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Europas Milliarden-Offensive: 19 Staaten starten Großprojekt für Industrie-KI
Mit dem Vorhaben IPCEI-AI wollen 19 EU-Länder ein eigenes KI-Ökosystem aufbauen. Über zehn Milliarden Euro sollen in europäische Industrietechnologien fließen.

Europas Milliarden-Offensive: 19 Staaten starten Großprojekt für Industrie-KI
Mit dem Vorhaben IPCEI-AI wollen 19 EU-Länder ein eigenes KI-Ökosystem aufbauen. Über zehn Milliarden Euro sollen in europäische Industrietechnologien fließen.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@euronews/russia-s-invasion-of-ukraine-89mnilrcz/-/a-TT489V_fSLupa5Z6NHRpnw:a:89340020-/0
Remember folks, we absolutely must have war and billionaires but we …

I had salad for dinner and I am now counting the minutes until my ultimate demise.

Sources: Temporal is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the open-source orchestration platform developer a ~$500M raise at a $12B valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/a…

“Have you asked Claude?” — finally, a more vapid thing to say than “I asked Claude”

«Whatsapp, Signal und Threema — Angreifer können Gruppenchats unbemerkt manipulieren:
Bei Whatsapp, Signal, iMessage und Threema kann ein Gruppenmitglied anderen Teilnehmern unterschiedliche Inhalte zeigen. Die Verschlüsselung muss dafür nicht gebrochen werden.»
Das Thema ist nicht neu, da Verschlüsselung innerhalb von Gruppen schnell rel. komplex werden kann wenn die Sicherheit über einzelne hinausgeht.
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Whatsapp, Signal und Threema: Angreifer können Gruppenchats unbemerkt manipulieren - Golem.de
Bei Whatsapp, Signal, iMessage und Threema kann ein Gruppenmitglied anderen Teilnehmern unterschiedliche Inhalte zeigen. Die Verschlüsselung muss dafür nicht gebrochen werden.

Created by Congress in 1996,
the Alien Terrorist Removal Court,
has five federal judges appointed by the Chief Justice,
“to review applications for the removal from the United States of alien terrorists.”
The attorney general submits applications for removal to the court under seal.
According to the Federal Judicial Center, it has never received an application since its founding.
-- Until this week.
According to a court order posted on the newly-cr…

Alien Terrorist Removal Court Has Its First Case
Created in 1996, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court has never reviewed an application. Until now

you think more highly of Slavoj Žižek than your local homeless man and it shows

Report: changing viewing habits and reduced commissioning by commercial networks have led to significant drops in TV dramas and children's shows in Australia (Emma Joyce/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026…

Australian-made children’s TV brought to heel as homegrown series commissions plummet
Commercial networks ‘effectively stopped commissioning’ kids TV after government quota dropped, Screen Australia report finds

Note to myself: A-lochradler anzusprechen ist genauso sinnvoll wie A-lochautofahrende anzusprechen.

Argentina uncovers suspected Russian spy ring behind disinformation campaigns: https://benborges.xyz/2026/06/19/argentina-uncovers-suspected-russian-spy.html

As a frequent rider between local-only stops on the 14, I’m still waiting for Muni to roll out Muni Premium memberships where you can request the rapid stop at local stops for you. Great for revenue as well

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RE: https://indieweb.social/@jbz/116944636210824537
Me when a kitty lets me pet it soft belly.

Vance postpones Iran talks trip (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/19/us-iran-talks-vance-switzerland-trip-postponed-white-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/260618/p142#a260618p142

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According to this updated password hacking table from #HiveSystems, my password system is firmly in the green zone. 💚
https://www.hivesystems.com/password

The 2026 Password Table Is Here: How Fast Can a Hacker Crack Your Password?
The 2026 Hive Systems Password Table is here. This year's cracking rig is a rented 16x RTX 5090 fleet running against bcrypt, and was about 24% faster than last year. See the latest brute force times, why AI makes the rig easier to build but can't crack bcrypt itself, and what quantum really threate

#send-zeit in #münster. 😊

"The Copyright Office Doesn’t Need More Politics—Or More Power."
"Congress Just Rushed Through A Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul"
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/18/congress-just-rushed-through-a-disast…

Just heard (on the Beeb) that the just-paused new tariffs on Canada were imposed under the “Tariff Act of 1930”
That’s Smoot-Hawley! He’s reviving the most reviled tariff law since King George‘s Stamp Act.

