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Mehr Unfälle: Verkehrssicherheitsrat fordert Führerscheinpflicht für E-Scooter
Die Zahl der verunglückten Elektro-Tretroller-Fahrer ist 2025 in die Höhe geschnellt. Jetzt verlangt der Deutsche Verkehrssicherheitsrat strikte Konsequenzen.

Mehr Unfälle: Verkehrssicherheitsrat fordert Führerscheinpflicht für E-Scooter
Die Zahl der verunglückten Elektro-Tretroller-Fahrer ist 2025 in die Höhe geschnellt. Jetzt verlangt der Deutsche Verkehrssicherheitsrat strikte Konsequenzen.

you have big DONG energy

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116931281609412806
They’re trying to kill general purpose computing and the open web. Why? Because, in the words of Jack Ma, by way of Masayoshi Son, “whoever controls data, controls the world.”

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…

Do you even box? :blobcatstrong:

Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-prices-for-apple…

Apple raises prices for Apple Music and Apple One subscriptions - 9to5Mac
Apple has raised the price of Apple Music today in the United States and other countries. Starting today, Apple Music’s...

The first half of the summer was the hottest on record here in the central Netherlands (1901-2026)

Trump used his address to call out ABC and NBC
for not airing his live remarks,
claiming the networks declined to do so
“because they know how corrupt our system is and they don’t want to reveal it.”
He also repeated his frequent demand that the networks’ government-issued broadcast licenses be revoked.
“They and others in the media are part of a plot,”
the president said, offering no evidence for his claims.
In fact, ABC and NBC did carry Trump’s spe…

In Prime Time, Trump Criticizes Networks for Not Carrying His Speech
The president also called for ABC and NBC to lose their broadcast licenses, after complaining that the networks were not airing his remarks.

I just found this old SD card and was reminded how it came to be...
#DIY

SD Card Rescue Mission
Save an SD card by tearing it apart and transplanting it...

"A Purr-fect Library Program: From Seven Cats to 1,800 Votes"
https://uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2026/07/13/a-purr-fect-library-program/
"What happens when a group of cat-loving librarians starts wishing for a libra…

❝‘very good chance’ of deal to prevent Iran obtaining nuclear weapon ❞ ?!??
You already •had• that, you dubdershitting nincomturd
YOU ALREADY HAD THAT
and you THREW IT AWAY
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/may/18/us-israel-iran-lebanon-donald-trump-hormuz-oil-latest-news-updates

@… I may have been browsing https://personalsit.es/ 😅

For a country that loves its foie gras, France's goose certainly seems very cooked…

Google and Industry Partners Announce Agentic Resource #Discovery Specification for AI #Agents
https://www.infoq…

A-hu-hu
Shuffalo, 2m 21s
🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡
https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/07/17

Play Shuffalo: Friday, July 17, 2026
Play The New Yorker’s daily anagramming game by unscrambling the letters to make a word—but every time you do, an additional letter gets added to the set.

Ist Fleischhauer eigentlich schon der linkeste Unterstützer der ZDF-Intendanz?

"I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have to know where the lens is, what the shot is, and where you're moving. And then you have to trick yourself into an emotional state where you believe this stuff is actually happening."
—Julianne Moore
#acting

I was trying to enjoy my lunch at a place in Glasgow, but Dr Who kept staring at me!
#FensterFreitag

Every week, Metacurity offers our readers a selection of the top infosec-related long reads we couldn't do justice to amid the torrent of daily news.
This week's choices cover,
--How an audacious server heist exposed the fragility of digital infrastructure,
--WhatsApp has quietly become an essential service,
--The NHS fought to keep sensitive health data out of Palantir's hands,
--Thomson Reuters' ICE surveillance problem,
--Why AI slop thre…

Hidden systems, hidden risks: Best infosec long reads 7/18/26
How an audacious server heist exposed the fragility of digital infrastructure, WhatsApp has quietly become an essential service, The NHS fought to keep sensitive health data out of Palantir's hands, Thomson Reuters' ICE surveillance problem, Why AI slop threatens open-source software

Sing a pore? I mean, how do you do that, actually?

