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heise | 17 auf einen Streich: Ugreen-Maxidok mit Thunderbolt 5 im Test
Mit dem Maxidok Thunderbolt 5 von Ugreen werden aus einem Mac-Port 17 Anschlüsse. Wir haben das Port-Monster getestet.
https://www.

17 auf einen Streich: Ugreen-Maxidok mit Thunderbolt 5 im Test
Mit dem Maxidok Thunderbolt 5 von Ugreen werden aus einem Mac-Port 17 Anschlüsse. Wir haben das Port-Monster getestet.

Schäden durch KI: EU diskutiert neue Haftungsregeln
In der EU wird angeblich erneut über die Haftung für KI-Schäden gesprochen. Erst 2025 wurde ein als „verfrüht“ kritisierter Gesetzentwurf zurückgezogen.
https://www.…

Schäden durch KI: EU diskutiert neue Haftungsregeln
In der EU wird angeblich erneut über die Haftung für KI-Schäden gesprochen. Erst 2025 wurde ein als „verfrüht“ kritisierter Gesetzentwurf zurückgezogen.

Es gab so einen Kipppunkt - ich erinnere mich noch an eine PK von Kretschmann, wo er sinngemäß sagte, man hätte jetzt die Wahl gehabt, zu entscheiden, ob man andere Infektionskrankheiten so behandele wie Covid-19 (mit Tests, Quarantäne usw.) oder Covid-19 so wie andere Infektionskrankheiten.
Die Mittel wären dagewesen, es gab Schnelltests auch f. Grippe, es gab Wissen über Aerosole und Wirkung von Masken.
Wir haben das mit den Fähnchen gemacht. 🤷‍♀️

Die teure Epidemie – Wie Long Covid und ME/CFS die Gesellschaft belasten
1,5 Mio. Menschen in Deutschland haben Long Covid oder ME/CFS. Das erzeugt nicht nur Leiden, sondern auch hohe Kosten für die Gesellschaft.

Ich hab das Danger Dan-Spektakel verpasst. (Man kriegt nichts mehr mit in diesem sozialen Medien. Ich prangere das an.)
Gibt's davon ein Video demnächst?

I do not like laying stone, but now it's done. (I did the triangle bit with a gazillion cuts)

Sources: OpenAI staff were "freaked out" when GPT-Sol 5.6 breached Hugging Face, as OpenAI used more aggressive training methods to compete with Anthropic (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7e558951-0c69-459b-8bc8-2c6021d4402d

lots of armchair quarterbacks on mastodon today

The number of PHP code-validation tools that have PHPStorm plugins that don't know how to handle running in a container is mind boggling. I don't think I've ever gotten a single one to work.
#PHP #PHPStorm

#NORMALIZE

Bijzondere ontdekking: in het park hier om de hoek blijkt een particuliere bejaardenzorginstellig te staan. Dus als ik of we daar ooit aan toe zijn zouden we niet ver uit de buurt moeten verhuizen. Het ziet er wel aardig uit. Gerard in het groen, strikje erom, iedereen klaar, lekker rustig. 🤣 Maar nu nog even niet.
Ik ben er omheen gefietst.
En ook weer verder, langs Almere's trots, of één ervan. #trike

Just finished "Snake-Eater" by T. Kingfisher (@…). I'd read and thoroughly enjoyed her "Digger" webcomic, and found this book to be quite enjoyable too. There's something indelibly heartwarming about an anxious character growing to feel more comfortable and self-assured, especially when escaping and unlearning emotional abuse, and I'm certainly a sucker for heartwarming characters. I like the way that Kingfisher has taken time to talk about and try to avoid cultural appropriation, in a way that I feel is reasonable, although of course I'm not an expert judge of the nuances and I'm biased by having liked the book, so I'm willing to be told things are complicated in that regard it others judge differently. I also really liked the window dressing of a vaguely solarpunk future society, in a book that's not at all about that society. I'd love to see Kingfisher write something focused on how that society could work (or maybe she already has?).
Probably going to look up some of Kingfisher's fantasy books soon.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Better check your cloud cost forecasts … 🫣
#AWS
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/17/amazon-web-services-cust…

96gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Last year, I reported on Blaze Foley,
a country musician who was murdered in 1989, but whose Spotify page was suddenly featuring new, AI-generated music under his name.
I’ve recently reviewed dozens of examples of other dead musicians who are also apparently publishing AI-generated music under their names on Spotify.
In some cases, album covers for dead, Black jazz musicians feature white, AI generated artists instead. 

