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German Scientific Advisory Board Urges Government to Support Alternative Proteins https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/german-scientific-advisory-board-urges-government-support-alternative-proteins/

German Scientific Advisory Board Urges Government to Support Alternative Proteins - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Germany's Scientific Advisory Board on Agricultural Policy, Food and Consumer Health Protection (WBAE) has published a report recommending more support for

Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries
https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060

I tried to convince #Claude Code #ai to write a #docker sandbox to run it in. Here are the results.

GitHub - cwensel/claude-sandbox: A docker sandbox for running Claude Code
A docker sandbox for running Claude Code. Contribute to cwensel/claude-sandbox development by creating an account on GitHub.

Sources: CoreWeave is in talks to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific, which has a market value of ~$3.7B; Core Scientific rejected CoreWeave's bid in 2024 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/coreweave-in-talks-to-bu…

#Python Friday #289: Record Audio With Sounddevice
https://pythonfriday.dev/2025/07/289-record-audio-with-sounddevice/

#289: Record Audio With Sounddevice - Python Friday
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Trump Reportedly Cuts Funding for Publisher of Prestigious Nature Journals and Scientific American Magazine
https://gizmodo.com/trump-reportedly-cuts-funding-for-publisher-of-prestigious-nature-journals-and-scientific-american-magazine-2000620234

Sources: Trump administration terminated millions in subscriptions for Springer Nature, after earlier accusing it of acting as a partisan in scientific debates (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/trump-cuts-contracts-scientific-publisher

Scoop: Trump admin cuts contracts with scientific publishing giant
The administration has questioned editorial practices and whether journals are partisans in scientific debates

The Next Phase of Scientific Fact-Checking: Advanced Evidence Retrieval from Complex Structured Academic Papers
Xingyu Deng, Xi Wang, Mark Stevenson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20844

The Next Phase of Scientific Fact-Checking: Advanced Evidence Retrieval from Complex Structured Academic Papers
Scientific fact-checking aims to determine the veracity of scientific claims by retrieving and analysing evidence from research literature. The problem is inherently more complex than general fact-checking since it must accommodate the evolving nature of scientific knowledge, the structural complexity of academic literature and the challenges posed by long-form, multimodal scientific expression. However, existing approaches focus on simplified versions of the problem based on small-scale datase…

Berlin-based Synthflow, a no-code service letting enterprises build and deploy customized voice AI customer service agents, raised a $20M Series A led by Accel (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/how-

How Synthflow AI is cutting through the noise in a loud AI voice category | TechCrunch
Synthflow AI was founded in 2023 and has amassed more than 1,000 customers and handled more than 45 million calls.

The AI Action Plan suggests Trump wants to inculcate a "try-first" culture through regulatory sandboxes for AI, which have already popped up in some US states (Aaron Mak/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digit