Tootfinder

Esusu, which offers a rent reporting API to Zillow, banks, and others to help renters build credit scores, raised a $50M Series C at a $1.2B valuation (Krysta Escobar/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/esusu-funding-renters-credit-scores.html

Esusu, platform for renters to build credit scores, valued at $1.2 billion in new funding round
Esusu raises $50 million at a $1.2 billion valuation as it helps more renters build credit scores and gain access to mortgages and other financial products.

"This startup wants to build pumped hydro storage in the ocean"
#Hydrogen #Energy
https://www.

This startup wants to build pumped hydro storage in the ocean
Sizable Energy raised $8M to build a demonstration plant that stores energy for long durations by pumping brine between inflatable reservoirs in the sea.

"...detailed how the company would use AI to speed up licensing. In [Microsoft’s] conception, existing nuclear licensing documents and data about nuclear sites data would be used to train an LLM that’s then used to generate documents to speed up the process."
JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST
https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

< ionen> I feel like I'm updating uv/uv-build more often than I use it and it takes like 10000x longer to build than the package I use it for
Who would have thought that the #RustLang fad will make people force others to install humongous tools that don't bring any benefit to them.
#Python #PEP517

»Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.«
What could possibly go wrong. Trust me, I'm an engineer. 🤦
Full story over at @…:

Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

from my link log —
How to build a personal webpage from scratch.
https://rutar.org/writing/how-to-build-a-personal-webpage-from-scratch/
saved 2022-09-29

I have built from source vim and Macvim thousands of times (really). I can count on my fingers the times the build has failed.
Every time I have been able to build Emacs from source on macOS has been reason to celebrate. As most of the time it fails.

China cites Biden’s message to Xi
that Japan could build nuclear weapons ‘overnight’
Beijing releases 30-page report that includes a call for international community to
‘take concrete and strong measures’
against Japan’s nuclear ambitions
https://…

China cites Biden’s message to Xi that Japan could build nukes ‘overnight’
Beijing releases 30-page report that includes a call for international community to ‘take concrete and strong measures’ against Japan’s nuclear ambitions.

After a couple of months of work, I have finally landed the micro-SwiftGodot to our main branch-for people to build small extensions
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftGodot/releases
We still have that nasty Apple bug that bloats binaries by bolting SwiftSyntax in yo…

Raiders 3-Round Mock Draft: If it’s Fernando Mendoza, build it like Indiana https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/12/raiders-3-round-mock-draft-if-its-fernando-mendoza-build-it-like-indiana/

"But they stop short of examining the forces that may be actually driving the minerals agenda: tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who see Greenland not just as a source of rare earths, but as a laboratory for their libertarian economic and social experiments. These tech-billionaires envision unregulated “freedom cities” in Greenland, free from democratic oversight, environmental laws, and labor protections."

Reminder: under GPL/AGPL, “Corresponding Source” includes everything needed to build and modify the work. That means AI prompts, generated scripts, and config files as well. Don’t leave them out.
"The "Corresponding Source" for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run the object code and to modify the work, including scripts to control those activities."

Low-maturity #tech orgs fetishize ideas.
Their process goes like this: a senior stakeholder has an idea, then the engineers build it. Only then can the team go and "validate" it.
The main outcome of this process is ANXIETY, because people know they are making a huge bet, but the risks aren't being acknowledged.
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Bandcamp bans music and audio that is "generated wholly or in substantial part by AI", hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (Maya Perez/WebProNews)
https://www.webpronews.com/bandcamp-bans-ai-generated-music…

Way-Too-Early 2026 Mock Draft: Cowboys Build a Defensive Powerhouse https://insidethestar.com/way-too-early-2026-mock-draft-cowboys-build-a-defensive-powerhouse

Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/us/politics/biden-presidential-library-delaware.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p10#a251213p10

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is establishing a new "top-level" initiative called Meta Compute to build "tens of gigawatts" of AI infrastructure during this decade (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/12/meta-compute-ai-infrastructure<…

Meta launches new "Meta Compute" initiative to build AI infrastructure
Zuckerberg said Meta plans to build tens of gigawatts of AI infrastructure this decade, "and hundreds of gigawatts or more over time."

