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In April, shortly before being valued by venture investors at $9 billion, Elon Musk’s Neuralink labeled itself a
“small disadvantaged business” in a federal filing
The filing would have reached the Small Business Administration at a time when Musk was leading the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Elon Musk's Neuralink filed as 'disadvantaged business' before being valued at $9 billion
Neuralink labeled itself in April as a "small disadvantaged business" in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration.

Google says users created 100M videos using its AI filmmaking tool Flow since its May launch; Flow leverages Veo 3 and focuses on maintaining visual consistency (Katelyn Chedraoui/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof

Google's AI Filmmaker Program Flow Helped Creators Make 100 Million Videos
Google confirmed the 100 million milestone exclusively to CNET. Here's what's coming next for Flow and its AI-assisted creators.

Google says users created 100M videos using its AI filmmaking tool Flow since its May launch; Flow leverages Veo 3 and focuses on maintaining visual consistency (Katelyn Chedraoui/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof

Google's AI Filmmaker Program Flow Helped Creators Make 100 Million Videos
Google confirmed the 100 million milestone exclusively to CNET. Here's what's coming next for Flow and its AI-assisted creators.

Come on #UK! This is not the way to go!! You want more heat waves, pollution, droughts, storms, floods? No?? So do something!!
”UK falling behind EU on environmental rules amid post-Brexit rollback”

CAI Fluency: A Framework for Cybersecurity AI Fluency
V\'ictor Mayoral-Vilches, Jasmin Wachter, Crist\'obal R. J. Veas Chavez, Cathrin Schachner, Luis Javier Navarrete-Lozano, Mar\'ia Sanz-G\'omez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13588

CAI Fluency: A Framework for Cybersecurity AI Fluency
This work introduces CAI Fluency, an an educational platform of the Cybersecurity AI (CAI) framework dedicated to democratizing the knowledge and application of cybersecurity AI tools in the global security community. The main objective of the CAI framework is to accelerate the widespread adoption and effective use of artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity solutions, pathing the way to vibe-hacking, the cybersecurity analogon to vibe-coding. CAI Fluency builds upon the Framework for AI F…

Why Brock Bowers is falling down fantasy football rankings https://www.pff.com/news/fantasy-football-why-brock-bowers-is-falling-down-fantasy-football-rankings

Amy Klobuchar 'feeling better and better' about Democratic prospects in future elections (Jenny Goldsberry/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3476674/amy-klobuchar-feeling-better-and-better-about-democratic-prospects-future-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250720/p40#a250720p40

The EU says Apple and Meta will not face sanctions immediately after their 60 day DMA grace period ends on June 26, following €500M and €200M fines in April (Peggy Corlin/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06…

Apple and Meta to escape sanctions for failing to meet digital rules
The European Commission will opt not to impose immediate financial penalties on Apple and Meta—even if they fail to comply with the legislation by next week's deadline. #EuropeNews

Yosemite Employee Fired After Flying Trans Pride Flag (Laura Bliss/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-18/yosemite-employee-fired-after-flying-trans-pride-flag?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1NTUzMzMxMSwiZXhwIjoxNzU2MTM4MTExLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUMTc2MDNHUEwzWU0wMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGQTEyREYyMDg1QUQ0Njk1QkYyNjIwMDYyQzE5MjNENCJ9.R0iDSh_KxWy6553MfRO5W2Ya5S3YR5-YaJZOOckJusw&email=467cb6399cb7df64551775e431052b43a775c749&emaila=12a6d4d069cd56cfddaa391c24eb7042&emailb=054528e7403871c79f668e49dd3c44b1ec00c7f611bf9388f76bb2324d6ca5f3&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=08.18.25 — Energy & Environment -- RF
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p115#a250819p115

An MIT report says 95% of GenAI pilots at companies have little to no financial impact, mainly due to a "learning gap" for both the tools and the companies (Sheryl Estrada/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-perc…

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.