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Point2 Technology, which develops RF-based data center interconnection tech, raised a $136M Series B from LB Investment, Arm, Maverick Silicon, and others (Giacomo Lee/SDxCentral)
https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/nvidia-ai-interconnect-darling…

Nvidia AI interconnect darling bags $136M funding from Arm, others
Data center interconnect disruptor Point2 Technology celebrates Series B success

Pro Football Hall of Fame cuts Super Bowl-winning coach and 24 others from selection committee, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pro-football-hall-of-fame-selection-commit…

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching

I love supporting creators when I can and when they're making things that interest me. And if you're a maker, like me, you know it always feels good when people get what you're trying to make, even when others don't quite get it yet. Feeling thankful for those few early adopters who get what I'm trying to do, and happy to pass that along to other makers.

Your behaviors on each individual social media platform begin to bleed into the others. At first you type your old friend's IG handle into the Youtube search bar. Then your fingers reflexively jump 2 where a button would be if this shyt was TikTok. Soon you reference a word created yesterday on LinkedIn.
One day, u break and become the omniuser. the first mf to perfectly fully evenly mentally synthesize every ui together as one within the bowels of your subconscious. You are cyron…

Trump used his address to call out ABC and NBC
for not airing his live remarks,
claiming the networks declined to do so
“because they know how corrupt our system is and they don’t want to reveal it.”
He also repeated his frequent demand that the networks’ government-issued broadcast licenses be revoked.
“They and others in the media are part of a plot,”
the president said, offering no evidence for his claims.
In fact, ABC and NBC did carry Trump’s spe…

In Prime Time, Trump Criticizes Networks for Not Carrying His Speech
The president also called for ABC and NBC to lose their broadcast licenses, after complaining that the networks were not airing his remarks.

WTF? Hat #Merz auch eine Leihmutter engagiert?
https://www.thepioneer.de/originals/others/articles/kanzlerkrise-friedrich-merz-droht-spahn-szenario

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B in January (James Fontanella-Khan/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/719c8108-f4ae-466b-80f4-96f26558d642

Lone star ticks will pursue hosts up to 3 meters away and are FAST. Plus they are gregarious so if one is tracking you down there are likely others. Potentially dozens, maybe hundreds. #AlphaGalSyndrome #ticks https://youtu.be/e6vzTYhK72A

@… @… thanks for all the work you've put into Tangerine! I was surely hoping for an update, but it's more than understandable that your hesitant to do it at this point. As others said before me: do what makes you happy and - aga…

🤔 Are #emojis a universal language? - No, for two reasons. 1) They are not a language, as they do not show the properties that human languages have: grammatical structure and free combinatorics, enabling us to express complex thoughts. 2) They are not really universal. While many emojis are interpreted similarly all over the world (I guess it's pretty clear what one could mean by 🍕 ), some emoji meanings are closely tied to cultural assumptions (e.g., some of the gestures 👍 , buildings ⛩️ , food), and others are very context-dependent and might follow different conventions in various groups, including linguistic or regional groups (e.g., 🙃 for which we found strong differences between populations in Norway/US vs. Germany/Bulgaria). #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics

I updated my guide on how to deploy self-hosted #Discourse. The configuration of the internal nginx (inside the container) recently changed (for the better) in a way that affected my previous advice.
I seem to have been maintaining this guide for over five years now; I started in June 2021. 79 edits so far, most of which have been mine.

#EroticMusings 55. How do you show the initial spark of lust or love between characters? Share!
I realised while I enjoy reading slow burn written by others, I don't write it when writing erotica. If it's slow it's mostly offscreen and allows some leaps while the main story has some progress.
Mela and Camelia slowly falling for each other? They stare at each other u…

Family is important; even if it is sometimes just imaginary, as it happened a few times in #StarTrek. And one of these cases is the focus of today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote wi…

Rich people showing off their new cars to others in the same apartment through insurance ads by not filling in unit number in their registration address.

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.

NFL Week 2 picks: Why I’m betting against the teams everyone thinks will bounce back https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7598662/2026/09/17/nfl-week-2-predictions-betting-picks/

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching

NFL Week 2 picks: Why I’m betting against the teams everyone thinks will bounce back https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7598662/2026/09/17/nfl-week-2-predictions-betting-picks/

Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Some people are born heroic - others have heroism thrust upon them. I didn't wake up this morning and decide that I was going to be a hero, but then again, that's kinda what heroes do. They wake up and then end up doing some heroic shit.
#EveryonesAHeroInTheirOwnWay #Shitpost

As David Sacks steps back and Sriram Krishnan prepares to leave, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and others are leading AI policy in the Trump administration (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/inside-white-house-ai-power-center

Inside the White House's AI power center
Like its AI policy, the Trump administration's AI team is taking shape on the fly.

