stage play at Ralswiek on Rügen Island. The stage setups and wardrobes were as awesome as always. They really try to improve on that every year and come up with clever mechanisms to transform the building for the various acts of the play. The script this year left room for desire ;) Nevertheless a happing worth attending
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Joe Batan:
🎵 It's a Good Feeling (Riot)
#JoeBatan
https://joebataan.bandcamp.com/track/its-a-good-feeling-riot
https://open.spotify.com/track/4sArymKxEv44zDJThfcMjt
Alley Stories 🔣
巷弄故事 🔣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
Unify, which offers AI-powered tools to boost revenue pipelines, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, valuing it at $260M, following a $12M Series A (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/unify-ai-gtm-pipeline-40-million-raise
Alley Stories 🔣
巷弄故事 🔣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️?
#filmphotography
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
GEE DEE:
🎵 It's a Feeling
#GEEDEE
https://freeuniversenyc.bandcamp.com/album/its-a-feeling-ep
Google announces Gemma 3 270M, a compact model designed for task-specific fine-tuning with strong capabilities in instruction following and text structuring (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3-270m/
Study: in the past year, ~75% of S&P 500-listed firms have updated their official risk disclosures to detail or expand upon mentions of AI-related risk factors (Dan Robinson/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/sec_risk_factors_ai/