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OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-local-news-american-journalism-project…

Exclusive: OpenAI renews $5M bet on local news
OpenAI is committing an additional $5 million in funding and $3 million in tech credits to AJP over the next two years.

And, yeah, there are both anarchists in Ethiopia and anarchist adjacent ideas. This was a good interview. I'd love to read or listen to more (if anyone knows any):
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anner-an-ethiopian-anarchist-perspective-on-the-war-in-tigray

"According to a new study, construction was impacted more than any other industry studied, with American-born workers losing more jobs than immigrants as a result of the deportations."
Trump’s Deportations Are Costing Americans Jobs, Study Finds - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/realestate/trumps-deportations-are-costing-americans-jobs.html

OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-local-news-american-journalism-project…

Exclusive: OpenAI renews $5M bet on local news
OpenAI is committing an additional $5 million in funding and $3 million in tech credits to AJP over the next two years.

For those interested, all the animation news from the middle of this year, and everything coming up - so much good! https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/mid-to-end-of-20…

Mid to end of 2026 animation news roundup – American Dad, Kevin, Alley Cats, King of the Hill, Futurama, Breaking Bear, Conan
Lots of animation things happening lately! American Dad! has been airing new episodes here and there– the show is back on FOX, and then of course the episodes air the next day on Hulu. Here&#…

Meanwhile, in the US of A :floofSad:
https://aflegal.org/press-release/america-first-legal-files-formal-complaints-with-the-tr…

America First Legal Files Formal Complaints with the Trump Administration Demanding Investigations Into Three School Districts Ahead of Superintendents’ Testimony Before Congress
America First Legal (AFL) has sent formal complaints to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education detailing serious violations of federal law by Chicago Public Schools, San Francisco Unified School District, […]

Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek are matching American frontier capability at a fraction of the cost,
and a wave of American and European challengers are building toward the same price point.
Adoption is already shifting, with Chinese models taking a growing share of enterprise AI traffic.
That’s a problem for OpenAI and Anthropic, which are pitching IPO investors on a premium moat that’s eroding fastest in the enterprise segments they need to dominate

How Cheap AI Could Derail OpenAI And Anthropic’s IPOs
Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek are matching American frontier capability at a fraction of the cost, and a wave of[...]

Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/…

American Open-Source Labs Think They Can Beat China’s Best AI Startups
Chinese open-source models like Kimi and Deepseek are now dominant AI tools. American startups like Thinking Machines, Reflection AI and now Poolside are trying to challenge that.

Chatbots fueled by artificial intelligence bear disclaimers saying they cannot dispense medical advice or diagnose conditions,
-- but they still field millions of queries from users who are sick, trying to decipher medical records or understand their treatment options.

Nearly 1 in 3 Americans have turned to the bots for health information, according to a recent survey by KFF,
a nonpartisan health policy and education organization.

AI companies are rushing to meet thi…

1 in 3 Americans use chatbots for health advice. These 6 patients explain why.
They say cost, speed and other considerations drove them to AI. They are also learning what to believe and what to take with caution.

Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states (Mariana Catacci/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/americas/brazil-hackers-unauthorized-alert-latam

Hackers suspected to be behind unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil
An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said.