やる以上は得意分野になるぐらい理解を深めたいって思うタチなんですわ。同じ道具を使っても、違いが出るぐらいの。

"Everyone forgets comedians are actors. There's no question about it. A Robin Williams cannot say the same line every night for 40 weeks and make it sound fresh unless he's doing an acting job."
—Joan Rivers
#acting #coaching

Creo que existe un pueblo con el nombre perfecto para ser el escenario de una y mil novelas solarpunk: Pinofranqueado

I’m a little late to the party, but watched Perfect Days by Wim Wenders tonight. A truly beautiful film that is as close to perfect as you can get. #movies

➡️ Startpage - Private Search Engine. No Tracking. No Search History.
#bookmarks

Freitag: EU-Auflagen für US-Clouds, Robotaxi-Rückruf wegen Autobahnbaustellen
AWS und Azure als Gatekeeper Robotaxi-Probleme mit Baustellen KI-Beschleunigung bei Deutscher Bank Bezahlen zumeist bargeldlos Verbraucherschutz-Podcast

Freitag: EU-Auflagen für US-Clouds, Robotaxi-Rückruf wegen Autobahnbaustellen
AWS und Azure als Gatekeeper + Robotaxi-Probleme mit Baustellen + KI-Beschleunigung bei Deutscher Bank + Bezahlen zumeist bargeldlos + Verbraucherschutz-Podcast

RE: https://sfba.social/@Sherifazuhur/117120669354080010
If you oppose the cold-blooded murder of poets, you’re antisemitic.

Sources: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick questioned ASML leaders on concerns China acquired one of its EUV machines, violating US-led export restrictions (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/us-tells-asm…

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For the electronic music enjoyers, "Sound Seven" off this is some delicious ambient acid.
https://welshmodularalliance.bandcamp.com/album/sa1-sa18

If you didn't bother to write the PR or code yourself, why should I bother reading your slop?

U.S. health advisers are debating a new kind of flu vaccine Thursday,
the first made with the same mRNA technologythat was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moderna is seeking Food and Drug Administration approval of its new shot, dubbed #mFlusiva,
as an option for people 50 and older.
The FDA advisory committee meeting is a step toward a final decision ahead of the winter flu se…

FDA panel considers a first-of-its-kind flu vaccine using mRNA technology
U.S. health advisers are debating a new kind of flu vaccine

The Discord Server to fill that xterm-sized hole in your spirit:
https://discord.gg/rgN3yzHg8G

Sources: about 200 companies accessing Mythos Preview through Project Glasswing have preserved their access despite a recent US government shutdown order (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/early-u…

"I think my high-school acting career lasted a day."
—Dennis Farina
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Buenos días, fediverso

Ich lasse es mal unbemerkt stehen:
«Angebliche China-Verbindungen von SK Telecom alarmierten US-Beamte und lösten Anthropic-Krise aus:
[…] Der südkoreanische Telekommunikationsriese SK Telecom erhielt Zugang zu #Mythos über Anthropics Partnerprogramm Project Glasswing. #US-Beamte waren alarmiert, wei…

Angebliche China-Verbindungen von SK Telecom alarmierten US-Beamte und lösten Anthropic-Krise aus
SK Telecom erhielt über Anthropics Partnerprogramm Project Glasswing Zugang zum KI-Modell Claude Mythos, bis das Weiße Haus intervenierte. US-Beamte sahen Verbindungen des südkoreanischen Konzerns zu China.