Six degrees of #Wikipedia is a site that lets you type in two different topics and then shows how many Wikipedia pages apart they are. It also displays a visual chart for each pair of topics you enter.
The chart includes the two topics you entered, and all the other ones that build bridges connecting the two.
And while you’re at it, consider making a donation to help support wiki.

Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Find the shortest hyperlinked paths between any two pages on Wikipedia.

Works.

Feeling very inadequate after watching 7Asian craft an entire floating village by himself. Watch 1 year of amazing engineering & hard work in just 1hr.
▶️ He Left Civilization to Build a Floating Self-Sustaining Island | by 7Asian
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AJSXVUd819

An interesting example of how a non-grid operator can achieve a (temporary) grid connection using a battery. Once the grid operator has made the permanent connections, the battery can be used elsewhere.
A temporary variant on contestable build that can be scaled further?

Provincie Noord-Holland helpt woningbouw met oplossing netcongestie
De provincie Noord-Holland stelt € 150.000 beschikbaar aan Woningcorporatie Parteon om de nieuwbouwwoningen aan de D. Doniastraat in Zaandam eerder op te kunnen leveren aan de bewoners.

Santa #Python came super early in 2026!
With build 1.4.0, it is now possible to easily dump effective package metadata!
So getting the version of a package in the current directory is now as easy as `pipx run build --metadata 2>/dev/null | jq -r .version`.
This is NOT like parsing pyproject.toml or whatever. It builds the package and looks at the result. So it works even with…

Release 1.4.0 · pypa/build
Add --quiet flag (PR #947) Add option to dump PEP 517 metadata with --metadata (PR #940, PR #943) Support UV environment variable (PR #971) Remove a workaround for 3.14b1 (PR #960) In 3.14 final re...

🐘 PostgreSQL? ☁️ Kubernetes? 🦀 Rust? 🛠️ Automation?
If you use it, build it, or broke it—we want to hear about it.
#SCaLE23x

I sometimes write posts which go through twists and turns that make them look haphazard and are met with incomprehension or even scorn from readers who think I've accidentally made them laugh though I actually carefully constructed the piece with phrasing to build up to an often non-sequitur type of punchline.

If I were to build a new national party in the US or EU, it would be abundance-based—and begin with a merciless assault on administrative burden and bureaucratic disentitlement. @ezraklein is right that bureaucracy blocks progress, but it also disenfranchises.

""[…] There is only one correct metric that should be counted when dealing with software, and that is the user's cognitive load. […] If my Windows/Python/Notepad setup is more ubiquitous, understandable, intuitive and replicable than your obscure Arch/Hyprland build with its hundred painstakingly typed-out customizations for every single software in it, then my setup is better and more minimalist than yours. Full stop. […]""

📁 Build your own agent library: Create ~/agents/ directory with specialized agents like review.claude .md, commit.gemini .md, explain.claude .md, add to PATH and use from anywhere
🛠️ Installation via npm install -g mdflow or bun install && bun link, run mdflow --setup for shell integration to make .md files directly executable

It’s striking how dramatically our mindset has shifted in under 30 years. Before the 90s, people were frustrated by the need to buy products they weren’t able to build themselves. Today, despite having unprecedented access to tools, materials, and even electronics development, many people prefer plug-and-play solutions.
In essence, we once valued understanding how things worked. Now, we often prioritize convenience and mental ease. Even remembering a few keyboard shortcuts feels excessi…

From the latest The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
It just underlines that Trump are making excuses that have no basis in reality or make any sense, for his want of Greenland.
It is pure and simple a vanity project for Trump, as an attempt to build a legacy that might be a little more enduring than gluing his name onto the Kennedy Center.
http…

We ended up building an “expo”, but for Godot:
https://zirk.us/@Eyelit/115547519055762618

There was this mention in the Budgie 10.10 release announcement of ending an era and working together in a very positive way with the KDE team.
What most people, including yours truly, missed was the mention of QT6 as the new development platform of choice for Budgie 11! Part of Frameworks is already in 10.10, and a totally new architecture will be build for Wayland, QT and Budgie. Exciting times!

I did not know about ggplot_build() before. It can come in handy in situations where you want to access computed metrics of a #ggplot. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot_build.html…

Build ggplot for rendering. — ggplot_build
build_ggplot() takes the plot object, and performs all steps necessary to produce an object that can be rendered. This function outputs two pieces: a list of data frames (one for each layer), and a panel object, which contain all information about axis limits, breaks etc. The ggplot_build() function is vestigial and build_ggplot() should be used instead.