And on the encouraging news front, an example of resilience and perseverance:
Afghan cyclist who disguised herself as a man to evade Taliban wins Asian Games silver
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/sep

Afghan cyclist who disguised herself as a man to evade Taliban wins Asian Games silver
Fariba Hashimi, who is based in Italy, powered home second in the women’s road race near Nagoya in Japan, calling the triumph ‘something special’

Southern Water fined £7m after illegally dumping sewage off Kent coast https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/17/southern-water-fined-7m-dumping-sewage-kent-coast

Gemütlich den Abend genießen, morgen früh geht’s dann auf die Fähre nach #Sardinien

Die gestrige Wahl in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern war das erste Mal in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, seit Gründung der Parteien nach dem 2. Weltkrieg, das die CDU oder CSU den Einzug in einen Landtag verpasst hat.
Ich frag mich an wen oder was das wohl liegt.

Combover Caligula
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: let's leave the extrajudicial killing out of it.
#satire #potus45

It's nice how clear the sky is, today 🥰

Les trains circulent Š vitesse réduite entre Mairie de Montreuil et Porte de Montreuil en raison d'une manoeuvre de train retardée Š Mairie de Montreuil .
🤖 21/08 19:17

Me to my wife: “My reference-counted datatypes PR just got merged by the Pat maintainer!”
“Wow, that was quick! On a weekend!?”
5 seconds later… “wait a second…”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediforum/117315291953082978
Looking forward to this! We’re going to talk about some lessons learned — and where things might be headed. Let me know if there are stories you want to hear more about, too.

https://simlev.blog/2026/07/17/who-am-i-to-judge/

Who am I to judge?
Have you ever heard someone say “who am I to judge?”Not just casually. I’m talking about major situations, when something clearly is wrong. There are those who will shrug off great indecencies, and…

Fabulous use of AI:
https://overpaid.lol

This week we're taking a slight detour into rock history with a track that needs absolutely no introduction ... so of course somehow we wrote several paragraphs about it anyway! #StealersWheel, this one's for you.
Follow us for weekly picks and musings from across the world of #rock a…

Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
One awesome, hand picked song from the world of rock and metal, showcased every week. Nothing more, nothing less! 🤘

Meanwhile, people are starving. @… https://frontrange.co/@apnewsbot/116955438231053229

Aldi verkauft bei uns grad Pokémon-Drawer (18 Booster) für 4,99 Euro. Hab extra nachgefragt, ob das so seine Richtigkeit hat.
Jut. Alle geöffnet, insgesamt 55 Euro rausgeholt. Kann man mal machen.

„Let's be clear: it is theoretically possible that AI will take over the world. I'm no fortune teller. But ask yourself, does that idea sound similar to other stories you've heard out of Silicon Valley in the past?
Weren't we all supposed to be living in Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse by now? Wasn't Bitcoin going to replace all the world's currency?“
Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

ピークの負荷の半分以下になったね。
もう大丈夫かな。

Android 17: Google führt strengere Speicherlimits für Apps ein
Google reagiert auf teuren Arbeitsspeicher: Mit Android 17 werden strengere Speicherlimits für Apps eingeführt, um Leistung und Stabilität zu verbessern.

Android 17: Google führt strengere Speicherlimits für Apps ein
Google reagiert auf teuren Arbeitsspeicher: Mit Android 17 werden strengere Speicherlimits für Apps eingeführt, um Leistung und Stabilität zu verbessern.

POL-OS: Bramsche: Schienenersatzverkehr-Odyssee - 17-Jähriger per Not-Entriegelung aus Bus befreit Osnabrück (ots) - Schienenersatzverkehr mit überraschendem Ende - allerdings für den Fahrgast: Um kurz nach Mitternacht stieg am Dienstagmorgen ein 17-jähriger Osnabrücker in Lohne in einen Bus ein, der für die Nordwestbahn im Rahmen des ... https://ww…

German PM Merz leads his CDU to new lows: In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, it didn't even meet the 5% threshold, so no CDU in the state parliament there.
https://www.dw.com/de/landtagswahlen-votum-gegen-bundeskanzler-friedrich-merz/a-79329969…

Landtagswahlen: Votum gegen Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz?
In Berlin und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wurden neue Parlamente gewählt. Die CDU verliert erneut, die AfD legt massiv zu. Der Druck auf Deutschlands unbeliebten Kanzler steigt.

