Tootfinder

Apple raises iPhone prices in Japan by up to 11%, likely due to the Japanese yen's depreciation against the US dollar over the past year (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-iphone-prices-in-japan/

Apple Raises iPhone Prices in Japan
After raising prices on all Macs and iPads worldwide last month, Apple has now increased the price of iPhone models in Japan. As spotted by the...

Some rides are worse than others…
#BikeTooter

Cyclist bitten by brown snake caught in her bike chain
The woman, in her 60s, was riding on a northern NSW rail trail when she ran over a two-metre snake that became trapped then bit her.  

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bms48/116935319839522391
He also doesn’t know who the Luddites were and why they rebelled.

So the upcoming NPM publish token changes are a potential lock-out scenario for people who're not using CI-based "Trusted Publishing" (TP) and cannot switch to "Staged Publishing" (SP) for reasons of practicality or feasibility.
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-

npm install-time security and GAT bypass2fa deprecation - GitHub Changelog
npm v12 is now generally available and tagged latest. This major release turns on the install-time security defaults we announced in June, and it’s also where we begin a deprecation…

🚨new publication alert🚨
Some types of El Niño lead to more melt over the Ross Ice Shelf in #Antarctica.
In our paper led by PhD student Sanjiban Dutta, we look at the synoptic relationship where Eastern Pacific El Niños channel warm moist air over the Ross Ice Shelf. One to watch with the current #ElNino building..
#ClimateDiary https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JD045932

Analfabetismo ilustrado: por qué los universitarios ya no pueden leer textos complejos y el colapso de la comprensión de lectura en Chile
https://www.theclinic.cl/2026/07/18/analfa

Get rid of meta!
https://mukis.de/2026/07/17/meta-sind-wir-egal/

this is the funniest shit ever, the guy scammed people for 300.000.000 USD and didn't talk to his lawyers before giving an interview with the news. pure comedy.
https://youtu.be/kmJtk73Tf6g

Holy shit, this video. Bravery!
https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/07/17/officer-rips-off-car-door-handle-smashes-window-to-save-driver-from-burning-vehicle/

Vielleicht hilft das auch, bevor ihr eine Verbindung bucht https://bahnhoroskop.ggor.de/?t=2026-06-17T17:31:25.015Z&d=20

See at least two #Accordion acts at the #VancouverFolkFestival this weekend ❤️‍🔥🪗
Yagódy is five women from #Ukraine 🇺🇦
La Déferlance are a hot trad band from Quebec City 🎻 …

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-07-15: Le Déferlance and Yagódy at the Folk Fest
The latest episode of CFRO’s weekly alt-squeezebox Accordion Noir broadcast shines the spotlight on accordionic performances coming up at this year’s installment of the long-running Van…

This has been a bad week for beverage and grocery-related cyberattacks.
Coca-Cola Suspends US Fairlife Operations After Cyberattack
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/coca-cola-suspends-us-fairlife-operations…

Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez dropped out of the Wisconsin Democratic governor primary Friday,
citing her campaign’s mishandling of financial reports.
Her departure from the race is a blow to the state’s more establishment wing,
leaving two progressives
— former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes
and state lawmaker Francesca Hong
— as the leading Democratic candidates in the battleground state

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

@… たぶん特定の投稿の表示でひっかかってるね。調べてみます。

50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead at the orpheum in san francisco, their 5th of 6 nights, with one of my go-to ’76 sequences. no donna in the 2nd set.
now on “dave’s picks 18” with lively piano mix: https://youtu.be/K0-YN5ENfZ4
menke audience tape:

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

We can breathe easy, for there is absolutely nothing to worry about.
#USpol

Nothing to Worry About
The 15 protestors arrested by the federal government in Minneapolis this week are, according to the Justice Department’s own account of things, responsible for denting a government F-150 (by kicking it), and tipping a trailer (said to be owned by the accused) onto its side. Kicked a car

"Only 13% of biodiversity promises from 180 influential companies pass accountability test"
#Biodiversity #Business

Only 13% of biodiversity promises from 180 influential companies pass accountability test
New research by the University of Oxford and the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University has revealed that most biodiversity commitments made by large, influential companies are not precise enough to enable society to evaluate whether they are making progress toward meeting their commitments. The results have been published in One Earth.

In #Banda in #Indien prägen Temperaturen bis 48,2 Grad den Alltag.
Häufige #Stromausfälle, überlastete

So fühlt sich das Leben in einer der heißesten Städte der Welt an
Bewohner in einigen der heißesten Regionen der Erde berichten, wie die durch fossile Brennstoffe angeheizte Hitze ihren Alltag zur Qual macht.

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

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.

