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Alibaba's Alipay launches a new "all-in-one" platform for businesses to use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock jumps 5% and is up 40% since June (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Filings: a group of major music publishers has agreed to end a copyright infringement dispute with X over the use of their music on the social media platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/m

I just shared a recording of an event that they told me it is only for attendees, strictly off-the-record, and not to be shared with anyone.
The platform they used to share this? Merely an unlisted #YouTube link. Yeah, that's #secure 🙄

We'll spend a couple of months in #Peru in 2027 and I'm planning to organise a set of trainings in #bioinformatics / #machinelearning / @…

NGSchool | Summer School in Bioinformatics
NGSchool (Next Generation School) is a platform to share the expertise in the field of Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis and general Bioinformatics.

Sources: Dave Brown, former SVP of AWS Compute, AI, and Platform, will join Meta in the coming weeks, where he will work on the company's data center build-out (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

Today I made a little bike tour from Amsterdam out to Broek in Waterland and back.
Not pictured: the goats, sheep, cattle, chickens, cats, ducks and fruit trees along the way. (It's a framing region.)
#Nederland

Independent music publisher Round Hill files copyright infringement lawsuits against Anthropic and AI music platform Suno, seeking up to $1B in damages (Ethan Millman/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/mu

Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, Anthropic
"There is simply nothing fair about a company using theft to build for purely commercial purposes a multi-billion dollar business while those from which they steal receive nothing," Round Hill said.

Feathery, which develops an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including a recently completed Series A (FinTech Global)
https://fintech.global/2026/07/15/feathery-lands-30m-to-rewire-financial…

Feathery lands $30m to rewire financial services workflows
Feathery, an AI operating and decisioning platform for financial services firms, has secured $30m in funding as it expands its technology across the insurance and wealth management sectors. The funding includes a recently completed Series A round backed by Portage Ventures, Index Ventures, Allstate Strategic Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, Erie Strategic Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures. […]

"AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn"
#AI

AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn | Pangram Labs
We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for US Senate in Michigan,
embraced Donald Trump’s suggestion that the two represent
“VERY DIFFERENT” versions of the US,
-- pledging to fight inequality while the president is “making billions of dollars off of you”.
In a Saturday night post on his Truth Social platform, Trump shared an image of himself and the first lady, Melania Trump, beside a photo of El-Sayed, who is Muslim, and his wife, Sarah Jukaku, wearing a hijab.

Abdul El-Sayed embraces Trump claim he represents ‘very different’ America
Michigan nominee, who spoke to Obama after primary win, vows to fight inequality as president ‘makes billions off you’

Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds programmatic ads and an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/newsletter-platf…

Newsletter platform Beehiiv now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AI | TechCrunch
Beehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics

once again feeling trapped by the ever-enshittifying otter #transcription platform. does anybody have an online or offline alternative that allows users to search through all transcripts at once?

If Google/YouTube is stealing monetisation from all small creators, I suggest we all steal from them. Get an alternative client and f-em up!: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/youtube-now-requires-creators-to-have-twice-as-m…

Nanoscope Therapeutics: vision improvement with optogenetic therapy in macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa https://nanostherapeutics.com/2026/07/10/nanoscope-therapeutics-to-present-at-20…

Nanoscope Therapeutics to Present at 2026 American Society of Retina Specialists Annual Scientific Meeting - Nanoscope Therapeutics
Our multi-characteristic opsin (MCO) platform is the first to demonstrate an ability to restore vision to retinal disease patients with severe vision loss in clincial trials. Nanoscope has developed MCO-010, the first and only broad spectrum, fast response and ultra-sensitive optogenetic technology for vision restoration that is gene-agnostic.

With less than two months until the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace #Roman Space Telescope, engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the observatory for its trip to space: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/07/09/nasas-roman-launch-preparations-proceed/ - inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians used large cranes to carefully lift Roman and place it onto a specialized work platform, known as the Pantheon.

