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Paraform, which operates a hiring marketplace with AI-powered candidate relationship management and other tools, raised a $20M Series A led by Felicis (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2025/06/paraform-raises-20m-in-series-a-funding.html

Paraform Raises $20M in Series A Funding
Paraform, a San Francisco, CA-based marketplace built for elite recruiters, raised $20M in Series A funding

ITFormer: Bridging Time Series and Natural Language for Multi-Modal QA with Large-Scale Multitask Dataset
Yilin Wang, Peixuan Lei, Jie Song, Yuzhe Hao, Tao Chen, Yuxuan Zhang, Lei Jia, Yuanxiang Li, Zhongyu Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20093

ITFormer: Bridging Time Series and Natural Language for Multi-Modal QA with Large-Scale Multitask Dataset
Time-series data are critical in diverse applications, such as industrial monitoring, medical diagnostics, and climate research. However, effectively integrating these high-dimensional temporal signals with natural language for dynamic, interactive tasks remains a significant challenge. To address this, we introduce the Time-Series Question Answering (Time-Series QA) task and release EngineMT-QA, the first large-scale, multi-task, temporal-textual QA dataset designed to capture complex interact…

"The Terror: a novel" by Dan Simmons describes (another) horror-like ending scenario of the ill-fated Franklin expedition. Such a foretelling name for a ship...
The storyline was also converted into an interesting TV series.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_…

The Terror (TV series) - Wikipedia

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
CALLY: [Enters] Orac, where did you get this information? [Holds up a data card. Avon takes it]
ORAC: I was instructed to obtain anything relating to the planet. The data was obtained by cross-referencing prisoner and execution lists. It is standard procedure.
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Fellirium – Spring Equinox
#ambient

Lambert series and double Lambert series
Tewodros Amdeberhan, George E. Andrews, Cristina Ballantine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18712 https://

Lambert series and double Lambert series
We consider relationships between classical Lambert series, multiple Lambert series and classical $q$-series of the Rogers-Ramanujan type. We conclude with a contemplation on the Andrews-Dixit-Schultz-Yee conjecture.

SEED: A Structural Encoder for Embedding-Driven Decoding in Time Series Prediction with LLMs
Fengze Li, Yue Wang, Yangle Liu, Ming Huang, Dou Hong, Jieming Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20167

SEED: A Structural Encoder for Embedding-Driven Decoding in Time Series Prediction with LLMs
Multivariate time series forecasting requires models to simultaneously capture variable-wise structural dependencies and generalize across diverse tasks. While structural encoders are effective in modeling feature interactions, they lack the capacity to support semantic-level reasoning or task adaptation. Conversely, large language models (LLMs) possess strong generalization capabilities but remain incompatible with raw time series inputs. This gap limits the development of unified, transferabl…

dutch_school: Dutch school friendships (2003)
A series of snapshots of the friendships among freshmen at secondary school in The Netherlands, in 2003-2004. Friendship ties were surveyed four times, at three month intervals. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j. Missing data is coded as 0 or 10. Metadata includes sex, age, ethnicity, and religion.
This network has 26 nodes and 87 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata, Tempo…

While skipping through the opening credits of this anime episode, l thought, wait, I don’t remember that shot…
Sure enough, this series has (mildly) evolving credits.
I only noticed because I happen to be on an airplane watching a downloaded episode, which for some reason disables the Crunchyroll app’s “skip credits” button, so I had to skip manually.
That’s the problem with evolving credits: if you’re not paying attention you won’t notice they’ve changed!

Series representation in tensor products of Banach spaces
Jochen Wengenroth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21344 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Series representation in tensor products of Banach spaces
We show by a ridiculously simple argument that, for any norm on the tensor product of vector spaces, every element of the completion can be represented as a convergent series of elementary tensors.

For an upcoming talk I want to show a series of videos, pause and restrart as needed, go back to previous clips, skip entire clips etc. I want this to be as smooth as possible. Seems LO Impress is not up to this. How can I do this on my ubuntu machine or do I need windows (shudder)?

Centific, an AI "data foundry" that works with businesses to develop, train, and deploy their AI models, raised a $60M Series A led by Granite Asia (Nicholas Gordon/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/asia/2025/06/25/centi…

Singapore VC Granite Asia leads $60 million funding round for AI ‘data foundry’ Centific to fund global expansion
“This funding round isn’t about necessity—it’s about ambition,” CEO Venkat Rangapuram said in a statement.