Sowas kann man sich nicht ausdenken: Axel Springer Award an Peter Thiel:
"Beobachter vermuten, dass Thiels politische Ansichten sogar noch radikaler sind als die der aktuellen US-Regierung."
"Bereits 2009 schrieb er, dass er nicht mehr daran glaube, dass Freiheit und Demokratie miteinander vereinbar seien."
"Aus Sicht des Springer-Konzerns ist Palantir jedoch »eines der wertvollsten und für die Resilienz von Demokratien wichtigsten Unternehmen unser…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@monoxyd/116939826149084546
Der Teil zur Langzeitarchivierung ab 02:26 (

Human-machine learning boosts noninvasive brain-computer control in untrained users https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-human-machine-boosts-noninvasive-brain.html "working on noninvasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to develop technology that is…

SURF geeft onderwijs- en onderzoekssector positief privacyadvies over Nextcloud.
https://tweakers.net/nieuws/250140/surf-geeft-onderwijs-en-onderzoekssector-positief-privacyadvies-over-nextcloud.html

SURF geeft onderwijs- en onderzoekssector positief privacyadvies over Nextcloud
SURF geeft een positief advies voor het gebruik van Nextcloud door de onderwijs- en onderzoekssector. Het samenwerkingsverband had wel risico's, maar die zijn met een aangepaste overeenkomst opgelost of zijn niet heel groot.

Hot take: DKIM signatures with ed25519 are largely useless🔥🔑
I know what you're thinking. RSA is bad. You read that blogpost with the "f" word. (It's not good.) This isn't about ed25519 vs. RSA, but about how DKIM works
Here's the problem: if you introduce a new crypto algorithm into a protocol, you need to know if the other side" supports it. But in DKIM, you don't. You're sending e-mails to arbitrary receivers. DKIM has no mechanism to tel…

Oops, that's a really nice screwup: bad NTP server taking down a large chunk of .au's phone network.
I guess NTP servers should probably have a 'before the release of this software' check in.
https://www.theregister.com/…

NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage
Telstra skipped a patch, didn’t record changes, had no idea it was an accident waiting to happen

Die AntifAnstalt außer der Reihe schon am Samstag in der Mediathek:
https://www.zdf.de/play/shows/die-anstalt-104/die-anstalt-vom-21-juli-2026-100
Bin sehr gespannt, wie die drei die Ausladung von

Die AntifAnstalt 100
Jubiläum in der Anstalt – In der 100. Folge dabei sind: Christian Tramitz, Lutz van der Horst, Gisa Flake, Julia Gámez Martin und Die Sterne.

Awesome if true.

Preparem-se para novas crises financeiras parecidas com a do subprime, que estes idiotas não aprenderam rigorosamente nada.
https://expresso.pt/economia/sistema-bancario/2026-07-17-maria-luis-albuquerque-prep…

#KeineAngst von Danger Dan triggert Artikel 20 Absatz 4 unseres Grundgesetzes - und damit die Machtfrage. Dort haben wir in die Verfassung geschrieben:
»…wenn andere Abhilfe nicht möglich ist.«
Er stellt damit in Frage, dass Parlamente und Regierungen noch fähig sind, die ihnen gegebene Macht zu nutzen, um Deutschland, um die Bevölkerung vor dem drohenden Faschismus von innen und den…

NFL over/under win totals: Predictions and best bets for all 32 teams in 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7450525/2026/07/17/nfl-win-totals-bets-predictions-2026/

Excellent from @… on the threats to our world from the #ClimateEnergency
The Rest Is Politics: The Secret Security Threat The Government Don’t Want Us To Know
Episode webpage:

It took me a while to get this one...

from my link log —
Earth rotation records spur October vote to avert negative leap second.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320185/20260711/earth-rotation-records-spur-october-vote-avert-negative-leap-second.h…

Earth Rotation Records Spur October Vote to Avert Negative Leap Second
Negative leap second risk is driving an October 2026 CGPM vote to replace the 54-year-old leap second with a leap hour. Earth set rotation speed records in 2024 and 2025, and timekeepers estimate a...

How has the Museum Data Service helped Art UK break new records? Through the MDS, record and image ingestion is now at least 20 times faster than at any other time during @artukdotorg.bsky.social 's history.
David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social explains in https://museumdata.uk/blog/h…

How has the MDS helped Art UK break new records? - Museum Data Service
How did the Museum Data Service help Art UK set new records? Through the MDS, record and image ingestion is now at least 20 times faster than at any other time during Art UK’s history.