GitHub says its 7 hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-…

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.

Please: SIGN THE MOTHERS’ CALL FOR PEACE Palestinian and Israeli mothers are working together for peace and a future of freedom and safety for all children. They are asking all of us to stand with them.
Please: Sign the Mothers’ Call for Peace at
https://mothers-call.org/mothers-call

Weather tracker: Thunderstorms strike across Europe amid record heatwave https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/17/weather-tracker-thunderstorms-strike-across-europe-amid-record-heatwave

Solid last episode of 'Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games' ^^
Looking forward to the next season c:
#YoungLadiesDontPlayFightingGames #Yuri #SliceOfLife

Hey, Zionists! Take a fucking bow. Your latest kills are in. @… https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@gazanotice/116957150028311468

Gaza Notifications (@gazanotice@mastodon.neometropolis.net)
Attached: 1 image 🚨BREAKING: Entire Palestinian family wiped out in an Israeli strike on Gaza. An Israeli airstrike killed an entire family in Gaza today : father Firas Ahmad Al-Masri, his wife Salsabeel, and their four children: Naeem Firas Al-Masri Faryal Firas Al-Masri Salma Firas Al-Masri Ameera Firas Al-Masri #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Palestinian

Federal lobbying disclosures: Anthropic spent $1.97M in Q2, up 26% QoQ, and OpenAI spent $1.2M, up 18%; Meta remained the largest spender at $5.99M, down 15% (Luke Fountain/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/openai-anthropic-ai-lobbying-spending-q2-2026.…

OpenAI, Anthropic boost lobbying as legacy tech and defense spending slips
The two AI developers spent a combined $3.17 million in the second quarter, up 23% from the first three months of 2026.

Android 17 QPR1: Google veröffentlicht Beta 7 mit Bugfixes
Google liefert nur zwei Wochen nach der Beta 6 das nächste Update für Android 17 QPR1 aus. Die Beta 7 fixt vornehmlich Bugs.
https://www.

Android 17 QPR1: Google veröffentlicht Beta 7 mit Bugfixes
Google liefert nur zwei Wochen nach der Beta 6 das nächste Update für Android 17 QPR1 aus. Die Beta 7 fixt vornehmlich Bugs.

みんな、サーバ重いとかエラー出るって体感あって、こういうとき厳しいって感じてるようだけど（確かに）
どちらかというと遅延が数分以内に収まっていることの方がすごいなって感じる。ほとんどキューが溜まってない。
連合みても、個人鯖勢はだいたい2分以内、そこそこ人が多いとこは30分遅れとか、相手側サーバによる差も大きい。

@… 🤝
regardless, it does solve the 404 page problem I was having nicely too!

Israel is betting on Islamophobia and teaming up with Europe's far-right.
https://aje.news/a504sv

Israel is betting on Islamophobia to save its standing in the West
Netanyahu’s government is using anti-Muslim fear to rally a Western right increasingly receptive to its message.

Plastic Poisons Primates: One Focus of 2026 American Society of Primatologists Conference https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2026/6/17/plastic-poisons-primates-one-focus-of-2026-american-s…

Plastic Poisons Primates: One Focus of 2026 American Society of Primatologists Conference
Plastic pollution is among the topics of discussion at the American Society of Primatologist's 2026 Conference.

If my current mood was a song title, it'd be "Libera me from Hell"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116959309031485270
I’d say let’s fund it from the commons with the EU funding an independent org to maintain such a fork but I don’t see that happening with the muppets in charge at the moment who think …

震度5弱ってことより、青森や滋賀県まで震度1で揺れてるのがでかさを感じるわい

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 3: Google bringt neue Anpassungsoptionen und Sicherheit
Google hat die dritte Beta von Android 17 QPR2 veröffentlicht. Das Update bringt neue Anpassungsoptionen, eine App-Sperre und neue Sicherheits-Features.