Massive Azure Exfiltration Campaign Exposes Millions of Enterprise Records via Compromised Credentials (Mcdonald’s, Vodafone, Kyndryl & Others)
https://www.infostealers.com/article/massive-azure-exfiltration-campaign-exposes-millions-of-enterprise-records-via-compromised-credentials-mcdonalds-vodafone-kyndryl-others/

Some granite boulders resist weathering but others get etched by the action of waves and winds like the big one here on the New Hampshire store and others, in the background are chunks of fill that were blasted and transported by truck!
#photo #photography

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116924874418802342
This.
I'm so tired of seeing the back-and-forth on open source projects where people pointing out that GenAI is unethical are "rebutted" by others ignoring the ethics and saying it&…

I'm watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 4x17 "Babyhead" #JoJosBizarreAdventure

Babyhead
After defeating Proscuitto and Pesci, Bucciarati and the others head to Venice in a car. Melone from the Hitman Team finds some of Bucciarati's blood at…

The Democratic field for president is still wide open and unsettled.
The very early list includes former presidential candidates, governors, senators, House members and celebrities.
While no one on this list has officially declared, some candidates have been more open than others about wanting to run.

Ahead of November’s midterm elections, the field is starting to take shape as a major debate roils the party:
--- Is the surging progressive movement helping or hurti…

Analysis | Sizing up the 2028 Democratic presidential contenders
There’s a long list, but some are getting more traction than others.

I have shuffled up Speedlify 2 to #25 - was 18 but others popped ahead of me since. My site is the only Cloudflare site in the top 50 now! i must be doing something right!
https://www.speedlify.dev

Who are you comparing yourself to?
In the latest episode of the podcast, I explore why we compare ourselves to others at work, and what to do when those comparisons leave us feeling worse rather than better.
You can find Ep 219 of 'My Pocket Psych' wherever you get your podcasts or stream it direct from https://www.workl…

Buzz: Is a return to prominence in store for Lions... https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/40699880/fantasy-football-injuries-position-battles-nfl-news-analysis

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B in January (James Fontanella-Khan/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/719c8108-f4ae-466b-80f4-96f26558d642

Converse bounds for multiple graph alignment and correlation detection based on last matching
Taha Ameen, Bruce Hajek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14450 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.14450 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.14450
arXiv:2608.14450v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The paper focuses on information theoretic converse bounds for the alignment of $m$ correlated graphs and for the detection of correlation among $m$ graphs. A simple idea for $m\geq 3$ is that if the alignment of $m-1$ of the graphs is revealed as extra information (by a genie for example) then it is still necessary to produce the alignment between the one remaining graph and the others, i.e. the last matching must be accomplished. For both Gaussian and Erdos-Renyi models, the last-matching problem is equivalent to one with two observed graphs, providing a path to extend converse bounds for $m=2$ to larger $m$. While the method is rather obvious for alignment, we show that the method can also be used to derive converse bounds for weak detection of correlation.
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moreno_sociograms: Moreno's sociograms (1934)
Relationships between pupils in a classroom. A directed edge exists if the source wants to sit next to the target. Each child can only choose two others.
This network has 45 nodes and 69 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
https://networks.ske…

Three die in the crash of a helicopter providing news coverage for NBC Los Angeles, including photojournalist Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw (Dennis Romero/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/helicopter-crashes-los-angeles-chatswo…

3 dead after news helicopter reporting for NBC Los Angeles crashes while covering fatal bus collision
An NBC Los Angeles helicopter was covering a Los Angeles Metro bus and a passenger vehicle collision, which killed two people and injured others, fire officials said.

Viral Jaishawn Barham Video Splits Dallas Cowboys Fans After Green Dot News https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/viral-jaishawn-barham-video-splits-dallas-cowboys-fans-green-dot-news

More than 80% of North America’s forests are entering dangerous territory https://www.earth.com/plants/more-than-80-of-north-americas-forests-are-entering-dangerous-territory/

More than 80% of North America’s forests are entering dangerous territory
Warming temperatures are reshaping where tree pests and diseases can thrive, leaving some forests far more vulnerable than others.

