Tootfinder

Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/08/protege-raises-30m-grow-…

Protege raises $30M to grow governed marketplace for AI training data - SiliconANGLE
Protege raises $30M to grow governed marketplace for AI training data - SiliconANGLE

Numbers of Rare Butterfly Eggs are Best on Record After Hedges are Allowed to Grow Wild https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/numbers-of-rare-butterfly-eggs-are-best-on-record-after-hedges-allowed-to-grow-wild/

Numbers of Rare Butterfly Eggs are Best on Record After Hedges are Allowed to Grow Wild
Numbers of rare butterfly eggs have skyrocketed in Wales after landowners let their hedgerows grow wild to help the Brown Hairstreak survive.

WPP Media expects global ad revenue, excluding US political ads, to grow 8.8% YoY in 2025 to $1.14T, and says AI investment drives more spending than expected (Megan Graham/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

'People would attempt to flee': Concern grows over possible Cuba collapse (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/07/following-venezuela-raid-fears-grow-of-economic-collapse-in-cuba-00714716
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p129#a260107p129

https://stripe.com - gibt's damit schlechte Erfahrungen?

"German renewable energy shift slowed in 2025"
#Germany #Energy #Renewables

German renewable energy shift slowed in 2025
The share of renewables in German power production almost stagnated in 2025, data showed Monday, as concerns grow about a shift away from green policies under conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow; the boundaries of acceptable identity and speech will shrink. I want you to think about elections in this future. I want you to understand that every issue you care about—any hope of participatory democracy—is downstream of this."

Urban sprawl could deny 220 million people access to clean water by 2050 #environment

Urban sprawl could deny 220 million people access to clean water by 2050
A new study analyzing more than 100 cities across Asia, Africa, and Latin America has quantified the stark consequences of urban sprawl on water and sanitation access, finding that how cities grow might determine whether hundreds of millions of people have access to these basic necessities.

Part 3 - Moving forward
One of Mastodon's strengths is its decentralized structure. That also means no centralized marketing or development strategy focused on growth, particularly in Canada. Perhaps a volunteer group could take on that development plan and grow the Canadian user base.
- A vision of what an ideal future state would look like would benefit the planning and action steps. Collecting input from Canadian admins is recommended.
- We shouldn't burden existing admins beyond their current responsibilities. Volunteers would take actions like reaching out to politicians or government agencies.
Potential next steps:
1) Host a web meeting with interested Canadian admins to collect input on a shared vision for this project.
2) Collect volunteers who would be interested in reaching out to politicians or government agencies about creating a presence on Mastodon.
3) Select members of the group to be part of a steering committee.
4) Create a unique hashtag for this project for reporting and followers.

When I grow up, I want to write like this:
https://iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/

China's exports grow 5.9% in November, while US shipments drop 29% (Chan Ho-him/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-trade-tariffs-trump-exports-953ab5e9056cf7b21c00c54bec1d79dd
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p12#a251208p12

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Let Me Grow and You'll See The Fruit
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-grow-and-youll-see-the-fruit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SsRe29Ua89yh6vVJHJC6x

Dollars In The Dirt
The no-BS podcast for Australian farmers and graziers who want to grow their operations and build real wealth, hosted by Brecken Curtis...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/dollars-in-the-dirt/

"A field of wheat becomes the world’s largest living photograph"
#Environment
https://www.positive.news/environment/a-field-…

A field of wheat becomes the world’s largest living photograph - Positive News
Farming Photographs will see a field divided into ‘pixels’ of different wheats to grow a photographic-style artwork

Adobe partners with YouTube to launch a dedicated content creation space for YouTube Shorts creators within its Premiere mobile app for iOS (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/adobe-launches-content-…

Adobe launches content creation hub in Premiere mobile for YouTube Shorts creators | TechCrunch
The company says the space is designed to give creators everything they need to produce viral videos, grow their audience, and tap into trends, whether it's creating day-in-the-life vlogs, travel videos, or behind-the-scenes clips.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Let Me Grow and You'll See The Fruit
#NowPlaying #DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-grow-and-youll-see-the-fruit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7I793ZesbKiSbp9qFioVu8

Dimon on Trump Media debanking: 'People have to grow up here' (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/business/5638028-dimon-denies-political-debanking/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p61#a251207p61

Source: Piers Morgan's YouTube-based venture Uncensored is raising £22.5M from The Raine Group, Theo Kyriakou, and others at a £97M pre-money valuation (Mark Kleinman/Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/piers-morgan-s-uncensored-nears-…

Piers Morgan's Uncensored nears £100m valuation after stake sale
The US-based merchant bank Raine and Greek media mogul Theo Kyriakou are among the backers of the former Mirror editor and CNN anchor as he raises funds to grow the Uncensored media brand, Sky News learns.

