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Miami-based Pelico, which offers a supply chain orchestration platform, raised a $40M Series B led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $72M (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-dea

Supply chain tech startup Pelico raises $40M round led by General Catalyst
The startup serves aerospace, defense, luxury and industrial customers, but its co-founder sees relevance in medical devices and energy.

FAU University Press: Now in the top catalogs for open access publications https://ub.fau.de/en/2025/06/17/fau-university-press-now-in-the-top-catalogs-for-open-access-publications/

Scandales sexuels dans l'Église catholique: Léon XIV promet la justice, mais traîne déjŠ des casseroles
https://www.slate.fr/societe/nouveau-pape-leon-xiv-attentes-abus-sexuels-espoir-plainte-craint…

Commure, which provides ambient AI, revenue cycle management, and workflow automation tools for healthcare providers, raised $200M from General Catalyst (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/06/19/commure-…

Commure raises $200M from GC's marketing fund
The company's CEO says it may also raise another round of capital later this year.

I was handed a bucket full of lego worm gears https://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=4716 a few weeks ago and came up with this model:

After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide.
For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks.
Scientists called this steel
"low-background steel."
Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.
With the advent o…

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

Separation of church and state dodges a bullet — for now
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5352594-supreme-court-catholic-school-funding/

Testing the asteroseismic estimates of stellar radii with surface brightness-colour relations and {\it Gaia} DR3 parallaxes. III. Main-sequence stars
G. Valle, M. Dell'Omodarme, P. G. Prada Moroni, S. Degl'Innocenti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15462

Testing the asteroseismic estimates of stellar radii with surface brightness-colour relations and {\it Gaia} DR3 parallaxes. III. Main-sequence stars
We compare the radii derived from the asteroseismic scaling relations with those from surface brightness-colour relations (SBCRs) combined with the Gaia DR3 parallaxes for main-sequence (MS) stars. The atmospheric and asteroseismic parameters were sourced from the recently released KEYSTONE catalogue and matched to Gaia DR3 and TESS Input Catalog v8.2. We computed SBCR-based radii using two different SBCRs, and estimated their relative differences with respect to radius estimates from asterosei…

A look at the Catholic Church's decade-long dialogue with Silicon Valley on AI, as Pope Leo prepares to make AI's potential threat to humanity a signature issue (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/pope-leo-ai-te