Infinite integrals in terms of series
Robert Reynolds
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19867 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.19867

Infinite integrals in terms of series
In this work we derive and evaluate some infinite integrals involving the product of a generalized logarithm and polynomial functions in the denominator. These integrals are expressed in terms of finite series involving the Hurwitz-Lerch zeta function. We produce special cases of these integrals in terms of other special functions and fundamental constants.

"Half a million hectares of rainforest were saved — in part thanks to journalism"
#Rainforest #Environment

Half a million hectares of rainforest were saved — in part thanks to journalism
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In a packed event held in Palo Alto, California, at the end of SF Climate Week in April, Willie Shubert, the vice president of programs and executive editor at Mongabay, shared a compelling example of how Mongabay’s journalism […]

ZK-SERIES: Privacy-Preserving Authentication using Temporal Biometric Data
Daniel Reijsbergen, Eyasu Getahun Chekole, Howard Halim, Jianying Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19393 …

ZK-SERIES: Privacy-Preserving Authentication using Temporal Biometric Data
Biometric authentication relies on physiological or behavioral traits that are inherent to a user, making them difficult to lose, forge or forget. Biometric data with a temporal component enable the following authentication protocol: recent readings of the underlying biometrics are encoded as time series and compared to a set of base readings. If the distance between the new readings and the base readings falls within an acceptable threshold, then the user is successfully authenticated. Various…

Even if we see them in different series, a lot of #StarTrek characters have things in common. And we are going to explore one of these aspect for today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:

Today's #TuneTuesday theme is #LondonCalling - songs that name-drop a town or city in the title or lyrics.
This has long been a favorite, a song from an alt-country legend about Townes Van Zandt, the composer of some of the finest US songs of the 20th century. It mentions a whole series of cities.…

The Shape of Consumer Behavior: A Symbolic and Topological Analysis of Time Series
Pola Bereta, Ioannis Diamantis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19759 https://…

The Shape of Consumer Behavior: A Symbolic and Topological Analysis of Time Series
Understanding temporal patterns in online search behavior is crucial for real-time marketing and trend forecasting. Google Trends offers a rich proxy for public interest, yet the high dimensionality and noise of its time-series data present challenges for effective clustering. This study evaluates three unsupervised clustering approaches, Symbolic Aggregate approXimation (SAX), enhanced SAX (eSAX), and Topological Data Analysis (TDA), applied to 20 Google Trends keywords representing major cons…

As an OEM, I want to make my customers angry, so that they keep knocking on my RCE vulns.
https://mrbruh.com/asus_p2/

Hold the front page!
https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/

The Latest News and Sport from King's Lynn - Lynn News
Lynn News brings you all the latest local news, sport, what's on and lifestyle in King's Lynn

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
CALLY: [Enters] Orac, where did you get this information? [Holds up a data card. Avon takes it]
ORAC: I was instructed to obtain anything relating to the planet. The data was obtained by cross-referencing prisoner and execution lists. It is standard procedure.
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Last week, at the #RedIRIS Technical Conference 2025, 400 experts gathered to explore and share knowledge around ICT infrastructure, quantum, AI, Open Science & more.
GÉANT CEO Lise Fuhr was honoured to join as an invited speaker, sharing a message that lies at the core of our NREN community:
“It’s all about collaboration and knowledge sharing. These are key components of how we m…

Jornadas Técnicas de RedIRIS 2025

From Translink
With more Canadians opting to be tourists in their own country this summer, TransLink is making it easier (and a lot more fun) with a series of Transit-Friendly Summer Tours throughout Metro Vancouver.
More than 50 curated tours will be launched over the course of this summer, each of which offer unique ways to see different parts of Metro Vancouver while taking transit, cycling, or walking.
see full post at

Anyone in #Chicago looking for something to do this Thursday, #MaggieSpeaks is playing a 90s set at Willis Tower on their outdoor terrace. 4:30pm, FREE!
Posting it everywhere else for the normies, figured I'd let y'all know too 😎

Willis Tower's Catalog Summer Concert Series 2025
Free live music series on select Thursdays at Willis Tower's fourth floor outdoor terrace, accessible via Catalog off the Jackson Entrance.

