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Memo: Matt Murray says WaPo will test a new feature called "From the Source", inviting sources named in articles to comment on those articles after publication (Max Tani/@maxwelltani)
https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/1937874420434981298

Max Tani (@maxwelltani) on X
In a note to staff this morning shared with me, Washington Post editor Matt Murray announces that the paper will begin testing out a new feature called "from the source," which will invite sources named in articles to comment on those articles after they've been published

Circana: Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest-selling video game device in US history, with 1.6M units sold in June, topping the PS4's 1.1M units in November 2013 (IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-nintendo-switch-2-is-the-fastest-s…

The Nintendo Switch 2 Is the Fastest-Selling Gaming Hardware in U.S. History - IGN
The Nintendo Switch 2 debuted in June to become the fastest-selling hardware ever in the U.S., shooting spending on games to new monthly records, according to the monthly report from Circana.

Denmark ending letter deliveries is a sign of the digital times
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v37plv2edo.amp

Denmark ending letter deliveries is a sign of the digital times - BBC News
PostNord blames sharply falling demand - will other post firms around the world follow suit?

The answer to one of the most universal questions in computing education: "Which Programming Language Should I Teach First?" It's not what you're expecting. At all.
https://parentheticallyspeaking.org/articles/first-language-wrong-question/…

Which Programming Language Should I Teach First?
Parenthetically Speaking: Articles by Shriram Krishnamurthi

Expert Generalists by @…
https://martinfowler.com/articles/expert-generalist.html

Besides that this is how dictators operate, it is also very stupid if you want good intelligence as a leader.
#trump

Pentagon fires intelligence chief after Iran attack assessment - BBC News
The firing comes just weeks after a White House rebuke of a leaked intelligence report assessing the impact of US strikes on Iran.

@… wow
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01976-2

Obesity drugs show promise treating a new ailment: migraine
Liraglutide, part of the family of blockbuster weight-loss drugs, reduces headaches by half in a small study.

As ever, white guy = "troubled mentally ill loner." And not, as this fuck was, an open Nazi.
THIS CHILD WAS MURDERED BY A WHITE SUPREMACIST.
If he'd been brown, the police have kicked in the doors of anyone he vaguely knew.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyrg6

Daniel Anjorin: Man guilty of murdering schoolboy in Hainault
Daniel Anjorin was attacked with a sword while he was on his way to school in north-east London.

Leeds former head teacher faces no charges following terrorism arrest for holding up a graphic from a satirical magazine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9kdq84j3lo

Leeds former head teacher's terror arrest shock over protest cartoon
Jon Farley is held by police under the Terrorism Act for six hours over a placard he was carrying.

Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change #climate

Top UN court says countries can sue each other over climate change
The decision from the world's highest court has been welcomed by developing nations at most risk from climate change.

The variety and origin of materials accreted by Bennu’s parent asteroid / Mineralogical evidence for hydrothermal alteration of Bennu samples / Space weathering effects in Bennu asteroid samples: #Bennu Samples Reveal Complex Origins, Dramatic Transformation: https://news.arizona.edu/news/asteroid-bennu-time-capsule-materials-bearing-witness-its-origin-and-transformation-over / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/nasas-bennu-samples-reveal-complex-origins-dramatic-transformation/

Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62375-9 by @…

Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events - Nature Communications
When people recall a movie, their eye movements and brain activity resemble those observed during the viewing. These behavioral and neural reactivations are linked through a common process, likely reflecting the specific internal experiences that emerge in an instance of recall.

📈 Bioscience researchers shared data in 92% of articles that we manually evaluated from 2023. In the chart 👇 orange shading shows 45% of articles shared ALL the relevant data, up from 7% in 2014👏. Sharing varied by data type as expected, 🧬 vs. 🔬, among several other factors.
Thanks to BIH QUEST @ChariteBerlin for ODDPub, which gave a parallel, programmatic evaluation.

In contrast, testing an international sample of circadian, neuroscience and mental health articles by the same manual method … 2/3
Edited for Alt-text.

State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce has sparked condemnation
after a reporter unearthed an interview in which she said
the U.S. is the best country on Earth
“next to Israel,”
in yet another show of U.S. leaders’ capitulation to Israel
under a president who ran on the slogan “America First.”