Automation bias

Nie wieder werde ich behaupten, dass die E-Mails, die die University of Edinburgh an ihre Alumni verschickt, nutzlos sind. Heute habe ich echt was daraus gelernt: automation bias.
Automation bias is the propensity for humans to favor suggestions from automated decision-making systems and to ignore contradictory information made without automation, even…

Spoiler alert

Wrote a little intro post to my Fisk AI project, why, who for etc
Local friendly, privacy friendly, strong guardrails, doing just what you give it the ability to do etc
Hopefully a AI Harness for sceptics or just for better outcomes for those tasks you wish to do repeatedly.
Minimal dependencies, quick to get going, easy to configure.
Also the easiest possible way to do build MCP servers for other AI Agents

Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-- good pick to endorse for your seat.
Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023!

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 1,427 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.02 %

Spending my day at the #IETF126 Hackathon, talking to people about the Open Fibre Data Standard, #OFDS, https//ofds.info/ a specification for describing the *physical* infrastructure of the #Internet. It&…

Toilet Sparkle: MLP themed bathroom cleaning product

heise | Altersvorsorgedepot: So funktioniert die neue Zusatzrente mit Förderung
Das Altersvorsorgedepot startet 2027 und soll die Rente aufbessern. Wir erklären die Förderung, für wen es sich lohnen kann und welche Nachteile es gibt.

Altersvorsorgedepot: So funktioniert die neue Zusatzrente mit Förderung
Das Altersvorsorgedepot startet 2027 und soll die Rente aufbessern. Wir erklären die Förderung, für wen es sich lohnen kann und welche Nachteile es gibt.

EVERY SPAGHETTI IS STRAIGHT UNTIL IT GETS WET

XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/colle…

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it. | TechCrunch
If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116771385669745583
This👇

A US district court judge says she'll issue a ruling by July 22 on state AGs' request for a temporary stay that would pause the Paramount-WBD merger (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-merger-lawsuit-12369968…

Judge Says She’ll Rule By Next Week On Emergency Motion In State AGs’ Challenge To Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger
The judge listed to about 80 minutes of oral arguments.

Those seeking to join Trump’s second administration had to pass a key litmus test:
Did they believe the 2020 election was stolen from Trump?
With like-minded allies now positioned in key roles throughout the government,
Trump has trained the full arsenal of the federal government on one of his most persistent obsessions:
sowing doubt about the security of the country’s election systems.
Major agencies such as the Justice Department, the F.B.I., the Homeland Secu…

Trump Brings Full Weight of Government to Bolster False Election Claims
Intelligence agencies provided the White House with a trove of declassified documents that President Trump cited on Thursday as evidence of election vulnerabilities.

#send-zeit in #münster. 😊

*sung as if Sublime’s Santeria*
♫ I don’t practice Trumporrhea
I don’t got explosive poops
But, if we had some public health
not just some stupid dupes
Then we could fine that Taylor
And then send their stock to hell
Well, I’d fed that bad CEO all the shit they sell ♫
#cyclospora

National Gallery of Scotland, stairwell.
#FensterFreitag

wtf?
"Washington has blocked the issuance of SSL security certificates for Fars News Agency's website, cutting the country's most visited news outlet off from browser-trusted encryption, the agency revealed on 17 July."
https://thecradle.co/articles/us-b…

US blocks SSL security certificates for Iran's Fars News Agency
The move is part of a western campaign to dominate the digital narrative and suppress dissenting voices

➡️ Social Web Foundation - tags.pub
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/
(This is a link from my bookmark collection. A new link gets posted each night.)

Introducing tags.pub
tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server — it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There’s lots of information …

Datev mahnt Firmen zu mehr Tempo vor E-Rechnungspflicht
Für bestimmte Unternehmen ist die Ausstellung von E-Rechnungen von 2027 an Pflicht. Ein führender IT-Dienstleister ist von der aktuellen Umsetzung ernüchtert.
…

Datev mahnt Firmen zu mehr Tempo vor E-Rechnungspflicht
Für bestimmte Unternehmen ist die Ausstellung von E-Rechnungen von 2027 an Pflicht. Ein führender IT-Dienstleister ist von der aktuellen Umsetzung ernüchtert.

vibe based politics spans across the entire spectrum

RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116772884088032488
Hmm, is this really bad news? They can’t go invading Greenland if they’re all suffering from preventable diseases. Go, Hegseth, I say! More of this, please. Ejection seats in planes are for snowflak…

Convey, which is building AI "teammates" to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/convey-raises-38-million-a16z-to-…

Convey raises $38 million from a16z to automate repetitive office work
Convey, a startup founded last year that builds AI "teammates," has raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz,.