New results on universal Taylor series via weighted polynomial approximation
St\'ephane Charpentier (I2M), Konstantinos Maronikolakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20224

New results on universal Taylor series via weighted polynomial approximation
We use weighted polynomial approximation to prove the existence of a compact set K with non-empty interior and a function f is dense in the space A(K) of all continuous functions on K that are holomorphic in the interior of K, endowed with the sup norm, while the set This improves a result of Mouze. The main ideas of the proof also allows us to construct a holomorphic function while the modulus of its non-zero Taylor coecients go to $\infty$. In passing, we complement a result by Pritsker a…

The Hiraga-Ichino-Ikeda Conjecture for Principal Series of Split p-adic Groups
Giulio Ricci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19619 https://…

The Hiraga-Ichino-Ikeda Conjecture for Principal Series of Split p-adic Groups
Given a $p$-adic connected split reductive group $\mathcal{G},$ we use the local Langlands correspondence as defined by Reeder and by Aubert, Baum, Plymen and Solleveld, to prove the HII conjecture for irreducible discrete series representations contained in a principal series of $\mathcal{G}$. We verify the predicted formula relating the formal degree of such representations to the adjoint $γ$-factor of their associated Langlands parameter. First, we prove it under the assumption that the cen…

Network Modelling of Asynchronous Change-Points in Multivariate Time Series
Carson McKee, Maria Kalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15801 https://

Network Modelling of Asynchronous Change-Points in Multivariate Time Series
This article introduces a novel Bayesian method for asynchronous change-point detection in multivariate time series. This method allows for change-points to occur earlier in some series (leading series) followed, after a short delay, by change-points in some other series (lagging series). Such dynamic dependence structure is common in fields such as seismology and neurology where a latent event such as an earthquake or seizure causes certain sensors to register change-points before others. We m…

16WW Energy Series Dataset - Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset -

16WW Energy Series Dataset
Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset

The Paramount series Rabbit Hole is available on itvX if you've not seen it.

RoboCop: Rogue City (Multiplatform, XPd on a Linux PC via Steam)
In an original story set between the 2nd and 3rd movies of the OG series, take on the role of RoboCop and end a crime wave by taking down the "New Guy" in town. TL;DR: Robo fan? Play this.
So right off the bat, this is not a AAA game. There's definitely rough edges here. But that's OK with me, as the things it does do right it does quite well.
Starting with hiring Peter Weller to reprise his …

On the Relation of Exact Hydrodynamics to the Chapman--Enskog Series
Florian Kogelbauer, Ilya Karlin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17441 https://

On the Relation of Exact Hydrodynamics to the Chapman--Enskog Series
We demonstrate that the Chapman--Enskog series is locally equivalent to the exact spectral closure defined on slow kinetic eigenmodes in the limit of vanishing Knudsen number. We further show that the Chapman--Enskog series diverges everywhere expect at the global equilibrium for an explicit example, while the exact spectrally closed hydrodynamics are defined globally for any Knudsen number.

Azerbaijan gives eight journalists prison sentences ranging from 7.5 to 15 years, as part of a series of media trials set to obliterate independent reporting (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/8-journalists-g…

8 journalists given lengthy jail terms as Azerbaijan crushes free press - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, June 23, 2025— Eight Azerbaijani journalists have received prison sentences ranging from 7 ½ to 15 years, as part of an ongoing series of media trials likely to obliterate independent reporting in the Caucasus nation. In a closed-door trial on Monday, columnist and peace activist Bahruz Samadov was sentenced by a court in...

