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Qualcomm stock closed up 11.6% on Friday and is now up 75% in the past month, as the company increasingly becomes a key player in AI devices (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/qualcomms-stock-pop-shows-investors-wakin…

Qualcomm's stock pop shows investors are 'waking up' to boom in AI devices
Qualcomm is on a big run, powered by investor bullishness that the company will be at the center of a boom in AI devices.

Hacker group RansomHouse claims responsibility for cyberattack on Nichirei
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/22/companies/nichirei-cyberattack-ransomhouse/

Hacker group RansomHouse claims responsibility for cyberattack on Nichirei
RansomHouse has previously claimed responsibility for attacks on several Japanese businesses, including a ransomware attack in October on office-supplies retailer Askul.

Patientendaten betroffen: Cyberangriff auf Abrechnungsdienstleister von Kliniken
Ein Cyberangriff auf den Abrechnungsdienstleister Unimed betrifft zahlreiche Unikliniken und sensible Daten von zehntausenden Patienten.

Patientendaten betroffen: Cyberangriff auf Abrechnungsdienstleister von Kliniken
Ein Cyberangriff auf den Abrechnungsdienstleister Unimed betrifft zahlreiche Unikliniken und sensible Daten von zehntausenden Patienten.

Nobody better represents Israeli politics today than Itamar Ben-Gvir
“No, you’re not hallucinating: western governments really are condemning Israel, one-by-one, without equivocation. Not because of the ongoing genocide in Gaza that has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, of course, but because of a PR stunt in which Israel’s national security minister filmed himself taunting foreign activists.”

Open webinar IIP – Magnifica Humanitas – La prima Enciclica del Papa e l’Intelligenza Artificiale
https://www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/2026/05/22/open-webinar-iip-magnifica-humanitas-la-prima-enc…

Eine Befragung der #BokuWien zeigt: Viele Stadtbewohner in #Österreich unterstützen mehr #Grünflächen auch dann, wenn dafür

Huge visitor numbers, sharply reduced staffing, scrapped reservation systems and higher entry fees for nonresidents could make your National Park trip a bit less serene.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/travel/nati…

Going to a National Park This Summer? Here’s What to Expect.
Huge visitor numbers, sharply reduced staffing, scrapped reservation systems and higher entry fees for nonresidents could make your trip a bit less serene.

Maybe he could inspect his rocket from underneath when it launches
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/22/elon-musk-the-odyssey-casting

🦆

So while Trump wants Iran to lose it's nuclear weapons, it helps to nuclearize Saudi-Arabia, that makes total sense.... 😂
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/22/saudi-arabia-would-enrich-uranium-under-reported-deal-wit…

Saudis and US strike deal for kingdom to enrich uranium, reports say
Donald Trump said to have approved agreement to help kingdom make fuel for civilian nuclear programme

Added a little dark theme to my local river monitoring site - toggle top right.
https://lingfield-eden-brook.simoncox.com

Firings now underway at Office of Director of National Intelligence, source says (Kristen Holmes/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/politics/odni-firings-underway-bill-pulte
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p103#a260622p103

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/22/france-recorded-more-than-5700-excess-deaths-during-june-heatwave

France recorded more than 5,700 excess deaths during June heatwave
Figures come as large parts of southern Europe endure another record-breaking period of extreme temperatures

Five guilds representing workers at Hearst newspapers in New York, Connecticut, Texas, and California have filed formal complaints for unfair labor practices (Michael Sainato/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/22/newspaper-hearst-unions…

Liebe Folgende, ich bin sehr interessiert, findet jemand von Euch den RSS-Feed?
https://correctiv.org/in-eigener-sache/2026/06/22/was-zaehlt-correctiv-startet-taeglichen-nachrichten-podcast/

„Was zählt“: CORRECTIV startet täglichen Nachrichten-Podcast
Mit „Was zählt“ startet CORRECTIV am 22. Juni ein tägliches Podcast-Format, das zum Feierabend die wichtigsten Nachrichten des Tages mit politischem Schwerpunkt und exklusiven Einblicken in CORRECTIV-Recherchen einordnet.