Say hello to The Hamster, one of The Mansion's smallest and cutes residents. In 'Management Apologises For The Inconvenience', the hamster has a lot to do, confetti to gather, cookies to nibble, and pockets to sleep in. Even the management acknowledges his important work in The Mansion. And soon, you'll be able to follow the chubby little rodent on new adventures and mishaps! #thementalmansion

This is serious - I've seen the progress we've made in women's healthcare rights in my lifetime and I know we can't afford to go backwards.
The threat to abortion in Australia and what’s at stake.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1458/ana

The threat to abortion in Australia and what’s at stake
Attempts by conservative forces to whittle back abortion rights in NSW, South Australia and Queensland have all been defeated for now. Kamala Emanuel looks at what’s behind these efforts and what is at stake.

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

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!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@timberwraith/116924871812280472
"describe your favorite movie as boring as possible."
The Soviets lose a boat. The Americans help them look for it.

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...

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

Just randomly stumbled onto a web site that gave a shout out to Bigtext 🤯 https://github.com/zachleat/BigText
https://hiphopquoted.com/about/

I think I'm lazy today.. 🤔

National Gallery of Scotland, stairwell.
#FensterFreitag

Monday's killing in Biddeford Maine
—at least the 11th that agents of the nation's anti-immigrant death squads have committed in the U.S. since the start of Donald Trump's crackdown
—has been met with public outrage,
but nothing indicates that the federal government thinks anything went wrong at all.
As is its custom, ICE told lies about its victim, calling Duršn Guerrero an "illegal alien" in its statement
and suggesting that agents slaught…

ICE Brings The Occupation Home | Defector
On Monday, in the city of Biddeford, Maine, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in an SUV rammed the passenger side of a civilian vehicle and, after the vehicle stopped, approached it with their guns drawn. The driver reportedly was 26-year-old Colombian national Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, who was not the target of the…

Another #ThingUmbrella release cycle this AM:

• fixed yesterday's https://thi.ng/geom-io-obj stream parser update to also support

Wavefront OBJ parser (& exporter soon)

Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/technology/meta-anthropic-ai-computing-power.html

Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
A deal would underline how scarce computing power is for artificial intelligence development, and could create a new business for Meta.

Vielleicht will ich aber die Freiheit haben, nicht dauernd von diesen Produkten bombardiert zu werden?
https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/plakatwerbeverbote-wenn-die-freiheit-zur-ausnahme-wird-ld.10011602

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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

Trump's speech was a "nothing burger" and everybody recognised it as such...
#Trump

Audiovisual stimulation using wearable shutter glasses robustly evokes 40 Hz neuronal activity but does not modulate associative memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.09.737418v1

Audiovisual stimulation using wearable shutter glasses robustly evokes 40 Hz neuronal activity but does not modulate associative memory
Audiovisual stimulation is a promising approach for studying and modulating human neuronal gamma (>30 Hz) oscillations and associated memory processes. Portable setups can increase ecological validity and therapeutic potential, but options remain limited. See-through shutter glasses are a new mobile technology that adds a visual flicker effect to what the user naturally sees. Here, we validated this method in a multisensory, cognitively relevant setting. We leveraged a previous experimental des…

Eight days out from breaking my rib, I took my favourite bike out of the shed this afternoon for a wee ride, to see if by any chance I would be able to ride into Castle Douglas (40Km round trip) tomorrow to pick up my medicine.
I managed about two hundred metres.
The answer is 'no'.
#BikeTooter

the last bookstore left on book row (besides the strand & forbidden planet) #nyc #books

Once again, we're all wearing masks due to Conservative incompetence. This time it's outdoors instead of indoors.
#WildFires

AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal using inference-specific chips as collateral (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/why-

Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal | TechCrunch
A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.

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…

@… did I think of the deprecated `valign` HTML attribute when I read this — we may never know

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116935729899013304
100% "Failing upwards"

Crimea has been a bridgehead for Russia since it seized the territory from Ukraine in 2014.
But the peninsula is now looking vulnerable.
Ukraine has stepped up its drone campaign, targeting strategic infrastructure including electrical substations, bridges, oil depots and airfields.
Drones are also severing the roads, railways and waterways that connect Crimea to Russia.
Isolating the peninsula completely would give Ukraine a strong hand in any future negotiations…

お、洪民憙さんの本でてるじゃん。
みんなActivityPubの自力実装で挫折するぐらいなら、この本を買ってFedify組み込んで開発するといいよ。
実践Fedify　ActivityPubマイクロブログ開発入門
https://nextpublishing.jp/book/19496.html

De FIFA is een grote corrupte bende en heeft helemaal niets met sport/voetbal, zoveel is wel duidelijk... 25 minuten rust omdat het moet voor entertainment....Verder zijn er dan ook nog de "dehydrationbreaks", de wedstrijd wordt in feite gesloopt voor de commercie.
https://…

Rust WK-finale duurt 25 minuten door halftimeshow, FIFA schendt eigen regels
De rust in de finale van het WK voetbal duurt zondag liefst 25 minuten, laat rechtenhouder NOS weten aan NU.nl. Door een elf minuten durende halftimeshow met optredens van Justin Bieber, Madonna en Shakira ligt de finale langer stil dan gebruikelijk.