17) Who makes their first career Pro Bowl? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/17-who-makes-their-first-career-pro-bowl

game_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted

Asymptotic theory for the likelihood-based block maxima method in time series
David L. Carl, Simone A. Padoan, Stefano Rizzelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17448

Asymptotic theory for the likelihood-based block maxima method in time series
This paper develops a rigorous asymptotic framework for likelihood-based inference in the Block Maxima (BM) method for stationary time series. While Bayesian inference under the BM approach has been widely studied in the independence setting, no asymptotic theory currently exists for time series. Further results are needed to establish that BM method can be applied with the kind of dependent time series models relevant to applied fields. To address this gap we first establish a comprehensive li…

Some of Vegas’ iconic casinos, convention centers and hotels
— and thousands of households across the city, too
— are using the sun to save money and better the planet’s odds at tackling climate change.
https://www.nytimes…

50 States, 50 Fixes
A series about local solutions, and the people behind them, to environmental problems.

[Die Schalko-Serie "Warum ich?", in der ARD Mediathek sogar aus Ö zu sehen, ist leider ein ziemlicher Topfen, sogar die dritte Episode mit Robert Palfrader und Katharina Thalbach] #series

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
VILA: We got it, we got it!
TARRANT: Yes, I know, only I was saving that trick for when they both attacked at once.
VILA: There's only two left now; no trouble.
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00549 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On ordered groups of regular growth rates
We introduce an elementary class of linearly ordered groups, called growth order groups, encompassing certain groups under composition of formal series (e.g. transseries) as well as certain groups $\mathcal{G}_{\mathcal{M}}$ of infinitely large germs at infinity of unary functions definable in an o-minimal structure $\mathcal{M}$. We study the algebraic structure of growth order groups and give methods for constructing examples. We show that if $\mathcal{M}$ expands the real ordered field and g…

Projection Cascades of models of log del Pezzo surfaces
Muhammad Imran Qureshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19970 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Projection Cascades of models of log del Pezzo surfaces
We introduce the notion of type-I projection cascade for a biregular model (infinite series) of log del Pezzo surfaces. We study the existence of type-I projection cascades for known classes of models of log del Pezzo surfaces, such that their images under their anti-canonical embeddings in some weighted projective space, can be described as codimension 4 and codimension 3 varieties. We obtain two cascades of length three and four cascades of length two, where each projection gives rise to a we…

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of better phrasing, on “capitalism’s side”. First for a range of high-growth Silicon Valley software companies and their ilk; latterly directly in venture capital focused on climate change technology startups, aka “Climate Tech” or “Impact Investing.”

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of bett…

Fourier minimization and imputation of time series
Will Burstein, Alex Iosevich, Azita Mayeli, Hari Sarang Nathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19226 https://…

Fourier minimization and imputation of time series
One of the most common procedures in modern data analytics is filling in missing values in times series. For a variety of reasons, the data provided by clients to obtain a forecast, or other forms of data analysis, may have missing values, and those values need to be filled in before the data set can be properly analyzed. Many freely available forecasting software packages, such as the sktime library, have built-in mechanisms for filling in missing values. The purpose of this paper is to adapt …

An identity for generating series of deformations of multiple zeta values within an algebraic framework
Yoshihiro Takeyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16131

An identity for generating series of deformations of multiple zeta values within an algebraic framework
Bachmann proves an identity expressing the generating series of MacMahon's generalized sum-of-divisors $q$-series in terms of Eisenstein series. MacMahon's $q$-series can be regarded as a $q$-analogue of the multiple zeta value $ζ(2, 2, \ldots , 2)$, up to a power of $1-q$. Based on this observation, we generalize Bachmann's identity within an algebraic framework and prove a general identity. As a byproduct, we obtain a formula for the generating series of another deformation of multiple zeta …

New Zealand-based Halter, which provides smart collars and geofencing software for the dairy industry, raised a $100M Series D led by Bond at a $1B valuation (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

28 Years of Sun-as-a-star Extreme Ultraviolet Light Curves from SOHO EIT
Emily Sandford, Fr\'ed\'eric Auch\`ere, Annelies Mortier, Laura A. Hayes, Daniel M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18990

28 Years of Sun-as-a-star Extreme Ultraviolet Light Curves from SOHO EIT
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) has been taking images of the Solar disk and corona in four narrow EUV bandpasses (171Å, 195Å, 284Å, and 304Å) at a minimum cadence of once per day since early 1996. The time series of fully-calibrated EIT images now spans approximately 28 years, from early 1996 to early 2024, covering solar cycles 23, 24, and the beginning of cycle 25. We convert this extensive EIT image archive into a time series of …

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
VILA: We got it, we got it!
TARRANT: Yes, I know, only I was saving that trick for when they both attacked at once.
VILA: There's only two left now; no trouble.
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Conformal maps and critical points of Eisenstein series
Mario Bonk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21471 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21471