➡️ We Energies Cookie Book Archive
#bookmarks

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Open-Data-Experten: Offene Daten helfen Bürgern – und der Verwaltung selbst

Open-Data-Experten: Offene Daten helfen Bürgern – und der Verwaltung selbst
Für Open Data bei Behörden gibt es kaum Geld, obendrein drohen neue rechtliche Schranken. Doch aus Sicht von Experten sind offene Daten grade in Krisen wichtig.

Team #Zastrow will also ein langwieriges Planfeststellungsverfahren. Denn der Entwurf von FHECOR/TSSB wurde abgewählt, weil hier durch den zusätzlichen Pfeiler und die deutlich höhere Brücke (2,5 Meter höher als die Carola 2) ein hohes Risiko für ein PFV besteht.

Neue Carolabrücke Dresden: Begleitgremium stimmt gegen Bürgerfavoriten
Knappes 14:12 für LAP: Die Empfehlung für den Neubau der Carolabrücke Dresden steht. Doch vor der Stadtratsentscheidung droht politischer Streit.

Sources: Kimi developer Moonshot told investors it is preparing for a Hong Kong IPO in as early as six months; its ARR hit $300M in June, up from $200M in April (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-19/ch…

Not bad, not bad:
Uses some new Swift 6.2, 6.4 APIs:

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Gericht: Hausgemeinschaft muss Klimagerät erlauben
https://ww…

Gericht: Hausgemeinschaft muss Klimagerät erlauben
Darf ein Klimagerät auf den Balkon? Der Bundesgerichtshof hat entschieden: Eine Hausgemeinschaft muss den Einbau in der Regel gestatten.

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on a brand new (to us) piece of text, and learning who the character was even on the ice cold reading (never read before) was inspiring. Some roles are clear instantly from the start, some require we do more homework to start finding them.

Digitaler Autarkie-Score —Für digitale Souveränität: Wie unabhängig bist du digital?
Von deinem Betriebssystem bis zum Zahlungsverkehr: Dieser Score-Test bewertet deine digitale Infrastruktur in 8 Kategorien und zeigt dir, wo du noch Abhängigkeiten von US-Konzernen hast und was du konkret dagegen tun kannst.
🤔 https://www.digitale-autarki…

Digitaler Autarkie-Score | digitale-autarkie.de
Wie unabhängig bist du von Google, Apple, Microsoft und Co.? Miss deinen Grad an digitaler Unabhängigkeit – kostenlos, anonym, ohne Tracking.

I just learned about the Laguna Garzón Bridge in Uruguay and it's pretty cool!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna_Garzón_Bridge
(Also, one of my neighbors is from Uruguay so I'm sort of interested in learning more about it.)

Laguna Garzón Bridge - Wikipedia

For Donald Trump, it’s always personal.
And he leaves this week feeling betrayed.
First, the US supreme court rejected his effort to restrict mail-in ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
“These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court,”
the president wrote on his Truth Socialplatform. “They are merely a shell of their original selves.”
Then the Federal Reserve defied Trump by raising its benchmark interest rate by a quarte…

Trump’s authoritarian mindset can’t handle dissent from his appointees
Defiance from the supreme court and the Federal Reserve chair in one week ... how ever will the US president cope?

Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-consi…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Adieu Palantir: Berlin und Paris planen eigenes digitales Rückgrat

Adieu Palantir: Berlin und Paris planen eigenes digitales Rückgrat
Mit neuen KI-Sicherheitsinstituten und gemeinsamer Rüstungs-IT wollen Deutschland und Frankreich die Abhängigkeit von US-Technologie deutlich reduzieren.

"If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft."
—Philip Seymour Hoffman
#acting #coaching #inspiration

➡️ PawFed - Federated Animal Aid Map
#bookmarks

The 12th annual Fat Bear Week,
in which the public will vote for the fattest of Katmai’s brown bears
as mothers, cubs and males gather along the salmon-run at Brooks river in Alaska begins on Monday.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/s

Fat Bear Week has returned – and the salmon are swimming for their lives
The public will, for the 12th year in a row, vote for the fattest of brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai national park

Cerebras unveils CS-4, a server rack powered by three WSE-3 Turbo chips and built around its new Nexus architecture, with first shipments starting this quarter (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cerebra

Missing Link: Was ist eigentlich aus Cryptopartys geworden?
Cryptopartys waren die Antwort auf die Snowden-Enthüllungen. Doch was ist aus der Bewegung geworden und wie hat sich der Kampf für digitale Freiheit gewandelt?