Android 17 QPR2 Beta 3: Google bringt neue Anpassungsoptionen und Sicherheit
Google hat die dritte Beta von Android 17 QPR2 veröffentlicht. Das Update bringt neue Anpassungsoptionen, eine App-Sperre und neue Sicherheits-Features.

@… yeah! I am now remembering Copa America 2024 had a pink card too

Adaptive, which sells accounting software to construction contractors, raised a $30M Series B led by Tidemark, bringing its total raised to $57M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/09/17/adaptive-raises-30m-construct…

Exclusive: Adaptive raises $30M for construction accounting software
Contractors need an up-to-date view of a job's cost.

Damn, Viper.. 😵‍💫
And here I was, thinking that I wasn't that much into muscular women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8jAY2CoOBg

まあまあでかいな。やれやれ

Altis Labs, whose AI model analyzes CT scans taken during oncology trials and produces predictions tied to patient survival, has raised a $25M Series A (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/biotech-deals/2026/09/17/altis-labs-series-a-ai…

Altis Labs raises $25M Series A for AI clinical trial endpoint
Altis Labs plans to use the Series A to expand its IPRO model across more cancer types.

Anthropic veröffentlicht Claude Opus 5.5: Fokus auf Effizienz und Sicherheit
Anthropic startet die Claude-5.5-Modellfamilie. Opus 5.5 verspricht mehr Effizienz, niedrigere Kosten und Sicherheitsfilter für sensible Anwendungsbereiche.

Anthropic veröffentlicht Claude Opus 5.5: Fokus auf Effizienz und Sicherheit
Anthropic startet die Claude-5.5-Modellfamilie. Opus 5.5 verspricht mehr Effizienz, niedrigere Kosten und Sicherheitsfilter für sensible Anwendungsbereiche.

@… ah, yes! I have seen this but it doesn’t seem consistently applied to me? maybe a solved problem though!

Samsung beteiligt sich am Bau eines Atomkraftwerks für Google
Kairos Power soll für Google Atomkraftwerke bauen. Unterstützung erhält das US-Start-up vom südkoreanischen Mischkonzern Samsung.
https://www.

Samsung beteiligt sich am Bau eines Atomkraftwerks für Google
Kairos Power soll für Google Atomkraftwerke bauen. Unterstützung erhält das US-Start-up vom südkoreanischen Mischkonzern Samsung.

@… ahah exactly!

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Letzter Tag: Neun Millionen haben über Design der neuen Euro-Scheine abgestimmt

Letzter Tag: Neun Millionen haben über Design der neuen Euro-Scheine abgestimmt
Die Euro-Banknoten sollen ein neues Design bekommen und die Menschen in Europa sollen mitmachen. Die Online-Umfrage dazu steht nur noch am Montag offen.

Intel, AMD, and Arm shares soar on potential CPU demand sparked by the popularity of Meta's Muse; INTC jumps 12% , AMD is up 8% , and ARM 15% (Adam Clark/Barron's Online)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/intel-sto

@… ahaha I have noticed this but in my experience it seems inconsistent!

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Von Gefahr vor Amoklauf an Schule gewusst: Kanadische Provinz klagt gegen OpenAI

Amoklauf an Schule in Tumbler Ridge: Auch kanadische Provinz klagt gegen OpenAI
In Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia wurden im Februar acht Menschen erschossen, OpenAI hatte Hinweise auf die Gefahr. Nun hat die Provinz Klage eingereicht.

Google DeepMind says its Gemma family of open models has surpassed 1B downloads and developers have published 100K Gemma model variants over the past two years (Google)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-one…

Inside the Gemmaverse: Celebrating one billion Gemma downloads
A look at the Gemmaverse as Gemma surpasses one billion downloads.

I was curious what the red/yellow cards used in the World Cup would look like with color vision deficiency (Protanopia shown).
Seems like a player could be shown a card and not know the color. Does it matter with sufficient contrast and only 2 cards?
Could be easily solved by adding a symbol to the card or by having two different shapes.