Conformal maps and critical points of Eisenstein series
We investigate the critical points of the basic (quasi-)modular forms $E_2$, $E_4$, and $E_6$. They occur where some associated polymorphic functions have poles. By an explicit description of these polymorphic functions as conformal maps, one can give an accurate qualitative analysis of the locations of the critical points of $E_2$, $E_4$, and $E_6$.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: [To Avon] Could it be altered?
AVON: What?
BLAKE: The running log. Could the readings be faked?
AVON: Only by a top-line technician. Nobody on this ship could do it.
BLAKE: Except you.

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Paris-based Zama, which is developing fully homomorphic encryption tech for blockchain and AI apps, raised a $57M Series B at a $1B valuation (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/25/zama-becomes-1st-i-fhe-unicorn…

Zama becomes 1st fully homomorphic encryption unicorn with $57M raise
French open source cryptography company Zama today announced a $57 million Series B funding round co-led by Blockchange Ventures and Pantera Capital, bringing Zama’s total funding to over $150 million, and its valuation to north of a billion USD.  Founded by Dr Pascal Paillier and Dr Rand Hindi, the company is building state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) allows computations to be performed on encrypted data without…

17) Who makes their first career Pro Bowl? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/17-who-makes-their-first-career-pro-bowl

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: [To Avon] Could it be altered?
AVON: What?
BLAKE: The running log. Could the readings be faked?
AVON: Only by a top-line technician. Nobody on this ship could do it.
BLAKE: Except you.

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Partial sums of the hyperharmonic series
Hongguang Wu, Jun Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18461 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18461

Partial sums of the hyperharmonic series
In 1946, Erdös and Niven proved that no two partial sums of the harmonic series are equal. In this paper, we extend this result by demonstrating that no two partial sums of the hyperharmonic series are equal.

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism by Richard Muscat
New article in the series "Prospects for Degrowth"
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/23/creatively-disrupting-capitalism/

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of bett…

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
JENNA: You think he's been caught?
BLAKE: No. No, there would have been an alarm. [Looks at the access hatch] I'd better get in after him.
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16WW Energy Series Dataset - Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset -

16WW Energy Series Dataset
Data series of electricity and gas and other energy generation and use. #energy #microgen #dataset

Security Assessment of DeepSeek and GPT Series Models against Jailbreak Attacks
Xiaodong Wu, Xiangman Li, Jianbing Ni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18543 http…

Security Assessment of DeepSeek and GPT Series Models against Jailbreak Attacks
The widespread deployment of large language models (LLMs) has raised critical concerns over their vulnerability to jailbreak attacks, i.e., adversarial prompts that bypass alignment mechanisms and elicit harmful or policy-violating outputs. While proprietary models like GPT-4 have undergone extensive evaluation, the robustness of emerging open-source alternatives such as DeepSeek remains largely underexplored, despite their growing adoption in real-world applications. In this paper, we present …

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
JENNA: You think he's been caught?
BLAKE: No. No, there would have been an alarm. [Looks at the access hatch] I'd better get in after him.
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18) Most Important Game on 2025 Schedule? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/18-most-important-game-on-2025-schedule

Njoki Njoroge Njehû
Principal Political Advisor – Movement Building, Pan-African Fight Inequality Alliance.
Begins with a series of Qs on personal experience of poverty/wealth.
Live in Age of Multiple Crises fed by global capitalism. No accidents: deliberate policies from IMF/WB, extraction, sacrifice of communities, over-consumption: by design peoples pushed back. It's systemic, driving inequality and climate collapse.
Those responsible have names.

Boston-based Maven, which builds autonomous AI agents for enterprises' customer support, raised a $50M Series B led by Dell, taking its total funding to $78M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw…

Exclusive: Maven AGI raises $50M Series B
The Series B was led by Dell Technologies Capital.

Sam Altman posts a series of his exchanges with founder of iyO Jason Rugolo from before the deal with Ive's io; Rugolo responded he just wants to compete fairly (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/692840/sam-altman-io-trademark-ba…

Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has posted private emails between him and the founder of Iyo, the startup that’s suing OpenAI over the name of its upcoming product, io.

