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Coverbase, an AI procurement and risk platform provider, raised a $16.5M Series A led by Canapi Ventures, bringing its total funding to $20M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/coverbase-raise-ai-powered-procurement/

Exclusive: With Customers Like Okta And Coinbase, Coverbase Raises $16M To Grow AI-Powered Procurement...
Coverbase, an AI-powered procurement platform, has raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Canapi Ventures, the startup tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

Google bereitet Android für den PC-Markt vor: Aluminium OS soll ChromeOS ablösen
Mit dem Android-Betriebssystem, das den Codenamen „Aluminium OS“ trägt, möchte Google den PC-Markt aufmischen. Nun sind neue Details durchgesickert.

A look at The Border Chronicle, a subscriber- and grant-supported publication that tells stories from the perspective of people living near the US-Mexico border (Lucy Schiller/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/the-border-chr

With the Border Chronicle, a group of veteran journalists cover “the backdrop for national politics and rhetoric.”
A group of veteran journalists cover “the backdrop for national politics and rhetoric.” 

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cranes:
🎵 Everywhere
#Cranes
https://acdeathstrike.bandcamp.com/track/cranes-are-everywhere
https://open.spotify.com/track/6sqVAbU5ghe076ecYhImXG

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

“I wonder how much of this is also about the economy with AI as a convenient scapegoat?”
The answer to that question is “almost all of it.” https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115448727812641385

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Plastique01:
🎵 Chronosonic VII
#Plastique01
https://rinascimentoelettronico.bandcamp.com/track/chronosonic-vii
https://open.spotify.com/track/1yCpuitmN5OYqMNemNYEoc

Flexion, which is building a full autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50M Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures, and others, after a $7M seed (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/robotic-brain-building-star…

Exclusive: Founded By Ex-Nvidia Researchers, Flexion Lands $50M To Build The 'Brain' for Humanoid Robots
A startup founded by former Nvidia researchers that’s “building the brain for humanoid and human-capable robots,” Flexion has raised $50 million in funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

Oracle, whose expenses are rising as it begins to fulfill massive cloud infrastructure deals, turned cash flow negative this year for the first time since 1992 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters…

A job listing shows Google is developing a new Android-based "Aluminium OS" that is "built with AI at the core", potentially as a ChromeOS replacement for PCs (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/aluminium-os-android-f…

Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know
Goodbye ChromeOS, hello Aluminium OS: Here's everything we know about Google's plans to bring Android to PCs!