OK- So what are the "moderate" values espoused by the Grow-ists?
Tech billionaires funding Grow California | | sfexaminer.com
https://www.sfexaminer.com/crypto-billiona…

Crypto billionaires try to build a moderate 'counterforce' in California politics
Two influential tech billionaires, Chris Larsen and Tim Draper, to spend millions in support of moderate state legislators in California through their initiative, Grow California.

OK- So what are the "moderate" values espoused by the Grow-ists?
Tech billionaires funding Grow California | | sfexaminer.com
https://www.sfexaminer.com/crypto-billiona…

Crypto billionaires try to build a moderate 'counterforce' in California politics
Two influential tech billionaires, Chris Larsen and Tim Draper, to spend millions in support of moderate state legislators in California through their initiative, Grow California.

🍌 Indigenous Guatemalans denounce exploitation on Mexican farms: ‘Bananas are worth more than us’
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-07/indigenous-guatemalans-denounce-exploita…

Indigenous Guatemalans denounce exploitation on Mexican farms: ‘Bananas are worth more than us’
The plants that grow these sweet fruits are cultivated with extreme care. But those who pamper them are despised and exploited

How war makes kids grow up angry: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/how-war-makes-kids-grow.html

From the IMF
"the Canadian economy remains much less integrated than its global footprint would suggest. Goods, services, and workers face significant barriers when moving across provincial and territorial lines—a fragmentation that affects productivity, competitiveness, and overall resilience"
Most of the benefits would flow to the smaller provinces
#Canpoli

Canada Can Grow Faster by Unlocking Its Own Market
Knocking down internal trade barriers could boost output in Canada by 7 perc

John Harbaugh coaching rumors tracker: Latest news on Giants, Raiders, more teams interested in former Ravens coach https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/john-harbaugh-coaching-rumors-news-giants-raiders/4cf620240a4785cf43a98af…

Peter Steinberger rebrands his AI agent project to OpenClaw, its second name change after Anthropic forced a shift from Clawdbot to Moltbot (Ron Schmelzer/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/01/30/mo…

Moltbot Molts Again And Becomes OpenClaw, Pushback And Concerns Grow
OpenClaw, formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot, gets another rename while security, installation, and the increasing prevalence of scammers and grifters grow.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Let Me Grow and You'll See The Fruit
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-grow-and-youll-see-the-fruit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SsRe29Ua89yh6vVJHJC6x

New talk abstract dropping. I just hope I can write a talk to live up to it by *checks watch* *gulp* Monday.

The Future Talent Programme (FTP) 2026 is now open!
If you’re a student or young professional in IT, networking, or a related field, FTP26 is your chance to learn, grow, & maybe even take the stage at #TNC26 in Helsinki.
FTP26 gives you practical presentation training, personalised feedback, and a supportive community that cheers you on as you shape your Lightning Talk idea. No press…

Concerns grow over ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/concerns-grow-ice-plans-build-mega-warehouses-immigration-detention-rcna257454
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p11#a260205p11

If the use of #GenerativeAI continues to grow in academia, are universities which wish to maintain a reputation for excellence going to be forced to move to examining undergraduates by viva?
It is the only thing I can think of that would work, but it would be hugely expensive.

As the Trump administration escalates pressure on Venezuela,
U.S. military activity across the Caribbean continues to grow.
The U.S. has deployed more than 15,000 troops to the region and carried out airstrikes on over 20 boats,
killing at least 83 people in operations the White House has justified, without providing evidence, as targeting drug traffickers.
On Monday, the administration also designated the so-called Cšrtel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organiza…

Will the U.S. Attack Venezuela? Trump’s Anti-Maduro Campaign Seen as Part of a Broader Regional Plan
As the Trump administration escalates pressure on Venezuela, U.S. military activity across the Caribbean continues to grow. The U.S. has deployed more than 15,000 troops to the region and carried out airstrikes on over 20 boats, killing at least 83 people in operations the White House has justified, without providing evidence, as targeting drug traffickers. On Monday, the administration also designated the so-called Cártel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization, alleging President Ni…

I love gardening with specifically native plants because it's like restoring a damaged tapestry of life. An exotic from a climatically similar place to coastal California, like the Mediterranean or South Africa, might look pretty and grow well here, but contributes nothing greater than itself. Natives support particular webs of life that depend on them.

