Tootfinder

Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 (AI Security Institute)
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/how-far-behind-the-fronti…

How Far Behind the Frontier are Leading Open Weight Models on Cyber? | AISI Work
We evaluated the cyber capabilities of leading open and closed weight AI models, and found that recent open models GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro perform similarly to frontier closed models released 4 to 7 months before them – a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months we measured through most of 2025.

In Closed-Door Talks, U.S. Demands a Major Role in Greenland (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/world/europe/in-closed-door-talks-us-demands-a-major-role-in-greenland.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p24#a260518p24

Steelers great Ben Roethlisberger says Ravens are 'falling apart' and Super Bowl window 'has closed'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ben-roethlisberger-ravens-window-close…

I was fine with the JCPOA and the state of affairs prior to 28 February.
Structured alt:
https://codepen.io/aardrian/full/gbggLZE

"The American demands are so steep, Greenlandic officials fear, that they amount to a major imposition on their sovereignty. Despite all of the talk from Danish and American officials that Greenland’s future is up to the island’s 57,000 people, Greenlandic officials said the American demands would tie their hands for generations."
#usa

In Closed-Door Talks, U.S. Demands a Major Role in Greenland
Greenlandic officials worry about the direction of the negotiations aimed at defusing President Trump’s threats to seize their island. But they have little leverage.

Netflix says it is "not interested" and has no plans to pursue Lionsgate; Lionsgate shares closed up 13.85% on Tuesday before falling ~4% after hours (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/netflix-lionsg…

Netflix Isn't Interested in Lionsgate Despite Takeover Speculation
Sources familiar with the matter disputed Semafor's reporting, telling TheWrap that the streamer is not interested and has no plans to pursue an acquisition

I love how California poppies close up in the evening like they’re tucking themselves into bed.

Fuckin' bike shop hours, man. Kids were up my butt all day, I finally get a few mins to look at the bike.. and I'm gonna need to get a bike shop to unseize the quick release skewer from the hub. But of course the bike shops all closed 15 mins ago at 5pm..

PayRise With Clare Ferguson And Simon Rutten
We unpack the quiet questions people ask behind closed doors about loyalty, negotiation, promotions, and when it might be time to move on...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/payrise/ …

#Seattle folks who are interested in #DisasterPrep organizing might also be interested in the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods matching funds (closed for 2026, but thinking forward to 2027). We talked about getting grants, but I don't think we ever applied.
#Amsterdam has one too. We don't have to do everything ourselves. It's OK to use money like this to build capacity if we can find good targets. At least, that's my take.

I knew that the existence of #WSocial from last year stank of something foul.
And @… has proved it. Good thing that #Eurosky exists!

W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.

Snap's stock closed down 8.14% on Wednesday, after the company launched the $2,195 Specs AR glasses on Tuesday; SNAP is down ~41% YTD (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/after-unveiling-ridiculously-expe…

After unveiling ridiculously expensive AR glasses, Snap's stock takes a dive | TechCrunch
Snap's long awaited smart glasses debut hasn't exactly done wonders for the company's stock.

When the forecast is for 85 after weeks of grey 50’s a point for me to remember: keep the windows closed to keep the hot air out 🥵☀️

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I was like Indiana Jones grabbing my hat right before the wall closed on me.
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Cowboys agree to terms with UFL depth as minicamp ends; end of the road for WR, CB, OL https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/18/cowboys-mims-spe…

Informed by the press conference with U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen and Homeland Security Special Agent Michael McCarthy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X3DhFnngDY
PDF (untagged) of indictment:

Huh. Just got push back from the library where we're going to be doing an InstallFest in a couple weekends - they didn't like the 'tone' of my poster. They told me to drop the 'US' from 'US Big Tech', and my charactersations: 'your exploitative, closed, corporate-controlled devices' or singling out Windows 11 - '...you're uncomfortable with, like Microsoft Windows 11 constantly pushing AI & ads down your throat...' Here're the orig …

Maintaining a project on microsoft/azure github seems as bad as maintaining a profile on X. Reputational damage for maintaining a github repo will hopefully catch up to reality soon.
It's bonkers that we let the free/open source community get so comprehensively captured by closed source, inhumane corporate tech.
If your community on there doesn't have an exit plan, it might be worth applying some pressure !

