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AI inference startup Baseten is raising $1.5B in a dual-tiered deal, with some investors putting in money at an $11B valuation and others at a $13B valuation (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-13-billion

Runta, which provides isolated sandboxes and guardrails for AI agents to prevent operational risks, raised a $20M seed led by a16z at a $100M valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/andreessen-…

Andreessen Horowitz Backs Startup Aiming to ‘Parent’ AI Agents
As a father to two young kids, Guanlan Dai sees a lot of similarities between AI agents and precocious children. Just as parents might childproof their house and avoid giving their kids access to credit cards, so too must developers limit the important files AI agents can access and how much the ...

Alright, which one of you's been vibe-coding the ebay backend? 'Fess up!

RE: #volgtip

Another class that should be taught in schools that isn't, as far as I know: How to go grocery shopping.
A young woman I know just aged out of the foster care system.There's a program here that provides financial assistance for rent and she gets SNAP and there's a food bank, but she doesn't seem to know how to shop for groceries. Things like comparing prices and quantities and ingredients seem to be beyond her. She's got other issues, and gets help, but damn.

Doppler-shifted X-ray Spectroscopy of Nonradiative Electron Capture in Relativistic Collisions of Xe54 Ions with Kr and Xe Atoms
Bian Yang, Deyang Yu, Konstantin N. Lyashchenko, Caojie Shao, Zhongwen Wu, Mingwu Zhang, Oleg Yu. Andreev, Junliang Liu, Zhangyong Song, Yingli Xue, Wei Wang, Fangfang Ruan, Yehong Wu, Rongchun Lu, Chenzhong Dong, Xiaohong Cai
https:…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Roadhouse
John Andrews & the Yawns:
🎵 New California Blue
#JohnAndrews #theYawns
https://open.spotify.com/track/6qD6vbTppsgtMVIo8hB6as

Here’s another episode in my hot classics summer, in which I am visited by ghosts and cry out for the strength to wash away the deeds of the reigning Caesar.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/i-hear-a-ghost-i-see-a-sign

I Hear a Ghost, I See a Sign
More hot classics summer: Shakespeare, Orpheus, and our reigning Caesar. Mosaic of young Dionysus from the Palazzo Massimo.

Another young runner gets in my face
#photo #photography #gasface #running

High-fidelity entanglement of polar molecules by dynamic geometric control
Scarlett S. Yu, Avikar Periwal, Jiaqi You, Zirui Liu, Qinshu Lyu, Youngju Cho, Lo\"ic Anderegg, Eunmi Chae, John M. Doyle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13008