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Digital-Health-Podcast: DiGA als Innovation auf Kosten der Krankenkassen?
DiGA gelten als Vorzeigeprojekt der Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen. Doch sind sie Innovations- oder Kostentreiber? Darum geht's im Digital-Health-Podcast.

Digital-Health-Podcast: DiGA als Innovation auf Kosten der Krankenkassen?
DiGA gelten als Vorzeigeprojekt der Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen. Doch sind sie Innovations- oder Kostentreiber? Darum geht's im Digital-Health-Podcast.

A new tool reveals which countries are truly ready to innovate in agrivoltaics—combining solar energy with agriculture.
The Agrivoltaic Innovation Index goes beyond counting research papers to measure actual innovation readiness. Surprising finding: African nations like Kenya and Senegal score high despite publishing less, thanks to focused projects solving urgent local needs.

New metric assesses innovation readiness in agrivoltaics
A study from Türkiye has introduced the Agrivoltaic Innovation Index (AII), a composite scientometric tool designed to assess innovation readiness in agrivoltaics beyond traditional publication and citation metrics. The index evaluates research across four dimensions - conceptual, translational, network, and societal - and shows that high publication volume does not necessarily correspond to higher innovation readiness.

Google says computer use is now a built-in tool supported in Gemini 3.5 Flash, available via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Mateo Quiros/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-rese…

Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
A look at the built-in computer use tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Selfie signin sounds like a thing people will love but I don't understand how the security works on stuff like this. Will this kill the passkey?
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/selfie-video-sign-in/

Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account
Selfie video gives you more options if you’re ever locked out or don’t have access to your usual phone or computer.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dw_innovation/116798578418291452
You should probably read this. Yes, you. And you there - you too.

Time to sell your #AI stuff and buy some quantum computing instead!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/06/ushering-in-the-…

Ushering in the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

EU project proposals have become a bureaucratic endurance test.
The application process is painfully long, the evaluations often opaque, and rejection letters can feel almost dismissive. Even when a proposal succeeds, far too much of the budget disappears into compliance, coordination, reporting, controls, and audits.
When roughly 60% of resources go to administration rather than impact, something is fundamentally broken.
Europe cannot afford to turn innovation into paperwo…

InTheBlack
Brings together expert analysis and thought leadership across accounting, business and finance, taxation, technology, digital transformation, innovation, ethics and governance, ESG, the economy, careers, workplace and work life...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpo…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dw_innovation/117132654997678465
Estš increíble esta historia de la escritora Paulina Borsook que desde hace cuarto de siglo nos advirtió sobre los tecnolibertarios de Silicon Valley.
Ojalš se vendan muchas copias d…

In their letter defending open-weight AI, tech companies urge lawmakers to avoid "premature restrictions" that "stifle competition or drive innovation overseas" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/nvidia-microsoft-meta-ope…

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against 'premature restrictions' of open-weight models
Chinese open-weight models are gaining steam against leading offerings from American companies. OpenAI and Anthropic did not sign the letter.

Victory?
Jack Huynh on X: "Today, we're bringing #AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 to Radeon RX 7000 Series graphics cards"
https://x.com/jackhuynh/status/2069059207383720091

Jack Huynh (@jackhuynh) on X
We power over 1 billion gaming devices worldwide. That scale comes with responsibility: push innovation forward and bring it to more gamers everywhere. Today, we're bringing @AMD FSR Upscaling 4.1 to Radeon RX 7000 Series graphics cards, extending our latest machine learning

Sierra acquires Takeoff, which develops "long-horizon" agents, for an undisclosed sum; founded in 2025, Takeoff neared $10M in annualized revenue in early July (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sierra-acquires…

Sierra Acquires Agent Startup ‘Takeoff’ to Diversify Its Business
In 2020, 22-year-old Aakash Thumaty was a product manager at Salesforce when he wrote an essay, “Value Driven Innovation at Shopify and the Incumbency Trap at Salesforce,” which argued against Salesforce’s subscription-based business model. He sent it to Bret Taylor, who at the time was ...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dw_innovation/116753479571522575
Yes, you can.

