@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video via a new Games tab, starting with games like Hogwarts Legacy and EA Sports FC for Fire TV (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotOwen Jones assessment of Keir #Starmer is harsh, but, I think, fair.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/23/keir-starmer-uk…
@heiseonline@social.heise.dePrime Video: Gericht weist Sammelklage gegen Werbung ab
Das Bayerische Oberste Landesgericht hat die Sammelklage gegen Werbung bei Prime Video abgewiesen. Die Verbraucherzentrale Sachsen will nun vor den BGH ziehen.
…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzDaniel Jones has been abysmal in prime time. He has a chance to change that on SNF vs. Chiefs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/daniel-jones-abysmal-in-prime-time…
@dwf@social.linux.pizzaI can't really get over how the last sentence of the paragraph after the bullets and the second sentence in the paragraph after that aren't really complete thoughts and shouldn't be standalone sentences. Was this mindlessly transcribed from a dictation or did someone use an LLM and then scramble to remove em dashes?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight AI in an overhaul of the service, leading to an internal effort called Project Lighthouse (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/amazons-bez…
@cdarwin@c.imDavid Lammy has announced he is also leaving government, having been the deputy prime minister for the past two years.
He too posted details of his departure on social media.
Writing on X, Lammy said:
It has been the greatest privilege of my life, coming from humble beginnings in Tottenham, to serve in government as @Keir_Starmer’s Foreign Secretary, Justice Secretary and Britain’s first Black Deputy Prime Minister.
I am immensely proud of what we achieved, in Opposition …
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de“Stranded assets” names the prime fear of financialised capitalism. The contrast: high utilisation rates. New troubles arise. Or, as phrased by the FT,
"US oil refineries run at breakneck speeds as wars choke fuel supplies."
Archive:
https://archive.is…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialInvestment in an AI data centers sound a lot like sub prime loan.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Jeff Bezos pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to highlight AI in an overhaul of the service, leading to an internal effort called Project Lighthouse (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/amazons-bez…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model"
#NewZealand #Environment
@bici@mastodon.socialPrime Minister Mark #Carney has said a fresh wave of US tariffs on Canada is a "miscalculation" designed to "hurt and divide us", after trade talks collapsed late on Friday.
"They asked too much and they offered too little," Carney told Canadians on Saturday morning, adding the country was now in a trade "war" after being hit with punishing new US dut…
@vform@openbiblio.socialSchräg: meine Glotze FireTv-Stick schalte ich via Steckdose an und aus. Aus dem Augenwinkel hab ich vom Flur gesehen, dass sich wie wild was flackerte, als ob geklickt würde. Dachte aber Update oder so. Aber nu hab ich Prime abonniert. Was nen Scheiß...
@fazalmajid@vivaldi.net@… covering up is basically the Prime Directive of the British Establishment: Thou shall not allow accountability to take root.
@arXiv_physicsmedph_bot@mastoxiv.pagePRIME-SVR: Physics-infoRmed Implicit Multi-Echo Slice-to-Volume Reconstruction for Fetal T2 mapping
Busra Bulut, Maik Dannecker, Thomas Sanchez, Sara Neves Silva, Steven Jia, Jean-Baptiste Ledoux, Leo Pomar, Joanna Sichitiu, Yvan Gomez, Meriam Koob, Vincent Dunet, Maria Deprez, Guillaume Auzias, Francois Rousseau, Jana Hutter, Daniel Rueckert, Meritxell Bach Cuadra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20136 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20136 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20136
arXiv:2607.20136v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Slice-to-volume reconstruction (SVR) is the standard method for obtaining high-resolution (HR) 3D fetal brain volumes from motion-corrupted 2D MRI slice stacks acquired in multiple orientations. Existing SVR methods are optimized and validated only for clinical-range echo times (TEs), limiting their use at non-clinical TEs and making them incompatible with quantitative T2 mapping, a protocol- and center-independent biomarker of fetal brain maturation requiring HR reconstructions across multiple TEs. We present PRIME-SVR, the first implicit neural representation (INR) framework for joint HR reconstruction from multi-echo MRI. A single fully connected network models a continuous function from spatial coordinates to signal intensities across TEs, while a second network estimates slice-specific acquisition degradations. Cross-TE coherence is enforced via a Bloch equation-derived regularization penalizing deviations from expected T2 decay, with adaptive weighting that strengthens coupling for degraded stacks. The method is fully self-supervised. We validate PRIME-SVR on 39 in vivo fetal acquisitions (13 subjects x 3 TEs) from two centers, two vendors, and two field strengths (1.5 T and 0.55 T). Compared to state-of-the-art SVR, PRIME-SVR improves reconstruction sharpness by 47%, anatomical accuracy by 30%, and cross-TE structural consistency by 14%. It enables reconstruction at late TEs previously inaccessible to SVR, yielding the first 0.8 mm isotropic T2 maps at 0.55 T and the first T2 maps derived from INR-based SVR. PRIME-SVR also accelerates quantitative imaging by reducing the data needed for multi-TE reconstruction, cutting acquisition from 15 to 10 minutes while keeping T2 accuracy within 1.7% in white and deep gray matter, or to 5 minutes with a mean T2 error of 2.3% for high-quality acquisitions.