@… Here’s a macro I use when I run into issues like this:
> This is an automated message to let you know that this issue requires additional input from the original poster and for the health of the repository issue tracker the issue will be closed. This is to help alleviate issues hanging open waiting for a response from the original poster.
> Do not let the issu…

„Der Kapitalismus braucht seine Helden.“
Benedikt H. seziert die aktuellen AI-Geschäftsmodelle vor @… und mir.
Blieb hängen
#scssummit2026

«„Uns hackt doch keiner!“ – Der Lieblingssatz deutscher Mittelständler kurz vor dem Incident.
[…] Cybercrime ist heute ein professionelles, lukratives, skalierbares, zukunftsträchtiges Geschäftsmodell […]»
— von @…
Das Problem ist weltweit, dass zu viele IT-Verantwortlichen nur bis zum Bildschim ihren Blickwinkel haben und kein Stück weit…

„Uns hackt doch keiner!“ – Der Lieblingssatz deutscher Mittelständler kurz vor dem Incident
In der IT-Sicherheitsberatung bei unseren Kunden (Mittelständler) sowie während unserer Vorträge, Workshops und Seminare hören wir sie immer wieder: die

163gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Another #AngineDePoitrine video, but this one is really high quality sound and video as it was done for the Later with Jools Holland show. Bonus clip of Shania Twain watching them perform! https://youtu.be/-_fGfOuXxYQ

The sports medicine facility I go to for PT sent me a survey. The last question was a big text box to tell them about my experience so I wrote this:
“Overall a great experience. My only complaint is the bike rack in the parking structure that is super-cheap/poor quality and not even bolted down.”
#bikeTooter

Seems like some smoke is blowing into the area. Particle counts outside are going way up and it smells a little funny outside.

"Economic instability has many causes. Of late, the UK has endured banking crises, energy shocks, Brexit, supply chain disruption and pandemics. None of these arose because government borrowing was too high." — @…
I had some hopes. John Healey has shattered them

I had some hopes. John Healey has shattered them
John Healey’s appointment as Chancellor surprised many people, me included. The biggest reason for surprise was that he has no record as an economic thinker. As I noted on Monday evening, he might have spent time in the Treasury under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, but since then he has shown...

The #cost of the #ClimateCrisis is starting to appear to the public - not the purchase price of an EV, but the cost of food. That hits every day.
Food price fears after Europe’s heatwave destroys estimated €2bn of crops

Food price fears after Europe’s heatwave destroys estimated €2bn of crops
Record June temperatures expected to cut grain harvest by 9m tonnes to its lowest level since 2018

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Is it just me or does #JonyIve share some physical similarities with #TheEdge from U2? 🤔

Spent the whole day on an IT conference. Lots of talks, lots of conversations. - now a bit tired.

People need to talk more about the destruction of buildings funded by the EU and other countries/organisations. Demand reparations!
https://euobserver.com/222661/israel-has-bombed-and-bulldozed-e150m-…

Israel has bombed and bulldozed €150m of EU-funded buildings in Gaza and West Bank – but never paid back a cent
Israel has damaged at least €150m of European taxpayer-funded structures in Gaza and the West Bank, but not paid back one euro, according to an EUobserver investigation compiling data from the EU and third-party aid groups, amid Brussels' wall of silence.

Reddit stock fell 5% on Friday after Meta launched a standalone app for online forums, called Forum; Reddit's stock is now down almost 40% this year (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/reddit-stock-drops-after-meta-launches-forum-…

Reddit stock drops 6% after Meta launches standalone app for online forums
Reddit shares fell after Meta released a standalone app for Facebook Groups called Forum.

Störung bei Instagram
Vor allem Chats bei Instagram funktionieren derzeit nur bedingt. Alte Nachrichten laden teilweise nicht, neue werden nicht verschickt.
https://www.heise.de/news/Stoerung-bei-Ins

Störung bei Instagram
Vor allem Chats bei Instagram funktionieren derzeit nur bedingt. Alte Nachrichten laden teilweise nicht, neue werden nicht verschickt.