My advice to you is to get over meme filesystems like zfs and btrfs and (God help you) bcachefs and just use either xfs or ext4.
'oH bUT mUh sNApShOTs'
grow up and buy a tape drive and don't spam breaking changes at production systems

Oh, and a little message for Kier Starmer: Now is the time to grow a fucking backbone.

"Pineapple Waste Soil Amendment Transforms Deserts into Productive Farmlands"
#Pineapples #Deserts
https://

Pineapple Waste Soil Amendment Transforms Deserts into Productive Farmlands | Happy Eco News
A pineapple waste soil amendment developed by researchers at Khalifa University boosts desert soil water retention by 32% and doubles nutrient storage, helping arid regions grow more food.

Textbooks Were Wrong: Human Hair Doesn’t Grow the Way Scientists Thought
https://scitechdaily.com/textbooks-were-wrong-human-hair-doesnt-grow-the-way-scientists-thought/

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Let Me Grow and You'll See The Fruit
#NowPlaying #DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-grow-and-youll-see-the-fruit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7I793ZesbKiSbp9qFioVu8

Joe Milton reflects on learning moments, growth in year one with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/joe-milton-reflects-on-learning-moments-growth-in-year-one-with-cowboys

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue:
🎵 Where The Wild Roses Grow
#NickCave #KylieMinogue
https://arcadepoison.bandcamp.com/track/where-the-wild-roses-grow-kylie-minogue-nick-cave-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/1DQY7ZUSCQ2z74xVyjRIdA

How to grow a forest without planting a single tree
A collaboration between @… and Planet Wild https://www.youtube.com/@planet-wild)
It's happening in

Planet Wild
Planet Wild is a global community of people that deeply care about the planet. We're on a mission to bring back endangered species, clean up our waterways from plastic and to rewild entire forests to give them back to nature. How it works: 1. On a monthly basis, our team selects impactful environmental projects; 2. The contributions from our global community are used to fund these projects; 3. Community members get video reports from our environmental missions, seeing the impact that they are …

Josh Allen, Bills turn to Joe Brady as head coach, but the questions only grow https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7002409/2026/01/27/joe-brady-bills-hc-staff-pegula-reaction/

My slides and a video of my talk "Grow your [engineering] brand while putting privacy first" are available on my blog: https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4500/
If you want a funny, but useful talk on that topic, reach out!

Another year in which we've been making the climate crisis worse faster. And the role of aviation continues to grow nastier: probably good for 1/6 of the increase this year, caused by a small minority of the global population.
https://news.m…

Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are projected to reach a record 38.1 billion metric tons in 2025, an increase of 1.1% from 2024, according to the 2025 Global Carbon Budget. The report, now in its 20th edition, was released Nov. 13 as a preprint. It compiles national energy and emissions data from […]

New/upcoming roguelite Holomancer is in early access but it looks like there's a demo that I'm gonna try on the Steam deck later.. this is VERY MUCH my kind of game. Twin stick shootery, blasty, little bit of crafting or management or whatever.
But, yknow. Mostly blastery.
https://store.steampowered.c…

Holomancer on Steam
Holomancer is a sandbox shooter set on a living, procedurally generated world. Harvest mana, materialize tools, and face off against the corrupted as you explore and grow in a world still taking shape.

Tracxn: VC funding for Indian startups fell 17% YoY to $10.5B in 2025 across 1,518 deals, down ~39% YoY; AI startups raised $643M, up 4% YoY, across 100 deals (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/india-startu…

India startup funding hits $11B in 2025 as investors grow more selective | TechCrunch
Startup funding rounds in India fell sharply in 2025 as investors concentrated capital into fewer companies.

Not sure what to make of this survey given its sponsors, but it's true that water management in the UK is a mess. We have no clue who's using what. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/30/water-shortages-could-derai…

Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds
Tensions grow after research in England finds there may not be enough water for planned carbon capture and hydrogen projects

also, Facebook leadership is full of people that understand nothing of business that did one lucky thing at the start and can only grow by eating up the competitors before they can be dangerous.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Let Me Grow and You’ll See the Fruit
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-grow-and-youll-see-the-fruit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SsRe29Ua89yh6vVJHJC6x

They grow up so fast... kiddo made ramen soup from the book she's got for Christmas 🤤🍜 #foodporn #food #ramen

White House frustrations with Venezuela's Machado grow after elections comments (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/white-house-frustrations-with-venezuelas-machado-surface-after-election-comments-00770005
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p135#a260206p135

“And the cost of credit default swaps, which protect bond investors from losses, has surged in recent months on some A.I. companies’ debt.”
Cool cool So like a dot-com boom-bust with mortgage crisis characteristics?
https://www.

