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SF-based Humble Robotics, which is developing an electric, self-driving cabless freight truck with 200 miles range and 55 mph max speed, raised $24M (Caroline Petrow-Cohen/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/bu…

This startup wants to bring driverless freight trucks to California's roads, but drivers are pushing back
Founded in 2025, Humble Robotics is building self-driving freight trucks with no steering wheel, driver's seat or gas pedal.

Franska tillverkaren: Våra fregatter kan visst försvara sig mot drönare https://www.dn.se/varlden/franska-tillverkaren-vara-fregatter-kan-visst-forsvara-sig-mot-dronare/

Naval Group: Våra fregatter kan försvara sig mot drönare
Franska tillverkaren Naval Group: Våra fregatter kan visst försvara sig mot drönare – har varit i strid i Röda havet

Jeder Vierte fragt Chatbots nach Finanzrat
Bankgeschäfte wandern zunehmend aufs Smartphone, doch das Vertrauen in KI bleibt (noch) begrenzt. Was eine Umfrage über digitale Finanzdienste zeigt.
https://www.

Jeder Vierte fragt Chatbots nach Finanzrat
Bankgeschäfte wandern zunehmend aufs Smartphone, doch das Vertrauen in KI bleibt (noch) begrenzt. Was eine Umfrage über digitale Finanzdienste zeigt.

"The Scottish Government has tabled a statement and subsequent debate for Tuesday, entitled “ambitious for Scotland”, which will be the first chance the First Minister has to lay out his vision for the next five years since winning this month’s election."
"It comes after Gillian Mackay – the co-leader of the Scottish Greens – urged Swinney to bring forward a vote on the issue on the first day after he was sworn-in as First Minister. "

John Swinney announces date for Holyrood Scottish independence vote
FIRST Minister John Swinney will bring a motion on Scottish independence to a Holyrood vote on Tuesday, he has said.

from my link log —
John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous yet surprisingly deep language.
http://raganwald.com/2020/05/03/fractran.html
saved 2020-05-11

Meanwhile, in the US of A :floofSad:
https://aflegal.org/press-release/america-first-legal-files-formal-complaints-with-the-tr…

America First Legal Files Formal Complaints with the Trump Administration Demanding Investigations Into Three School Districts Ahead of Superintendents’ Testimony Before Congress
America First Legal (AFL) has sent formal complaints to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education detailing serious violations of federal law by Chicago Public Schools, San Francisco Unified School District, […]

Sources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue in Q1, nearly $1B more than Anthropic (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-1-billion-revenue-lead-anthropic-first-quarter

OpenAI Held $1 Billion Revenue Lead Over Anthropic in First Quarter
OpenAI generated about $5.7 billion in revenue in the first quarter, nearly $1 billion more than archrival Anthropic generated in the same period, according to two people with knowledge of the financials. OpenAI’s coding agent Codex, along with growth from selling to businesses and testing ads ...

Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal (Preeti Singh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/apple-mls-match-shot…

Apple to Broadcast MLS Match Shot Entirely on iPhone 17 Pro
Apple TV on May 27 will present a special live MLS match captured exclusively on iPhone 17 Pro, the first time the device will be used to shoot the entirety of a major professional live sporting event broadcast.

Humble unveils a fully electric cabless autonomous truck called the Humble Hauler and comes out of stealth with a $24M seed led by Eclipse (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/exclusive-humble-freight-autonomous-truck-eclipse-tr…

Exclusive: Startup Humble debuts cabless autonomous truck targeting $900 billion U.S. freight industry
Built by veterans of Tesla, Waymo, and Otto, Humble’s approach challenges how autonomous trucking has been done so far.