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Hypha, which extracts data from private-market documents to create workflows for underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and asset management, raised a $50M seed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/06/11/hypha-ai-private-markets-seed

Exclusive: Private markets platform Hypha raises $50M seed
Private credit firms still rely on spreadsheets and email.

Between May 29 and July 9,
roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov
(and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published).
The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided:
about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it,
with fewer than one percent marked as unclear.
The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated.
Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments…

The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.

💸 The Carbon Market Is Set for a Major Shake-Up
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/The-Carbon-Market-Is-Set-for-a-Major-Shake-Up.html

The Carbon Market Is Set for a Major Shake-Up
Compliance markets are expanding rapidly now 23% of emissions and are expected to drive demand, revenue, and global carbon pricing frameworks.

Very informative. I've been wondering about this. The "K-Shaped Economy" is sad
Why does the stock market keep going up? | Stock markets | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2026/ma…

War, inflation and Trump’s tariffs have shaken the US. Why does the stock market keep going up?
Wall Street has proved incredibly resilient to instability, and while consumer confidence has dipped, shares have soared

Googles Home Speaker mit Gemini: Marktstart steht offenbar bevor
Nach langer Wartezeit deutet Google den baldigen Marktstart seines neuen Home Speakers mit Gemini-KI an.
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Googles Home Speaker mit Gemini: Marktstart steht offenbar bevor
Nach langer Wartezeit deutet Google den baldigen Marktstart seines neuen Home Speakers mit Gemini-KI an.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Mercedes Sosa:
🎵 Gracias a la vida
#MercedesSosa
https://pinturasmusicaparaver.bandcamp.com/track/mercedes-sosa-gracias-a-la-vida
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UKSse3fcKetDzXnXzE1Pv

China's smartphone shipments fell 4.3% YoY to 66M units in Q2, the fifth consecutive quarter of decline, amid a memory shortage; Huawei and Apple grew shipments (Kiranjeet Kaur/IDC)
https://www.idc.com/resource-center/blog/china-smartphone-market-decline…

Why Huawei and Apple Grew While China’s Smartphone Market Fell Again in Q2 2026
China smartphone shipments fell 4.3% in Q2 2026 while Huawei and Apple grew nearly 20% each. IDC breaks down the vendor shift and outlook.

Financial markets are rewarding companies that are well positioned to benefit from widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)
with higher returns,
according to a new Yale-led analysis of 380 trillion AI tokens,
one of the largest datasets of real-world AI consumption ever studied.
The difference in stock returns between companies with the most and least AI exposure is substantial
— about 0.64% per week,
a financial benefit the researchers call the…

Analysis of 380 trillion AI tokens reveals how the technology is transforming financial markets
A study of a massive dataset of real-world AI consumption shows on how AI is affecting businesses, workers, and financial markets.

Lenovo verlagert Fokus von XR-Brillen auf KI-Wearables
Lenovo zieht Konsequenzen aus dem schwächelnden XR-Markt und richtet sein Innovationsgeschäft auf KI-Wearables aus.
https://www.hei…

Lenovo verlagert Fokus von XR-Brillen auf KI-Wearables
Lenovo zieht Konsequenzen aus dem schwächelnden XR-Markt und richtet sein Innovationsgeschäft auf KI-Wearables aus.

OpenAI has struck a partnership with Kalshi to show World Cup prediction market data in ChatGPT search results, its first deal with a prediction market (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/technology/kalshi-openai-chatgpt-worl…

OpenAI Is Showing Kalshi’s World Cup Odds in ChatGPT
The partnership, a first of its kind for the artificial intelligence company, will use the prediction market’s data to power some search results about the soccer tournament.