Just fixed an issue where our calendaring server was having issues, which I tracked down to a bunch of old events in the timezone "Europe/Kiev" which now doesn't exist.
Ugh.
(Timezone was renamed Europe/Kyiv in Aug 2022, so now I have to add "tzdata-legacy" to my build scripts.)

"Britain’s 300-hectare Seed Processing Center Opens to Build Climate-Resilient Forests"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Trees #Environment

Britain's 300-hectare Seed Processing Center Opens to Build Climate-Resilient Forests | Happy Eco News
Britain's largest seed processing center opened in Cheshire to produce seeds for climate-resilient forests. The facility processes four tonnes of seeds annually and can store them for up to 20 years.

Mathematical Modeling of Networks in Strength of Materials
Ioannis Dassios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10132 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10132

Mathematical Modeling of Networks in Strength of Materials
We study a material modeled as a network of nodes connected by edges. Using a discrete approach, we build a nonlinear algebraic system that connects applied forces to internal forces and node positions. The model can describe elasticity, plasticity, and possibly cracking. The goal is to solve this system and understand how the material responds. Students are asked to start with a simple triangle example and then apply the method to larger structures. The final aim is to solve the full system an…

A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars: #Mars, Says New Report: https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/search-for-life-should-be-top-science-priority-for-first-human-landing-on-mars-says-new-report -> In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/in-a-major-new-report-scientists-build-rationale-for-sending-astronauts-to-mars/

“So I would advise and caution against purchasing an AI toy for Christmas and think about other options of things that parents and kids can enjoy together that really build that social connection with the family, not the social connection with a parasocial AI toy.”
Many of these toys are happy to engage in discussions inappropriate for children, such as dangerous activities or sexual practices. Some are programmed to cause addiction.

What we're seeing with #theforkiverse has worked before and can work again. Community leaders have proven they can build communities in places like discord and it would be super cool if there were clear reasons for them to choose fediverse platforms.
Not sure if there are clear ways to promote it. Perhaps more focus on instance customization (tbh plugins would help).

To build more powerful AI systems, some AI leaders are focusing on pursuing an approach called continual learning, which mimics how people learn over time (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Why the Raiders Have Plenty to Build Around Moving Forward https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-have-plenty-build-around-moving-forward

"As per Trumpian fantasy, the ringleader of the narco-terror operation is none other than Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro himself.
"Never mind that Venezuela has approximately zero to do with drugs entering the US and doesn’t even produce fentanyl."
The US is already at war with Venezuela | Donald Trump | Al Jazeera

The US is already at war with Venezuela
Trump’s violent new tactics build on years of US sanctions and intervention that have devastated ordinary Venezuelans.

I followed @…'s lead to build a simple stand-in for WaveLogGate. I wanted a simple, low-memory-use, command-line-only version that just forwards the radio settings to WaveLog. I decided to build it in Go to enable building standalone binaries for many platforms with no dependencies on the runtime environment.
I am now succ…

Topological weak containment
Riley Thornton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10882 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10882

Topological weak containment
We build on work of Elek and Zucker and develop a topological analogue of the theory of weak containment. We show that definitions in terms of local patterns, containment in ultra(co)products, and continuous model theory are all equivalent, just as in ergodic theory. And, for actions on Cantor space, we show these are all equivalent to approximate conjugacy. Restricting our attention to Cantor space, we connect this theory to questions about generic actions. We show how the shape of the space…

Tehran says Russia will build eight new nuclear power plants in Iran: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/02/tehran-says-russia-will-build.html

Reconstructing and resampling: a guide to utilising posterior samples from gravitational wave observations
Gregory Ashton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11197 https://

Reconstructing and resampling: a guide to utilising posterior samples from gravitational wave observations
The LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) gravitational-wave observatories have opened new scientific research in astrophysics, fundamental physics, and cosmology. The collaborations that build and operate these observatories release the interferometric strain data as well as a catalogue of observed signals with accompanying Bayesian posterior distributions. These posteriors, in the form of equally-weighted samples, form a dataset that is used by a multitude of further analyses seeking to constrain the …

Some people want to shield data from AI use, interestingly there is also the exact opposite.
https://www.hpcwire.com/bigdatawire/2025/11/27/the-global-race-to-build-ai-ready-scientific-datasets/