I don't take photos of animals often, but every now and then we are visiting the #TiergartenNürnberg and I bring the camera to see if I can capture a scene that's worth taking a photo.
#nürnberg

Sources: DeepSeek closed a $7.4B round at a $50B valuation under an unusual structure requiring investors to put capital into an LP run by CEO Liang Wenfeng (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/deepseek-closes-…

DeepSeek Closes Record $7 Billion-Plus Funding with Unusual Deal Structure
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has closed its first funding round that raised more than 50 billion yuan ($7.4billion) under an unusual deal structure, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The funding round, which values the large-language model developer at more than $50 ...

"Europe's recurring energy crises share a single root cause: structural dependence on fossil fuel imports. Each shock [..] triggers a supply-side scramble. Each time, the scramble fails to address the underlying vulnerability. That vulnerability has two faces: not only dependence on fossil fuel imports, but the structural energy waste that decades of relatively cheap fossil fuels allowed Europe to keep prolonging - a gap no shock [..] has yet closed."

Synergistic entrainment: a multiscale neurodynamic framework for closed-loop cross-modal neuromodulation https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11571-026-10503-6 Similarly, opt for timed hybrid use of brain implant and sensory substitution?

Synergistic entrainment: a multiscale neurodynamic framework for closed-loop cross-modal neuromodulation - Cognitive Neurodynamics
The brain’s higher cognitive functions rely on the dynamic integration of multimodal information, supported by coordinated neural oscillations. However, current neuromodulation approaches often fail to reliably control these dynamics due to high inter-individual variability and limited mechanistic grounding. To address this challenge, we introduce the Synergistic Entrainment Framework, which conceptualizes the brain as a dynamical system in which neural oscillations create periodic windows of…

Load break cutouts on a cross connect downtown

Lutnick sought to clean up Epstein revelations in closed testimony to House committee (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/lutnick-epstein-closed-testimony-00920058
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p5#a260514p5

One more restaurant in my neighborhood has closed down before I had a chance to try it out.

Sources: Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to shape AI rules and standards at a closed-door meeting at the G7 summit on Wednesday (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/17/anthropic-amodei-google-hassabis-us-…

CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind call for U.S.-led AI coalition in meeting at G7
Tech leaders and heads of state, including President Donald Trump, joined a meeting about AI standards at the G7 Summit.

If you wanna run the latest Cosmic in a solid environment, take Fedora Cosmic. @… is on top of things, thanks for all your efforts Ryan!
The latest Cosmic release fixes the challenge-response issue with my BT keyboard/mouse combo. Another little gap closed, cool stuff.
#cosmic

was für die Sammlung #OpenIrony:
das Buch "Schnittstelle von Open Access-Publikationen und Exportkontrolle im Kontext des internationalen Wissenstransfers" ist closed access erschienen:

A long time ago, I co-owned a business. We didn’t make it; the place closed and ceased to exist as an entity >20 years ago. Suddenly I’ve started getting postal junk mail addressed to that business. 🤷‍♂️
My dad, gone more than 3 years now, gets life insurance offers at least monthly.
Boggles my mind the amount of money being wasted in direct #mail

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping wrapped up their meeting after about two hours of talks covering Taiwan, trade and other differences in US-China relations.
The meeting was behind closed doors and the White House didn’t offer an official readout afterwards,
but China’s official Xinhua news agency said Xi told Trump that if Taiwan was not handled correctly, the US and China risked “clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy”.
That followed publi…

Filings: Waymo pulls its ~4K robotaxis from highways after finding 13 instances of the cars driving into highway sections under construction (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/waymo-recal…

Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones | TechCrunch
The company has identified at least 13 instances where its robotaxis drove into highway sections closed for construction.