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@cdarwin@c.imZohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City,
said in a video statement that he didn’t have the authority to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu
but he urged the federal government to do so if the Israeli prime minister visits the city in September.
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/22/g-s1-134880
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon appears to have leaked Jason Statham's new film Mutiny, streaming it in full on Prime Video in the US, two days before it was supposed to hit theaters (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/981943/amazon-prime-video-mu…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialBurnham government to aid Saudi air war against Yemenis.
Shameful. BBC showed families wh have fleed to camps in Djibouti.
Andy Burnham says UK to provide Saudi Arabia with 'defensive' support - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlykpe4dk0yo
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukI can see what he's thinking, but the #YesMinister episode pretty much writes itself.
BBC News: #Burnham to send high-performing civil servants to mayoral offices
@StephenRees@mas.toDocumentary recommendation
PRIME MINISTER
In August 2017, 37-year-old Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand’s opposition leader just weeks before a national election, and then two months later became Prime Minister. Soon after she learned she was pregnant, becoming only the second world leader to give birth while in office. Ardern’s compassionate leadership has drawn global attention, even as she faced skepticism at home and a succession of crises—the Christchurch massacre, pandemic …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmazon appears to have leaked Jason Statham's new film Mutiny, streaming it in full on Prime Video in the US, two days before it was supposed to hit theaters (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/981943/amazon-prime-video-mu…
@bici@mastodon.social“As everyone knows, on Monday, the U.S. administration announced its intention to impose the latest in a series of unilateral, unwarranted trade actions. And we’re clear: Canadian governments around this table will do whatever it takes to defend and support our families, our workers, and our businesses.”
-Mark Carney
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon makes its AI-powered Alexa free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the US, automatically upgrading users even if they don't subscribe to Prime (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/amazon-makes-its-ai-p…
@marjolica@social.linux.pizza @cdarwin@c.imRamses must reach space by spring 2028 in order to rendezvous with the cruise-liner-sized Apophis asteroid as it passes Earth on Friday 13 April 2029, representing less than three and a half years from contract signing to lift-off.
The spacecraft’s Core Module, containing all its main electronics, is currently being assembled in the Milan cleanroom facility of OHB Italia. Key Ramses units have been mounted within the module’s U-shaped body, and then linked together via intricate cabling…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialUK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he plans to use the UK's upcoming G20 presidency to broker a global AI governance deal, ahead of the UN General Assembly (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-seeks-to-broker-global-ai-agreement-at-g20/…
@cdarwin@c.imIn 1917, as canadian troops fought at Vimy Ridge in northern France,
Lieutenant Leslie Miller collected acorns from the battlefield and carried them home to Ontario.