The Global Race to Build AI-Ready Scientific Datasets - BigDATAwire
In the wake of the Genesis Mission, it’s become obvious that data is stepping into a role we once reserved for hardware. The United States didn’t commit to faster chips […]

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Building and Evaluating a Realistic Virtual World for Large Scale Urban Exploration from 360{\deg} Videos
Mizuki Takenawa, Naoki Sugimoto, Leslie W\"ohler, Satoshi Ikehata, Kiyoharu Aizawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11447

Building and Evaluating a Realistic Virtual World for Large Scale Urban Exploration from 360° Videos
We propose to build realistic virtual worlds, called 360RVW, for large urban environments directly from 360° videos. We provide an interface for interactive exploration, where users can freely navigate via their own avatars. 360° videos record the entire environment of the shooting location simultaneously leading to highly realistic and immersive representations. Our system uses 360° videos recorded along streets and builds a 360RVW through four main operations: video segmentation by interse…

Took a couple of rest days b/c I could feel my hamstring & feared possible injury. After a consideration of time spent in each HR zone over previous runs, it was clear that I was overdoing the pace, even with 4/1 min run/walk intervals. I ~could~ do that pace, but I ~should~ dial it back a bit & build fitness. Anaerobic all the time wasn’t helping.
Cold tonight, just below freezing and 25 mph (40 kph) winds gusting to 50 mph (80.5 kph).

We are looking for motivated volunteers to help make #bbuzz a success! Whether you're interested in being a stage host, assisting with registration, or helping with build-up and break-down, we would love to have you on board.
Learn more about our volunteering options: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/helping-hands/

MSA-3D: Uncovering Weak AGNs and Resolved Outflows in Disguise in $z\sim1$ Star-Forming Galaxies
Namrata Roy, Alaina Henry, Tucker Jones, Ivana Barisic, Ryan L. Sanders, Kevin Bundy, Matthew A. Malkan, Themiya Nanayakkara, Karl Glazebrook, Timothy Heckman, Juan M. Espejo Salcedo, Xin Wang, Danail Obreschkow, Tommaso Treu
https://arxiv.org/…

MSA-3D: Uncovering Weak AGNs and Resolved Outflows in Disguise in $z\sim1$ Star-Forming Galaxies
We present spatially resolved rest-optical spectroscopy of 38 star-forming galaxies at 0.5 < z < 1.7 from the JWST/NIRSpec MSA-3D survey, which uses slit-stepping to build IFU-like datacubes at 0.1'' resolution. We map emission-line morphology, excitation, and kinematics of the warm ionized gas using [N II]/H$α$, [S II]/H$α$, and [O III]/H$β$. Relative to z$\sim$0 galaxies at fixed stellar mass, our sources show systematically lower [N II]/H$α$ and [S II]/H$α$ and elevated [O III]/H$β$, c…

My desktop environment is clean, my build is optimal, and my OS is Linux. That's the real power creep. 📈
Streaming #GuildWars2 tonight! Come check out the gameplay.
Join the Puddings: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

Token is All You Price
Weijie Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09859 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09859

Token is All You Price
We build a mechanism design framework where a platform designs GenAI models to screen users who obtain instrumental value from the generated conversation and privately differ in their preference for latency. We show that the revenue-optimal mechanism is simple: deploy a single aligned (user-optimal) model and use token cap as the only instrument to screen the user. The design decouples model training from pricing, is readily implemented with token metering, and mitigates misalignment pressures.

SK Hynix will invest ~$12.9B to build an advanced chip packaging plant in South Korea to meet rising memory chip demand, targeting completion by the end of 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sk-hynix…

#uspol #greenland #dkpol I believe that Trumps interest in Greenland is mainly a vanity project to help him build a legacy for his presidency. As such he is presumably on a deadline, either hoping to a…

NFL Expert Picks: Vikings Look to Build Late-Season Momentum at Cowboys in Week 15 https://www.vikings.com/news/nfl-expert-picks-week-15-cowboys-sunday-night-football-2025

from my link log —
Build system tradeoffs.
https://jyn.dev/build-system-tradeoffs
saved 2025-11-02 https://dotat.at/:/5ZUHD.html

Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/12/2025/singapore-startup-b…

Singapore startup builds AI-powered, self-running chemistry lab
The self-driving lab consists of AI software and robots that design experiments, run them, and gather data, with limited human intervention.