Ultrametric Graphons and Hierarchical Community Networks: Spectral Theory and Applications
\'Angel Alfredo Mor\'an Ledezma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13423 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.13423 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.13423
arXiv:2605.13423v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We develop a theory of ultrametric graphons as limiting objects for random networks with nested hierarchical community structure. A graphon $W:[0,1]^2\to[0,1]$ is called ultrametric if $W(x,y)=w(d(x,y))$, where $d$ is an ultrametric on $[0,1]$ induced by a family of nested partitions and $w$ is a positive kernel. The resulting random graphs exhibit a nested hierarchical community structure in which the density of connections is governed by the ultrametric distance between vertices. The Laplacian $L_d^k$ of the deterministic graph sampled from an ultrametric graphon is itself an ultrametric Laplacian, whose eigenvalues and spectral projectors admit completely explicit closed-form expressions in terms of the community sizes and inter-community connection densities. We show that the normalized eigenvalues and spectral projectors of the random Laplacian $L_r^k$ are arbitrarily close to those of $L_d^k$ with high probability as $k\to\infty$, so that the explicit formulas for $L_d^k$ provide closed-form approximations for the spectrum and spectral projectors of $L_r^k$. As applications: a sign structure theorem generalizes the Fiedler vector criterion to hierarchical networks with arbitrarily many communities; a detectability threshold $p^*=\min_i\rho_i$ governs spectral community detection for one-level hierarchical graphons; the pseudo-inverse Laplacian $L_W^ $ is constructed and shown to be the almost sure limit of the pseudo-inverse of $L_r^k$, implying that hitting and commute times collapse to quantities depending only on the expected degrees of the endpoints; and explicit closed-form stability conditions for the SIS disease-free equilibrium reveal a fundamental tension between homogeneous and heterogeneous community structures, confirmed by numerical experiments.
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From Amnesty International
More than 11,300 people have already signed the petition calling for open work permits for migrant workers.
Change happens when people come together.
Add your name today and help us reach 15,000 signatures, sending a clear message to the federal government that people across Canada support migrant workers' rights.
People from all walks of life have come together because we believe in a Canada where everyone is treated with dignity and fa…

🛑 Canada must stop the abuse of migrant workers
Join us in calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to abolish closed work permits, and instead grant open work permits to all Temporary Foreign Workers Program participants. 📷 Photo by Jim Rankin/Toronto Star via Getty Images

Was alte Bekannte so treiben: https://www.academia.edu/128529335/THE_TEAROOM_PROJECT_A_Portable_Tearoom_to_Promote_Interest_in_Traditional_Architecture_and_Craftsmanship

THE TEAROOM PROJECT: A Portable Tearoom to Promote Interest in Traditional Architecture and Craftsmanship
The tearoom is a building type that expresses the essence of Japanese Culture's aesthetic ideals: wabisabi. However, most tearooms have restricted access and are closed to the public. This project started from the idea that to preserve and keep

Lazing on a sunny afternoon (channeling Ray Davies) #dogs #dogsofmastodon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Washed Out:
🎵 Eyes Be Closed
#WashedOut
https://open.spotify.com/track/0AtMGGNifzEQuO3Lk7tRXe

AFC West Power Rankings: The 2026 NFL Draft Closed the Gap—Or Did It? https://raiderramble.com/2026/05/03/afc-west-power-rankings-the-2026-nfl-draft-closed-the-gap-or-did-it/

Sources: the DOJ closed an investigation of Paramount's bid for WBD before career staffers who were concerned about the acquisition had an opportunity to object (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

Getting out of SFO is a shitshow this morning with two runways closed for the next five months.

Behind Closed Doors
Hosted by Dante Amato, mentor, speaker, founder of The Community, and professionally obsessed with helping women navigate identity shifts, life transitions, personal growth, and the very real process of creating lives they're genuinely obsessed with...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.

Iran claims it hit two ships, declares Strait of Hormuz closed
https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/security/iran-claims-it-hit-two-ships-declares-strait-of-hormuz-closed1

A dignified old lady

Zhipu's shares closed up 33% on Monday after JPMorgan raised the stock's price target and picked it as a winner against MiniMax; MiniMax closed up 7% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-15/zhipu-share…

loving spending my sunday by deciding whether something is slop and should be closed vs something is slop and i should finish it myself

Brooklyn Bagels was closed this morning because they don’t have power. Sadness. Went over to Bayou instead for a ham egg and cheese biscuit.