Move along, sir, you can’t be here. What do you think this is, a free country or something?
#Mason #Tennessee #CoreCivic #ICE

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

goodnight
#night #tombScrolling

Can someone pay me to pull a David Blaine stunt where you lock me in a room and I can't leave until I finish all the amazing-looking games coming out in the fall?
Between Phantom Blade Ø, Onimusha, GTA 6, Wolverine, and others, I'm not sure I'll ever get through my backlog.

This is part 6️⃣ so you can see what we did in the shadows while you were still asleep! Paparazzo: Arnout — you can also learn who is playing which instrument. Some are playing more than others …

AI inference startup Baseten is raising $1.5B in a dual-tiered deal, with some investors putting in money at an $11B valuation and others at a $13B valuation (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-13-billion

Finished reading "Buckeye" by Patrick Ryan.
Two families in a small Ohio town, tangled together by one impulsive afternoon in 1945, followed across three decades of war, secrets, and quiet self-preservation.
Every character is hiding something, mostly to protect themselves, sometimes carrying the added weight of shielding others too. The result is a slow, patient portrait of emotional distance, and what time can and can't heal.
5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Buckeye
That, as he saw it now, was his life’s work: trying to …

🗓️ Friday, September 18
⏰ 7PM-11PM
📍 Glass Woods Tavern Bar & Lounge in the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick
📍 2 Albany St, New Brunswick, NJ
🎫 Tickets at the link in our bio!
🚫 18 only event
https://www.instagram.com/p/DdJ6abzRJuB/

Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport;
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A representative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.
https://

Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport
There were three others in the van with the man shot by ICE in Houston this week. A representative for the families tells TNR that the government is pressuring these potential witnesses to self-deport.

AI fear-mongering is profitable. Blaming AI is simply lazy. Claiming humans are alway better is sanctimonious.
Greed, Sloth, Pride... interesting.
From: @…
https://

Verse Enterprises, which wants to provide energy-management software for 100 data centers by 2027, raised a $54M Series B from Nvidia and others (Summer Maxwell/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-18…

Trump’s tendency to point fingers at others is increasingly in the spotlight
As November’s midterm elections approach Republicans are trying to retain control of Congress
But Trump's unwillingness to accept blame sometimes leads him to deny that there are problems at all,
and could leave GOP leaders in tight races with little reassurance for voters that their concerns are being addressed.

With Donald Trump, the buck tends to stop somewhere else
President Harry Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his White House desk. But the current president, Donald Trump, often veers from that motto of taking responsibility. The Republican has blamed his predecessors for continued inflation. As the unpopular war with Iran drags on, he says earlier presidents squandered years of chances to curb Tehran's nuclear ambitions. He says vandals are responsible for the problem-plagued renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. T…

«“It’s an absolute disaster,” said one former official in an Army office supervising the project. “The Army should’ve gone after recovering money from General Dynamics,” added the official, who, like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity.»
https://www.propublic…

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

A splendid peer review:
"This is a remarkable result – in fact, I don’t believe it. However, I have examined the paper and can find no fault in the author's methods and results. Thus I believe it should be published so that others may assess it and the conclusions and/or repeat the experiment to see whether the same results are achieved."
Alan Singleton, in Learned Publishing, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011, Pages 162-163

Studs and Duds: 2 Cowboys UDFAs lead offense while some vets struggle https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/16/studs-duds-cowboys-vs-seahawks-ps-week-1/91324143007/

'Pass on the warmth': blind Chinese teen aces gaokao, chooses medicine to help others https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3358630/pass-warmth-blind-chinese-…

‘Pass on the warmth’: blind Chinese teen aces gaokao, chooses medicine to help others
Music becomes his sanctuary and, with guidance from his teachers, he learns to play five instruments.

Delos Data, which develops network chips and software to connect AI chips in a data center, raised $100M from Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, and others (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/delos-dat

I'm watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 4x24 "Notorious Chase" #JoJosBizarreAdventure

Notorious Chase
After defeating Squallo and Tiziano, Bucciarati and the others head off to Sardinia to find out about the boss's past. They head to Marco Polo…

@… partner with an icecream shop to cross-promote inside/outside each others shops?