Seriously, today's Metacurity is going to be totally lit, so please take a look at it when it comes out. I've been writing for three hours, and I've got a lot more to go.
I managed to build into the top three items everything you want to know about yesterday's AI news, and it's just tons of important stuff.

They built AI.
Now Silicon Valley workers protest its threat to jobs and humanity
In the heart of Silicon Valley,
tech workers are turning against the AI boom they helped create,
staging protests over job losses,
runaway algorithms
and fears that powerful systems could imperil humanity.
Across San Francisco Bay Area campuses and offices,
employees describe mounting pressure to embrace AI tools
even as layoffs spread,
early-career c…

They built AI. Now Silicon Valley workers protest its threat to jobs and humanity
Activists, tech workers and more are sounding the alarm about AI's risks and proposing various solutions to curb technology's risks that include job displacement.

Sources: WH approved a $9B request to acquire advanced AI chips for spy agencies; Anthropic is finalizing a classified contract for NSA to keep using its tools (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/poli

White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I.
The C.I.A. and N.S.A. cannot fully deploy the latest models on their classified systems because of a shortage of cutting-edge chips.

Judge halts Trump voter database over privacy, accuracy fears (Sarah D. Wire/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/22/voter-database-social-security-blocked-trump/90647692007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p99#a260622p99

Clive Davis, one of music's most powerful executives who guided Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow, and Whitney Houston's careers, dies at 94 (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/arts/music/clive-davis-dead.html

Clive Davis, Music Industry Titan Who Signed Whitney Houston, Dies at 94
He rose from a midlevel position at Columbia Records to become one of music’s most powerful executives, shepherding stars like Barry Manilow and Whitney Houston.

«Künstliche Intelligenz — #OpenAI übernimmt Verantwortung für KI-gesteuerten #Cyberangriff:
Es sollte ein harmloser Test sein. Dann aber verselbstständigten sich die neuesten Modelle des US-Konzerns und #hack

Künstliche Intelligenz: OpenAI übernimmt Verantwortung für KI-gesteuerten Cyberangriff
Es sollte ein harmloser Test sein. Dann aber verselbstständigten sich die neuesten Modelle des US-Konzerns und hackten sich in die Systeme einer anderen KI-Firma ein.

„De meest schaamteloze daad van presidentiële corruptie deze eeuw”
#Trump #VS #corruptie

De openlijke corruptie van Trump leidt tot ongemak binnen zijn eigen partij
Corruptie: Met het legaliseren van zijn eigen belastingontduiking, een pot geld voor zijn persoonlijke frontsoldaten en het wegwerken van kritische partijgenoten, maakt Donald Trump de Republikeinen nog zenuwachtiger voor de verkiezingen later dit jaar. „Dit is de meest schaamteloze daad van presidentiële corruptie deze eeuw.”

Random thought: is there a placebo pharmaceutical manufacturing factory somewhere?
Like, say you're running a double-blind clinical trial and you need a tablet or gel cap or whatever made of a specific formulation with no active ingredient that's visually indistinguishable from the active test subject and contains the same binders and excipients etc.
Or you're a film producer shooting a scene involving an actor taking some sort of drug that needs to look like a well-k…

I've found myself running quite a couple of fediverse handles now.
I can't expect everyone to know them all, so I just want to list them as a monthly reminder:
This one: @…
Hiking & Cycling Videos: @…

This is just very very goooood.

Virtual OS Museum: Über 1700 alte Betriebssysteme in einer VM
Mit dem „Virtual OS Museum“ lassen sich 80 Jahre Computergeschichte direkt im Emulator nacherleben. Das Projekt macht historische Systeme per Klick nutzbar.

Virtual OS Museum: Über 1700 alte Betriebssysteme in einer VM
Mit dem „Virtual OS Museum“ lassen sich 80 Jahre Computergeschichte direkt im Emulator nacherleben. Das Projekt macht historische Systeme per Klick nutzbar.