Kas nors užsiimat LoraWAN?:
https://viesiejipirkimai.lt/epps/cft/prepareViewCfTWS.do?resourceId=8740723

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/116375150583119415
Switzerland is one of Europe’s frontrunners in the electrification of heavy-duty trucks. The nationwide shared depot-charging infrastructure platform is now moving from its initial pilot phase…

Patriots' Kraft on Macklemore: Won't provide platform for 'hate speech' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49943754/patriots-kraft-says-macklemore-performance-cross-line

Dieser Zug halte heute an Platform Swee, informiert der Herr am Durchsagemikrofon. Ich bin mir sicher, dass das für irgendjemanden eine wertvolle Ergänzung ist.

Media and entertainment company Macro acquires AllBlk, a streaming platform dedicated to Black audiences, from AMC Global Media (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/macro-acquires-streaming-service-allblk-amc-global-media-123710…

Macro Acquires Streaming Service AllBlk From AMC Global Media
Charles D. King's Macro is getting into the direct-to-consumer business, acquiring streaming service AllBlk from AMC Global Media.

For those who make PWAs like me, I just updated my article on how to make the icons work for Safari on iOS and macOS, along with the standard approach for every other browser and platform.
https://coywolf.com/guides/how-to-create-pwa-icons-t…

How to create PWA icons that look correct on all platforms and devices
Learn how to create PWA icons that display correctly across iOS, iPadOS, macOS Safari, Chrome, Edge, and Android using apple-touch-icon and maskable manifest icons.

ICYMI (because I did), Automattic’s board put Mullenweg on paid leave from his CEO job.
https://adrianroselli.com/2019/05/a-model-for-wordpress-accessibility.html#Update09 (anchor link)
Keeps his board position, ownership, and is still lead…

A Model for WordPress Accessibility
I am going to propose a way to increase the overall accessibility of the WordPress ecosystem. It requires acknowledging some mistakes and using those as the base for building a better platform. I long for a world where a metric for featuring #WordPress themes and plugins in the repo is…

RE: https://mastodon.energy/@TransitionShow/117248679476316421
Energy Transition Show fans, please see the important announcement below. Then join me on my new platform as a free or paid subscriber to continue following my work:

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

Merci wikipedia pour https://joinvernissage.org/

Vernissage - Rediscover the beauty of photography
Vernissage is a photography-first social platform for sharing your work in high quality, discovering new artists, and building a thoughtful visual community.

Also, unlike this one, many of my skeets don’t get here. Something about @… doesn’t pick them all up. Probably bsky is sinking the stuff they determine not interesting or whatever.
I despise algorithmic feeds where I can’t fix my algorithm. @…

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
Repeating what's in my profile… I treat Bluesky as a 2nd platform & mostly am on the #Fediverse. My bridged Mastodon account got "suspended" by Bluesky for no reason I could discern, so my posts there never get here. & while I often retoot my skeets, I don't turn many of my toots into skeets.

Kalshi is offering wagers on the outcomes of late-stage clinical drug trials and regulatory decisions, launching a pilot of 13 new biotech contracts (Madison Muller/Bloomberg)

from my link log —
Same-site cookies by default.
https://textslashplain.com/2019/09/30/same-site-cookies-by-default/
saved 2019-10-02

Same-Site Cookies By Default
The Chrome team is embarking on a clever and bold plan to change the recipe for cookies. It’s one of the most consequential changes to the web platform in almost a decade, but with any luck, …

We started rulezet project after identifying a clear gap in open source tooling for detection rules management: the ability to operate synchronised instances while still allowing each organisation to maintain its own autonomous rule repository.
Rulezet addresses this need as an open source platform for managing, sharing, and synchronising detection rules. Each organisation can run its own standalone instance and decide independently which other instances, communities, or repositories i…

"Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project"
#Birds #Biodiversity

Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project
Cornell Lab for Ornithology plans data linkup between app and population monitoring on eBird platform

➡️ videos.trom.tf - A trade-free video hosting platform
#bookmarks

videos.trom.tf
A trade-free video hosting platform for science/technology/nature videos in the English language. You do not have to trade your currency, data, attention, freedom or anything else, in order to use it.

Relevant für alle, die noblogs.org-Blogs haben:
"On August 28, 2026, someone managed to gain access to the noblogs.org platform as a privileged user, exploiting a vulnerability in the software we use to provide the platform.
The access lasted for about two hours, during which the homepage of noblogs.org was changed, and we cannot rule out that the attacker may have had access to the users’ database (...)"