As A.I. Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary
Artificial intelligence companies looking to raise funds are being made to pay lofty interest rates, as debt investors become cautious.

Interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of Mastodon https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/

Since a few weeks I have a Hippeastrum bulb standing on my desk, so I can watch something grow even at this time of the year. Two days ago it finally burst open. Here are some views from before.
#photography #bloomScrolling

Does anybody have contact info for George Soros? I keep hearing that he’s paying demonstrators/domestic terrorists the big bucks and I’d like to get in on this lucrative side hustle. As a retiree on a fixed income, and with prices for everything going thru the roof, I need to find some alternatives to help pay the bills. Weed and wine don’t grow on trees y’know? Also, if I’m on his payroll, what other benefits can I expect?

🍔 Thermal, Mechanical, And Material Stresses Grow With Die Stacking
https://semiengineering.com/thermal-mechanical-and-material-stresses-grow-with-die-stacking/

Thermal, Mechanical, And Material Stresses Grow With Die Stacking
More analysis and more data are needed to predict how different dies will interact in the same package.

never seen California poppy grow this tall before
(that's coyote mint on the left)

New study by @… et al. finds that emissions in China and India are projected to grow much less in 2025 compared to the past decade, while emissions in the US and EU are projected to grow this year after years of decline.

An anti-imperialist movement is building in Mexico,
where the U.S. invasion of Venezuela has been seen as an act of intimidation for all of Latin America.
Across the country, larger-than-usual marches on January 3 and 10 condemned the U.S. attacks on Venezuela.
The marches included some pro-Morena groups
(the governing party)
as well as students, workers, farmers, and Indigenous groups that are critical of Morena.
Over a hundred organizations met in univ…

Resisting the Empire Next Door, Protests in Mexico Grow
After US intervention in Venezuela, Trump’s threats against cartels may be seen as paving the way for actions in Mexico.

Grow & Glow With Martine
We'll talk mindset, motivation, and the messy middle, with a mix of laughter, inspiration, and honest conversations...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/grow-glow-with-martine/

25% of all traffic across the GÉANT backbone comes from or goes to regions outside Europe.
With intercontinental traffic expected to grow by another 30–35% annually, resilient long-term global links are essential.
In this #CONNECT50 article, Tanja Maier highlights several major cable projects shaping intercontinental R&E connectivity:

Joe Milton reflects on learning moments, growth in year one with Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/joe-milton-reflects-on-learning-moments-growth-in-year-one-with-cowboys

Big Tech got almost everything it wanted from President Trump, as he backs policies that allow the industry to grow unfettered, worrying some conservatives (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/technol<…

From A.I. to Chips, Big Tech Is Getting What It Wants From Trump
The president has backed policies that allow the industry to grow unfettered. The mutually beneficial alliance is causing concern among some conservatives.

Bitcoin drops 15%, briefly breaking below $61,000 as sell-off intensifies, doubts about crypto grow (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/bitcoin-price-today-70000-in-focus.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p133#a260205p133

Scientists urge governments not to wait for global plastics treaty as pollution continues to grow https://phys.org/news/2025-12-scientists-urge-global-plastics-treaty.html

Scientists urge governments not to wait for global plastics treaty as pollution continues to grow
Scientists are urging governments to act immediately on plastic pollution, warning that waiting for a binding Global Plastics Treaty could mean years of damaging delay while plastic waste continues to accelerate worldwide.

"Colorado group looks to boost heat pumps with $200M federal grant"
#US #USA #America #Colorado

Colorado group looks to boost heat pumps with $200M federal grant
It’s a rare example of a Biden-era climate grant moving forward under Trump — and could grow heat pump adoption across the Denver area.