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Neues Modell führt Open-Weight-Ranking an
Xiaomis MiMo-V2.6-Pro setzt sich in Benchmarks an die Spitze der Open-Weight-Modelle und ist zudem günstiger als ähnlich leistungsfähige offene Konkurrenz.
h…

MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Neues Modell führt Open-Weight-Ranking an
Xiaomis MiMo-V2.6-Pro setzt sich in Benchmarks an die Spitze der Open-Weight-Modelle und ist zudem günstiger als ähnlich leistungsfähige offene Konkurrenz.

Sources: Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-plots-china-comeback-ne…

Nvidia Plots China Comeback With New AI Chip
Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an AI chip specially tailored for Chinese customers by the end of the year, according to two employees, in what would represent a new route to China for the company. Several Chinese customers have already placed orders for the chip, which is a ...

Urteil gegen Bayern: Sieg für Geodaten-Aktivist lässt Fragen offen
Der Freistaat Bayern scheitert vor Gericht mit einer Klage gegen den Aktivisten Markus Drenger. Doch grundlegende Aspekte von Open Data bleiben dabei ungeklärt.

Urteil gegen Bayern: Sieg für Geodaten-Aktivist lässt Fragen offen
Der Freistaat Bayern scheitert vor Gericht mit einer Klage gegen den Aktivisten Markus Drenger. Doch grundlegende Aspekte von Open Data bleiben dabei ungeklärt.

@… @… someone else suggested that this was a t-shirt cannon and it did change my mind about missiles

Astromech, which uses genomic data to build predictive AI models of biological change, raised $20M at a $3.8B valuation, bringing its total funding to $60M (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
https://gamesbeat.com/astromech-raised-20m-to-a…

Astromech raised $20M to advance predictive AI models of biological evolutionary change
Astromech has raised $20 million to advance its evolutionary biology AI predictive models of biological change.

„Milliarden-Abkommen“: Microsoft und Mistral vertiefen KI-Partnerschaft
Microsoft und Mistral bauen ihre Partnerschaft deutlich aus. Das umfangreiche Abkommen umfasst KI-Infrastruktur, Modellintegration und Vertrieb.

„Milliarden-Abkommen“: Microsoft und Mistral vertiefen KI-Partnerschaft
Microsoft und Mistral bauen ihre Partnerschaft deutlich aus. Das umfangreiche Abkommen umfasst KI-Infrastruktur, Modellintegration und Vertrieb.

@… @… my kids think Lamine Yamal is old at 19

Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using over the past three years, in the US; the service is free to use for the rest of 2026 (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ramp-launches-its-own-ai-model-router-calle…

Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router | TechCrunch
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.

Anthropic will über eine Million AMD-GPUs kaufen
Anthropic setzt ab 2027 AMDs Instinct-MI455X-Beschleuniger ein. Bis zu zwei Gigawatt Kapazität sind geplant.
https://www.heise.de/news/Anthrop…

Anthropic will über eine Million AMD-GPUs kaufen
Anthropic setzt ab 2027 AMDs Instinct-MI455X-Beschleuniger ein. Bis zu zwei Gigawatt Kapazität sind geplant.

Chatkontrolle: EU-Länder sind bei Verlängerung einig
Der Verlängerung der Ausnahme für die Chatkontrolle steht nach einer Übereinkunft der EU-Länder nichts mehr im Weg – samt Änderungswünschen des Parlaments.
https://…

Chatkontrolle: EU-Länder sind bei Verlängerung einig
Der Verlängerung der Ausnahme für die Chatkontrolle steht nach einer Übereinkunft der EU-Länder nichts mehr im Weg – samt Änderungswünschen des Parlaments.

Two US senators demand answers from TikTok about a "depraved" test that withheld a safety feature from 10% of US users, including a teenager who died by suicide (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08…

Ausgesperrt: Amazon blockiert Metas KI-Agenten Muse in seinem Online-Shop
In einem neuen Streit um automatisiertes Einkaufen blockiert Amazon Metas KI-Assistenten Muse. Es geht um Kontrolle und künftige Umsatz- und Werbeeinnahmen.

Ausgesperrt: Amazon blockiert Metas KI-Agenten Muse in seinem Online-Shop
In einem neuen Streit um automatisiertes Einkaufen blockiert Amazon Metas KI-Assistenten Muse. Es geht um Kontrolle und künftige Umsatz- und Werbeeinnahmen.

