
2025-07-10 15:45:56
Foundation EGI, an "engineering general intelligence" startup that builds custom LLMs for engineering tasks, raised a $23M Series A led by Translink Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/10/fo
Foundation EGI, an "engineering general intelligence" startup that builds custom LLMs for engineering tasks, raised a $23M Series A led by Translink Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/10/fo
Vier Billionen US-Dollar: Nvidia kommt Microsoft und Apple zuvor
Nvidia schreibt am 9. Juli 2025 Geschichte. Erstmals ist ein Unternehmen an der Börse mehr als vier Billionen US-Dollar wert.
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SBU officer shot dead in Kyiv, investigation underway: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/sbu-officer-shot-dead-in.html
“The users who choose Cursor are hardcore vibe addicts. They are tech incompetents who somehow BSed their way into a developer job. They cannot code without a vibe coding bot.”
I see no lie.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/09/cursor-t…
This is crazy.
At U.S. request, France jails Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin on suspicion of ransomware conspiracy
https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/10/at-u-s-request-france-jails-…
If we just not talk about bad things, they surely don’t exist!
https://thebulletin.org/2025/07/ai-for-good-with-caveats-how-a-keynote-speaker-was-censored-during-an-international-artificial-intelligence-summit/#post-heading
I started writing about some code I worked on but it turned into an anti-AI rant and also covers punk rock.
#noAI
The Internet Watch Foundation identified 1,286 AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse so far in 2025 globally, up from just two in the first half of 2024 (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/technology/ai-csam-child-sexu…
Zelensky arrives at Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/zelensky-arrives-at-ukraine-recovery.html
Something I've seen over and over, the constant claim of right-wing politicians that they're "just joking" about killing people put into better words than I could:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/right-progressive-societies-joke-glastonbury-starve-benefit-rod-liddle-lewis-schaffer
Also fascism. But, yeah. https://girlcock.club/@maeve/114831433696151877
Google adds an image-to-video generation feature to Veo 3 in its Gemini app, says users created 40M videos with Veo 3 since its May launch (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/google-adds-image-to-video-generation-…
Lukashenko regime designates exiled Belarusian opposition body as 'terrorist organization': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/lukashenko-regime-designates-exiled-belarusian.html
Agora, which offers a white-labeling service to let other companies launch their own, self-branded versions of its stablecoin, AUSD, raised a $50M Series A (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/10/exclu…
Ukraine's largest battery energy storage project enters final testing phase, set to power 600,000 homes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/ukraines-largest-battery-energy-storage.html
Belkin announces it is ending support for its Wemo devices and app on January 31, 2026; a limited number of devices will continue to function via HomeKit (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/10/belkin-wemo-smart-home-shutdown-list/
Intels Chef sieht Intel nicht mehr unter den Top 10 Chipfirmen
In einer internen Videobotschaft bezeichnete Intel-CEO Lip-Bu Tan die Firmenwende als Marathon. Intel müsse demütig sein.
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'If someone doesn't like it, we'll close it' — Poland's Duda calls out Ukraine, allies over attitudes toward key military aid hub: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/if-someone-doesnt-like-it.html
LGND, which uses vector embeddings to analyze geospatial data and has an enterprise app to query it, raised a $9M seed led by Javelin Venture Partners (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/lgnd-wants-to-make-chatgpt-for-the-earth/
EU aims to mobilize up to $12 billion for Ukraine's recovery under new agreements: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/eu-aims-to-mobilize-up.html
YouTube will remove its Trending page and Trending Now list in favor of category-specific charts, says it better aligns with the way content is discovered now (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/youtube-is…
'You think the end has come' — as Russian attacks on Ukraine escalate, Kyiv grapples with terrifying new normal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/you-think-the-end-has.html
Während Microsoft tausende Mitarbeiter entlässt, feiert das Unternehmen gleichzeitig enorme Einsparungen durch Künstliche Intelligenz. 🤖 Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff verkündete stolz, dass allein in den Call Centern über 500 Millionen Dollar weniger Kosten als im Vorjahreszeitraum anfielen.
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Sources: AWS is launching a marketplace for AI agents, with Anthropic as one of its partners, at the AWS Summit in NYC next week (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/aws-is-launching-an-ai-ag…
War nightmares.: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/war-nightmares.html
Memo: Indeed and Glassdoor, both owned by Recruit, will cut ~1,300 US jobs amid an AI-focused consolidation; Glassdoor's operations will be merged into Indeed (Brunella Tipismana Urbano/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Russia losing ground in the oil market: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/russia-losing-ground-in-the.html
heise | Entspannt surfen: Zen-Browser vereint Arc und Firefox
Zen ist ein quelloffener Browser, der von Firefox abstammt und sich von Arc inspirieren ließ. Was macht Zen besser als die starken Konkurrenten?
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What Russian bombardment feels like in Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/what-russian-bombardment-feels-like.html
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act mandates all new US border surveillance towers are "autonomous", effectively granting Anduril a monopoly on new contracts (Sam Biddle/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/09/trump-big-beautiful-bill-…
Oil wars: OPEC, Saudi Arabia & global energy security: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/oil-wars-opec-saudi-arabia.html
Google launches its AI-powered ad tools in India; the country repealing its so-called "Google Tax" boosts its appeal to global tech companies selling online ads (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/goog
Ukraine, UK pen deal for Thales air defense missile supply: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/ukraine-uk-pen-deal-for.html
Virtru, which offers data security services to clients like the US DOD and Salesforce, raised a $50M Series D led by Iconiq Capital at a $500M valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/11/exclusi
Germany ready to buy US Patriot systems for Ukraine, Merz says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/germany-ready-to-buy-us.html
A researcher says 245 extensions on nearly 1M devices are overriding security protections to turn browsers into engines that scrape websites for a paid service (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/
Datenschutz: Psychologen gegen geplante Weitergabe sensibler Daten an Behörden
Erste Bundesländer wie Hessen planen die Weitergabe sensibler Patientendaten. Experten warnen vor Stigmatisierung und Vertrauensverlust.