Time to start digging into the #qemu issue #analytics. Yep we are seeing a peek since march. We are not immune from the #ai

It's packaging time... archival parchment pouches, book binder's cardboard, linen tape, acid-free stickers.
(This is a print made for @…. For my own images, you'd also get a certificate of authenticity included...)
#AltProcess

"Study shows why comfort at home is more than a temperature issue"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://

Study shows why comfort at home is more than a temperature issue
Feeling hot at home may seem like a simple matter of temperature or whether the air conditioning is switched on. But a new study suggests that less visible factors—from closed windows and blocked airflow to household routines and the different ways family members experience heat—also play an important role.

Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke the law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters just days before Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election,
a state election board found.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, currently split evenly between Democrats and Republicans,
voted 5-1 in a closed session last week to refer the complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office,
the commission's spokesperson Emilee Miklas told the Associated Press.
The panel r…

Elon Musk’s $1 Million Voter Checks Likely Illegal, Wisconsin Board Says
The Wisconsin Elections Commission referred complaints against Musk to the Brown County district attorney’s office.

Semiconductor stocks fell globally on Friday after the Trump-Xi summit concluded without major chip deals; Nvidia closed down 4.42% and AMD closed down 5.69% (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ch…

Nearly 5 years of work later, I've successfully closed the Node.js TLS fingerprinting issue: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/41112.
As of Node 26.4.0, it's possible to match most common TLS fingerprints in Node directly. I've published a library to do all the hard wo…

Email: the WH press corps won't be allowed on White House grounds Sunday due to the UFC fight; only press poolers will be allowed unless UFC gives credentials (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

White House will be closed to reporters during UFC fight — unless UFC lets them in
The White House is ceding control of who gets in to the fight event on the South Lawn, in a break with tradition.

White House will be closed to reporters during UFC fight -- unless UFC lets them in (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/09/white-house-will-be-closed-reporters-during-ufc-fight-unless-ufc-lets-them/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p117#a260609p117

@… @… Sorry folks, park's closed. Possum out front shoulda told ya.

This is beautiful: https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-narrowed-any/86369

[Pitch] Narrowed Any
Pitch: Narrowed Any — closed-class-of-conformers existentials with A | B Hello everyone 👋 — it's a real pleasure to bring this to the community. The "type-only unions" line of pitches has bounced off this forum many times, almost always on the same set of pre-judgements (TypeScript-style erasure, structural-union member synthesis, unsoundness with nominal typing). The shape proposed below is deliberately not any of those — I've spent the last several months designing and prototypi…

Yesh! So, they move into the area, put the local pharmacies out of business, close their pharmacies, and then pay a ton of money to make sure that nobody can open a new pharmacy there. That doesn't sound great.
"Several Walgreens sites in Milwaukee — including closed stores — are under rental agreements that prohibit other pharmacies or certain other businesses from opening in those locations without the company’s permission."
#Walgreens #Pharmacies #Milwaukee

France to send its last captive orcas to marine park, not sanctuary https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/france-to-send-its-last-captive-orcas-to-marine-park-not-sanctuary/

France to send its last captive orcas to marine park, not sanctuary
The French government recently announced it has greenlit a plan to send its last captive cetaceans — two orcas and 12 dolphins — to zoos and entertainment parks in Spain. These cetaceans live in the Marineland Antibes park on the French Riviera, which closed in 2025. In 2021, France passed a law banning the breeding […]

This from Ingold (being alive 2011, pg. 62) reads as more optimistic than it used to. LLMs are closed rather than open, and can we really say its users aren't losing skill as "the ‘living appendages’ of lifeless mechanism"?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Washed Out:
🎵 Eyes Be Closed
#WashedOut
https://washedout.bandcamp.com/track/eyes-be-closed
https://open.spotify.com/track/0AtMGGNifzEQuO3Lk7tRXe

