Ian Crosby's Synthetic, which is building an AI bookkeeper, raised a $10M seed led by Khosla; Crosby founded Bench, which raised $100M and imploded in 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/khos…
Ich, der bis vor einer Woche neben einem Influencer-Hotspot wohnte, als ich lese, dass die USA wollen, dass Influencer ein Arbeitsvisum beantragen
#influencerinthewild #Rheinfall
"On me dit que mon bébé est mort depuis 48h": Camille raconte son accouchement non assisté, influencée par les réseaux sociaux - Marie Claire
https://www.marieclaire.fr/on-me-dit-que-m
The greatest trick the devil* ever pulled was convincing us there is a thing called “The Economy” that can be described as doing well while people are deprived and suffering.
*or bourgeois economists
https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/sf-economy-inflection-point/
US wholesale prices surged 4% last month after the war in Iran sent energy prices soaring (Paul Wiseman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/inflation-oil-gasoline-inflation-trump-6990c9ca0e19553b40c13af11b9c575b
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p63#a260414p63
#taz über das, was man noch "Mittelschicht" nennt...
Family Influencing: Wenn kleine Kinder profilbildend sind
Kinder als Teil der „Creator-Economy“ können problematisch sein, zeigt eine Studie. Die Eltern seien nicht bösartig, es fehle aber das Problembewusstsein.
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Former Mercor staffers describe "operational mishaps" at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbe…
NY-based Auctor, which uses AI to curate resource plans and process flows to help companies adopt new software, raised $20M in a combined seed and Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026…