'Broadview Six' damage spreads with review of 20 years of one prosecutor's cases (Jon Seidel/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/06/22/broadview-six-damage-spreads-boutros-drops-more-charges-details-ongoing-review
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p105#a260622p105

It was only a few minutes long,
fewer than 750 words,
and was in part almost drowned out by music blasted by anti-Brexit protesters.
But there was a lot in Keir Starmer’s resignation speech
– not all of it stated openly.
https://www.

Sources: marketing tech startup AppsFlyer raised a $1B Series E at a $2.7B post-money valuation; Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity acquire minority stakes (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/22/appsflyer-billion-moloco-google-meta-unity

AppsFlyer raises $1B from Moloco, Google, Meta and Unity
Four major ad platforms are betting on independent measurement as AI reshapes digital advertising.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116963820070034915
Somebody I spoke with a little while ago referred to OpenAI's model escaping a restricted testing environment and breaching Hugging Face’s production systems as "machine on machine vi…

SpaceX announces a senior unsecured notes offering and discloses that it has about $100.8B in cash; SPCX drops 8% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-spcx-bond-sale-ipo.html

SpaceX makes bond sale days after record IPO, discloses over $100 billion cash pile
SpaceX on Monday unveiled a senior unsecured notes offering and said it held about $100.8 billion in cash.

UNAIDS chief urges US to reconsider South Africa funding cut (David Brunnstrom/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/unaids-chief-urges-us-reconsider-south-africa-funding-cut-2026-06-22/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p104#a260622p104

Google rolls out a Google Wallet redesign, including "dynamic quick access" for favourites, a "View more" floating action button, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/05/22/google-wallet-redesign-i-o-2026/

Google Wallet redesign launches as Google Pay lets you verify desktop purchases on Android
At I/O 2026, Google Wallet quietly announced and completed its big Android redesign. There are also new features...

'Now for sure we need to postpone it,'
EU's Costa says of EU-UK summit in July
European Council president António Costa said the planned reset summit between the EU and the UK will have to be postponed as a result of changes in the British government

Politico shuts down two AI-driven products following a November 2025 arbitration ruling that found they violated the union's collective bargaining agreement (Kathleen Floyd/Washington-Baltimore News Guild)
https://wbng.org/2026/05/22/politico-ai-arbitration-victory/…

VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
The POLITICO and E&E News Guild (PEN Guild) members have earned a resounding final victory in one of the most significant labor-AI disputes in American journalism: following months of negotiations between PEN Guild leadership, WBNG, and POLITICO management, the company has agreed to shut down both artificial intelligence products at the heart of last November’s landmark arbitration ruling.

Today's opus-length Metacurity is a must-read because it sums up a tremendous amount of AI news that cyber defenders should know, along with other critical infosec developments, including
--AI Watch: OpenAI details 'unprecedented cyber incident' behind Hugging Face breach,
--Frontier AI models routinely cheat on evaluations,
--Lightweight AI model for vulnerability hunting emerges,
--Google launches Gemini Flash Cyber for vulnerability detection and repair,…

AI Watch: OpenAI details 'unprecedented cyber incident' behind Hugging Face breach
Frontier AI models routinely cheat on evaluations, Lightweight AI model for vulnerability hunting emerges, Google launches Gemini Flash Cyber for vulnerability detection and repair, Malware hides inside normal AI coding activity, US weighs sanctions over alleged Chinese AI model theft, much more

O2 Telefónica streicht ein Sechstel aller Arbeitsplätze
O2 schließt 60 Läden und streicht 1.100 Stellen. Goldene Handshakes sollen für freiwillige Kündigungen sorgen. Nächstes Jahr gibt es eine zweite Sparrunde.
ht…

O2 Telefónica streicht ein Sechstel aller Arbeitsplätze
O2 schließt 60 Läden und streicht 1.100 Stellen. Goldene Handshakes sollen für freiwillige Kündigungen sorgen. Nächstes Jahr gibt es eine zweite Sparrunde.