Vision-Language-Action Models Meet World Models: Embodied Agentic AI for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
Feibo Jiang, Li Dong, Lei Mao, Kezhi Wang, Cunhua Pan, Dong In Kim, Naofal Al-Dhahir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11618 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11618 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11618
arXiv:2606.11618v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-Altitude Wireless Networks (LAWNs), composed of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and other aerial platforms, provide integrated perception, communication, and computation services in low-altitude airspace. However, deploying large generative models in this domain faces three major challenges: 1) Limited embodied action mapping; 2) Inadequate physical environment modeling; 3) Insufficient closed-loop optimization. To address these challenges, this study proposes an Embodied Agentic UAV framework. Centered on a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model as the execution core, the framework establishes an end-to-end embodied decision-making pipeline from multimodal environmental perception to continuous control generation. In addition, a World Model (WM) is introduced to capture the coupling between UAV actions and environmental state evolution, thereby supporting environment prediction, policy verification, and dynamic optimization. Furthermore, memory and reflection mechanisms are incorporated to form an adaptive closed-loop optimization paradigm of decision, execution, evaluation, and update, thereby enhancing the system's autonomous decision-making capability and continual evolution ability in complex dynamic environments. Experimental results validate its effectiveness in enabling robust, predictive, and sustainable autonomous control in LAWNs.
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SpaceX closed up 4.8% on Tuesday with a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-stock-rally-market-cap.html

RE: #AltText.

Another tale of the closed web: a common thing on Instagram is that it doesn't send out Co-Post requests when you do it too often or they don't like you. It's one of the aspects or levels of being “shadowbanned”.
I often work with various kinds of accounts to publish my essays on Instagram to get more exposure. For example, pages dedicated to criticizing the police (useless.cops) or accounts showcasing ICE activity in Minnesota (MNicewatch) for my essay on Renée Good…

Beth Macy built her career writing about the plagues inflicted on rural America,
most famously the opioid epidemic in “Dopesick,”
but also the job losses from trade agreements that devastated communities across Appalachia.
Now running as a Democrat in the kind of House district she says she is uniquely qualified to reach,
she recited the 4-H pledge from memory
— “I pledge my head to clearer thinking,
my heart to greater loyalty,
my hands to larger se…

Can Democrats Win Rural Voters Turning Away From Trump? It’s a Tough Sell.
House candidates like Beth Macy, author of “Dopesick,” have crafted messages based on lifetimes in rural regions. But messages need an audience, and many minds are closed to the party.

For SF residents, since Alert SF hasn't posted anything: fire at Broderick/California, a lot of equipment on site. 4 pm
California closed Divisadero to Baker, Divisadero & Broderick closed Sacramento to Pine,.
1 California and 24 Divisadero redirected.

Scientific grades for Day 3 selections: Cowboys closed out strong? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/29/scientific-grades-for-day-3-selections-cowboys-closed-out-stron…

the 9yo made a fortune teller out of seaweed

Trump Admin Shutters DHS Watchdog Amid Rampant and Growing Detainee Abuse | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/dhs-ombudsman-closed

Chargers GM Joe Hortiz: 'Door is not closed' on bringing back WR Keenan Allen https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-gm-joe-hortiz-door-is-not-closed-on-bringing-back-wr-keenan-allen

Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-huma…

Exclusive: Humanoid, UK-Based Robot Maker, Becomes a Unicorn
Humanoid raised $150 million in the first tranche of a Series A funding round that values the London-based robotics company at $1.2 billion, excluding the new funds, according to someone with knowledge of the funding. The tranche closed earlier this week and the company is aiming to raise between $80 and $100 million in an extension round by September, the person said. The funding round is

"The Work-Expression Model for Jazz Music Organization: Views of Jazz Enthusiasts"
https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2026.2665744 🎵🗄️
[leider closed access 🙄]

Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/video-generation-…

Video generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B | TechCrunch
Singapore-based video generation startup PixVerse closed a Series C extension on the strength of 15 million monthly active users, it said.