A profile of Peter Beck, the New Zealand billionaire whose Rocket Lab is pushing to compete with the satellite internet ambitions of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)

Garmin Cirqa: Bildschirmloser Fitnesstracker ohne Abo
Garmin hat mit dem Cirqa seinen ersten bildschirmlosen Fitnesstracker vorgestellt. Das Band erfasst Gesundheitsdaten und kommt ohne Abozwang.
https://www.

Sources: OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's internal systems in a matter of hours, a feat that would typically have taken a talented hacker a couple of weeks (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07…

The debate over Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin's departure from the US misses a larger structural reality: China has built a homegrown AI talent pipeline (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Sources: Shanghai-listed chip test instruments maker Semight, whose stock is up ~2,200% since its April debut, is considering a secondary listing in Hong Kong (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Android 17 QPR1: Letztes Update für Pixel 6 und 6 Pro
Das Android 17 QPR1 befindet sich mit der Beta 9 auf der Zielgeraden zur Veröffentlichung im September. Laut Google ist es das letzte Update für das Pixel 6.
https…

Android 17 QPR1: Letztes Update für Pixel 6 und 6 Pro
Das Android 17 QPR1 befindet sich mit der Beta 9 auf der Zielgeraden zur Veröffentlichung im September. Laut Google ist es das letzte Update für das Pixel 6.

Francisco Partners' co-founder Dipanjan Deb says "AI will not kill the software industry" as the tech-focused PE firm raised $21B, exceeding its $18B target (Antoine Gara/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d331c1f5-27c0-4d5a-a4ab-7a52e1119cc5…

Sources detail how Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and crypto adviser Bo Hines worked to shape the GENIUS Act and loosen safeguards to benefit Tether (Bloomberg)

A study of 11,989 Polymarket users finds 61% placed fewer than 100 trades over a six-week period, with 58% making or losing less than $100 during that period (Kaitlyn Radde/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/07…

What we know about the typical Polymarket user
The typical Polymarket user placed a total of 46 trades across 10 active trading days during our study period.

US GAO study: Amazon workers on federal aid tripled from February 2020 to September 2025; ride-hailing and delivery apps topped employers with workers on aid (Washington Post)

Amazon, gig companies see spike in workers on SNAP and Medicaid, study shows
Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025, while ride-hailing and food delivery app drivers shot up on lists compiled by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Meta's infrastructure teams have become bloated, leading to poor decisions like troubled Rivos acquisition, loss of supplier trust due to hardware pivots, more (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/metas-infrastructure-team-needs-a

Meta’s Infrastructure Team Needs A Culture Reset
Meta Infrastructure has become bloated, with middle managers expending resources on over-engineered technology solutions that lose sight of broader organizational needs.

Tesla reports a negative Q2 free cash flow of $1.1B, its first in over two years, partly due to increased AI and robotic investments, amid diminishing profits (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/el…

Google reports Q2 free cash flow at negative $5.9B amid increased AI spending, marking its first cash burn since going public decades ago (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b02f972c-c764-4006-9377-42563d9d5530

The Little Tech Association, a new group of ~200 companies across the startup community, including Y Combinator, urges Trump not to ban Chinese open-weight AI (Sophia Cai/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/s…

Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more (Block)
https://block.xyz/inside/introducing-buzz-where-humans-and-agents-work-together

Introducing Buzz: where humans and agents work together
Today we're releasing Buzz, a free, open source collaboration platform where humans and AI agents work together in a shared workspace. It's available now at buzz.xyz. Buzz is a collaboration workspace built on the Nostr protocol. It has channels, threads, direct messages, voice, media sharing, code repositories, and automated workflows. The interface will feel familiar to anyone who's used a modern team communication tool.

NJ Governor says a software error at DMV led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots (Tracey Tully/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregion/noncitizen-voting-new…

D.M.V. Error Led to 400 Noncitizens Voting in New Jersey, Governor Says
A software glitch in 2023 at the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles led to roughly 6,600 noncitizens being registered to vote, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced on Tuesday.

Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/technology/meta-anthropic-ai-computing-power.html

Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.

AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal using inference-specific chips as collateral (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/why-

Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal | TechCrunch
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.

Sources: Apple and the DOJ are in early discussions about settling a 2024 antitrust lawsuit alleging that Apple violated antitrust laws (Bloomberg)