2026 NFL Draft quarterback class: Examining when Fernando Mendoza, eight others could make first starts https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-quarterback-class-examining-when-fernando-mendoza-eight-others-could-make-f…

Sonnet 094 - XCIV
They that have power to hurt, and will do none,
That do not do the thing they most do show,
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,
Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow;
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces,
And husband nature's riches from expense;
They are the lords and owners of their faces,
Others, but stewards of their excellence.
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itsel…

#footpathFriday #RockyMountainNationalPark
Ute Trail, Never Summer Range. October 2015

Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump (President)
Melania Trump (1st Lady)
Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce)
John Phelan (Sec. Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nominee)
Mehmet Oz (Admin. for CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE Appointee)
Steve Bannon (Fmr Senior Advisor)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Sec. Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Brett Ratner (Film Director "Melania")

Speaking of names, they can sometimes change in #StarTrek. So let's do another name question for today's #TrektriviaTuesday.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply with the co…

I'm watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 4x22 "The "G" in Guts" https://trakt.tv/shows/jojo-s-bizarre-adventure/seasons/4/episodes/22

The "G" in Guts
Because of their own wills and their sense of justice, Bucciarati and the others end up betraying the organization. Trish also wants to find out who her…

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching

Stock up, stock down after Week 1 victory for Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/stock-up-stock-down-after-week-1-victory-for-raiders-3886516/

I'm watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 4x26 "A Little Story from the Past ~My Name Is Doppio~" https://trakt.tv/shows/jojo-s-bizarre-adventure/seasons/4/episodes/26

A Little Story from the Past ~My Name Is Doppio~
On the island of Sardinia, a boy named Doppio is searching for Trish and the others on orders from Passione's boss. But Doppio has a dark secret, one that…

Hugging Face says developers made 151K derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/state-of-open-models-summer-2026

State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

“Little Tony” never forgot his promise to his grandfather.
Pedro Víctor García had enough grandchildren to start a baseball team,
but he had a favorite: -- Little Tony.
There was something special about Tony.
Unlike the others, he listened to his stories.
When Pedro smoked cigars on the porch in Miami, Tony would sit at his feet and hang on his every word.
He wanted to know about the old country.
Cuba was just on the other side of the Straits of Flor…

Marco Rubio’s Havana syndrome

Since we are one the subject of names in #StarTrek, let’s see how good you remember the names of small side characters for today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, th…

CBS Sunday Morning partners with New York City's 92nd Street Y for a series of live interviews with actors, politicians, and others starting September 28 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

CBS News Pushes Into Live Events as ‘Sunday Morning’ Teams With 92nd Street Y (Exclusive)
The long-running morning show will collaborate with the Upper East Side cultural institution on live interviews and programming that will stream on both their platforms.

Reddy Steward, others remain with Cowboys via 2026 practice squad https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/reddy-steward-others-remain-with-cowboys-via-2026-practice-squad

Spectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised a $100M Series D from AMD, LG, others at a $1B valuation, up from $750M in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/07/15/spectro-cloud-b…

Exclusive: Spectro Cloud hits $1B valuation amid rising AI model switching
Companies that aim to drive down AI costs have attracted investors in 2026.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on July 1 his intent to designate certain Muslim and anti-fascist groups
—including U.S. groups
—as “terrorist organizations.”
Using authorities granted to him in a new Florida law, which took effect earlier that day,
DeSantis declared that he would seek designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
the Muslim Brotherhood, and “Antifa,” among others.
Within hours, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law …

The Dangers of Florida’s New “Terrorist” Designations
Analysis of First Amendment implications of Florida's HB 1471, part of a growing trend of state-level terrorism designation laws.

Grab agrees to acquire a 60% stake in Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome from Advance Intelligence Group and others for $1.49B; Atome had $470M in 2025 revenue (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

Reddy Steward, others remain with Cowboys via 2026 practice squad https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/reddy-steward-others-remain-with-cowboys-via-2026-practice-squad

Anthropic debuts Claude for Financial Advisors, with connectors to investment analytics and wealth-management tools from BlackRock, Addepar, Schwab, and others (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-t…

How do we resolve the (seeming) paradox that some skilled workers report wonderful results from their work with AI, while others are full of dire warnings about the lurking defects in their AI-assisted outputs?
Simple: the first group are "centaurs" (humans who are assisted by machines)
and the second are "reverse centaurs" (humans who have been pressed into service as peripherals for machines):
What are we to make of the people who've been fired by …

How dual-valuation deals became pervasive in the current frenzied AI funding cycle, with prestige VC firms monetizing their brand names by getting better prices (M. Sriram/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/ai-frenzy-brings-dual-valuation-deals

AI Frenzy Brings Dual Valuation Deals into the Mainstream
Prestige firms are monetizing their brand names by getting better prices than others in the same funding round

Elon Musk says top US AI labs and "three or four of the leading Chinese companies" should let rivals run a "test harness" on their models to evaluate safety (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/elon-musk-ai-safety-testing.html

Musk urges top AI labs, Chinese companies to test each other's models amid calls for slowdown
Elon Musk called for the leading AI labs to peer review each others' models before they're released to the public as a way to evaluate their safety.