Rubio Spokesperson Says US Is “Greatest Country on Earth Next to Israel”
The official said it’s her responsibility to ensure “every person on this planet” recognizes the importance of Israel.

One of the Best Hackers in the Country is an AI Bot
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/one-of-the-best-hackers-in-the-country-is-an-ai-bot

「鄭州同志暴力事件」親歷者接受BBC專訪：傷勢未愈，伙伴被拘 - BBC News 中文 #China

「鄭州同志暴力事件」親歷者接受BBC專訪：傷勢未愈，伙伴被拘 - BBC News 中文
5月31日，鄭州公園打人事件震驚中國，這場針對同志群體的暴力行為已持續一年有餘。該暴力事件親歷者接受BBC訪問表示，希望正義終將到來。有學者表示，同志線下交友空間萎縮影響深遠。

US strikes did not destroy Iran nuclear programme, says Pentagon assessment
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckglxwp5x03o

And now they talk like a Donald 😲 Donald talk ->
"The White House said the "flat-out wrong" assessment was leaked by "a low-level loser in the intelligence community"."
US strikes did not destroy Iran nuclear programme, says intelligence assessment
https://www.bbc.co…

Plonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus

Dossier Presse 1997-2024
Beaucoup d'articles de presse ont été écris depuis 1997 sur OKC et Robert Spatz, mais malheureusement une partie de ces articles sont derrière des barr ...

There are 5 first-time NFL head coaches this season and they each face distinct challenges https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/there-are-5-firsttime-nfl-head-coaches-this-season-and-they-each-face-distinct-challeng…

How AI tools from ElevenLabs and others were used to recreate a woman's voice, lost to motor neuron disease, from just eight seconds of audio on a VHS tape (Beth Rose/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ejvxne7elo

How eight seconds of scratchy audio from a VHS tape gave a mum back her voice
Sarah Ezekiel was 34 with two children when motor neurone disease took away her ability to speak.

Western governments: Industrial policy doesn't work. The government is worse at picking winners than the market.
Chinese government: Our industrial policy is to create a native electric car industry that can beat Western petrol car makers.
Western governments: Hey, no fair!
BBC News - How China made electric vehicles mainstream

The platform of 33 year-old Zohran Mamdani, the “Democatic Socialist" immigrant who just won the primary in New York City (setting himself up for Mayor's election in November)
free public buses 🚎
universal childcare 👶
freezing rent in subsidized units 🏚️
city-run grocery stores 🥖🥒🍎
all paid for by new taxes on the rich.🤑
Good people want these things. They are not complicated or extreme.
also:
"strong support of Palestinians and criticism of Israel”
#Socialist #CanPoli
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg6yg7x467o

Trump's plan to send troops to Chicago is abuse of power, Illinois governor says
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7yperjxneo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

I can't believe that retraction took 15 years – and that the authors still haven't accepted their L. That study was extremely oversold from the get-go, by the author's not being self-critical enough and wanting to believe their own extraordinary claims.
«Controversial ‘arsenic life’ paper retracted after 15 years — but authors fight back»
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02325-z

Trump Blasts South Korean Instability Before Leader's Visit (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-25/trump-blasts-south-korean-instability-ahead-of-president-s-visit
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p51#a250825p51

Raiders backup QB Aidan O'Connell breaks wrist, expected to be out 6-8 weeks https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/raiders-backup-qb-aidan-oconnell-breaks-wrist-expected-to-be-out-68-weeks

Oddly under-reported in today's news …
UK to purchase nuclear-carrying fighter jets
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c335406gxdvo

* Israel’s manufactured famine, in its ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. https://mas.to/@therightarticle/115087820306387608

Estimating the Effective Topics of Articles and journals Abstract Using LDA And K-Means Clustering Algorithm
Shadikur Rahman, Umme Ayman Koana, Aras M. Ismael, Karmand Hussein Abdalla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16046

Estimating the Effective Topics of Articles and journals Abstract Using LDA And K-Means Clustering Algorithm
Analyzing journals and articles abstract text or documents using topic modelling and text clustering has become a modern solution for the increasing number of text documents. Topic modelling and text clustering are both intensely involved tasks that can benefit one another. Text clustering and topic modelling algorithms are used to maintain massive amounts of text documents. In this study, we have used LDA, K-Means cluster and also lexical database WordNet for keyphrases extraction in our text …

The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival https://www.pianostreet.com/blog/articles/the-piano-taking-center-stage-at-the-2025-verbier-festival-13705/

The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival
PIANO NEWS: An article about The Piano Taking Center Stage at the 2025 Verbier Festival from the Piano Street Magazine.