Neulich hat mir jemand gesagt, wir hätten kein #Grundwasser - / Trinkwasserproblem in #Bayern. Daher mal beim @… nachgeschaut, um e…

The #OxfordComma is not optional, folks...

ASML plans to give its ~45K employees globally a €20,000 bonus, issued as a share award vesting in 2030, joining other chip industry companies offering payouts (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@… are we sure it isn’t this

A giant mirror to create
“sunlight on demand”
was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
despite opposition from astronomers and the public, and real safety concerns.
The FCC approved the company
Reflect Orbital
to test one satellite, named Earendil-1,
as a means of reflecting the sun’s rays back to Earth for extra solar energy
and wide-area lighting.
The light is expected to cover an area about five ki…

The U.S. just approved a giant space mirror to test ‘sunlight on demand.’ Low Earth orbit is getting weird
From space hotels and artificial meteor showers, to a new giant mirror that reflects sunlight to Earth — low-Earth orbit is getting weird.

ポムポムプリンも、どこかの河童に尻子玉抜いてもらってチャラに（なりません）

Ik snap de opwinding over datacenters gezien hun verbruik van stroom ed Maar daarbij is wel belangrijk voor wat een dergelijk datacenter wordt gebruikt. Bedrijven, overheden, burgers maken allemaal gebruik van diensten die volledig van datacenters afhankelijk zijn. Social media vinden we misschien minder belangrijk maar bijvoorbeeld gezondheidszorg, belastingdienst ed wel. Die hebben capaciteit nodig. Meer het gesprek over die inhoudelijke prioriteiten lijkt me nuttig.

our washing mashine has no wifi, no bluetooh, no app, no internet - I find that pretty smart to be honest

I hate the smell of decades of Conservative/Republican stonewalling and science denial in the morning.
#ClimateChange #canpol #uspol

Sources: Z.ai is on track to achieve an annual recurring revenue of $1B, a first for a Chinese AI company, after achieving its full-year sales target in July (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/z-ai-…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116936455224978549
“I don’t know any senior,
Republican or Democrat,
who asked President Trump to let AI decide
if their doctor-recommended treatment was necessary,”
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Thursday.
L…

包まれたなら
きっと

Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to "an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem" (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch
One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice

@… 常時抜刀しているわけではないので……

The Alphabet Workers Union sends a layoff protection petition with 4,500 signatures to Sundar Pichai, calling for guaranteed severance and buyout options (Sanya Mansoor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/16/google-workers-la…

Thousands of Google workers demand layoff protections amid AI boom in petition to CEO
The petition to Sundar Pichai, the CEO, included more than 4,500 signatures and included calls for buyout options

課金ならまかせろ（？）

Sources: Apple and the DOJ are in early discussions about settling a 2024 antitrust lawsuit alleging that Apple violated antitrust laws (Bloomberg)

Sources: the Trump administration is considering plans for an independent regulator to vet the safety of AI models; the regulator would report to the SEC (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/us-consid…

Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/j…

Models like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)
https://x.com/gavinsbaker/status/2078110934740980193

Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) on X
Kimi K3 may be an important inflection point for AI. Potentially negative for Anthropic and OpenAI while being net positive for essentially every other company in the world. I mean that very literally. Although the real “Sputnik moment” would be an open-source frontier model that

The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index sank ~10% for the week, its largest weekly fall in over a year, and is now down ~20% from its late-June all-time high (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chipmakers-other-h…

Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits from July 20 and via usage credits for Pro and Team Standard users (Claude/@claudeai)
https://x.com/claudeai/status/2078302415804379218

Claude (@claudeai) on X
Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to

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 ...

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

Sources: Dave Brown, former SVP of AWS Compute, AI, and Platform, will join Meta in the coming weeks, where he will work on the company's data center build-out (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…

Kimi K3 hype shouldn't alarm the US about "losing the AI race" to China as K3 is strong but not frontier-level and likely lacks dangerous cyber capabilities (Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/kimi-k3-is-no-reason-for…

Open-source Kimi K3 model is no reason for China panic
Transformer Weekly: NY data center moratorium, NDAA export controls and Amodei’s $1m to safety super PAC

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.

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.

Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chip-startu

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.

Mistral acquires Vienna-based Emmi AI for an undisclosed sum to boost its industrial offerings in Europe; Emmi raised €15M in Austria's largest round in 2025 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra…

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

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…

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…