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

Adapter, which offers an infrastructure layer to help users leverage and control data for use by AI agents and apps, emerges from stealth with $17.8M in funding (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/deep-dive-adapter-launches-ai-cognition…

Exclusive: Startup Adapter Launches With $17.8M To Bring New 'Cognition' To AI Tools
Founder Adam Ghetti is launching Adapter with backing from GV and others to provide better 'cognition' for your AI use -- while keeping your data safe from OpenAI.

I think America is awesome.
But I can also realize we have problems, and that those problems are not the fault of others.
America is a land of opportunity and equality, where no matter who you are, where you are from, or when you got here, you are equal.
And THAT is what makes us great.
-- Adam Cochran, on the bad place

Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) on X
You often hear rhetoric that “if you didn’t vote for Trump you must be an American hating Dem” Nah man. I think America is awesome. But I can also realize we have problems, and that those problems are not the fault of others. America is a land of opportunity and equality,

A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, based on interviews with him, his parents, and dozens of others, looking at his MMA training, AI pivot, management style, and more (Jeremy Stern/Colossus)
https://colossus.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-profile/

Profile of Mark Zuckerberg
A journey to the heart of history’s largest nonterritorial empire

It’s easy to second-guess Anthony Fauci, and others who guided policy about masks, research and closures of businesses and schools.
But surely, the 85-year-old physician and immunologist doesn’t deserve what’s happening right now,
as a highly politicized Republican-led Senate committee attempted to humiliate him,
possibly trap him into perjuring himself,
and then voted – along party lines – to hold him in contempt of Congress.
No surprise, really, that Fauci, no…

Dr Fauci made mistakes. But his persecution is a travesty
It’s easy to second-guess decisions made during the pandemic. That doesn’t justify the Republicans’ politicized response

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are set to launch an investigation into the decision to criminally charge David Hearn and others over the Reflecting Pool fiasco.
Although Democrats are in the minority, their probe offers a blueprint for what they’ll pursue with subpoena power if they control the House in six months.
This week, Representative Jamie Raskin—the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and potentially its future chair—will formally demand that the Justic…

Trump’s Reflecting Pool Fiasco Is About to Get Even Worse for Him
The David Hearn affair isn’t over. Far from it. Jamie Raskin is launching an investigation, and Hearn’s legal team will pursue remedies.

Munich-based defense tech startup Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E from Dragoneer, Iconiq, and others at an $18B valuation; Germany made a €270M order this year (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Yuno, a payments infrastructure provider for processing transactions globally, raised a $45M Series B led by Global PayTech with a16z and others participating (Maria Clara Cobo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Over 30 crypto companies, including Coinbase and Block, say frontier AI safety guardrails hinder legitimate security work while attackers use stronger tools (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/08/13/bitcoin-firm…

Bitcoin firms ask AI labs for same tools attackers already have
Coinbase, Block, BitGo and dozens of others signed a letter arguing that safety guardrails on frontier models are blocking legitimate security work while adversaries face no such limits.

Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings, which acquires traditional service businesses and adds AI, raised $2B from SoftBank, D1, and others at a $12B valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/business/dealbook/thr…

Thrive Holdings, A.I.-Focused Buyer of Service Firms, Raises $2 Billion
The company, Thrive Holdings, acquires businesses to infuse them with artificial intelligence and drew interest from backers like SoftBank.

Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/me…

Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Others Sign Letter Defending Open-Source AI
Many of the largest U.S. tech companies signed a joint letter on Friday defending open-source AI software as the Trump administration considers possible restrictions on Chinese labs. The letter—signed by Meta Platforms, Nvidia, Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz, along with AI startups like Reflection and Hugging Face—argued that open-weight AI models strengthen competition and expand access to

An NYC bill, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calls for Amazon, FedEx, and others to directly employ thousands of delivery workers; the bill could pass this fall (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-11/amazon…

River Markets, which gives professional traders a single place to trade across multiple prediction markets, raised an $8.5M seed led by Haun Ventures (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/11/exclusive-river-m…

Exclusive: River Markets announces $8.5 million seed round to build prediction market trading tools for institutions
The round was led by Haun Ventures alongside Y Combinator, Coinbase Ventures and others.

A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind moved in in 2016, now home to OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/this

This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs | TechCrunch
More than 20 years ago, King's Cross was one of the seediest area's in London. Now it's sprouting something new.