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Ukrainians grapple with how to memorialize a war still being fought: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/ukrainians-grapple-with-how-to.html
Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/grok
Profitable partnership – how China supports Russia’s military machine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/profitable-partnership-how-china-supports.html
Amazon expands its Now service in India to New Delhi, offering deliveries in as little as 10 minutes, after launching the service in Bengaluru in December 2024 (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
EU unveils $700 million Ukraine support package for energy and infrastructure: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/eu-unveils-million-ukraine-support.html
Tel Aviv- and NYC-based Datafy, which offers an autonomous cloud storage optimization service, raised a $20M seed led by Bessemer Venture Partners (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/10/datafy-…
Zelensky considers Defense Minister Rustem Umerov for ambassador post in US: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/zelensky-considers-defense-minister-rustem.html
Mark Zuckerberg's hiring blitz for top AI talent is spurring other leading AI scientists to join Meta in the race to build "superintelligent" AI (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles
Trump administration immigration policies leave Ukrainian refugees in limbo: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/trump-administration-immigration-policies-leave.html
The EU publishes a voluntary code of practice to help companies follow its AI Act, including requiring developers to provide up-to-date AI feature documentation (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Rubio, Lavrov meet in Malaysia as European leaders gather for Ukraine Recovery Conference in Italy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/rubio-lavrov-meet-in-malaysia.html
Rubio discusses 'new approach' to ending Russian war in talks with Lavrov despite US 'frustration': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/rubio-discusses-new-approach-to.html
Pro-Ukraine partisans sabotage railways in Russia's Volgograd, occupied Crimea, group claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/proukraine-partisans-sabotage-railways-in.html
Harmonic, a startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev that aims to build AI better at math than humans, raised a $100M Series B at a $875M valuation (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Russia's summer offensive becomes its costliest campaign during Ukraine invasion, Economist reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/russias-summer-offensive-becomes-its.html
Florida AG's office launches an investigation into Robinhood for "falsely promoting" its trading platform as the "least expensive way to purchase crypto" (Kirk Ogunrinde/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Europas erster HPC-ARM-Prozessor landet bei TSMC
SiPearl hat das Design seines 80-Kerners Rhea1 fertiggestellt und an den Chipauftragsfertiger TSMC geschickt. Ein Supercomputer wartet schon.
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After years of relative calm, a western Ukrainian city comes to terms with being in Russia's crosshairs: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/after-years-of-relative-calm.html
Nvidia's rise after ChatGPT's release is reminiscent of dot-com era titans like Cisco and Juniper; Cisco's share price grew over 1000x between 1990 and 2000 (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.ny…
EU suspends Ukrainian language interpreter for suspected espionage on Zelensky for Russia, Le Monde reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/eu-suspends-ukrainian-language-interpreter.html
First-ever catalog on Ukraine's battlefield-proven drones, technologies, published by KI Insights and Tech Force in UA: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/firstever-catalog-on-ukraines-battlefieldproven.html
Justin Sun says he is buying another $100M worth of $TRUMP, doubling his total known stake of digital coins tied to President Trump (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/trons-justin-sun-100-million-trump-memecoin.html…
Pure TERRORISM! Zelenskyy comments on night ATTACK in Kyiv #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/pure-terrorism-zelenskyy-comments-on.html
Ukraine war latest: Rubio discusses 'new approach' to ending war in talks with Lavrov as Russia launches new mass attack on Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/ukraine-war-latest-rubio-discusses.html
The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/the-day-i-first-heard.html
Zelenskyy: We’ve found the key to stopping drones: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/zelenskyy-weve-found-the-key.html
Ukrainian tech gets $58.5 million boost from global backers: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/ukrainian-tech-gets-million-boost.html
For the first time in history! Ukrainian robots DESTROY Russian military positions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/for-the-first-time-in.html
Warn-App NINA schickt nun auch Polizei-Meldungen
Die Notfall-App des Bundes namens Nina warnt derzeit vor allem vor extremen Unwettern und anderen drohenden Naturkatastrophen. Nun wird ihre Funktion erweitert.
https://www.…
Saving lives even without equipment – first aid instructor in Ukraine | The Committed: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/saving-lives-even-without-equipment.html
GrapheneOS veröffentlicht Android 16 im Stable-Kanal
Das datensparsame GrapheneOS steht als Stable-Version auf Basis von Android 16 zur Installation für Pixel-Geräte bereit. Einfach hatten es die Entwickler nicht.
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Trump to send weapons to Ukraine for first time via presidential power, sources tell Reuters: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/trump-to-send-weapons-to.html
Ukrainian drones and robots forced Russians to surrender - for the first time in history!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/ukrainian-drones-and-robots-forced.html
Russian operation in Sumy region FAILED! Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully stopped the enemy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/russian-operation-in-sumy-region.html
'Coalition of the willing' moves to finalize command structure for future reassurance force in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/coalition-of-the-willing-moves.html