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Sources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating several flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-overhauls-ai-strategy…

Amazon rethinks its AI strategy and winds down many in-house models
Amazon reshapes its AI strategy by deprecating most Nova AI models and shifting resources to Pieter Abbeel's Frontier Model Research initiative.

This week, I'm happy to welcome a new guest blogger, Peter Firmstone from Down Under 🇦🇺.
He's written a whole series about #security baked into the #JVM. Today's post answers the question: why fork @…

Wird Potter das neue Porschloch?

Es war so klar 🤡
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Here's a photograph (not mine) of a Polistes diminula colony living inside an ornamental butterfly house. It's from Baker and Potter's excellent article titled, "Invasive paper wasp turns urban pollinator gardens into ecological traps for monarch butterfly larvae." #monarchs #butterflies #wasps https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66621-6

Q&A with Fox podcast exec Chris Balfe on podcasts being synonymous with video and how clipping is shifting ad dollars from creators to short-form platforms (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-podcast…

Fox's podcast chief is keeping a wary eye on TikTok and Reels clips
An update from the front lines of the podcast industry as it grapples with Netflix deals, and how to balance distribution vs. revenue.

Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to $70M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/25/patronus-ai…

Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents | TechCrunch
Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.

At the scale of the French National Audiovisual Institute, standard fuzzy matching created more noise than answers. So the team did something unexpected: they looked back decades to ancient phonetic algorithms to solve a very modern problem.
Join Pietro Mele and Radu Pop to find out why "sounding right" beats "spelling close", especially for languages like French, where silent letters and homophones make spelling a guessing game.

Q&A with Vox CEO Jim Bankoff on the sale of Vox Media's podcast network, why buyers were interested in that network, and how remaining sites are in "good shape" (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-bankof

Why did James Murdoch buy Vox Media's podcast business, but not some of Jim Bankoff's other properties?
James Murdoch is buying Vox's podcast business, and New York Magazine. Why not the rest?

Sources: England and Wales' attorney general tells his office to stop posting on X, a first for the UK government, amid worries about X inciting violence (Peter Walker/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns
Exclusive: Richard Hermer’s office understood to be first in government to restrict use after recent riots