Slice, which uses AI agents to encode tax policies and legal rules across 60 countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight, taking its total funding to $32M (Mary Ann Azevedo/This Week in Fintech)
https://www.thisweekinfintech.com/slice-ra
Trump administration orders to keep an ageing, unneeded Michigan
coal-fired power plant online
has cost ratepayers from across the US midwest about $113m so far,
according to estimates from the plant’s operator and regulators.
Still, the US energy department last week ordered the plant to remain open for another 90 days.
Call if your Senator already agrees. Push them to do more. Make them lose sleep wondering how they can stop ICE harder.
Cal if your Senator is an irredeemable right-winger. Let them feel the heat. Make them know ICE’s murders will haunt them.
Call if your Senator is waffling. That means they’re weak, and right now that means we have the advantage.
For this brief moment, the fight is in the electoral arena, and your calls are actually good for something.
Cold and windy, but my gluttony over the holidays has insulated me well. I would trade some of it for fitness, which I suppose is what’s happening, albeit much slower and more arduously than I might like.
Ran 4/1 minute run/walk intervals for what turned out to be 6.5 km. Pace was 8:03/km.
#Running
#freshRss release notes:
"Scaling of user statistics in Web UI and CLI, to help instances with 1k users"
I feel a bit small with my installation for two users
https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/r
Targeted cooling of urban cycling networks for heat-resilient mobility
#cycling!
Echoes of Shakespeare: Intertextual Dialogues across Centuries https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/18/echoes-of-shakespeare-intertextual-dialogues-across-centuries
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Christmas should be for families, not NBA overload. Even LeBron James agrees https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6916487/2025/12/24/christmas-sports-overload-nba-nfl/
Alarming findings were published in the journal "Cell Reports Medicine",
showing that four leading
AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems
differ in accuracy depending on patients‘ age, gender, and race
— demographic data that the AI is extracting directly from pathology slides ... a feat that’s impossible for human doctors.