Missing Link: Was ist eigentlich aus Cryptopartys geworden?
Cryptopartys waren die Antwort auf die Snowden-Enthüllungen. Doch was ist aus der Bewegung geworden und wie hat sich der Kampf für digitale Freiheit gewandelt?

Video footage of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tackling a man at the airport in Las Vegas drew public outrage and criticism from elected officials.
One video posted on social media showed a man yelling and crying on the ground in Terminal 3 at Harry Reid International Airport on Monday
when a man and a masked woman, both in plainclothes, tried to control, handcuff and detain him.
When the pair realized they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving the ma…

Immigration arrest at Las Vegas airport drew outrage
Video footage of ICE agents tackling a man at Las Vegas Airport has sparked public outrage and criticism from officials. The video shows a man on the ground Monday as two plainclothes agents try to detain him. When they noticed they were being filmed, they walked away, leaving him partially handcuffed. Las Vegas police identified the pair as ICE agents and found no warrants for the man. ICE later arrested Phu Nguyen, an Australian citizen who overstayed his visa, at Los Angeles Airport. Nevada …

„Wir sehen, dass Telemedizin inzwischen auch bei sehr alten Menschen ankommt“
Die Nutzung von Videosprechstunden wächst bei Senioren. TeleClinic-Chef Benedikt Luber spricht im Interview über Hürden, Technik und einen Datenschutzvorfall.

„Wir sehen, dass Telemedizin inzwischen auch bei sehr alten Menschen ankommt“
Die Nutzung von Videosprechstunden wächst bei Senioren. TeleClinic-Chef Benedikt Luber spricht im Interview über Hürden, Technik und einen Datenschutzvorfall.

Bericht: EU stuft AWS und Azure bald als Gatekeeper laut Digital Markets Act ein
Den US-Cloud-Diensten drohen höhere Auflagen der EU-Wettbewerbshüter. Die Untersuchung der EU nach dem Gesetz über digitale Märkte steht vor dem Abschluss.

Bericht: EU stuft AWS und Azure bald als Gatekeeper laut Digital Markets Act ein
Den US-Cloud-Diensten drohen höhere Auflagen der EU-Wettbewerbshüter. Die Untersuchung der EU nach dem Gesetz über digitale Märkte steht vor dem Abschluss.

Under new European Union rules, businesses must prioritise keeping unsold clothing or shoes in use by selling them (including through discounts or alternative markets), donating them to charities or social enterprises, or preparing them for reuse (repairing, refurbishing or remanufacturing).
Destruction will be allowed only under specified circumstances and must be carried out in accordance with the waste treatment hierarchy, giving priority to recycling

Ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
Under the new rules, businesses must prioritise keeping products in use by selling them or preparing them for reuse.

Internal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/flock-is-offering-voluntary-buyouts-to-employees/

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.

heise | Juristische Fallstricke in Cloud-Architekturen
Viele Sicherheitskonzepte setzen Cloud-Standorte mit Datensouveränität gleich. Doch oft ist der Rechtsrahmen des Anbieters entscheidend für den Datenschutz.
http…

Juristische Fallstricke in Cloud-Architekturen
Viele Sicherheitskonzepte setzen Cloud-Standorte mit Datensouveränität gleich. Doch oft ist der Rechtsrahmen des Anbieters entscheidend für den Datenschutz.

