Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/phys…
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🎵 Charteroak Foundation
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https://tortoise.bandcamp.com/track/charteroak-foundation
https://open.spotify.com/track/02XDCHAbHzS5GR4BaAEO3I
A profile of India-based sports website Essentially Sports, founded in a college dorm in 2014 and now reaching 30M monthly readers and $8M in annual turnover (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
Project 2026? Group behind Trump’s return to the White House outlines next agenda | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-project-2026-heritage-foundation-b2892391.html
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Vom 10. bis 13. Februar 2026 findet im Messezentrum Nürnberg die BIOFACH statt. Die Messe bietet nicht nur eine internationale Ausstellung der Bio-Branche sondern auch ein vielfältiges Rahmenprogramm.
Am Mittwoch, 11.02. von 16:15 bis 17:45 Uhr findet u.a. der Workshop
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From The Maple
Carney's Job Cuts Undermine Canada's Position Against Trump
Austerity undermines the foundation for a fairer economy that is less dependent on the US
https://www.readthemaple.com/carneys-job-cuts-undermine-canadas-po…
A look at DestinE, an EU-funded project to create Earth's digital twin using AI that has produced climate models with far higher resolution than current models (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem…
Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B at a $20B valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/07073c8f-7176-471c-ac69-ef1458845fb2