Closed out another three tickets against ngscopeclient/libscopehal. The v0.2 release is getting closer every day.
Still a bunch of open things to fix, need to make a pass through pending PRs, a bunch of testing, some thunderscope updates...
But I'm hoping to get at least a RC out in the next week or two.

Duke Reporters' Lab reports a global drop in fact-checking projects from 464 in 2024 to 441 in 2025; US projects fell from 65 in 2024 to 61 in 2025 (Erica Ryan/Reporters' Lab)
https://reporterslab.org/2026/06/12/20

2026 census: Fact-checking losses continue amid funding pressure, but most projects persist - Reporters' Lab
For the first time in the Duke Reporters’ Lab count, three-times as many fact-checkers closed their doors as opened them last year. Our tally shows…

"Heat pump sales rise 17% across Europe in Q1 as energy prices surge"
#Europe #HeatPumps #Energy

Heat pump sales rise 17% across Europe in Q1 as energy prices surge
Residential heat pump sales increased 17% across 11 European countries in the first quarter of 2026, following a sharp rise in gas and oil prices after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in March, says the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA).

SpaceX stock closed up 19.6% on Monday, its first full day of trading; Musk said it "might be able to reach" around $1T revenue in 2030, up from $18.7B in 2025 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/15/spacex-stock-record-ipo-debut.html

SpaceX gains 6% in premarket after record debut

UN warns of 'significant and severe' food crisis if Strait of Hormuz stays closed - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/un-warns-of-significant-and-severe-food-crisis-if-strait-of-hormuz-stays-closed/

Qualcomm closed down 11.46% on Tuesday as chip stocks pull back from record AI-driven rally; Intel closed down 6.82%, Sandisk dropped 6%, and Micron 3.61% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/qualcomm-chip-stocks-record-ai.html

Qualcomm drops 13% as chip stocks pull back from record AI-driven rally
The recent rally has shown a broadening of the AI trade beyond chipmaking giant Nvidia.

I opened up a blog post. It had a header image that was clearly AI-generated. I closed the blog post without reading it.

The Ethics Committee Is Probing Leaks About Its Jim Costa Investigation (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/house-ethics-committee-investigating-links-jim-costa-closed-probe
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p140#a260603p140

As the country’s population rapidly ages
— with adults over 65 set to outnumber children by 2034
— more Americans will find themselves in need of care.
Many families remain wholly unprepared to shoulder the weight of this demographic shift,
even if they must
https://www.

Opinion | This Is One of the Hardest Jobs in America. Millions Are Doing It Alone.
Behind closed doors, millions of Americans are stepping into one of the hardest roles they’ll ever take on: caring for their aging parents.

Cerebras shares closed up 68% at $311.07 in the company's Nasdaq debut after it raised $5.5B in the year's largest IPO, giving it a market value of $67B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/cerebr…

WATCH: Stephen Miller says 'America's doors are closed fully to asylum seekers' after Supreme Court rulings (Associated Press)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-stephen-miller-says-americas-doors-are-closed-fully-to-asylum-seekers-after-supreme-court-rulings
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p1#a260626p1

Cerebras co-founders CEO Andrew Feldman and CTO Sean Lie own stakes worth $3.2B and $1.7B, respectively, representing about 5.5% and 3% of the company (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/cerebras-ipo-mints-two-billionaire…

Cerebras IPO mints two billionaires, sets stage for potential AI wave
Cerebras closed its first day of trading with a market cap close to $100 billion and turned two co-founders into billionaires in the process.

Trump gets into shouting match with Sen. Bill Cassidy over Iran war in closed-door meeting (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/24/us-news/trump-gets-into-shouting-match-with-sen-bill-cassidy-over-iran-war-in-closed-door-meeting/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260624/p90#a260624p90

Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed again after US lifts blockade (Caitlin Doornbos/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/19/world-news/iran-declares-the-strait-of-hormuz-closed-again-after-us-lifts-blockade/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p49#a260619p49

Havoc, which offers autonomous boats and software to control thousands of vessels at once, raised a $100M Series A led by Cobalt and Boardman Bay (Monica Hunter-Hart/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/monicahunter-

These Navy Vets Are Betting Their Drone Software Maker Havoc Can Win Over The U.S. Military
Interest in drone boats is surging as the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz drags on. Havoc, which just closed a $100 million funding round, claims it has the perfect tech to help but faces stiff headwinds from bigger rivals like Anduril and Saronic.