BBC News, AFP, the AP, and Reuters say they are "desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves" (Amy Walker/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j1j7n72ywo

BBC News and news agencies warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation - BBC News
News organisations say local journalists are increasingly unable to feed themselves in Gaza, facing the same "dire circumstances as those they are covering".

I don't remember that pledge of Starmer's.
UK to purchase nuclear-carrying F-35A fighter jets - BBC News
#warmongering

UK to purchase nuclear-carrying fighter jets
Downing Street says the move is "the biggest strengthening of the UK's nuclear posture in a generation".

Surprise, surprise.
This is not an industrial strategy.
Whatever it is, it isn't fit for the coming era of energy descent and ecosystem collapse.
Lower energy costs part of government's 10-year plan for industry - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1ljnr

Lower energy costs part of government's 10-year plan for industry
Plans to slash energy bills by up to 25% for over 7,000 UK businesses will be announced alongside other plans to boost growth.

A recent post about a library publishing guidelines on citing genAI got me thinking about when that might be appropriate (rarely) or not (almost always), and what those cites should look like when they are needed. I have a new post talking about why genAI output shouldn’t be cited in most cases and, for when they must be, giving examples from common style guides.

Citing material generated by LLMs and chatbots
A recent post on Bluesky lamenting a university library publishing guidelines for citing generative AI (genAI) got me thinking about why one would want to do that in the first place and then, assuming there's a valid reason, what that citation should look like. So, that's what I'm exploring today.

The role of spatial perception in auditory looming bias: neurobehavioral evidence from impossible ears https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1645936/full

Frontiers | The role of spatial perception in auditory looming bias: neurobehavioral evidence from impossible ears
IntroductionSpatial hearing enables both voluntary localization of sound sources and automatic monitoring of the surroundings. The auditory looming bias (ALB...

Sources: the number of Optimus humanoid robots Tesla has made this year is in the hundreds, well behind the pace needed to meet Musk's goal of producing 5K (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-teslas-secretive-optimus-rob…

Inside Tesla’s Secretive Optimus Robot Program
Elon Musk says humanoid robots will be the future of Tesla. The company has a long way to go. Tesla is well behind the pace necessary to meet Musk’s publicly stated goal of producing at least 5,000 of its Optimus humanoid robots this year, according to two people with knowledge of the program. ...

… found only 8% of articles in 2023 shared ANY Open data, consistent with previous reports for psychiatry and psychology research.
In our bioscience sample that year, only 8% of articles shared no Open data. Many factors underlying this difference, of course.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301333
👇 CMHN is our analysis of articles from researchers in the MRC-funded "Circadian and Mental Health Network". 3/3

Halogen abundance evidence for the formation and metasomatism of the primary lunar crust: #moon –> new clues about formation.

Cowboys put Trevon Diggs on active roster, clearing way for cornerback's return early in season https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboys-put-trevon-diggs-on-active-roster-clearing-way-for-cornerbacks-ret…

Sources: Microsoft is investigating whether a leak in its early alert system for cybersecurity companies let Chinese hackers exploit SharePoint flaws (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07…

Microsoft SharePoint Hack: Probe on Whether Chinese Hackers Found Flaw Via Alert
Microsoft Corp. is investigating whether a leak from its early alert system for cybersecurity companies allowed Chinese hackers to exploit flaws in its SharePoint service before they were patched, according to people familiar with the matter.

It's mostly posturing . Shale gas won't be economically viable and will meet huge opposition from communities.
Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74172wlezwo

Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms
The party is serious about going after shale gas - but critics argue it's too difficult and costly.