Saplings from the resulting oaks were sent back to France about a century later, and became a living link between the two countries.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recounted that story in Strasbourg last week to the European Parliament as he proposed an alliance that went far beyond trade
to encomp…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzLions vs. Bills: Three must-know storylines for Thursday's Week 2 prime-time game https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-vs-bills-three-must-know-storylines-for-thursday-s-week-2-prime-time-game
@bici@mastodon.social @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUK PM Andy Burnham keeping Lisa Nandy on as culture secretary renews pressure over potential streaming license fees and puts the WBD deal back in the spotlight (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/lisa-nandy-big-decisions-…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Burnham risks Labour backlash if he reverses ban on new oil and gas drilling"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FossilFuels
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialAndy Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’, a degrowth perspective
Tomorrow, Andy Burnham will become the next UK Prime Minister. He has set out his vision for his premiership, under the title 'Manchesterism'. Much ink has already been spilled in scrutinising it. Our sister site, Steady State Manchester, carried this article following his speech at the city's People's History Museum. Steady State Manchester has been witness to the emergence of the supposed 'Manchester model…
@Techmeme@techhub.social @cdarwin@c.im“It’s war.”
That’s how one Canadian journalist described overnight developments between the governments of the US and Canada
after trade talks between the two were suspended on Friday night
without a deal in place to avoid the imposition of 50% tariffs threatened by Trump on a wide swath of Canadian goods.
Both nations accused the other of scuttling the deal,
with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney citing “last-minute changes” by the Trump administration
an…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @bici@mastodon.socialMr. Carney was asked about the tone of his remarks, which suggested that Canada was at war.
“You are at war when you get attacked. We got attacked,” he said. “That’s fine. We’ve got the reserves. We’ve got resilience. We’ve got the plan. We’ve got the focus. We’ll respond – we are going to focus on what we can control. We are going to build.”
Calm, Resolute, Strong.
--Mark Carney
The Right Honourable Prime Minister of Canada.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAustralian PM Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a public-facing Medicare portal in June, accessing public and non-public files (The Age)
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/openai-breaches-medi…
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialHe's got it wrong on drilling for oil and gas, but it looks like the former minister for ID cards has got it right on scrapping Starmer's digital ID plans.
«Now, by dropping the plans entirely Burnham's spokesperson said, the "time and resource that was going to be spent on a national ID scheme will go instead to where it's most needed, such as helping with the cost of living".»
@NFL@darktundra.xyzGiants vs. Rams: Three must-know storylines for Monday's Week 2 prime-time game https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-rams-three-must-know-storylines-monday-night-football-week-2
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzLooking at https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/732341/trump-claims-that-declassified-documents-show-us-election-vulnerabilities it's worth noting that the Heritage Foundation wrote the Project 2025 plan, and they're …
@markhburton@mstdn.socialCatching up: I've criticised the Green Party E&W leadership for downplaying the #climate and #ecologicalemergencies, but this intervention is very welcome.
It is only the Greens that are telling it anywhere near like it is.
We see this in Burnham's feeble late response…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump backs Iraq's prime minister. Some Republicans want to see results. (Jerry Wu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/ali-al-zaidi-trump-iraq-iran-01009122
http://www.memeorandum.com/260723/p9#a260723p9
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterUnexpected, but not unwelcome:
Millionaires including former footballer Gary Lineker and music producer Brian Eno have written to new prime minister Andy Burnham asking to be taxed more.
In an open letter, 120 well-off Britons told Burnham: "We can afford it. We're not talking about higher taxes on those who get up and go to work for their income every day, but on the very richest whose income is derived from the wealth they hold."
Organised by Patriotic Millionaires, the letter said it would lead to a more equal society, and urged a "devolution of wealth and power from the very richest".
#ukpol
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPrime Video says it plans to invest over $2B in Latin America from 2027 to 2030, expanding original programs and sports coverage across Mexico, Brazil, and more (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co
@raiders@darktundra.xyzI’ve Got a Feeling About Texans-Raiders https://www.houstontexans.com/news/texans-raiders-vanderblog
@cdarwin@c.im“Reacher” star Alan Ritchson had plans to adapt the second book in the popular “Jack Reacher” series for the Prime Video show
— before a certain “someone” got re-elected, he wrote in a comment posted to Threads on Friday.
Responding to a user who wrote that
“every year I’m sad to learn that next season won’t be the book where he kills his way through a white supremacist militia camp,”
Ritchson explained that the novel (titled “Die Trying”) is his “favorite book.”