A team of companies and universities from the UK, Spain, Estonia and Sweden is exploring
whether old satellites could be taken apart and reused directly in space.
Their work, known as DEXTER, was launched in 2025 and is led by Leonard Felicetti,
a space engineering associate professor at Cranfield University in the UK.
“We are cluttering space with new objects,” said Felicetti.
“What we want to do is to try and reuse the material that is already there"

Rethinking space junk in an age of satellite overload
For decades, we have been littering space with decommissioned satellites and rocket parts orbiting our planet. Now this space debris poses a growing threat to the satellites and spacecraft we rely on. But researchers believe some of this debris could be turned into a valuable resource.

(LinkedIn) The BCI race: innovation vs. scale (and why the US might lose the brain-to-computer war) 🧠💥 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bci-race-innovation-vs-scale-why-us-might-lose-war-panda-yu-6ba5c/

The BCI Race: Innovation vs. Scale (And why the US might lose the brain-to-computer war) 🧠💥
The BCI Race: Innovation vs. Scale (And why the US might lose the brain-to-computer war) 🧠💥 While the West fixates on Neuralink’s latest patient milestones and venture-backed celebrity founders, a massive shift is happening in the East that the global tech community is largely ignoring.

Consumer Led Flexibility for the Clean Energy Superpower Mission Funding competition
https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/2509/overview/c1794f5a-06bf-41bb-8a13-3e657dacef54

Competition overview - Consumer Led Flexibility for the Clean Energy Superpower Mission - Innovation Funding Service

Smart Meters Conference, Salford (2019) - Bringing together industry, academia and policy makers to innovation around the smart meter infrastructure. #UoSSmart2019 - https://www.earth.org.uk/Smart-Meters-2019…

Smart Meters Conference, Salford (2019)
Bringing together industry, academia and policy makers to innovation around the smart meter infrastructure. #UoSSmart2019

Google DeepMind says its Gemma family of open models has surpassed 1B downloads and developers have published 100K Gemma model variants over the past two years (Google)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-one…

Inside the Gemmaverse: Celebrating one billion Gemma downloads
A look at the Gemmaverse as Gemma surpasses one billion downloads.

Innovation Labs by Identity Digital Convenes Infrastructure, Security, and Finance Leaders to Help Shape Accountability Framework for AI Agents
https://www.g…

UK non-academic researchers!
UK Research and Innovation have one research funding programme - 'Future Leaders Fellowships' - which allow and support applications from non-academic researchers, i.e. those hosted by business including non-profits. It's well funded, over 4 years, extendable to 7 years. I was lucky enough to get one of these, hosted by the lovely non-profit organisation @…

SXSW plans to add a dedicated podcast festival in 2027, making it a core element of the event, alongside Film & TV, Music, Comedy, and the Innovation Conference (Matt Grobar/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/sxsw-launching-podcast-festival-2027-12370435…

SXSW Launching Podcast Festival In 2027
SXSW is expanding its programming with the launch of a dedicated podcast festival in 2027, South by Southwest announced on Tuesday.

"Envisioning AI’s Role in Libraries: Perspectives on Innovation, Equity, and Responsibility Across Career Stages"
https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/27366

@… @… I suspect this "innovation exemption" is all about crypto and blockchain.

„Move fast and break democracy" – Gil Duršn erzählt in „The Nerd Reich", wie aus Sonntagsreden über Freiheit und Innovation ein handfester Plan für digitalen Feudalismus wurde. Thiel, Andreessen, Musk als selbsternannte Erlöser, die zufällig auch gleich die Weltherrschaft mitliefern. Unterhaltsam erzählt, aber zum Fürchten ernst gemeint – lesen!

A look at JD Vance's "AI doctrine", which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs (Vivian Salama/The Atlantic)

What Does J. D. Vance Think of AI
The vice president is making a case that is part Silicon Valley, part MAGA.