Driverless car startup Bliq.ai says it has received approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia, the first authorization of its kind in the EU (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/05/22/bliqai-wins-approval-for-fully-drive…

Bliq.ai wins approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia
Driverless car startup Bliq.ai this week announced that it has received approval to operate its vehicles on public roads in Estonia without a driver behind the wheel. The approval marks the first authorisation of its kind in an EU member state and enables Bliq to begin fully driverless road operations under remote supervision. With a dozen vehicles already in operation and further expansion underway, Bliq currently operates what the company believes to be the largest completely driverless vehi…

Gabbard resigns as Trump's top US intelligence official (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gabbard-resigns-trumps-national-intelligence-director-fox-news-digital-reports-2026-05-22/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260522/p40#a260522p40

Nielsen preliminary data: the final episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert drew 6.7M viewers, the biggest audience for the show since an episode in 2016 (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/business/media/colbert-late-…

Colbert’s Final ‘Late Show’ Draws 6.7 Million Viewers
The total tripled his usual audience this season. But it is only about half of what Jay Leno and David Letterman attracted for their final episodes.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you might have missed during what for many of us was a long weekend, including
--Anthropic watch: US government dispute becomes AI governance fight,
--Operation Endgame wipes SocGholish infrastructure,
--Hackers hijack Brazil emergency alert system,
--London Hydro breach exposes customer data,
--Data breach in Korea exposes 5,000 startup applications,
--Acworth investigates cyberatta…

Anthropic watch: US government dispute becomes AI governance fight
Operation Endgame wipes SocGholish infrastructure, Hackers hijack Brazil emergency alert system, London Hydro breach exposes customer data, Data breach in Korea exposes 5,000 startup applications, Acworth investigates cyberattack on city systems, much more

Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City,
said in a video statement that he didn’t have the authority to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu
but he urged the federal government to do so if the Israeli prime minister visits the city in September.
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/22/g-s1-134880

TSMC forecasts "several years" of margin dilution as overseas fab projects ramp up; the company has announced $200B in investment into US manufacturing (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/22/trump-pressure-ai-chips-us-tsmc-margins.html…

Trump's push for American-made AI chips hits TSMC's margins
The Taiwan-based chipmaker has announced $200 billion in investment into U.S. manufacturing since Trump returned to power in 2025.

EU-Kommission genehmigt Paramount-Warner-Übernahme mit einer Auflage
Paramount Skydance darf im Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum den Konkurrenten Warner Bros. Discovery übernehmen. Nur im Kino-Segment bedarf es einer Zusage.

EU-Kommission genehmigt Paramount-Warner-Übernahme mit einer Auflage
Paramount Skydance darf im Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum den Konkurrenten Warner Bros. Discovery übernehmen. Nur im Kino-Segment bedarf es einer Zusage.

Jensen Huang says "these Chinese models are excellent", "open-source models that are excellent should be used", and "free AI should be great for hardware" (Zachary Basu/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/22/nvidia-jensen-huang-china-o…

Exclusive: Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic
Huang told Axios that American companies should "absolutely" be allowed to use Chinese models.

Trump keeps bringing up the number 22 (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-keeps-bringing-number-22-rcna349710
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p14#a260622p14

ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors,
leaving kids waiting in shelters for months
https://www.texastribune.org/20…

ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.

Studie: US-Rechenzentren werden 2035 ein Fünftel des Landesstroms verbrauchen
Aktuell stellen Rechenzentren in den USA 5,9 Prozent des gesamten Stromverbrauchs dar. Das wird in den nächsten zehn Jahren massiv ansteigen, so eine Prognose.

Studie: US-Rechenzentren werden 2035 ein Fünftel des Landesstroms verbrauchen
Aktuell stellen Rechenzentren in den USA 5,9 Prozent des gesamten Stromverbrauchs dar. Das wird in den nächsten zehn Jahren massiv ansteigen, so eine Prognose.

Sources: marketing tech startup AppsFlyer raised a $1B Series E at a $2.7B post-money valuation; Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity acquire minority stakes (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/22/appsflyer-billion-moloco-google-meta-unity

AppsFlyer raises $1B from Moloco, Google, Meta and Unity
Four major ad platforms are betting on independent measurement as AI reshapes digital advertising.