Sources: six months after acquiring Rivos, Meta is struggling to integrate the chip startup and halted development of a chip for training its largest AI models (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-bought-rivos-accelerate-ai-…

Meta Bought Rivos to Accelerate Its AI Chip Push. It Isn’t Working.
Meta Platforms bought semiconductor startup Rivos last year to accelerate development of in-house chips and reduce its reliance on Nvidia as it pours cash into data centers for its AI ambitions. Now six months since the acquisition closed, Meta is struggling to make it work, beset by problems ...

Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a $125M Series C led by KKR (FinTech Global)
https://fintech.global/2026/05/04/reserv-raises-125m-series-c-led-by-kkr/

Reserv raises $125m Series C led by KKR
Reserv, an AI-native third-party administrator (TPA) and claims technology provider for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector, has closed a $125m Series C funding round. The round was led by KKR, with participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures and Flourish Ventures, alongside select strategic partners and clients. The round will support Reserv’s ambition […]

Datadog closed up 31% after reporting Q1 revenue up 32% YoY to $1B and raising its FY revenue forecast, an outlier in the software industry amid the AI boom (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/07/da

Datadog's stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat, showing there's still hope for software - SiliconANGLE
Datadog's stock jumps 31% on crushing earnings beat, showing there's still hope for software - SiliconANGLE

Raspberry Pi closed up 27% on June 5 after saying it expects adjusted EBITDA of at least $38M in H1, putting it on track to beat $42M est. for the full year (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/22c5c127-fbab-44eb-a982-a26b9a40eb5c

Sources: Beijing recently held meetings with Alibaba, ByteDance, Z.ai, and others to discuss restricting overseas access to advanced open and closed AI models (Fanny Potkin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-l

Quantinuum closed up 0.63% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, with a market value of $15.7B, after raising $1.68B in an upsized IPO (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/quantinuum-qnt-stock-first-trade-ipo.html

Quantinuum stock opens at $68 per share after IPO
Honeywell will retain a majority stake in Quantinuum and will continue to be a strategic customer and partner following the listing.

Crypto stocks jump after lawmakers struck a compromise on the CLARITY Act to preserve stablecoin rewards under certain conditions; Circle's stock closed up ~20% (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/circle-jum

Circle jumps 16% on Clarity Act compromise that preserves stablecoin rewards
Lawmakers over the weekend reached a compromise on the market structure bill known as the CLARITY Act that keeps stablecoin reward programs intact.

Marvell shares closed up 32.52% on Tuesday after Jensen Huang hailed the chipmaker as the "next trillion-dollar company" at Computex (Sawdah Bhaimiya/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/02/jensen-huang-nvidia-marvell-technology-trillion…

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says Marvell could be the next trillion-dollar company; stock jumps 25%
Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, hailed this chip designer as the next trillion-dollar firm, sending its shares up sharply in early market trading.

Singapore-based dConstruct Robotics, which develops spatial tech to let autonomous robots operate in complex, GPS-denied environments, raised a $125M Series A (Duc Dao/TNGlobal)
https://technode.global/2026/07/03/sin

Singapore's dConstruct raises $125M Series A as RoboNexus accelerator concludes inaugural cohort - TNGlobal
Singapore-based dConstruct Technologies has closed a $125 million Series A funding round, marking the standout achievement of the inaugural cohort of Singapore's RoboNexus accelerator, a venture-building program under the National Robotics Program.

Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2% in its Nasdaq debut Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.9B valuation (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/iqm-europes-first-public-…

IQM, Europe's first public quantum company, admits the future of the tech is uncertain | TechCrunch
IQM, a full-stack quantum company out of Finland, went public on the Nasdaq today at a valuation of about $1.9 billion.