In the wake of CEO Tobi Lutke endorsing an electoral system in which votes are allocated based on how much income tax you pay, e-commerce platform Shopify has announced that customers can put in promo code PLUTOCRACY for 10% off any order on any store that uses the platform.
https://

🎛️ #CTRLNODE is an #opensource remote orchestration platform for #AIcodingagents. Install the Bridge binary on any machine — laptop, VPS, CI box — and dispatch tasks, schedule routin…

Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/blueskys-interim-ceo-toni-schneider-drops-the-interim/

Bluesky's interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the 'interim' | TechCrunch
Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the unconventional social media platform.

I know Substack is a bad platform for self-publishing articles, but what alternatives do writers recommend? I know Ghost, it even has a theme I like, but whenever I look online I'm somewhat convinced by a bigger platform's influence.
Do you…

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

You've vibe-coded 5 apps in a blur, but now the dependency trains have come to town. What if you could simplify dependencies onto a single platform? https://www.getgrist.com/blog/why-is-grist-an-ideal-vibe-coding-platform-its-file-format/

Why is Grist an ideal vibe-coding platform? Its file format. | Grist
What makes for the best vibe-coding platform? See how Grist stands out with its file format, through portability, security and simplicity.

YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000 , watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/yout

YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money | TechCrunch
Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

I am still alive, though really bad on updating any kind of Social Platform

AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-3d-models-flood-market-but-almost-no-one-is-buying-them/

That time in 2014 when I won a chicken coop in a raffle, but there were no ziptrucks available and it didn't fit in my friend's car - so I biked it home. I just happened to be wearing a #Seattle #DisasterReliefTrials t-shirt at the time.

AraOwl — Test your web knowledge
Test and sharpen your web platform knowledge with quizzes built straight from MDN Web Docs. Study anywhere — quizzes work fully offline once installed.
🧑‍💻 https://araowl.schalkneethling.com

AraOwl — Test your web knowledge
Test and sharpen your web platform knowledge with AraOwl — quizzes built from MDN Web Docs that work fully offline as an installable app.

I looked at #Ceph code today, #AMA.
( https://github.com/ceph/ceph )

GitHub - ceph/ceph: Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform - ceph/ceph

Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the workplace-collaboration platform at $1.36B (Sonia Sirletti/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10/bending-spoons-agrees-to-buy-w…

“… is a platform for managing grants and tenders across their entire lifecycle. Leveraging its extensive database and dedicated architecture of AI Agents, it: …”
Hold it right there, bro, and get outta my face!
#AcademicChatter

Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/993465/universal-m…

Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs
Universal Music Group is partnering with the AI voice generator ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered music creation platform.

YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000 , watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/yout

YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money | TechCrunch
Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.

Nanoscope Therapeutics announces another step towards FDA approval of their gene-agnostic MOGENRY optogenetic gene therapy for RP https://nanosther…

Nanoscope Therapeutics Announces U.S. Food and Drug Administration Acceptance of Biologics License Application for MOGENRY for the Treatment of Retinitis Pigmentosa with Severe Vision Loss - Nanoscope Therapeutics
Our multi-characteristic opsin (MCO) platform is the first to demonstrate an ability to restore vision to retinal disease patients with severe vision loss in clincial trials. Nanoscope has developed MCO-010, the first and only broad spectrum, fast response and ultra-sensitive optogenetic technology for vision restoration that is gene-agnostic.

bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

New #Bandcamp Layoffs:
Why Artists Are Worried and Where to Turn
Last week, Bandcamp laid off more engineers.
Here's why some artists are panicking and the alternative direct-to-fan platforms gaining traction.
For independent artists and labels, Bandcamp isn't just another platform.
While Spotify and other streamers pay artists a small fraction of revenue per play,

New Bandcamp Layoffs: Why Artists Are Worried and Where to Turn
Last week, Bandcamp laid off more engineers. Here's why some artists are panicking and the alternative direct-to-fan platforms gaining traction.

Apple TV led the 2026 Emmys with 28 wins, its first time on top, followed by HBO Max with 21, Netflix with 16, and MGM /Prime Video with 10 (Selome Hailu/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/apple-tv-wins-emmys-widows-bay-hbo-max-1236861206/

Apple TV Wins 28 Emmys Thanks to Widow's Bay, HBO Max Is No. 2 Platform
Apple TV was the top platform at the Emmys, winning 28 awards including 14 for 'Widow's Bay.' Next were HBO Max (The Pitt, DTF St. Louis) and Netflix.