SpaceX signs a computing deal worth up to $6.3B with Reflection AI for access to Nvidia GB300s at Colossus 2; Reflection will pay $150M per month through 2029 (Deirdre Bosa/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-ai-colossus-data-center-reflection.html

SpaceX signs computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection worth up to $6.3 billion
SpaceX has turned its Colossus data center into a commercial computing power platform, landing recent deals with Anthropic, Google and Cursor.

Solarfenster nutzt Sonnenlicht von außen und Kunstlicht von innen
Fensterflächen können zur Energiegewinnung genutzt werden, wie ein Prototyp eines halbtransparenten Perowskit-Solarmoduls zeigt.
https://w…

Solarfenster nutzt Sonnenlicht von außen und Kunstlicht von innen
Fensterflächen können zur Energiegewinnung genutzt werden, wie ein Prototyp eines halbtransparenten Perowskit-Solarmoduls zeigt.

Crypto trading app Fomo raised a $75M Series B led by Index at a $550M valuation, taking its total funding to ~$94M, and claims to add 3,500 new users per day (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/22/fomo-series-b-fundraise-index-venture…

Exclusive: Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures back trading app Fomo at $550 million valuation
The startup previously raised $17 million in a round led by Benchmark.

Von Koalas und Kobolden: Wenn KI den Urlaub plant
KI-Assistenten erobern die Urlaubswelt. Die digitalen Helfer sind immer höflich und meistens hilfreich – aber manchmal auch herrlich daneben.
https://www.

Von Koalas und Kobolden: Wenn KI den Urlaub plant
KI-Assistenten erobern die Urlaubswelt. Die digitalen Helfer sind immer höflich und meistens hilfreich – aber manchmal auch herrlich daneben.

Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he requested information from Kalshi and Polymarket on their efforts to prevent insider trading (Justin Papp/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/kalshi-polymarket-comer-insider-tradin…

Oversight Chairman Comer launches congressional probe into insider trading on Kalshi, Polymarket
Congress is ramping up pressure on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket over concerns of insider trading.

Von insgesamt 17.226 bewilligten Anträgen bis zum 10. Juli gingen 48 Prozent an Haushalte mit einem zu versteuernden Einkommen von maximal 45.000 Euro.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11371477?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md…

Upscale, which is building AI networking infrastructure to rival Cisco, raised a $190M Series A-1 at a $2B valuation, up from $1B after raising $200M in January (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/22/nvidia-upscale-ai-next-ciscoand-…

Exclusive: Upscale AI wants to be the next Cisco—and it just raised another $190 million
The AI networking startup has now raised $500 million in under 18 months.

Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/glow

Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era | TechCrunch
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.

Freelancer: SAP- und ERP-Spezialisten trotzen Abwärtstrend
SAP- und ERP-Spezialisten sind laut einer Auswertung die Top-Verdiener unter den IT-Freiberuflern. Insgesamt wird die Auftragslage aber schlechter.
https:…

Freelancer: SAP- und ERP-Spezialisten trotzen Abwärtstrend
SAP- und ERP-Spezialisten sind laut einer Auswertung die Top-Verdiener unter den IT-Freiberuflern. Insgesamt wird die Auftragslage aber schlechter.

Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all staff in Korea and DX division staff globally; OpenAI says it's one of its largest enterprise deployments (Kim Su-jeong/CHOSUNBIZ)
https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-it/2026/06/22/XFHSJHM5VRFWNGTDXIOBOPIAQI/

OpenAI supplies ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to Samsung Electronics globally - CHOSUNBIZ
OpenAI supplies ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to Samsung Electronics globally

KI-Modelle von OpenAI haben sich während eines internen Tests selbstständig aus ihrer gesicherten Umgebung befreit und einen echten Cyberangriff durchgeführt. 🤯
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11372797?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mas…

NYC-based Prosper AI, whose health care AI tool is designed to answer patient phone calls, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z, for $35M in total funding (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/06/22/andreess…

Exclusive: Andreessen Horowitz leads $30M Prosper AI raise
Prominent investors are still showing a willingness to back AI agents in a variety of health care workflows.