A profile of David Ellison, who is trying to build a media empire that could dwarf even the Murdochs' with help from his father and Oracle founder Larry Ellison (Reeves Wiedeman/Vulture)
https://www.vulture.com/article/larry-david-e…

Can Larry and David Ellison’s Oracle Money Buy Hollywood?
With help from his father, Larry, and their billions in Oracle money, David Ellison is trying to become the biggest studio mogul in Hollywood history.

py5sig build automatically 5G signalling messages and fuzz SBI interfaces
Pretty cool stuff seen at the @… workshop
#5g #fuzzing

The "let's build datacenters in space!" thing is so obviously an investment scam that it's not even funny

Why the Raiders Have Plenty to Build Around Moving Forward https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-have-plenty-build-around-moving-forward

Bandcamp bans music and audio that is "generated wholly or in substantial part by AI", hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made (Maya Perez/WebProNews)
https://www.webpronews.com/bandcamp-bans-ai-generated-music…

📈 Build dashboards: Visualize input/output token usage, sessions & conversations, total costs in USD, terminal type distribution (#VSCode, Apple Terminal), requests per user & tool type usage (Read, Edit, LS, Bash)
🎯 Real insights: Measure ROI & productivity gains, spot performance bottlenecks & reliability issues, track adoption trends & user trust via accept/reject …

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You approach a wide river on your journey. To get to the other side you must build a raft. After many attempts and false starts you at last are able to cross the river. Once you reach the other side, you continue on your journey, but the raft is heavy, no longer useful, and so you leave the raft behind, that others may use it to cross the river. This is the parable of the raft.

Papua New Guinea says Google will build three subsea cables for the country, a $120M effort funded by Australia, amid China's rising influence in the region (Kirsty Needham/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

"How to build giant solar plants in mountainous areas"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

How to build giant solar plants in mountainous areas
Chinese researchers have proposed a new methodology for designing utility-scale solar power projects in mountainous regions. They simulated a 386.4 MW solar farm near Pu’er, a city in southern China located 1,037 meters above sea level.

Fernando Mendoza only works in Las Vegas if the Raiders build protection first https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/10/fernando-mendoza-only-works-in-las-vegas-if-the-raiders-build-protection-first/

The Washington Post's new Your Personal Podcast, which offers AI-generated customizable podcasts, was developed under a multiyear agreement with ElevenLabs (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-washington-post-debu…

The Washington Post debuts AI-personalized podcasts to hook younger listeners
The Washington Post used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and duration.

Boltz, which is developing open frontier AI models for biomolecular research, raised a $28M seed led by Zetta, Amplify, and a16z at a valuation of $125M (Andrew Dunn/Endpoints News)
https://endpoints.news/exclusive-boltz-raises-28m-seed-to-build-ope…

Boltz raises $28M seed to build open AI models in biology
Boltz raises $28M seed round to develop open-source AI models for drug discovery, partners with Pfizer. Founded by MIT researchers after AlphaFold 3's closed release.

Sources: the US nears a trade deal with Taiwan that would reduce tariffs on the island's exports and include a commitment from TSMC to build 5 fabs in Arizona (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/business/economy/trump-taiwan-deal.html

Trump Administration Nears Trade Deal With Taiwan
The deal would cut tariffs and include a commitment from Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, the island’s chip giant, to build more manufacturing plants in the United States.

from my link log —
Build your own gpg in Rust.
https://andrewhalle.github.io/build-your-own/gpg
saved 2020-11-12 https://dotat.…

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When I build my time machine, the first thing I will do is travel back to the 90s in Japan and kill all the people who made those horribly broken support websites that couldn't be properly archived and all the drivers are now lost

ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raises a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/atg-autonomou…

Y Combinator veterans share how they raised $15 million to build an AI money manager
Two Y Combinator veterans behind a nine-figure exit have now raised $15 million, led by YC CEO Garry Tan, to build an AI-powered money manager.

Salesforce expands its partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their AI models into Agentforce 360, including letting customers access it in ChatGPT (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

Salesforce expands OpenAI, Anthropic partnerships, eyes Agentforce everywhere
Salesforce expanded partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their large language models into Agentforce 360. At Dreamforce 2025, Salesforce said it has expanded a partnership with OpenAI so customers can access Agentforce 360 in ChatGPT. Salesforce customers will be able to access sales records, review conversations and build Tableau visualizations from within ChatGPT.