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
DAYNA: And if we agree?
ULTRA 1: We shall reconsider the fate of your friends. And, of course, yourselves.
TARRANT: Is that the best you can do? No deal.
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Legal AI startup Harvey raised a $300M Series E co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Coatue at a $5B valuation and says it serves 337 clients like KKR and PwC globally (Alexandra Sternlicht/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/23/harvey-

Harvey raises $300 million at $5 billion valuation to be legal AI for lawyers worldwide
Legal LLM Harvey has raised a $300 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation.

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
LAUREN: I wonder what's made them so determined suddenly.
AVON: Survivors, like me, probably.
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Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: Well, describe it later. Now... now give me life support readout.
TEAGUE: [V.O.] Pressure normal... minimal radiation... breathable oxygen atmosphere.
LEYLAN: Good, good. Now, is there anybody on board?
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Metaview, which builds AI tools to automate hiring, including interview note-taking and generating job descriptions, raised a $35M Series B led by GV (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/25/uber-palantir-alums…

Exclusive: Uber and Palantir alums raise $35M to disrupt corporate recruitment with AI
Metaview’s full suite of AI tools aims to streamline and enhance every stage of the hiring process.

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: Because you can't like someone without them liking you back. And I like you, Kerril, more than anyone. Anyone I've ever known.
KERRIL: The difference is, I love you.
VILA: Kerril.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/592

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Berlin-based Synthflow, a no-code service letting enterprises build and deploy customized voice AI customer service agents, raised a $20M Series A led by Accel (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/how-

How Synthflow AI is cutting through the noise in a loud AI voice category | TechCrunch
Synthflow AI was founded in 2023 and has amassed more than 1,000 customers and handled more than 45 million calls.

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: To make sure none of his victims did anything rash like attacking the weakest point of the ship!
VILA: It's here, I know it's here.
KERRIL: If you say so.
VILA: How would he hide it?
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Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
CALLY: No.
THAARN: Need!
DAYNA: What's the matter, Cally?
CALLY: There's something out there, a force, something all powerful and evil.
[Vila walks, picks up debris]
VILA: Avon!
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Xbow, whose AI tool automates penetration testing and topped HackerOne's US leaderboard for finding and reporting software bugs, raised a $75M Series B (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-…

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
TARRANT: And you'd hide behind a woman to get them? Time changes people.
JARVIK: [Releases Dayna] Tarrant? Man to man? You can have the advantage. [Throws knife at Tarrant's feet]
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Amsterdam-based Finom, a neobank targeting SMBs, raised a €115M Series C led by AVP after raising €92.7M from General Catalyst in May (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/smb-focused-finom-closes-e115m-as-european-…

SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up | TechCrunch
Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
DAYNA: And if we agree?
ULTRA 1: We shall reconsider the fate of your friends. And, of course, yourselves.
TARRANT: Is that the best you can do? No deal.
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Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
LAUREN: I wonder what's made them so determined suddenly.
AVON: Survivors, like me, probably.
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Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
LEYLAN: Well, describe it later. Now... now give me life support readout.
TEAGUE: [V.O.] Pressure normal... minimal radiation... breathable oxygen atmosphere.
LEYLAN: Good, good. Now, is there anybody on board?
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Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: Because you can't like someone without them liking you back. And I like you, Kerril, more than anyone. Anyone I've ever known.
KERRIL: The difference is, I love you.
VILA: Kerril.
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Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: To make sure none of his victims did anything rash like attacking the weakest point of the ship!
VILA: It's here, I know it's here.
KERRIL: If you say so.
VILA: How would he hide it?
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Berlin-based Payrails, whose platform helps enterprises accept payments, issue payouts, and more, raised a $32M Series A, taking its total funding to $52.8M (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
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Payrails raises $32M Series A to boost payment performance for global enterprises
A global payment software company Payrails, has raised $32 million in Series A funding to further its mission of enabling enterprises to take control of their payment operations.  Founded by former fintech leaders from Delivery Hero, Payrails’ founding team brings deep experience building global, scalable financial infrastructure. With the continued backing of leading technology investors, Payrails is strengthening its position as a category-defining payment platform for large enterprises. …