Sinclair-owned TV stations affiliated with ABC and NBC aired Trump's speech about elections, using Sinclair's feed; Sinclair owns or operates 177 stations (Patrick Hipes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/sinclair-stations-carry-trump-speech-12369895…

Sinclair-Owned ABC And NBC Stations Preempt Networks To Carry Trump Primetime Speech
A number of ABC and NBC stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting ended up airing President Donald Trump's primetime speech on Thursday

Sergeant Damon Christopher Gutzwiller was a 14-year veteran of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office in California.
He was killed in the line of duty on June 6, 2020, during an ambush by an armed suspect in Ben Lomond, California.
On the day of his death, he and other deputies responded to a report of a suspicious van containing firearms and bomb-making materials.
When officers tracked the vehicle to a home, they were immediately ambushed with gunfire and improvised…

Suspect in sergeant's slaying now charged in killing of federal officer in Oakland: Officials
The man suspected of killing a Santa Cruz, California, sheriff's sergeant this month has now been charged in the May slaying of a federal officer in Oakland.

"Ebook Call Number Project: Automating Library of Congress Classification Numbers to Ebooks for Reporting" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8792
[DOI

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@Kennyfrog/116934696045616397
never lose hoop

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.

"Bitte sparen Sie Wasser!" – sagten die Behörden in Georgia zu den Anwohnern. Währenddessen schlürfte ein Rechenzentrum nebenan unbemerkt 110 Millionen Liter weg. 💧
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11290889?wt_mc=sm.red.h…

President Trump says ABC and NBC should have their licenses revoked for not carrying his speech, alleging they are part of a "plot" to continue election "fraud" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/trump-threatens-a…

Donald Trump Says ABC And NBC Should Lose Broadcast Licenses Because They Didn’t Carry His Primetime Address On Election Claims
The president gave a speech on election integrity, but networks cast a lot of skepticism over his claims

How the Trump administration shifted from a "light-touch" approach to AI policy to an interventionist stance that led to restrictions on top AI models in the US (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trumps-ai-agenda-collide…

Trump’s AI Agenda Collides With Reality
In January 2025, just three days after entering office for his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that revoked many of the Biden administration’s efforts on AI. The order was part of Trump’s promise to take a light-touch approach to AI regulation, rolling back what he ...

RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/116771204183851634
Looks like @…’s post hit Hacker News. (And that W reinstated their GitHub account? …

California joined 19 other states
on July 16 to take a swing at a Trump administration delay tactic
in approving onshore wind energy projects.
In light of California’s goal for its energy to be 100 percent carbon-free by 2045,
wind plays a large part.
On a hot and humid afternoon like this Friday’s, renewable energy is supplying 70 percent of the 34-gigawatt demand.
Wind makes up 11 percent of that carbon-free renewable energy.
Any project that uses…

California AG Seeks to Intervene in Lawsuit Against Trump Administration over Onshore Wind Projects
Projects nationwide are “frozen” while the Department of Defense conducts “further agency coordination,” said Attorney General Rob Bonta.

what ho am i?

Verbesserte Booster: Ariane 6 bringt 36 Amazon-Satelliten ins All
Die ESA hat die Ariane 6 mit neuen Boostern ausgestattet. So konnte die Rakete vier Satelliten mehr als zuvor ins All transportieren.
https:…

Verbesserte Booster: Ariane 6 bringt 36 Amazon-Satelliten ins All
Die ESA hat die Ariane 6 mit neuen Boostern ausgestattet. So konnte die Rakete vier Satelliten mehr als zuvor ins All transportieren.

Sources: OpenRouter has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value it at billions of dollars, a premium to its $1.3B valuation in May (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/startup-openroute…

Startup OpenRouter Fields Multi-Billion-Dollar Takeover Interest
OpenRouter, which helps app developers access hundreds of AI models, has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value the startup at billions of dollars, a steep premium to its $1.3 billion valuation, people familiar with the matter said. The discussions reflect a swell ...