Die 'Wirtschaftsvereinigung der Grünen' mit dem "Impulspapier Innovation durch Verteidigung".
https://www.wirtschaftsvereinigung-gruene.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/WVG_Impulspapier_Verteidigung_Innovatio…

Every Saturday, Metacurity is happy to provide our readers with a rundown of the week's best infosec-related long reads that we couldn't address during the week's news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How a doll sparked an international security scandal,
--Smart home technology erodes our privacy and autonomy,
--We need 'Operation Warp Speed' for AI,
--Security and not speed should be uppermost in US-AI China race,
--Ditch cyber …

Innovation is easy, but adaptation is hard: Best infosec long reads 6/13/26
How a doll sparked an international security scandal, Smart home technology erodes our privacy and autonomy, We need 'Operation Warp Speed' for AI, Security and not speed should be uppermost in US-AI China race, Ditch cyber checklists in favor of engineered resilience

thom hogan: I’ll put it bluntly: some of the best innovation in camera design is now coming out of China. Because that relies upon communication (radio waves) to mobile devices, it’s now possible US citizens will not see the next great future camera. This is the way empires die: they try to wall themselves off from competition. <-- same with renewables and a whole bunch of other things

Beyond Algorithms: Conceptual Innovation in Medical Imaging AI
Mark A. Anastasio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19270 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.19270

London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/2…

Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI 'teammate' just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research | TechCrunch
Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dw_innovation/116957253240824131
Interesting finding. I would strongly caution against using this to assume that one can be sure a face is generated, but good heuristic to know.
And beyond detection: this is another finding that suggests gen AI has a normative, flattening character with potentially dangerous social effects.

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Der erfolgreiche Manager sieht Europa im Dekadenzzustand, ihm fehlen Leadership und Innovation. Ein älterer US-Kollege meinte unlängst zu mir, er würde sich keine Sorgen um Europa machen, denn "you know how to lead the good life".

I wonder, what will the Cook era be remembered for? (Regarding products & innovation.)
The strides in processor power and efficiency are nothing short of amazing, but essentially no actually innovative* products shipped.
(The Apple Watch was Ive’s baby.)
*tbf there’s some innovative tech in the Vision Pro but that sort of doesn’t count if it’s not useful and no one is buying it
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/21/apple-lays-off-vision-products-employees/

@… long ago (some time between 2003 and 2013) I sat in on a visiting researcher's work-in-progress seminar about innovation in China.
Really fascinating, what struck me most was the chasm between the (ignorant, lazy) commonplace British perception of things as knock-offs, and the reality of effective innovation without the constraints of official or…

A profile of People Inc. Chief Innovation Officer Jonathan Roberts, who has emerged as a prominent voice on AI's impact in the media industry (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/jonatha

Scientists built a battery-free device that turns sunlight into fuel #energy

Scientists built a battery-free device that turns sunlight into fuel
Scientists have developed an artificial photosynthesis system that essentially regulates itself, eliminating the need for batteries used in many current designs. The key innovation is an electrolyzer that automatically adapts to changing sunlight by altering its electrical properties as it heats up. This keeps solar fuel production more stable while reducing cost and complexity.

I don't know how wildly impractical it would be, but imagine you could transform red-brick former industrial buildings into data centres with a "MareNostrum 4" aesthetic?
https://www.riba.org/news/riba-and-government-design-ideas-competi…

RIBA partners with government on design ideas competition for data centres
We've announced a new collaboration with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to launch a national Data Centre Design Challenge exploring the future of UK data centre design.

I screen, you screen, we all screen for sunscreen
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-expands-sunscreen-options-first-time-20-years

FDA Expands Sunscreen Options for the First Time in 20 Years
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration added bemotrizinol to the list of permitted sunscreen active ingredients, marking a significant milestone in the agency's efforts to advance sunscreen innovation.

Lazy innovation: to make a token I can put up on a bulletin board I print the back and the front on the same side of a 4x6 instead of printing two backs and two fronts
#photo #photography #foxwork

Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and rolls out an update giving every notebook a secure cloud computer, letting it write and execute code natively (Josh Woodward/Google)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/note…

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook: the same standalone product with deeper Google integration and a secure cloud computer.

BRE SME Low Carbon Innovation Workshop 2 (2017-09) - Hotel energy challenge: BREEAM, ethical sourcing, Responsible Hospitality Partnership, ClearlySo impact investment. - https://www.earth.org.uk/BRE-Low-Carbon-Innovation.html

BRE SME Low Carbon Innovation Workshop 2 (2017-09)
Hotel energy challenge: BREEAM, ethical sourcing, Responsible Hospitality Partnership, ClearlySo impact investment.