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"Oxford United to Build UK’s First All-Electric Football Stadium"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Football

Oxford United to Build UK’s First All-Electric Football Stadium | Happy Eco News
Oxford United will build the UK’s first all-electric football stadium, a 16,000-seat venue powered entirely by renewable energy. Featuring solar panels, heat pumps, and timber construction, the £150 million project will slash emissions by 80%. Alongside football, it will host events, a hotel, and community facilities—redefining sustainable stadium design.

Sources: DeepSeek is developing its new AI model using several thousand Nvidia Blackwell chips, which were smuggled into China via third-party countries (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-using-banned-nvidia-chi…

DeepSeek is Using Banned Nvidia Chips in Race to Build Next Model
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has been developing its next major model using several thousand Nvidia’s state-of-the-art Blackwell chips which the U.S. has forbidden from being exported to China, according to six people with knowledge of the matter. The chips DeepSeek is using were smuggled ...

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Switzerland-based Mimic Robotics, which is building AI models to enable human-like robotic hands to adapt to complex, high-precision tasks, raised a $16M seed (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/04/mimic-raises-16m-build-a…

Mimic raises $16M to build AI models for human-like robotic hands - SiliconANGLE
Mimic raises $16M to build AI models for human-like robotic hands - SiliconANGLE

Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo and releases an update to its Mercury coding model (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/inception-rai…

Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text | TechCrunch
Diffusion models already power AI image generators, but Inception thinks they can be even more powerful applied in software development.

Samsung says it's partnering with Nvidia to build an "AI Megafactory" and deploy over 50K of Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to embed AI in its chipmaking process (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/30/sa

Samsung and Nvidia to build an AI Megafactory to transform semiconductor manufacturing - SiliconANGLE
Samsung and Nvidia to build an AI Megafactory to transform semiconductor manufacturing - SiliconANGLE

Microsoft plans to spend $10B to build a data center in the Portuguese town of Sines in partnership with Portuguese developer Start Campus and UK startup Nscale (Henrique Almeida/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google DeepMind launches an enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent accessible to developers via its new Interactions API, along with a new DeepSearchQA benchmark (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/technology/developers/deep-research-agent-gemini-api/

Build with Gemini Deep Research
We have reimagined Gemini Deep Research to be more powerful than ever, now accessible to developers via the new Interactions API.

An investor group and AI developer Voltai plan to use AI to design, build, and run a 3GW data center in South Korea, set to cost up to $35B and open in 2028 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a-…

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says his new superintelligence team will build "frontier-grade research capability" and Microsoft needs AI self-sufficiency (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-

OpenAI used to prevent Microsoft pursuing AGI. Now, the software giant is free to compete, Mustafa Suleyman says.
A renegotiated deal lets Microsoft independently pursue artificial general intelligence. Suleyman is seizing the moment.

Neros, which makes low-cost, military FPV drones in the US, raised $75M led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $121M, and won a US Army contract (Farah Stockman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/business/neros-military-drones.html

The 20-Somethings Who Raised $121 Million to Build Military Drones
Neros, a company founded in 2023 by former teenage drone racers, won a coveted Army contract and is gaining popularity in the defense sector.

Qualcomm Ventures and six Indian VC firms join India Deep Tech Alliance with an additional $850M in commitments; Nvidia joins as a strategic technical adviser (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/nvid

NVIDIA, Qualcomm join U.S., Indian VCs to help build India's next deep tech startups | TechCrunch
Qualcomm Ventures has joined six Indian venture firms, collectively adding more than $850 million to boost India’s deep-tech ecosystem.

Google unveils Project Suncatcher to launch two solar-powered satellites, each with four TPUs, into low Earth orbit in 2027, as it seeks to scale AI compute (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/04/2025/google-wants-…

Google wants to build solar-powered data centers — in space
The tech giant released a paper Tuesday outlining plans to launch its AI chips into low-earth orbit, allowing them to run off solar power.

Procurement Sciences, whose AI software helps its customers find and build proposals for government contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Catalyst Investors (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-softwa…

Exclusive: Procurement Sciences raises $30M for government contracts software
Catalyst Investors led the round.