Three little kids from our neighbourhood were selling bracelets (two girls, one boy, just to break any stereotypes) and now I have the coolest wrist (well, I think so anyway) ✨
#bracelets #bray #ireland

Axel Springer plans to confer the 2026 Axel Springer Award on Peter Thiel in a ceremony scheduled for September 24, with a tribute by CBS News EIC Bari Weiss (Axel Springer SE)
https://www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-release/peter-thiel-t…

Peter Thiel to Receive the 2026 Axel Springer Award 
Recognizing an entrepreneur, investor, and thought leader who has significantly shaped digital transformation

The declassified documents Trump just released to “prove” the 2020 election was “rigged”
actually show that Russia tried to interfere to hurt Biden and help Trump.
https://x.com/tvietor08/status/2077943979656851489?s=12&t=JIzXmAfBKPksn8uWZp4aaA

Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) on X
Trump released documents that confirm Russia tried to interfere in the 2020 election to hurt Biden. It says Russia tried to "orchestrate a high-profile corruption scandal" and push narratives about "voter fraud resulting from mail-in balloting"

Qwen-Robot Suite: Alibabas neue KI lässt Roboter simulieren, bevor sie handeln
Alibaba hat mit der Qwen-Robot Suite drei KI-Modelle für Roboter vorgestellt, die sich besser in der physischen Welt bewegen und Aufgaben erledigen können.

Qwen-Robot Suite: Alibabas neue KI lässt Roboter simulieren, bevor sie handeln
Alibaba hat mit der Qwen-Robot Suite drei KI-Modelle für Roboter vorgestellt, die sich besser in der physischen Welt bewegen und Aufgaben erledigen können.

Sources: SpaceX is in talks with the DOD about providing the agency with access to data-center capacity worth billions of dollars for running AI models (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/spacex-in-talk

A US Court of Appeals rules that the DOD's policy requiring government escorts for journalists working at the Pentagon could stand, a blow for the NYT's case (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Appeals court keeps Pentagon’s escort policy for journalists in place
A trio of judges sided with the government over the New York Times in a major press freedom case.

Hornsea 3: Erstes Fundament für 2,9-GW-Offshore-Windpark in Nordsee errichtet
Der Offshore-Windkraftwerks-Spezialist Cadeler hat ein erstes Monopile-Fundament für den entstehenden, wohl größten Einzel-Offshore Windpark errichtet.

Hornsea 3: Erstes Fundament für 2,9-GW-Offshore-Windpark in Nordsee errichtet
Der Offshore-Windkraftwerks-Spezialist Cadeler hat ein erstes Monopile-Fundament für den entstehenden, wohl größten Einzel-Offshore Windpark errichtet.

Maya glyphic texts from the Classic period (250–900 CE)
typically chronicle the exploits of historical or divine characters;
everyday or functional records are rare.
Here, the authors offer a reconstruction and transcription of a ‘microtext’
painted on an interior wall of Structure 10K-2 at the site of Xultun, Guatemala.
The text records a unique astronomical formula that concludes with a name,
attributing the work to an individual named Sak Tahn Waax …

The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician

Twenty, which uses AI to help US military hackers penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $100M Series B led by Accel at a $1B valuation (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/twenty-cybersecurity-hacks-accel-venture

Exclusive: Cyber warfare startup Twenty is now worth $1 billion
"We were founded to industrialize cyber warfare," CEO Joseph Lin says.

Messenger: Microsoft schickt den „Together Mode“ von Teams in den Ruhestand
Der in der Coronapandemie von Microsoft in Teams eingeführte „Together Mode“ erweckt den Eindruck, dass alle Teilnehmenden zusammensitzen. Nun wird er entfernt.

Messenger: Microsoft schickt den „Together Mode“ von Teams in den Ruhestand
Der in der Coronapandemie von Microsoft in Teams eingeführte „Together Mode“ erweckt den Eindruck, dass alle Teilnehmenden zusammensitzen. Nun wird er entfernt.

DHS announces plans to shorten visas for foreign journalists in the US from up to 5 years to 240 days and cut those for Chinese journalists to 90 days (Edward Helmore/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/trump-administrat…

Trump administration drastically cuts length of foreign journalist visas
Visas will be shortened to 240 days, down from five years, and Chinese journalists will be limited to 90 days

Many commentators have criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling
in Trump v. Slaughter
for dismantling protections that had historically insulated independent agencies from direct presidential control.
The decision allows the president to remove principal officers in almost any federal agency at will.
As critics had feared, within 10 days, Trump relied on the decision to remove the three remaining members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission,

Key Trump Deportation Strategies: Removing, Replacing, and Pressuring Immigration Judges
New data show mass firings, loyalist replacements, and pressure are turning U.S. immigration courts into a deportation enforcement arm.

Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, raised $20M and is coming out of beta; it claims to have 1M users (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/nauk-nauk-ai-video-toy-app-funding

Exclusive: Startup raises $20 million to bring toys to life
As free AI video tools get more limited, Nauk Nauk sees an opening for a niche app built around collectors.

„Subnautica 2“: Wunschlisten-Champion wird zum Steam-Bestseller
Wenige Tage nach dem Early-Access-Start zeichnet sich ein riesiger Erfolg für „Subnautica 2“ ab: Über 2 Millionen Mal wurde das Survival-Spiel schon verkauft.

„Subnautica 2“ wird innerhalb von 12 Stunden 2 Millionen Mal verkauft
Wenige Tage nach dem Early-Access-Start zeichnet sich ein riesiger Erfolg für „Subnautica 2“ ab: Über 2 Millionen Mal wurde das Survival-Spiel schon verkauft.

A look at chaos inside Anthropic after disabling Fable 5 and Mythos 5 with less than 90 minutes of notice, as some staff wonder if Trump is bullying them (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/technology/anthropic-trump-administration-fabl…

Anthropic Employees Accuse Trump Administration of Targeting Them
Workers at the artificial intelligence company have been puzzled and increasingly concerned by the administration’s move to limit their latest A.I. models.

Newsweek's publishing revenue is set to drop ~20% this year but it's on track for $100M in revenue due to its healthcare-focused DSP contributing 40% of revenue (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/newsweek-traffic-decline-revenue-rise-2026/

Newsweek’s Traffic Fell 75%. Its Revenue Is Rising Anyway.
The publisher is on pace to surpass $100 million in revenue, powered by ad-tech, a rankings business, and events

„Fortnite“-Spieler bekommen Vorschau von „The Mandalorian & Grogu“
„Fortnite“-Spieler dürfen am Dienstag zehn Minuten aus dem kommenden Kinofilm „The Mandalorian & Grogu“ schauen. Zudem gibt es drei neue „Star Wars“-Spielmodi.

„Fortnite“-Spieler bekommen Vorschau von „The Mandalorian & Grogu“
„Fortnite“-Spieler dürfen am Dienstag zehn Minuten aus dem kommenden Kinofilm „The Mandalorian & Grogu“ schauen. Zudem gibt es drei neue „Star Wars“-Spielmodi.

Sources: Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to shape AI rules and standards at a closed-door meeting at the G7 summit on Wednesday (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/17/anthropic-amodei-google-hassabis-us-…

CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind call for U.S.-led AI coalition in meeting at G7
Tech leaders and heads of state, including President Donald Trump, joined a meeting about AI standards at the G7 Summit.

Playboy has relaunched a print edition with a "respectful and modern" take on nudity; in 2025, its parent company had a $12.7M net loss on $120.9M in revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/playb…

Playboy magazine is back - with 'respectful and modern' take on female nudity
Playboy has been revived with a new team, quarterly print magazine and digital subscriptions strategy to back up its licensing business.

Databricks says annualized revenue rose 80% YoY to $6.9B, up from $5.4B in Q4; CEO Ali Ghodsi says higher AI agent usage is increasing costs, lowering margins (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/databricks-revenue-g…

Databricks sales growth tops 80%, but margin are shrinking from swarm of AI agents
Databricks is seeing higher growth as AI agents assist with data analysis, but all that activity is significantly increasing costs.

Uber plans to expands its premium robotaxi service from SF to Houston by mid-2027, in partnership with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle startup Nuro (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/uber-will-bring-its-prem…

Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027 | TechCrunch
This will be the second market to have an Uber robotaxi service outfitted with Lucid EVs equipped with a self-driving system from Nuro.

WordPress survey: 60% of US consumers say "AI" in a brand's messaging is a turnoff, 86% always or sometimes check the original source after seeing an AI summary (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/sixt

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds | TechCrunch
WordPress VIP’s latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view AI search as an important referral channel.

Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/pram

Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI | TechCrunch
Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.

Sources: Trump officials discussed ways to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick favoring a sovereign wealth fund (Eleanor Mueller/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/17/2026/trump-advisers…

Exclusive: Trump advisers weigh structure of AI stakes
Two Cabinet members preferred different ideas ahead of the government’s latest Anthropic clash, people familiar with the talks told Semafor.