Meet Aeneas: the AI that can fill in the gaps of damaged Latin texts
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02335-x?utm_source=Live Audience&utm_campaign=371cd4c3c5-nature-briefing-daily-20250724

Trump Threatens NBC, ABC Licenses Over News Coverage (Swati Pandey/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-25/trump-threatens-nbc-abc-licenses-over-news-coverage
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p1#a250825p1

Geno Smith throws TD pass in only drive for Raiders, who fall to Cardinals 20-10 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/geno-smith-throws-td-pass-in-only-drive-for-raiders-who-fall-to-cardinals-2010

Aligning visual imagery to the operator improves geospatial situation awareness in a single-display 360-degree periscope concept https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41235-025-00646-1

Aligning visual imagery to the operator improves geospatial situation awareness in a single-display 360-degree periscope concept - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
Technological advances mean that it is now possible to represent the entire 360° view of the horizon to a submarine periscope operator simultaneously, in strips on a single display, as opposed to the restricted view offered through a conventional periscope aperture. Initial research showing performance improvements for such panoramic displays is promising. However, that research has yet to consider the importance of alignment between the visual representation of the environment on the periscop…

While we are looking at Iran/Israel/Gaza, Putin continues with his demolishing of Ukraine. Let's hope leaders at the NATO summit also discuss about how to counter Russia and prevent these kind of attacks. We defend Israel with allied forces why not Ukraine?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k7vll1

Russian air attack kills nine and injures dozens in Kyiv
Russian missiles and drones hit residential areas and hospitals in Ukraine's Kyiv region, the interior minister says.

Source: Founders Fund and Dragoneer have committed to investing $1B each in OpenAI's second, $30B installment of its $40B round announced in March (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/founders-fund-dragon…

Founders Fund, Dragoneer Each Commit $1 Billion–Plus to OpenAI Deal
As OpenAI tries to raise a record-breaking $40 billion in equity funding this year, it’s getting help from more of its existing investors. Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Dragoneer Investment Group have committed to investing more than $1 billion each in the second, $30 billion installment of ...

Among US adults who have ever encountered paywalled articles, only 1% said they paid for access, 53% looked elsewhere, and 32% gave up on accessing the info (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.

Evidence for a sub-Jovian planet in the young TWA 7 #disk : #Planet Imaged by NASA #Webb Is Lightest Ever Seen: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-126 and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_finds_evidence_of_a_lightweight_planet_around_TWA_7

Lyft rolls out letting riders "favorite" or block drivers to enhance loyalty from riders and drivers; favorites get priority for future scheduled rides (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Lyft Will Let You ‘Favorite’ or ‘Block’ Your Rideshare Driver
The update is part of a larger effort to get riders and drivers to stay on the platform.

Tesla Robotaxi Incidents Draw Scrutiny From US Safety Agency (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-23/tesla-robotaxi-videos-show-speeding-driving-into-wrong-lane
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p157#a250623p157

Raiders release Christian Wilkins over recovery plan for broken foot https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/raiders-release-christian-wilkins-over-recovery-plan-for-broken-foot

Sources: Mira Murati has told investors Thinking Machines Lab plans to develop customized AI models based on business KPIs, and also plans a consumer product (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex-openai-cto-m…

How Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s Startup Plans to Compete With OpenAI and Others
The thinking behind Thinking Machines Lab, a high-profile but mysterious artificial intelligence startup led by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is becoming clearer. After raising an astonishing $2 billion at a $10 billion valuation from investors including Andreessen Horowitz ...

Dusty streaks on the #Moon - fingerprints of multiphase flow instabilities: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62001-8 -> Johns Hopkins engineers explain forces that create unusual radiating dust patterns: https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/21/lunar-landing-dust-debris/

Sources: in 2024, OpenAI considered document collaboration features but lacked the staff to create them, but has since made some unreleased collaboration tools (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-…

OpenAI Quietly Designed a Rival to Google Workspace, Microsoft Office
OpenAI has been gearing up to take on Google and Microsoftwith features that let people collaborate on documents and communicate via chat in ChatGPT, according to two people who have seen the designs. Launching these features would pit OpenAI more directly against Microsoft, its biggest ...

Perplexity launches Comet Plus, a $5/month tier offering curated content, and says it has allocated $42.5M for publishers, who will receive 80% of the revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-25/perp…

Cuomo Concedes to Mamdani in NYC Democratic Primary for Mayor (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-25/new-yorkers-withstand-scorching-heat-to-choose-mayoral-candidate
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p173#a250624p173

Which team has the best chance to go from worst to first in NFL in 2025? https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/which-team-has-the-best-chance-to-go-from-worst-to-first-in-nfl-in-2025

Sources: GPT-5 shows improved performance in coding, particularly in practical software engineering tasks, outperforming prior OpenAI models and Claude Sonnet 4 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-gpt-5-shines-coding…

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Shines in Coding Tasks
GPT-5 is almost here, and we’re hearing good things. The early reaction from at least one person who’s used the unreleased version was extremely positive.That’s good news for OpenAI. The ChatGPT creator has been under pressure to show major gains from its next big artificial intelligence model ...

