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Europas Milliarden-Offensive: 19 Staaten starten Großprojekt für Industrie-KI
Mit dem Vorhaben IPCEI-AI wollen 19 EU-Länder ein eigenes KI-Ökosystem aufbauen. Über zehn Milliarden Euro sollen in europäische Industrietechnologien fließen.

Europas Milliarden-Offensive: 19 Staaten starten Großprojekt für Industrie-KI
Mit dem Vorhaben IPCEI-AI wollen 19 EU-Länder ein eigenes KI-Ökosystem aufbauen. Über zehn Milliarden Euro sollen in europäische Industrietechnologien fließen.

African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/terr

Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South | TechCrunch
African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.

"“Unbury” the Book Chapter? An Investigation of Library and Information Science Book Chapters from Edited Collections in Scholarly Indexes | Swanson" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8790
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Was die Rechten mit Entbürokratisierung meinen https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1200502.eu-abwasserrichtlinie-rechte-eu-abgeordnete-im-namen-der-industrie.html

Titans to induct Chris Johnson into Ring of Honor during Week 1 game vs. Jets https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-induct-chris-johnso-ring-of-honor-week-1-game-als

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #2: Bulk imports done right — taming the indexers
Every Shopware developer has been here: you push 50,000 products through the Sync API and the import crawls. The writes themselves are fast. What kills you is everything that happens after each write — inheritance updates, cheapest price calculation, search keyword generation, category denormalization. Shopware calls all of this "indexing", and by default it runs synchronously, per request,…

GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 51, only behind Fable 5's 60, Opus 4.8's 56, and GPT-5.5's 55 (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Benchmarks and Analysis of GLM-5.2

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law

Chip giants participated in startup funding rounds collectively surpassing $250B YTD; Nvidia leads the sector in deal volume with a record 59 funding rounds (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/semiconductor…

Semiconductor Giants Are Busy Backing Startups This Year
Massive AI spending has helped push earnings and valuations for semiconductor industry leaders to record levels, prompting the sector's giants to invest record sums in artificial intelligence and robotics startups.

World rolls out World Money, a self-custodial financial "super app" in 150 countries that combines stablecoin payments, trading, earning, and virtual accounts (Jason Shubnell/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/busin…

World launches 'World Money' super app with stablecoins, Stripe integration and boosted rewards
The self-custody app also plugs into Stripe, Kalshi, and Morpho, with World ID verification unlocking boosted rewards.