On The Mic
This limited series dives into the stories behind researchers, industry leaders, and emerging talent who are driving innovation and impact across the agrifood sector...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/on-the-mic/ …

Just noticed the (Computing Within) LIMITS 2026 workshop papers are on arXiv already. A selection:
Narratives That Limit the Possible: Interrupting Narrative Closure in Computing Practice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17360
Modest, artistic, and radical solutions to the environmental impact of ima…

Narratives That Limit the Possible: Interrupting Narrative Closure in Computing Practice
Computing's dominant concepts - innovation, efficiency, resilience, professionalism - often migrate from reflective ideals to instruments that limit behaviour, redirect responsibility, and foreclose critique. We call this drift weaponisation: the discursive repurposing of professional concepts so that they stabilise business-as-usual while making structural alternatives appear unreasonable, illegible, or out of scope. Using collective autoethnography across education, justice, public administra…

Now I know what to call it when my research group comes up with cool new ideas..
"Workplace innovation"
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford: Can You Make a Sherman Tank Float?
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/can-you-make-a-sherman-tank-float
Media file: https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdrl.fm/18db03/tracking.swap.fm/track/SxlTEPDY7xDg35RXkASs/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c0ae8c6e-22f0-4e9b-ac1c-ae390037ac53/a58b655b-e14b-4aaf-9f67-b45800f4f57b/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7f5a4714-6b10-4ccf-a424-ae390037ac70

Ungewöhnliche Stellenausschreibung: Cyberagentur sucht Science-Fiction-Autor
Die bundeseigene Gesellschaft soll Forschung und Innovation in der Cybersicherheit voranzutreiben. Warum es dafür jetzt auch einen Schriftsteller braucht.

Ungewöhnliche Stellenausschreibung: Cyberagentur sucht Science-Fiction-Autor
Die bundeseigene Gesellschaft soll Forschung und Innovation in der Cybersicherheit voranzutreiben. Warum es dafür jetzt auch einen Schriftsteller braucht.

#Ukraine #drone #allies
https://bsky.app/pr…

Maria Drutska (@mariadrutska.bsky.social)
Another Ukrainian innovation: interceptor drones are being mounted on small transport aircraft like An-28s to take down Russian attack drones. This great video shows how it works, from takeoff to interception with P1-SUN drones. I expect allies to be very interested in this.

UK PM Andy Burnham abolishes the Department for Science, Innovation, and Tech and elevates UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, who oversees AISI, to attend cabinet (Philippa Wain/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz97x8k4zqzo

AI minister role boosted but tech department axed in Burnham shake-up
Kanishka Narayan will attend cabinet - but no longer have the leadership of a technology secretary.

RE: https://social.bund.de/@Bundesregierung/116873900868167926
Kündigungsschutz wird geschwächt, gigantischer Bürokratieaufwand für Krankmeldungen ohne Mehrwert, Investitionen in Zukunftstechnologien und damit Innovation und Wertschöpfung in Deutsch…

Senator McCormick Announces nearly $10 Billion in New Investment supporting 4,000 Pennsylvania Jobs at 2026 Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit (U.S. Senator Dave McCormick)
https://www.mccormick.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-mccormick-announces-nearly-10-billion-in-new-investment-supporting-4000-pennsylvania-jobs-at-2026-pennsylvania-defense-and-innovation-summit-2/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260716/p76#a260716p76

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini…

Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash
Scale your ideas with Nano Banana 2 Lite, our fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model, and Gemini Omni Flash for high-quality video generation and conversational editing.

Google unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash, its "most intelligent workhorse model" for coding and agents, pricing it at $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens at launch (Tulsee Doshi/Google)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-…

Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash is our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.

Another Ukrainian innovation:
interceptor drones are being mounted on small transport aircraft like An-28s to take down Russian attack drones
https://bsky.app/profile/mariadrutska.bsky.social/post/3mk6oatoggc2t

Maria Drutska (@mariadrutska.bsky.social)
Another Ukrainian innovation: interceptor drones are being mounted on small transport aircraft like An-28s to take down Russian attack drones. This great video shows how it works, from takeoff to interception with P1-SUN drones. I expect allies to be very interested in this.