SAP reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to €9.68B, adjusted operating profit up 27% YoY to €2.83B, and forecasts 2026 cloud revenue to grow at least 23% YoY to €25.8B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/sa…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Let Me Grow and You'll See The Fruit
#NowPlaying #DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-grow-and-youll-see-the-fruit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7I793ZesbKiSbp9qFioVu8

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Let Me Grow and You'll See the Fruit (6 Music Session, 5th Jan 2026)
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-grow-and-youll-see-the-fruit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SsRe29Ua89yh6vVJHJC6x

CSBP Grow Better podcast
We developed this podcast to help share knowledge with growers on leading crop nutrition, sustainable agriculture and other relevant local and global issues impacting the agricultural industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/csbp-g

Sources: multiple Microsoft divisions lowered how much salespeople are supposed to grow sales of certain AI products after missing growth targets, a rare move (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mi

Microsoft Lowers AI Software Sales Quotas as Customers Resist Newer Products
Executives at Microsoft and other enterprise software firms heralded 2025 as the year artificial intelligence would be capable of automating tasks that involve multiple steps, such as generating dashboards based on company sales data. But as the year comes to a close, Microsoft has lowered ...

"Water shortages could derail UK’s net zero plans, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero

🍙 Seaweed farms boost long-term carbon storage by altering ocean chemistry, study shows
#seaweed

Seaweed farms boost long-term carbon storage by altering ocean chemistry, study shows
Seaweeds are versatile algae. They are sources of food, medicine, and many other products, and they have the added benefit of being extremely efficient at removing CO2 from the atmosphere as they grow.

Vox executives detail how Vox is using Patreon to grow reader revenue and interactions; sign-ups grew 350% in the first two months after Trump's inauguration (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/vox-patreon-interview/

How Vox is using Patreon to grow reader revenue and interaction
Explainer journalism brand Vox is using creator platform Patreon to help build a "two-way relationship" with its audience.

Payments using facial recognition are growing in South Korea as the tech improves; South Korean fintech app Toss has scaled its "Facepay" service to 1M users (Nami Matsuura/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Facial recognition payments grow in South Korea as tech improves
AI and 3D photography help increase accuracy, spot fakes

Democrats grow louder on calls for Kristi Noem to resign or face impeachment (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/democrats-grow-louder-calls-kristi-noem-resign-face-impeachment-rcna255844
http://www.memeorandum.com/260125/p84#a260125p84

A dirty former Westchester
cop-turned-murderous drug dealer
who was once
#Jeffrey #Epstein’s cellmate
is allegedly making a fresh bid for freedom
— with the support of an anti-vax influencer tied to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Disgraced ex-officer

How Jessica Reed Kraus Went from Mommy Blogger to MAHA Maven
The founder of “House Inhabit” gained popularity chronicling the Presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Clare Malone reports on how she has continued to grow her audience during the second Trump Administration—with political gossip and “quality conspiracy.”

When AI Grow Up
Peter Ostick interviewing founders, educators, futurists, and technologists to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping not just our work — but the world our children will inherit...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/when-a

😋 Gene editing creates compact goldenberry plants suitable for large-scale farming
#food

Gene editing creates compact goldenberry plants suitable for large-scale farming
Goldenberries taste like a cross between pineapple and mango, pack the nutritional punch of a superfood, and are increasingly popular in U.S. grocery stores. But the plants that produce these bright yellow-orange fruits grow wild and unruly—reaching heights that make large-scale farming impractical.

Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information (Jordy Fee-Platt/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6876922/2

Kalshi, Polymarket are partnering with X accounts claiming to be sports insiders
As Polymarket and Kalshi continue to grow in popularity, they have worked with social media accounts claiming to be breaking news reporters.

Sources: Databricks is raising $5B and expects sales to grow 55% this year, putting its post-money valuation at $134B, as AI costs squeeze gross profit margins (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/datab…

Databricks Boosts Sales Forecast, Driving Valuation to $134 Billion
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi has been more vocal than other Silicon Valley executives about the dangers of an AI bubble. His company’s new $5 billion round of fundraising, at a higher valuation than ever, epitomizes the risks and rewards of the boom: While sales are growing faster than forecast, AI ...

I love that so many Americans turned out to not just protest policies that hit personally,
but to rally in support of democracy writ large.
For many, it was their first time taking this kind of action,
and they were doing it in a way that expressed optimism and possibility rather than giving in to anger or despair

Commentary: America tried something new in 2025. It's not going well
Glow up or grow up? Times columnists Anita Chabria and Mark Z. Barabak look back and assess whether 2025 was good for America or an unmitigated disaster.