@heiseonline@social.heise.deSamsungs HDR10 Advanced startet diesen Monat auf Amazon Prime Video
Mit HDR10 Advanced führt Samsung die nächste Generation seines HDR-Formats ein. Prime Video macht diesen Monat den Anfang.
https://ww…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: CNN signed Abby Phillip to a new deal, locking in its primetime lineup with Anderson Cooper and Kaitlan Collins ahead of the Paramount deal (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/cnn-prime-time-anchors-locked-paramount-1236836…
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom David Suzuki
Mark Carney’s investment summit is bound to fail unless it faces this fundamental issue
Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited 300 global CEOs, entrepreneurs and institutional financiers to a Canada Investment Summit. They collectively manage $120 trillion in global assets and the goal of the conference is to catalyze private and sovereign capital into Canadian industries. I understand the urgent need to stand up against Trump, a bullying madman, by reducing our…
@cdarwin@c.imBritish youth groups have warned the Prime Minister the plans for social media age gates could lead young people to less regulated parts of the internet.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/prime-minister-burnham-uk-government-scotlan…
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Tori Tsui, stood alongside Andy Burnham last year on World Environment Day when the then Greater Manchester Mayor endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty proposal, calling it a “lifeline” to end coal, oil and gas. Today [Friday], her petition was sent to the Prime Minister urging him to stand by that commitment and reject Rosebank."
Stop fanning the flames of the #ClimateCrisis
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPrime Video adds on-demand local and national news clips, initially on TVs, as it joins other streamers experimenting with short-form video to get young viewers (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/14/amazon-prime-video-take…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRams WR Puka Nacua (hip) inactive for Monday's game vs. Giants https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-wr-puka-nacua-hip-inactive-monday-giants
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLondon-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M (John Koetsier/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzGiants-Rams on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from Los Angeles' 28-6 win https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-rams-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-los-angeles-28-6-win
@cdarwin@c.imAndy Burnham Ditches Digital ID Plan,
Saying Billions Will Go To Cost-Of-Living Priorities Instead
Incoming UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham prioritises cost-of-living support over Starmer's controversial digital ID plan.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/andy-burnham-scr
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe UK's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham keeps Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy in post; Nandy is currently overseeing the BBC's royal charter renewal (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/politics/global/uk-culture-secretary-lis…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/amazon-makes-it-easier-to…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Prime Video is in talks with the Television Academy about Primetime Emmy Awards telecast rights; the academy's most recent agreement ended Monday (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/emmy-awards-m…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"From EVs to climate adaptation: 10 green policies the next Prime Minister will need to clarify"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EV
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPrime Video launches a bundle with AMC , Starz, MGM , PBS Masterpiece, and BritBox for $29.99 per month, a savings of ~39% vs. subscribing to each individually (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/st
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmazon's Prime Video plans to make English-language dubs look more natural by using AI to lip-sync actors' mouths in dubbed titles (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/prime-video-ai-sync-actors-mouths-dubbed-maxto…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJets OC Frank Reich thinks QB Geno Smith, 35, is in his prime: 'Feels like he's 28' https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-frank-reich-geno-smith-prime
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116952912666924581
Andy Burnham is the first prime minister of Catholic faith to take office in modern times.
Boris Johnson was baptised a Catholic but converted to the Church of England while a young teenager, while Tony Blair convert…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialPrime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/prim
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/amazon-makes-it-easier-to…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzChiefs vs. Colts picks, prediction, player props: Expert's best bets for Sunday Night Football in NFL Week 2
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/c…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon plans to expand Prime Air drone deliveries to cities in at least five more US states in the coming months, including suburban Chicago and Atlanta (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/am…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.imClaudia Sheinbaum is handling out medals at the World Cup final,
next to the fat pedophile
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/claudia-sheinbaum-trump-carney-world-cup-final/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSuper.com, which offers a savings app for lower-income consumers, raised a $65M Series D led by TPG at a $1.2B valuation and says it is profitable (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/07/the-1-2-billion-startup-become-amazon-prime-for…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix and Prime Video lead in international content but differ in strategies, with Netflix favoring shows from Asia, while Prime leans towards Europe (Christofer Hamilton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/streaming/net…
@cdarwin@c.im"I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani said.
“He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court,
and what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many,
purely because of what his actions have wrought over these past many years.”