Poster on the Orion Cortical Stimulation System presented at the #NANS26 Annual Meeting https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nans26-nans2026-innovation-share-7424478305426456…

That kinda worked...
https://phoenixtech.com/news/phoenix-technologies-divests-bios-technology-to-lenovo/
> Gerard Moore, CEO said. “This divestiture will allow the company to focus on developing and supporting its new FirmGuard produc…

Phoenix Technologies Divests BIOS Technology to Lenovo - Phoenix Technologies - Leading PC Innovation since 1979
Phoenix divests BIOS assets to Lenovo to focus on FirmGuard, while maintaining support for existing customers and strengthening long-term strategy.

Another reiteration from NCSC/DSIT that the existence of AI bug-hunting tools shouldn't be used to stop working in the open.
https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/when-ai-leaves-the-lab-testing-frontier-models-in-…

When AI Leaves the Lab: Testing Frontier Models in Government Cyber Defence
The Government Cyber Action Plan aims to boost cyber resilience across the UK public sector by using emerging technologies to manage risk. The Government Cyber Coordination Centre (GC3) - a partnership between the NCSC and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology - is leading this work, exploring how frontier AI can be applied safely to cyber defence across government.

»Mercedes wirbt jetzt sogar mit einem Luxus-Unimog mit über 5 Tonnen Gewicht. Dieser Kleinlaster für Leute, denen die SUVs zu klein geworden sind zum Angeben, säuft 20 Liter Benzin auf 100 km. Das ist absurdes Schaufahren gegen den Klimaschutz und wird uns als technische Innovation verkauft.«
Quelle: Jürgen Resch, Bundesgeschäftsführer der Deutschen Umwelthilfe, in einem Interview der MUH, Ausgabe 61 (Sommer 2026)

Google launches its Lyria 3.5 music generation model in Google Flow Music, highlighting improved musicality, lyrics, vocal quality, and creative control (Google)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/lyria-3-5/
…

We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control.
Our newest music generation model, Lyria 3.5, delivers significant advancements across musicality, lyrics, and vocal quality, empowering you to craft richer tracks. We’re rolling it out today in Google Flow Music, where we want to help you create songs you love, with creative control.Here's what’s new:Improved musicality: Create richer, more complex melodic structures that sound more natural.Enhanced lyrics: Generate higher quality lyrics with improved prompt adherence and structural awaren…

Google introduces DiffusionGemma, an experimental 26B-parameter open model that uses text diffusion for faster text generation compared to autoregressive models (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers…

DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation
An overview of DiffusionGemma, an exceptionally fast text generation model with up to 4x faster speeds.

Power steering was the last good innovation in transportation technology. Everything since then has been useless or harmful.

RE: https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/116845555615098213
Doro konnte die Erfindung nicht verhindern, aber Kathi kann immer noch dafür sorgen, dass die Innovation das Geld in China macht.

From the BBC article, quoting some random market analysts reaction to panic selling:
"'The long term investment case for AI remains compelling, but investors are becoming far more selective about which companies can justify the valuations the market has assigned to them,' Makaryan said."
"' 'The high cost of commercialising AI tools is gradually being passed on to consumers' said analyst Raymond Woo from Kyoto University Innovation Capital.

Google releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, which it says can deliver "near real-time speech-to-speech translation in over 70 languages" (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-li…

Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate
Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time, natural speech translation to Google AI Studio, Google Translate and Google Meet.

Oh goody, researchers use AI to build a drone that can be invisible to the human eye.
I'm sure no one will use this for stalking or peeping, nope, that would never happen.
#AI #Drone #Privacy

The Green Room - Energy Innovation & Renewables Industry Podcast
A leading renewable energy podcast spotlighting the people driving Australia's clean energy transition, hosted by industry veteran Veli Markovic...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-gr

I read that #Microsoft is going to add a revolutionary feature to #Windows11. You can soon change the position of the taskbar to the top or the side of the screen.
This kind of innovation can only come from multi billion dollar companies....

