email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps
Appfigures: AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/ai-companion-apps-on-track-to-pull-in-120m-in-…
🪝 Researchers develop hook-and-loop fastener for building components
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xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, who led its engineering teams, says he is leaving the company to launch a venture firm that supports AI research and startups (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/co-founder-of-elon-musks-xai-departs-t…
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
A look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI (Samantha Stokes/Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/new
Opendoor's new chairman Keith Rabois says "I don't know what most" of its 1400 employees do and the company doesn't need "more than 200 of them" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/opendoors-
California SB 243, which would mandate safety protocols for AI companion chatbots, has passed the State Assembly and Senate and now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/a-ca
Squint, which uses AI and AR to modernize manufacturing processes, raised a $40M Series B led by The Westly Group and TCV at a $265M valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/12/exclusi…