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Lyric, which offers AI-powered supply chain management and forecasting tools, raised a $43.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $67M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/05/ne…

Next-generation supply chain intelligence startup Lyric gets $43.5M in funding - SiliconANGLE
Next-generation supply chain intelligence startup Lyric gets $43.5M in funding - SiliconANGLE

PBS North Carolina says it will offer voluntary buyouts as it anticipates an annual loss of $4.8M in federal funding and may also lose $4M in state funding (Julian Wyllie/Current)
https://current.org/2025/08/pbs-north-carolina-will-cut-sta…

PBS North Carolina will cut staff amid state and federal funding crisis
The station faces an annual loss of $4.8 million in federal support.

"La Hongrie viole les valeurs fondamentales de l’Union européenne
C’est l’avocate générale de la Cour de justice de l’UE qui le conclut. En cause : les législations hongroises, synonymes de non-respect et marginalisation des personnes LGBTI ."
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic,
announced in a statement Tuesday that
❌ $500 million worth of vaccine development projects -- all using mRNA technology -- will be halted.
The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections

RFK Jr. pulls funding for vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses
The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.

Astronomen entdecken Supererde in der habitablen Zone
Gibt es da draußen Leben? Eine weitere Methode soll es ermöglichen, bewohnbare Planeten zu finden. Eine Supererde in der habitablen Zone wurde so entdeckt.

Trump effort to stop funding scientific research falls flat
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/forbidding-by-fiat-certain-topics-trumps-effort-to-stop-funding-scientific-research-falls-flat-before-district-court-appellate-panel-rejects-stay-request/

Trump admin pulls funding for new mRNA vaccines (Adriel Bettelheim/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/mrna-vaccine-development-kennedy-funding
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p127#a250805p127

NPR is offering $8M in "fee relief" to stations that relied on federal funding for 10% of their budgets and negotiating to take over music rights management (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/06/npr-katheri…

Can NPR do without federal funding? Its CEO says she’s optimistic.
Public radio chief Katherine Maher sees big challenges and big changes ahead for NPR and its member stations.

Sinus-Jugendstudie: Kritisch gegenüber Gesundheitsbeiträgen, wenig Angst vor KI
Jugendliche beurteilen Gesundheitsbeiträge im Netz kritischer als vielleicht vermutet, KI kennen fast alle. Wenige finden sie bisher stark bedrohlich.

Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says (PBS NewsHour)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/federal-mrna-funding-cut-is-most-dangerous-public-health-decision-ever-expert-says
http://www.memeorandum.com/250807/p5#a250807p5