✨ Our 2025 in review ✨
The GÉANT Annual Report 2025 is now published! It captures how GÉANT and European NRENs continue to drive innovation, collaboration, and impact for the #Research & #Education community in Europe and beyond.
👏 Big thank you to everyone who makes this possible—ou…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.MA. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.MA/new
[1/1]:
- Semantic knowledge guides innovation and drives cultural evolution
Anil Yaman, Shen Tian, Bj\"orn Lindstr\"om

NeuralTrust, which offers tech that lets enterprises discover, monitor, govern, and secure AI agents, raised a $20M seed led by Alstin Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/06/17/neuraltrust-closes-20m-to-expand-ai-agent-security-pl…

NeuralTrust closes $20M to expand AI agent security platform
NeuralTrust, a platform for securing AI agents, has raised a $20 million seed financing round, led by Alstin Capital, with participation from VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund, and Finaves, the venture capital fund of IESE Business School. NeuralTrust also receives public support from the European Innovation Council and Spain’s State Research Agency (AEI).The investment comes as enterprises expand the use of AI agents across business fun…

Watch live: Trump participates in Pennsylvania defense summit (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/video-clips/5969732-watch-live-donald-trump-iran-war-pennsylvania-defense-innovation-summit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260715/p95#a260715p95

Have you ever noticed how certain melodies can transport you through time and space? Big band music exemplifies this magic, uplifting our spirits while showcasing innovation and resilience. Let its rhythm remind us that life is a symphony of beautiful notes awaiting their moment. #MusicMagic #BigBandLove

Materials in lithium-ion battery cathodes have continuously evolved since the 1990s,
but anodes have stubbornly remained graphite.
Now, finally, there’s some innovation on that side: silicon anodes,
which engineers have struggled to master for a decade,
are finally coming into wide commercialization.
They enable up to five times the energy density of graphite anodes,
charge many times faster,
and are poised to revolutionize the battery market

The Transition to Lithium-Silicon Batteries
Understand how silicon battery technology will impact EVs, consumer electronics, aerospace, grid storage, and other battery applications.

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini…

Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash
Scale your ideas with Nano Banana 2 Lite, our fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model, and Gemini Omni Flash for high-quality video and conversational editing.

What The Health With Emily Casey
Cuts through the BS in health innovation with honest conversations, rants, bants, practical insights, and the people shaping what's next...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-the-health-2/…

Google launches its Lyria 3.5 music generation model in Google Flow Music, highlighting improved musicality, lyrics, vocal quality, and creative control (Google)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/lyria-3-5/
…

We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control.
Our newest music generation model, Lyria 3.5, delivers significant advancements across musicality, lyrics, and vocal quality, empowering you to craft richer tracks. We’re rolling it out today in Google Flow Music, where we want to help you create songs you love, with creative control.Here's what’s new:Improved musicality: Create richer, more complex melodic structures that sound more natural.Enhanced lyrics: Generate higher quality lyrics with improved prompt adherence and structural awaren…

Beyond headcount and human capital: The Effective Cognitive Population as a decomposable capacity unit for AI-era planning
Kwan Soo Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09642 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.09642
arXiv:2608.09642v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: National planning counts population, human capital, and artificial-intelligence preparedness in separate ledgers. Demographic accounting has advanced from headcount to skills-adjusted stocks and still debates how much age structure retains once skills are modeled, yet no existing unit carries the conditions under which preparedness becomes productive capacity. This study introduces the Effective Cognitive Population (ECP), a decomposable unit that weights population by capability and by the conditions under which capability is deployed, anchored to the World Bank Human Capital Index Plus (HCI ) and the non-overlapping dimensions of the IMF AI Preparedness Index. The architecture is portable in principle; the case tested here is artificial intelligence, which has a published preparedness index. For 144 countries, HCI becomes a productivity level, AI opportunity uses digital infrastructure and innovation integration, conversion governance uses regulation and ethics, and the benchmark is ECP = N H(1 AC). Against 2024 total output on identical population bases, ECP raises criterion R-squared from 0.849 for the HCI -adjusted stock to 0.882 and lowers leave-one-country-out RMSE from 0.723 to 0.641, with the working-age comparison identical and bootstrap intervals excluding zero. Eighty-nine of 144 countries move at least ten rank positions from headcount, mostly through the human-capital adjustment itself. Results are stable across denominators, vintages, aggregation forms, and a 27-rule multiverse. The direct A by C interaction is not statistically supported, so the conjunction is a planning rule rather than causal complementarity. ECP is a diagnostic ledger whose scope excludes forecasts of population decline and estimates of AI's causal productivity effect.
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