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Wow! I just received a report from another mastodon instance for violating that instance's rule against "Profiting/benefiting from the destruction of the planet and society." That's a little extreme.

Flip, which offers an Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $31M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/vertical-ai-based-customer-service-flip-raise/<…

Flip Raises $20M Series A For Its Verticalized Approach To AI-Based Customer Service
Flip, a startup that claims to offer an Amazon Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

Musl support finally merged in upstream Systemd!!

I just found a relatively new tool for syntax-aware diff/merge operations on git repositories ( #Mergiraf ).
Unlike other tools I've tried in the past, this one is also diff3-friendly .
- https://mergiraf.org/
- https://lwn.net/Articles/1042355/
For the weirdos like me who prefer `rebase` over `merge` this can be a great mood & productivity booster

But if AI is so userful and everyone wants it, why does Microsoft have to cut its AI sales targets in half?
(Original title: Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/mic<…

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.

WitnessAI, which intercepts employees' custom GenAI models usage and applies safeguards, raised $58M led by Sound Ventures, taking its total funding to $85M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/witnessai-raises-58-million-for-ai-sec…

Berlin-based Parloa, which develops AI customer service agents for Booking.com and others, raised $350M at a $3B valuation, taking its total raised to $560M (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d0436edf-008a-4852-8e30-54e41f244bc1

Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

Oracle Strikes $150 Billion of Data Center Leases in November Quarter
Oracle struck about $150 billion worth of lease commitments on data centers in the three months ending November, it revealed in securities filing late last week, a sign it is preparing for the cloud deals that customers such as OpenAI have struck with Oracle. The filing showed that as of Nov. 30, Oracle had $248 billion of lease commitments “substantially all related to data centers and cloud

How smuggled Starlink receivers and customized software let some Iranians evade a near-total internet blackout as the regime brutally cracked down on protesters (Financial Times)