Nex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023 (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nex-playgrou

Nex Playground announces $150m in new funding as hardware sales pass one million
Subscriber base grows sevenfold in 18 months to nearly one million; former Niantic CFO Jeff Shouger and veteran gaming and technology executive Bing Gordon join

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Irland beabsichtigt Bau einer 600-MW-Energiespeicheranlage für 2 Milliarden Euro

Irland beabsichtigt Bau einer 600-MW-Energiespeicheranlage für 2 Milliarden Euro
Irland will überschüssige Energie aus Erneuerbaren Energien zu grünem Wasserstoff umwandeln. In Spitzenlastzeiten kann daraus wieder Strom produziert werden.

Anthropic adds support for the AGENTS.md instructions spec to Claude Code; OpenAI contributed AGENTS.md to the Agentic AI Foundation last year (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/…

Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec
Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache

„GTA 6“: Der Vorverkauf beginnt kommende Woche, die Marketingkampagne geht los
Der „meist erwartete Entertainment-Titel aller Zeiten“ kann ab der kommenden Woche vorbestellt werden. Rockstar Games hat jetzt auch das Cover vorgestellt.

„GTA 6“: Der Vorverkauf beginnt kommende Woche, die Marketingkampagne geht los
Der „meist erwartete Entertainment-Titel aller Zeiten“ kann ab der kommenden Woche vorbestellt werden. Rockstar Games hat jetzt auch das Cover vorgestellt.

Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surged 629% in early trading in its Shanghai debut on Wednesday, after raising ~$904M in its IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/unitree-robotics-se…

Rheinmetall-Chef plädiert für Regulierung von KI-Waffeneinsatz
Rheinmetall-Chef Armin Pappberger sieht die Notwendigkeit, dass keine KI final über einen Waffeneinsatz entscheiden darf. Regeln müssen global getroffen werden.

Rheinmetall-Chef plädiert für Regulierung von KI-Waffeneinsatz
Rheinmetall-Chef Armin Pappberger sieht die Notwendigkeit, dass keine KI final über einen Waffeneinsatz entscheiden darf. Regeln müssen global getroffen werden.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Satellitenaufnahmen: El Niño hat begonnen und wird immer stärker

Satellitenaufnahmen: El Niño hat begonnen und wird immer stärker
Das Klimaphänomen El Niño sorgt für besonders viele Wetterextreme und global für besonders warme Jahre. Ein womöglich besonders starker baut sich jetzt auf.

Rillet, which is developing an AI-native accounting platform, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Iconiq, bringing its total funding to $200M (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/18/rillet-unicorn-1-billi…

Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends
"Our message is not that we're coming after jobs," Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp told Fortune. "That's just not correct."

Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.

Indiens erste private entwickelte Trägerrakete gestartet
Mit der Vikram-1 betritt Indien als drittes Land die Bühne privater Starts von Trägerraketen. Was macht die Rakete und ihre Mission „Aagman“ so besonders?
h…

Indiens erste private entwickelte Trägerrakete gestartet
Mit der Vikram-1 betritt Indien als drittes Land die Bühne privater Starts von Trägerraketen. Was macht die Rakete und ihre Mission „Aagman“ so besonders?

Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/glm-5-3-hits-the-api-at-1-4-4-4-per-million-tokens

Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In (Mike Stone/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/pentagon-pre…

KI-Training und Urheberrecht: Heftiger Streit über Daten und Lizenzen
Eine EU-Konsultation legt Gräben zwischen Tech-Branche und Rechteinhabern beim KI-Training offen. Zwischen Extrempositionen keimen aber auch Kompromissansätze.

KI-Training und Urheberrecht: Heftiger Streit über Daten und Lizenzen
Eine EU-Konsultation legt Gräben zwischen Tech-Branche und Rechteinhabern beim KI-Training offen. Zwischen Extrempositionen keimen aber auch Kompromissansätze.

Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6c5650fb-969d-4d4e-80d6-8d11002a8cf7

FDM CCS Insight: ~134M travel eSIMs will be used in 2026, up from 101.8M in 2025, challenging established carriers that generate 3%-5% of revenue from roaming (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/64ede483-c179-42fa-8fd2-f13b13cbd8ad

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…

Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article

Alibaba targets Nvidia’s dominant software ecosystem with open-source AI stack
The firm’s chip unit T-Head aims to lower migration barriers to Zhenwu AI computing architectures, following similar initiatives by Huawei and Moore Threads.