The International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest in 2024 for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Palestine,
including “s…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL Preseason Week 2: 10 things to watch https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-preseason-week-2-10-things-to-watch
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow Prime Video has cornered the market on young adult fiction, notching hit after hit by tapping into the fervent BookTok community and catering to women (Ashley Wong/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/te…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzToday's top games to watch, best bets, odds: Coach Prime returns to Atlanta, Brewers vs. Cubs and more
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/tod
@cdarwin@c.imTrump 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInside Netflix and Prime Video's fight to loosen France's "unsustainable" streaming rules, which include investment obligations and unfavorable release windows (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/global/n
@cdarwin@c.imU.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham communicated with someone posing as White House chief of staff Susie Wiles
before becoming suspicious that the contact was illegitimate, officials said.
One person briefed on the communications said
a “few messages” were exchanged after the PM entered No. 10
but insisted they were “of no significance.”
“We do not comment on national security matters,” Downing Street said
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlpaca, which offers brokerage and financial infrastructure, raised $135M in equity and $300M in debt, following a $150M Series D in January (Bernard Goyder/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-16/broker-a…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPrime Video will become the exclusive streaming home for six NHL teams, including the Hurricanes and Ducks, in local markets starting with the 2026-2027 season (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/n…
@cdarwin@c.imAn extremist Israeli lawmaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition
publicly advocated for killing
“30 to 40” people in Gaza each night
-- comments that surfaced on Sunday, and were quickly shared by media outlets around the world.
Minister of National Security
Itamar Ben-Gvir made the statement while speaking to a former Gaza-held hostage,
Rom Braslavski, on his podcast.
The pair were discussing Israel's recovery from Hamas’ 7 Octo…
@cdarwin@c.imNick Blair, a 40-year-old former football agent, and son of ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair,
is seeking funding for a military technology startup called “Pyra”
to the tune of 200 million dollars.
It’s not clear what, exactly, Pyra needs all that money to do:
its website only says “Deploying Summer 2026…Stand By.”
Blair is at the moment the only active officer of the company, according to UK government filings.
In an article published this week, an unnamed sour…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTom Duff Gordon, OpenAI's EMEA policy head, calls on the UK to introduce binding AI rules to "establish durable, mandatory, capability-based requirements" (Joseph Bambridge/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/openai-uk-ai-…
@cdarwin@c.imNetanyahu rejects US Gaza plan, vows no pullout until Hamas disarms
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a Gaza plan hailed by Donald Trump,
vowing no military pullout of Gaza until Hamas is “genuinely” disarmed.
“Israel rejects the 15-point document,” Netanyahu said,
referring to a plan endorsed in late July by Hamas.
The Israeli military “will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed
and will continue to thwart thr…
@cdarwin@c.imNear-total lunar eclipse expected Thursday night with the Americas in prime position
A near-total lunar eclipse Thursday night will see Earth’s shadow cover 96% of the moon,
casting a reddish-orange glow as the show peaks just after 9 p.m. Pacific time.
Skywatchers across North and South America, including nearly 1 billion people in the U.S., Canada and Latin America,
will have prime, hours-long views if clouds cooperate.
The deep partial eclipse comes after A…
@cdarwin@c.imEarly in his second term, Trump wanted Canada so entwined with the United States that he even set out to make it the 51st state.
Instead, he has driven Canada into the arms of the European Union,
after antagonizing the Canadians for months, taunting the country’s prime minister and waging a relentless trade war.
The invitation by the European Unionon Wednesday for Canada to become an “associate member” is a sign of the knock-on effects of Trump’s brand of diplomacy,
…
@cdarwin@c.imAndy Burnham promises crackdown on costly subscription traps and 'rip-off discounts'
The Prime Minister will bring forward 'easy to exit' rules,
making it less painful for consumers to cancel subscriptions and avoid automatic renewal at a higher cost
https://w…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has threatened the EU with “serious tariffs” and a halt to trade after the bloc proposed making Canada its first ever associate member
– an idea he derided as “laughable”.
The US president said that if the EU moved forward with the plan, Washington could impose “very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe”.
He added: “If it’s a good intention, that’s fine. If it’s a bad intention, we’ll put very heavy tariffs on Europe.”
Canada’s prime minister, Mark…