Magnetically induced convection enhances water electrolysis in #microgravity: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-025-01890-0 -> New Research Enhances Oxygen Production for Space Missions: https://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/en/news-list/news-display?tx_news_pi1[action]=detail&tx_news_pi1[controller]=News&tx_news_pi1[news]=422&cHash=848685cc29bedccacbabce23b44180b5 - a breakthrough in space life support systems, simply because water is magnetic.

Sources: Elad Gil is raising a fund of ~$1.5B that could grow to $2B based on investor interest, making it one of the largest fundraising hauls for a solo GP (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/el…

Elad Gil Plots $1.5 Billion Fund, Stretching Definition of a Solo GP
Venture capital firms are under pressure to make rapid-fire decisions about big checks in the frenzied world of artificial intelligence investing, straining partnerships that need a unified front. It helps sometimes to have just one decision-maker.That makes a case for Elad Gil, a prolific ...

President Trump says he would support the FCC revoking NBC and ABC's station licenses and calls them "two of the worst and most biased networks in history" (Swati Pandey/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Trump Denies Wanting to Destroy Elon Musk's Firms (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-24/trump-denies-wanting-to-destroy-musk-firms-wants-him-to-thrive-mdhfyu43
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p37#a250724p37

Geno Smith aims to bring stability and firepower to Raiders' struggling offense https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/geno-smith-aims-to-bring-stability-and-firepower-to-raiders-struggling-offense

Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-12604-4 "repetitive quasi-isochronous drumming enhanced mental imagery vividness, with a stronger effect observed when the drumming contained random micro-variat…

Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery - Scientific Reports
Music can shape the vividness, sentiment, and content of directed mental imagery. Yet, the role of specific musical features in these effects remains elusive. One important aspect of human musical performances is the presence of micro-variations—small deviations in timbre, pitch, and timing, driven by motor and attentional processes. These variations enhance perceived “naturalness” compared to mechanical playing without such variations. Here, we investigated whether random micro-variation…

Outdoor nighttime light exposure - #LightPollution - is associated with Alzheimer’s disease: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2024.1378498/full -> Inquinamento luminoso e Alzheimer: https://www.media.inaf.it/2024/09/06/light-pollution-alzheimer/

YouTube has become a valuable resource for professional chefs and, in recent years, has helped skilled amateurs build culinary reputations and open restaurants (Kate Krader/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/how-y…

Where is Iran's Uranium? Truce Highlights Mystery Over Stockpile (Jonathan Tirone/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/where-is-iran-s-uranium-truce-highlights-mystery-over-stockpile
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p26#a250624p26

Athletics celebrate groundbreaking of $1.75 billion stadium project in Las Vegas https://www.foxsports.com/articles/mlb/athletics-celebrate-groundbreaking-of-175-billion-stadium-project-in-las-vegas

The growing impact of unintended #Starlink broadband emission on radio astronomy in the #SKA-Low frequency range: #Interference to astronomy the unintended consequence of faster internet: https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/interference-to-astronomy-the-unintended-consequence-of-faster-internet/

FCC's Brendan Carr says he is pleased with some of Skydance's proposed concessions for its Paramount merger, including addressing complaints of news bias at CBS (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Pressure to Seal Trump Trade Deals Ramps Up With Two Weeks to Go (Katia Dmitrieva/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/pressure-to-seal-trump-trade-deals-ramps-up-with-two-weeks-to-go
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p32#a250624p32

South Park creators threaten legal action against Skydance, saying it's interfering in rights talks, showing the impact of the delayed Paramount-Skydance merger (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg discussed a possible acquisition with Runway AI; the deal talks never reached a formal offer level (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-23/meta-held-deal-talks-with-st…

In a memo to staff, Gannett CEO Mike Reed offered employees voluntary buyout packages "to reduce our overall cost structure as we strive for revenue growth" (Allan Lengel/Deadline Detroit)
https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/3