Conduct, which uses AI to let companies maintain, change, and modernize their legacy IT systems, raised a $60M Series A, bringing its total funding to $72M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/06/17/conduct-en…

Exclusive: Conduct raises $60M to make software better
Index Ventures and ICONIQ led the round which will help Conduct move into the U.S.

Andera, which uses AI to automate corporate audit and compliance testing, raised a $37M Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/06/17/andera-37m-ai-audit-lightspeed

Exclusive: Andera raises $37M to automate audit work
Audit remains a costly, manual back-office function.

Epic says Unreal Engine 6, planned for early access in late 2027, will unify UE5 and Unreal Editor for Fortnite, add integrations with Claude and Gemini, more (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news…

Epic reveals Unreal Engine 6 is integrating AI models so developers can ‘reduce tedious work’
Epic claims UE6 is "going to change a lot about how games are made"

Studies: Mira, an AI medical tool developed by researchers in Germany, and Google's Amie matched or surpassed doctors on diagnostic and treatment decisions (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

Estonia says it plans to assign personal ID numbers to AI assistants to give them legal rights and hold them accountable for their actions (Ott Tammik/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-17/estonia-to-gr…

Kazakhstan signs accords with Firebird on Nvidia-related computing projects that could bring up to $10B in investment, as it seeks to build a Data Center Valley (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-15/ka…

Nasdaq Private Market sues Hiive, claiming Hiive stole trade secrets and infringed on its IP, poaching two employees in part to access confidential information (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

A look at Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token, which launched in January and currently has a market value of ~$1M, as other states explore "white labeling" the tech (David Voreacos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/…

EigenQ, which makes cybersecurity systems to protect from future attacks by quantum computers, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $3B valuation (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/quantum-tech-firm-eigenq-go-pu…

The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…

The US government awards $500M under the CHIPS Act to SandboxAQ to use AI to develop new chemicals and materials for domestic semiconductor manufacturing (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-awar

Shoe company Allbirds changes its name to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names ex-AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as CEO; BIRD jumps 20% (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

A newly discovered data leak has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs across 194 countries (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Joshua Baer, the founder and CEO of Texas accelerator Capital Factory, died on Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas (Ryan Merket/RuntimeWire)
https://runtimewire.com/article/joshua-baer-capital-factory-founder-dies-laredo-plane-cr…

Joshua Baer, Capital Factory founder, dies in Laredo plane crash
Joshua Baer, founder and CEO of Capital Factory, died in a Laredo plane crash, KXAN reported. He was a central figure in Austin and Texas startup investing.

Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/comand-ai-raises-e32m-for-…

Comand AI raises €32M for its C2 software, adds Saab as a strategic backer
Europe is betting big on artificial intelligence playing a significant role in how defence will be planned and executed in

Q&A with Luciana Lixandru, who co-leads Sequoia's global early-stage investment business, on why it is time for "act two" for Europe's tech sector, AI, and more (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6f1ede29-f92b-4210-9ff0-c6dc9efa729…

Trace Finance, which provides stablecoin settlement infrastructure for cross-border payments across Latin America, raised a $32M Series A led by CoinFund (Yohan Yunstaff/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/trace-finance-cross-border-stablec…

Coinfund Leads $32M Round in Stablecoin Infrastructure Firm Trace Finance
Trace Finance plans to expand its stablecoin settlement infrastructure as policymakers and payment firms increase their focus on cross-border digital asset transfers.

Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/951147/ go

Google’s first smart speaker in six years arrives next week
The Google Home Speaker is designed for Gemini for Home and its more conversational smart home assistant.

UK says reports that Prime Minister Keir Starmer sought a carve-out to US export controls imposed on Mythos 5 are "categorically untrue" (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-uk-anthropic-ai-export-controls-denial/

UK denies seeking carve-out to Anthropic AI restrictions
The U.K. says it has not requested a carve-out from U.S. AI export controls, opting for engagement while concerns over digital sovereignty grow across Europe.

OpenAI's CSO Jason Kwon messaged staff that the company "strongly" told the US government that building AI "requires the best talent from around the world" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic Ban Stirs Concerns at OpenAI and Beyond of Crackdown on Foreign AI Talent
The U.S. government’s latest battle with Anthropic has revived long-simmering concerns throughout the AI industry that the White House has placed a bullseye on their reliance on foreign AI talent. The Trump administration appears to have targeted only Anthropic so far, warning the company on ...

Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/234c9aeb-33aa-469e-844d-f721e81296cf