You've vibe-coded an app, but can it become a template? With Grist, it's a single click. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/why-is-grist-an-ideal-vibe-coding-platform-its-file-format/

Why is Grist an ideal vibe-coding platform? Its file format. | Grist
What makes for the best vibe-coding platform? See how Grist stands out with its file format, through portability, security and simplicity.

London-based Jack & Jill, which offers Jack, an AI agent for job seekers, and Jill, an agent for companies, raised a $40M Series A, after raising $20M in 2025 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/09/14/agentic…

Exclusive: Agentic job platform Jack & Jill raises $40M
The agents work to pair the right job seeker with the right opening.

German soccer league Bundesliga is moving its US TV rights from ESPN to Versant's USA Network and Fandango in a deal, sources say, worth $100M over five seasons (The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7444468/2026/07/14/bundesliga-versant-fan…

Bundesliga inks $100 million U.S. TV deal to air on USA Network and Fandango
Versant is adding live sports to a platform that most U.S. fans know best for purchasing movie tickets.

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

Dynatrace agrees to acquire Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, for $915M, including ~$815M in cash (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/insights/news/dynatra…

Dynatrace acquires Arize, accelerates AI observability efforts | Constellation Research
Dynatrace acquired Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, in a deal worth $915 million. The acquisition is just the latest data point indicating Dynatrace has momentum. Arize has a strong open source community and works across all major AI frameworks. Dynatrace, a leading observability platform, said Arize will give it the ability to continuously improve AI applications across the lifecycle and connect them to infrastructure health and business processes.

Sources: Nvidia chips remain the norm for Chinese AI labs training LLMs, as switching from its CUDA platform to Huawei's CANN requires major code rewriting (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

What is delaying Chinese AI giants switching from Nvidia to local chips?
High transition costs are keeping AI developers in China reliant on Nvidia chips, industry sources say.

Imax CFO Natasha Fernandes says the success of The Odyssey has led to more talks with international exhibitors about additional Imax theater and tech purchases (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busi…

‘The Odyssey’ Is Helping Imax Ink More Deals With Theater Chains
The giant screen exhibitor expects financial and marketing gains after Christopher Nolan’s epic adventure continues to make the Imax 70mm platform a hot ticket at the multiplex.

An analysis of 1M social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250 words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% (Max Spero/Pangram Labs)
https://www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-your-feed

AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn | Pangram Labs
We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.

Spotify signs a licensing deal with independent music publisher Kobalt covering fan-made AI covers and remixes, granting songwriters a share of revenue (Chris Eggertsen/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/kobalt-signs-licensing-deal-spotify-ai-fan…

Kobalt Signs Licensing Deal With Spotify for AI Fan Remixing Tool
Kobalt has signed a licensing deal with Spotify for the streaming platform's AI fan remixing tool.

Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a fivefold return for Carlyle (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a66c1d90-682b-480a-8fc3-fb7b7e2f1873

Netflix adds Alan's Universe to its library and will carry new episodes the same day they appear on YouTube, expanding its partnership with Alan Chikin Chow (Denise Petski/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/alan-chikin-chow-alans-universe-netf…

Alan Chikin Chow’s ‘Alan’s Universe’ Heads To Netflix
Netflix is expanding its relationship with hit YouTube creator Alan Chikin Chow, bringing his Alan's Universe videos to the platform.

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

Tencent Music Q2: revenue up 5.8% YoY to $1.32B, music services revenue up 11% to $1.12B, with newly integrated podcasting platform Ximalaya contributing $60M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/tencent-music-q2-2026-earnin…

China's Tencent Music Reports $1.32 Billion in Q2 Revenue
China's Tencent Music posts Q2 2026 revenue of $1.32 billion, driven by music services growth and the newly consolidated Ximalaya audio platform.

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 …

NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge funds, raised a $22M Series A co-led by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures (Sofia Chesnokova/Tech Funding News)
https://techfundingnews.com/linqalpha-raises-22m-avp-ai-research-plat…

Goldman and MIT-founded LinqAlpha bags $22M: Can it compete with AlphaSense's $1.74B head start? — TFN
Goldman and MIT-founded LinqAlpha has raised $22 million in Series A funding to expand its AI research platform for hedge funds and asset managers.

Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in the exchange and its prediction market business OG (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/curr…

Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI models and tells creators how to opt out (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/amazon-will-train-o…

Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out | TechCrunch
"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."

Business Insider CEO Christian Baesler says the company will focus on monetizing its non-website audience, with cross-platform sponsorships, events, and more (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Non-website audience is focus of revenue growth for new Business Insider CEO
Business Insider is set to begin monetising its non-website audience in a strategy led by new CEO Christian Baesler.

bitcoin_trust: Bitcoin OTC trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin OTC platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 5881 nodes and 35592 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

Freedom of the Press Foundation and The Intercept sue Trump after Trump Media & Technology offered a subscription service for faster access to Trump's posts (Bernard Condon/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-media

Lawsuit seeks to ban Trump Media from charging for early access to president's posts on US policy
President Donald Trump was sued in federal court to stop him from making money off early, exclusive access to his posts on U.S. policy on the own Truth Social platform. The lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Trump’s deal with his media firm to post first on his site violates the Constitution. The suit brought by two media groups comes after Truth Social started charging Wall Street firms as much as $100,000 a month for a new service allowing early access to the president's posts so they can…

Israeli startup Alta, which develops an AI agent platform for marketing, sales, and business development teams, raised a $25M Series A led by IN Venture (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/byylhojqze

Alta raises $25 million Series A: “We’re doing for marketing and sales what AWS did for cloud infrastructure”
The AI agent platform founded by monday.com alumni has reached $15 million in new revenue run rate after 800% revenue growth. CEO Stav Levi-Neumark tells Calcalist the company is moving beyond SaaS toward a services model that manages the entire sales lifecycle and enables one account manager to oversee 80 customers instead of 20.

Spotify plans to roll out AI Persona labeling in mid-September for profiles that do "not represent a real person"; the system uses human review and AI tools (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/977815/spotify-ai-persona…

Spotify says it won’t recommend music from ‘AI Personas’
Spotify will label artists as “AI Personas” if their identities appear to be AI-generated. The music streaming platform will also remove music from AI Personas from personalized recommendations.

Podcasting platform Riverside launches AI tools to turn videos into newsletters, draft a first cut of a recording, create social media content, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/podcasting-platform-rivers…

Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game | TechCrunch
Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

Canadian national Connor Moucka pleads guilty to participating in the 2024 Snowflake hacks involving data theft from at least 165 companies, including AT&T (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/guilty-plea-snowflake-hack-connor-riley-moucka…

Canadian man pleads guilty to Snowflake hacks that led to 165 breaches
A 26-year-old from Ontario faces as many as 32 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud, identity theft and conspiracy charges related to the 2024 hacks of cloud platform Snowflake.

How lawn care YouTuber Greg Chism scaled a family channel to 13B views with YouTube's coaching, before YouTube banned it in 2017 following online backlash (Jon Ronson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/magazin…

He Was a Top Lawn Care Influencer on YouTube. Then Everything Went Haywire.
Many people think Greg Chism is a freak — or worse. He says he was just following the incentives of the platform.

Spotify says it will roll out an "AI Persona" badge in September for profiles that do "not represent a real person" and exclude their music from recommendations (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/977815/spot…

Spotify says it won’t recommend music from ‘AI Personas’
Spotify will label artists as “AI Personas” if their identities appear to be AI-generated. The music streaming platform will also remove music from AI Personas from personalized recommendations.

Mariana Minerals, which builds and operates mines using its MarianaOS software platform, raised a $310M Series B, bringing its total funding to $400M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/03/power-ai-khosla-a16z-bet-startup-re…

To power AI, Khosla and a16z bet this startup can reinvent mining
Mariana Minerals is now valued at $1.5 billion.

Zenity, which develops a platform for securing AI agents, raised a $125M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking its total funding to ~$185M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1ahbbcbfe

Zenity raises $125 million Series C as AI agent security startup accelerates global expansion
Israeli cybersecurity company reaches $185 million in total funding as enterprises race to secure autonomous AI agents. 

Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/horizon3-hits…

Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate | TechCrunch
Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered security validation instead of annual pentesting.

ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/security/2026/threatlocker-lands-190m-in-n…

ThreatLocker Lands $190M In New Funding: 5 Key Things To Know
ThreatLocker announced Wednesday it has raised $190 million in a new round of funding to further extend its zero trust security platform and expand internationally.

Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

Several independent publishers, including Gadget Review and Bro Bible, say they have been removed from Microsoft's syndication platform MSN without any notice (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/msn-removes-publishe…

MSN removes publishers from platform without notice
Publishers are being removed from syndication platform MSN without any notice, sources tell Press Gazette.

How lawn care YouTuber Greg Chism scaled a family channel to 13B views with YouTube's coaching, before YouTube banned it in 2017 following online backlash (Jon Ronson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/magazin…

He Was a Top Lawn Care Influencer on YouTube. Then Everything Went Haywire.
Many people think Greg Chism is a freak — or worse. He says he was just following the incentives of the platform.

Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/993465/universal-m…

Universal Music is launching an AI music platform with ElevenLabs
Universal Music Group is partnering with the AI voice generator ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered music creation platform.

Ireland's media watchdog investigates X over concerns about age assurance measures and parental controls, the first formal probe under the Online Safety Code (Brian O'Donovan/RTÉ)
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0908/1590789-coimisiun-na-mean…

Media watchdog to investigate X over parental concerns
The media regulator Coimisiún na Meán has opened an investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X amid concerns over its age assurance measures and parental controls.

Forbes unveils Forbes Creator, which uses TikTok, Instagram, and events to push video-led coverage fronted by six creators, with flexible, case-by-case payments (Alyssa Mercante/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/forbes-tests-a-creator-led-audie…

Forbes tests a creator-led audience play to grow off-platform reach 
Forbes is yet another publisher tapping creators and their audiences to drive off-platform growth – with a slightly different structure.

India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an action-taken report within 15 days (Sejal Sharma/Hindustan Times)
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/

15-day govt notice for Telegram to act on piracy channels
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) issued a notice to Telegram on Saturday, asking the messaging platform to take stronger action against the spread of pirated films, OTT content and other copyrighted audio-visual material on its platform | India News

Upside, which provides social workers with AI-powered housing insights, raised a $20M Series A led by Aquiline with Flare Capital, 645, and others participating (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/u

Upside secures $20M series A to expand healthcare-focused housing platform
Upside, a scalable housing stability platform,

Defense tech company Hadrian raised a $1.37B Series D at an $8B valuation to expand its factories and Opus software platform, after a $260M Series C in 2025 (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/hadrian-series-d-defense-production

Exclusive: Hadrian raises $1.37B amid surging defense-production demand
"Being able to produce — and have advanced factories — is deterrence," CEO Chris Power told Axios.

Hong Kong-listed Z.ai reports H1 2026 revenue up 5x YoY to ~$142M, with "open platform and API revenue" up 28x to ~$122M, and net loss down 12% YoY to ~$308M (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chines…

Chinese AI Model Firm Z.ai’s API Sales Surge in First Half
Chinese AI firm Z.ai’s revenue in the first half jumped nearly fivefold from a year earlier to 954 million yuan ($142 million), boosted by skyrocketing sales of cloud-based AI model services. Z.ai, whose stock is listed in Hong Kong, said its “open platform and API revenue,” which includes the sales of its models through application programming interfaces and other services such as coding

Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/finte…

WhatsApp Remittance Startup Félix Secures $200M Series C Led By A16z, General Catalyst
Félix, a Miami-based AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform for Latino immigrants, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $200 million in Series C funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.

Meta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/…

Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform
By now you’ve almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta’…

AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it
Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts

Trump Media's new paid data API debuts, for "a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths"; Dem. senators asked SEC to probe (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/01/trump-media…

Trump Media's new paid data service goes live, giving clients faster access to Trump’s posts
Trump Media and Technology Group's new paid data service launched Aug. 1, selling faster access to top Truth Social posts from President Donald Trump and more.

Binance launches Agent OS, a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf; users set limits on AI agents' access and trades (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/bina

Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users | TechCrunch
Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.

Muon Space, which is building a spacecraft platform for orbital data centers and AI computing, raised a $250M Series C, with participation from Google (Yash Roy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/muon-…