⭐️Silver hit $79 (£58) an ounce for the first time last Friday,
a new peak, up from $56 at the start of December, and just $29 an ounce at the start of 2025.
Analysts have attributed the jump in the price of silver to expectations of US interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve in 2026,
leading to increased demand for hard assets that protect against inflation and currency debasement.
New restrictions on silver exports from China, which begin on 1 January,
have c…

Apple expects Q2 revenue to grow 13% to 16% YoY, vs. 10% est.; it's currently constrained by iPhone processor supply and expects memory costs to rise after Q2 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-sales-p…

The emerging blame game over the Trump administration’s handling of the deadly shooting by border authorities in Minneapolis this week
has exposed the internal jockeying for power within the Homeland Security Department over Trump’s expansive federal immigration crackdown,
and left the department in what current and former officials say is a severe crisis.
In the days since federal agents fatally shot a Veterans Affairs nurse,
a bellicose Border Patrol agent leading t…

Shooting Aftermath Leaves Homeland Security Department in Turmoil
As officials point fingers in the wake of Alex Pretti’s death at the hands of federal agents, concerns grow about the agency’s future.

Memeorandum data: WaPo's presence on the news aggregator plunged since a peak in Trump's first term, while the NYT recovered from a drop to grow in his second (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)
https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-sad-and-self-inflicted-decline

The sad and self-inflicted decline of the Washington Post, in one chart
Under Jeff Bezos, the paper retreated from the adversarial, anti-Trump posture that helped fuel its growth. And now its influence has fallen sharply.

Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information (Jordy Fee-Platt/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6876922/2

Kalshi, Polymarket are partnering with X accounts claiming to be sports insiders
As Polymarket and Kalshi continue to grow in popularity, they have worked with social media accounts claiming to be breaking news reporters.

Kristi Noem tells Walz and Frey to 'grow up' (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/11/noem-walz-frey-grow-up-00721363
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p35#a260111p35

Democrats had a big year of learning the new online media ecosystem, investing in it and showing up in the right places.
Now they need to grow rapidly
Donors on the left need to take the threat of the rightwing media ecosystem seriously and start investing a lot more in ways to capture that.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115…

Antenna: 57% of new Fox One subscriptions between its August 21 launch and October 31 came from Prime Video Channels, giving Fox One an edge over ESPN Unlimited (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/antenna-amazon-gives-fox-one-edge-over-es…

Antenna: Amazon Prime Video driving sign-ups to Fox One
Fox's decision to partner with Amazon for sales of Fox One helped it grow faster than ESPN Unlimited, according to Antenna.

Coverbase, an AI procurement and risk platform provider, raised a $16.5M Series A led by Canapi Ventures, bringing its total funding to $20M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/coverbase-raise-ai-powered-procurement/

Exclusive: With Customers Like Okta And Coinbase, Coverbase Raises $16M To Grow AI-Powered Procurement...
Coverbase, an AI-powered procurement platform, has raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Canapi Ventures, the startup tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

How Motorola, which spun out its struggling smartphone business in 2011, successfully refocused on critical communication equipment, giving it a $60B market cap (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)

Motorola Ditched RAZR Phone for Radios in $60 Billion Turnaround
Since spinning off its handset business, dealmaking has helped grow Motorola Solutions into a company worth more than $60 billion.

Ampere Analysis expects streamer content spending to grow 6% YoY in 2026 to $101B, crossing $100B for the first time; overall global content spend will grow 2% (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/streamer-spend-landmark-figure-202…

Streamer Spend To Top $100B For First Time In 2026 – Report
Streamer content spend will top $100B in 2026, an Ampere Analysis report has said, with big spend on 'Stranger Things' and sports strategies.

Refinitiv: AI infrastructure companies borrowed $100B in 2025; small companies face higher interest rates given investor wariness over unproven AI businesses (Joe Rennison/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/busines…

As A.I. Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary
Artificial intelligence companies looking to raise funds are being made to pay lofty interest rates, as debt investors become cautious.

Analysis: scientists who appeared to use LLMs posted 33% more papers on arXiv than those who didn't, as concerns grow over AI slop in scientific publishing (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)
https://www.

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
Peer review has met its match.

Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €430M from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and others, after raising €355M in January 2024 (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/21/dutch-online-grocery-store-picnic-raises-430m/

Dutch online grocery store Picnic raises €430M
Dutch online grocery store Picnic has raised €430 million from existing investors and is ploughing much of the funding to grow its operations in Germany.Picnic's existing investors include German supermarket giant Edeka, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, Dutch investment firm Hoyberg and Amsterdam-headquartered investment firm NPM Capital.As well as bolstering its presence in Germany, where Picnic says it's the market leader, the funds will be used to expand into multiple unnamed m…