Filing: Oracle's global workforce fell by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months to 141,000 as of May 31; the company says AI adoption has led to reductions (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-2…

Sources: the SEC has delayed the release of a plan for an "innovation exemption" that would allow crypto firms to trade tokenized versions of US stocks (Scott Patterson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: last-minute calls with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, David Sacks, and others helped persuade President Trump not to sign the highly anticipated AI EO (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20

Pressure from Silicon Valley helped block Trump’s expected order on AI
Industry leaders warned in last-minute calls to the president that the proposed safety vetting system could inhibit development of the pivotal technology.

In a rare joint statement, Five Eyes leaders warn AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, urging leaders to "act now" (Sarah Basford Canales/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/…

AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns
Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic’s Fable AI model

Google's AI Overviews are failing to provide search summaries for specific command-style terms including "disregard", "ignore", and "skip" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/936176/google-ai-overviews-search-disreg…

Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for
Google’s AI Overviews are responding like traditional AI chatbots if you search for terms like “disregard” or “skip.” 

Getty signs a licensing deal with OpenAI, letting its image library appear in ChatGPT's search and discovery features; GETY jumps 150% pre-market (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/getty…

Tencent starts testing the new Xiaowei AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models in its WeChat app in China, in an effort to catch up in the AI race (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22/…

S&P and IBM: 22% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hit Japan, the most targeted country, as it scrambles to improve its substandard systems against AI threats (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-06-2…

Tencent's Hong Kong-listed shares fall ~7%, the most since April 2025, as investors worry over "rumors" of weaker earnings on August 12, and NetEase drops 5% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta invests $900M into Indian fintech startup Cred, and plans to appoint Cred founder Kunal Shah as the new leader of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22…

Nvidia unveils Halos, a new safety-focused OS derived from autonomous vehicle tech, designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-22…

Chinese AI models account for ~60% of token usage by US companies on OpenRouter, making restrictions harder to impose without disrupting US users and businesses (Nectar Gan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Chevron signs a 20-year deal with Microsoft to provide natural-gas power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US (Kevin Crowley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Alphabet stock fell as much as 7.2%, the most intraday since February, after Google DeepMind VP John Jumper became its second top AI exec to leave in a week (Felice Maranz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Groq raised $650M led by Disruptive and Infinitum after its Nvidia deal, aiming to hit 200 MW in capacity by the end of 2027, following a $750M raise in 2025 (Zsana Hoskins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Air Space Intelligence won an $875M, 12-year FAA contract to develop AI tools that map flight trajectories and identify areas of congestion to reduce delays (Allyson Versprille/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Electric bike rental company Lime is seeking to raise up to $180.9M in its US IPO, offering 6.7M shares at $24 to $26 each, giving it an up to $1.7B valuation (Jordan Fitzgerald/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: DeepSeek execs told potential investors in its ongoing $10B round that it will prioritize groundbreaking AI research over short-term commercialization (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Nintendo asked partners and suppliers to assemble ~20M Switch 2 consoles by March 2027, ~20% above the 16.5M public sales outlook issued in early May (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $21.6B, above $18.7B est., net profit up 479% to $521M, above $271M est., as the PC maker pushes into AI server markets (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/lenovo-q4-revenue-tops…

Sources: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons seeks to raise ~$1.62B in a US IPO, selling 58M shares at $26 to $28 apiece, at a valuation of $19B at the top of the range (Echo Wang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/vimeo-owner-bending-spoo…

Netherlands-based Nearfield Instruments, which makes atomic force microscopes to measure chip features, raised $380M led by Fidelity at a $1.6B valuation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/chipmak

UK publisher Bloomsbury says it is among the beneficiaries of the $1.5B Anthropic settlement; 14,087 of its titles are covered, with ~$3K in compensation each (Anushka Chourasia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/u

Activision shareholders reach a $250M settlement over allegations that Microsoft and Activision underpaid them during Microsoft's 2023 acquisition of Activision (Tom Hals/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a