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Half a million hectares of rainforest were saved — in part thanks to journalism
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a packed event held in Palo Alto, California, at the end of SF Climate Week in April, Willie Shubert, the vice president of programs and executive editor at Mongabay, shared a compelling example of how Mongabay’s journalism […]

Aww, Serge Fiori died: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/24/quebec-singer-songwriter-serge-fiori-founder-of-rock-group-harmonium-dead-at-73/
That name won’t mean anything except to Canadians o…

Quebec singer Serge Fiori dead at 73
Quebec singer-songwriter Serge Fiori, founder of French-Canadian rock band Harmonium, died Tuesday at the age of 73.

Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, launches the nonprofit Laude Institute, self-funded with $100M for grants to AI projects and labs (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/2…

Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches $100M research institute focused on beneficial AI - SiliconANGLE
Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, launches $100M research institute focused on beneficial AI - SiliconANGLE

Analytics company founder: Hosters demands over server costs are unworkable
„The hosting platforms will just have to give us servers for free“ Daniel said in an interview, while wearing a onesie Pyjama in the form of an octopus. https://mastodon.social/@jensscholz/114573315…

Jens Scholz ⍟ (@jensscholz@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Ok, kill it then. If your business is not feasable if you have to pay for the ressources you need for your product, it's not a business anyway.

Food52 co-founder Amanda Hesser is stepping down after 16 years; she launched a Substack newsletter in March that has 705K subscribers (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/food52-cofounder-amanda-hesser-steps-down/

Food52 Cofounder Amanda Hesser Steps Down
The influential lifestyle publisher has struggled following its pandemic heyday.

Ich habe mir noch kein wirklich fundiertes Urteil gebildet, aber die beste Einordnung zum Thema #Clownswelt, die ich bisher mitgekriegt habe, kommt vom #Topfvollgold:

Trump's tax bill expands Qualified Small Business Stock benefits for VCs, founders, startup staff, including increasing maximum tax-free gains from $10M to $15M (Ben Steverman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Ich habe mir noch kein wirklich fundiertes Urteil gebildet, aber die beste Einordnung zum Thema #Clownswelt, die ich bisher mitgekriegt habe, kommt vom #Topfvollgold:

Centific, an AI "data foundry" that works with businesses to develop, train, and deploy their AI models, raised a $60M Series A led by Granite Asia (Nicholas Gordon/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/asia/2025/06/25/centi…

Singapore VC Granite Asia leads $60 million funding round for AI ‘data foundry’ Centific to fund global expansion
“This funding round isn’t about necessity—it’s about ambition,” CEO Venkat Rangapuram said in a statement.

Sam Altman posts a series of his exchanges with founder of iyO Jason Rugolo from before the deal with Ive's io; Rugolo responded he just wants to compete fairly (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/692840/sam-altman-io-trademark-ba…

Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has posted private emails between him and the founder of Iyo, the startup that’s suing OpenAI over the name of its upcoming product, io.