OpenRouter, which directs AI prompts to various LLMs based on cost, speed, and other factors, raised $40M at a valuation of about $500M (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/openrouter-a-marketplace-for-ai…

IBM reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $16.98B, vs. $16.59B est., and software revenue up 10% to $7.39B, vs. $7.49B est.; IBM drops 5% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/ibm-po…

Perplexity launches Comet Plus, a $5/month tier offering curated content, and says it has allocated $42.5M for publishers, who will receive 80% of the revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-25/perp…

French payments group Worldline's stock drops 20% after European journalism network EIC reports alleging that the company covered up customer fraud (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

AMD CEO Lisa Su says she expects TSMC's Arizona-made chips to cost "more than 5% but less than 20%" above TSMC's Taiwan-made chips, and to arrive by 2025's end (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Google reduces the budget for Google TV and Android TV by 10% and cuts Android TV and Google TV's ~300 employees by 25%, as it focuses on YouTube (Sahil Patel/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-cuts-smar…

Google Cuts Smart TV Budget as It Doubles Down on YouTube
Google has cut its smart TV budget and trimmed its team—marking the most concrete signs yet of the company’s waning interest competing with the likes of Samsung and Roku as it centers its TV business around YouTube. The company has reduced the budget for Google TV and Android TV 10%, according ...

Sources: Adani Group has shelved plans for a consumer super app amid losses and internal turmoil, as Reliance and Tata also struggle to scale their platforms (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-2…

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the USDT issuer is making plans to do business in the US after the passage of Genius Act, with a focus on institutional markets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-…

Thoma Bravo buys customer service automation software provider Verint for $1.23B in cash, days after its $12.3B purchase of HR software provider Dayforce (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-25/tho…

Austin-based Overhaul, an in-transit supply chain risk management company, raised a $105M Series C led by Springcoast Partners and Edison Partners (Liz Young/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/supply-chain-

Interviews with 24 Microsoft customers, salespeople, and others show that Microsoft is struggling to sell Copilot AI as enterprise customers opt for ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-2…

Xbow, whose AI tool automates penetration testing and topped HackerOne's US leaderboard for finding and reporting software bugs, raised a $75M Series B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-…

Demand is growing for expensive personalized dating services that vet members before first dates; Tinder's paid users have fallen for two years amid app fatigue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

YouTube has become a valuable resource for professional chefs and, in recent years, has helped skilled amateurs build culinary reputations and open restaurants (Kate Krader/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/how-y…

At an AI summit, President Trump says he considered breaking up Nvidia before aides told him that doing so was "very hard" and "I learned the facts here" (Annmarie Hordern/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Saudi Arabia's Humain debuts Humain Chat, a bilingual Arabic-English conversational AI powered by its Allam LLM and designed around Islamic values and heritage (Omar El Chmouri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Lyft partners with Austria-based Benteler to deploy autonomous shuttles in the US in late 2026, to be initially deployed in partnership with airports and cities (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

CISPE files a legal complaint in the EU, arguing that the bloc's approval of Broadcom's VMware buyout failed to impose conditions to prevent market power abuse (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Satellite company Maxar launches Sentry, an AI service that autonomously guides satellites to monitor cities, ports, and other sites for unusual activity (Sana Pashankar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Kalshi is raising $100M led by Paradigm at a $1B valuation; Polymarket is completing a $200M investment led by Founders Fund at a ~$1B valuation (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Walmart has opened a "dark store" warehouse in Dallas and plans to add another in Bentonville, Arkansas, as it tests ways to speed up online deliveries (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Amazon says it plans to invest £40B in the UK economy over the next three years, including opening four new warehouses; Amazon invested £12B in the UK in 2023 (Freya Jones/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: Google reduces its Google TV and Android TV budget by 10% and cuts Android TV and Google TV's ~300 employees by up to 25%, as it focuses on YouTube (Sahil Patel/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-cuts-sm…

Google Cuts Smart TV Budget as It Doubles Down on YouTube
Google has cut its smart TV budget and trimmed its team—marking the most concrete signs yet of the company’s waning interest competing with the likes of Samsung and Roku as it centers its TV business around YouTube. The company has reduced the budget for Google TV and Android TV 10%, according ...