Analysis finds 60 "jacket apps" on the App Store disguised as simple games and utilities that become gambling apps when accessed from Brazilian IP addresses (9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/investigation-re…

Investigation reveals dozens of disguised gambling apps on the App Store in Brazil - 9to5Mac
An investigation by 9to5Mac reveals dozens of apps that disguise gambling platforms as simple games and utilities. Here are the details.

A look at AI's potential impact on insurance-coverage decisions like prior authorization as the Trump admin starts to pilot using AI to evaluate Medicare claims (Joshua Cohen/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/will-ai-fix-prior-authoriza…

Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.

Analysis: OpenAI and Anthropic employees are donating to campaigns more heavily and cohesively than Google, Meta, and Airbnb employees did post-IPO (Alexandra Lindsay/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/07/18/ai-s-…

AI’s new political donor class is already outspending Big Tech’s last one
Campaign filings show AI employees donating faster, more heavily, and more in sync than three prior tech-IPO donor classes. Here’s where the money is going.

A profile of businessman Sebastian Rucci, whose past ventures were subject to legal probes, as he bids to build California's biggest data center, a $10B project (Zusha Elinson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Big US pizza delivery chains are struggling as apps such as DoorDash and Uber Eats give independent pizzerias and other restaurants greater market access (Haley Zimmerman/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d10e846e-5615-4cb5-bd4f-b159423d4f75

Sources: CIA operative Jonny Gannon spied on G42 to probe its China ties and helped the UAE gain expanded access to US AI chips by allaying US suspicions (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/cia-spy-united-arab-emirates-ai-49d90…

Appfigures: daily downloads of major VPN apps in India rose 49% on June 16 after India announced its Telegram ban; Proton and Turbo recorded largest increases (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/telegram-ban-in-india-sparks-a…

Telegram ban in India sparks a rush to VPNs, rival apps | TechCrunch
Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.

Sources: SpaceX plans to raise $20B in a bond sale as soon as next week; the funds would be used to pay back a $20B bridge loan taken out after the xAI merger (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8b73b4ce-3855-4b89-9110-3d892567f28a

Doc: SpaceX says the EU's plan to reserve satellite spectrum for European operators risks disrupting connectivity, including for emergency services in Ukraine (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0b012610-8132-4549-afd9-14bacd9db8cb

A US circuit court overturned an injunction against Ohio, allowing the state to implement a law forcing platforms to seek parental consent if a user is under-16 (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-court-rules-ohi…

A profile of Meta President Dina Powell McCormick, who has become one of Silicon Valley's top power brokers as she helps oversee Meta's AI infrastructure push (Financial Times)

The CFTC permanently bans Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from trading in markets it oversees as part of a settlement resolving its 2023 lawsuit against him (Jesse Coghlan/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/cftc-permanently-bans-celsius-mashinsky…

CFTC Settlement Bans Celsius Founder Mashinsky From Trading
Celsius founder and former CEO Alex Mashinsky agreed to a permanent trading and registration ban in a settlement with the CFTC.

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.

Sources detail how Google is using Nvidia's playbook to build an AI chip business, including providing $3.2B to fund a NY data center renting TPUs to Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/googl…

Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months
He rejoined the company in January after a stint as co-founder of Mira Murati’s competitor, Thinking Machines Lab.

Singapore-licensed dtcpay, which offers stablecoin payments across Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, and North America, raised a $25M Series A (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/09/18/sbi-group-backs-payments-firm-dtcp…

SBI Group backs payments firm dtcpay in $25 million funding round
Stablecoin payments company dtcpay completed a $25 million Series A funding round with a strategic investment from Japan’s SBI Group.

Prediction market political betting on insider info spreads in DC; sources: WH lawyers raised alarms over anonymous Polymarket bets on the Iran ceasefire timing (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/dc-government-prediction-m…