Series C, Episode 04 - Dawn of the Gods
CALLY: No.
THAARN: Need!
DAYNA: What's the matter, Cally?
CALLY: There's something out there, a force, something all powerful and evil.
[Vila walks, picks up debris]
VILA: Avon!
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Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
TARRANT: And you'd hide behind a woman to get them? Time changes people.
JARVIK: [Releases Dayna] Tarrant? Man to man? You can have the advantage. [Throws knife at Tarrant's feet]
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Onebrief, which makes military workflow software, raised a $20M Series C extension led by Battery Ventures at a $1.1B valuation, taking the round total to $70M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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Exclusive: Defense tech startup Onebrief hits $1.1B valuation
Onebrief's Series C extension was led by Battery Ventures.

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
AVON: It is not going to be easy.
BLAKE: Can we do it?
VILA: Not a chance, it's absolutely impossible.
AVON: There is a way. Where are Kasabi and her people?
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Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
AVON: It is not going to be easy.
BLAKE: Can we do it?
VILA: Not a chance, it's absolutely impossible.
AVON: There is a way. Where are Kasabi and her people?
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Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
GAN: [Turns and sees Sinofar and Giroc] Blake, we've got company. [When the others look, they have gone] They were here! Two women, watching us. There's nowhere they could have gone.
JENNA: So where are they now?
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AI dictation startup Wispr Flow raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, after its 2024 pivot away from a hardware device, taking its total funding to $56M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/wisp

Wispr Flow raises $30M from Menlo Ventures for its AI-powered dictation app | TechCrunch
Startups developing voice AI technology and applications are having their moment. Model builders like ElevenLabs and Cartesia have raised millions of

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
GAN: [Turns and sees Sinofar and Giroc] Blake, we've got company. [When the others look, they have gone] They were here! Two women, watching us. There's nowhere they could have gone.
JENNA: So where are they now?
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Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
JENNA: Basic respirator, that's about all. [Blake enters.]
BLAKE: The coordinates place both capsules within one square mile. [Hands Cally the coordinates.] We're going to put you down in the centre of the search area.
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Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
JENNA: Basic respirator, that's about all. [Blake enters.]
BLAKE: The coordinates place both capsules within one square mile. [Hands Cally the coordinates.] We're going to put you down in the centre of the search area.
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NYC-based Zorro, whose AI-powered software helps clients' workers navigate health insurance and benefits options, raised a $20M Series A led by Entrée Capital (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2…

Exclusive: Zorro clinches $20M Series A for ICHRA health plans
As employers wrestle with rising costs, the group plan alternative is gaining steam.

Eventual, which develops Daft, a Python-native open-source data processing engine, raised a $7.5M seed led by CRV and a $20M Series A led by Felicis (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/how-a-data-pro…

How a data processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual | TechCrunch
Eventual's data processing engine Daft was inspried by the founders' experience working on Lyft's autonomous vehicle project.

Miami-based Guardz, which offers a detection and response service for managed service providers protecting SMBs, raised a $56M Series B led by ClearSky (Chris Metinko/Axios)
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Exclusive: Guardz locks up $56M Series B for cybersecurity
The new round brings Guardz's total funding to $84 million in just more than two years.

NYC-based Tennr, which uses AI document parsing and workflow automation to cut patient waiting times, raised a $101M Series C led by IVP at a $605M valuation (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/18/tennr-healt…

Exclusive: Health tech startup Tennr raises $101 million at $605 million valuation to fix the patient referral process
Venture firm IVP led the round along with existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, and Iconiq.

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
GAN: Here we are. [Enters carrying Orac] He wasn't very happy at being interrupted.
BLAKE: I'll apologize later. Orac, your information on the Weapons Development Base is unsatisfactory.
ORAC: Define unsatisfactory.
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Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
MAX: For the hundreth time. I'm sorry, I haven't been much help, have I?
DEETA: The Death-Watch is never easy, Max. You did well, I'm grateful to you. [offers his hand and they shake]
MAX: We wish you luck.
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Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
VILA: But did they do it?
AVON: "And the way was found." Does it go on?
MEEGAT: Deliverance was prepared. And Kashell the Wise was satisfied that it was good.
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Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
MAX: For the hundreth time. I'm sorry, I haven't been much help, have I?
DEETA: The Death-Watch is never easy, Max. You did well, I'm grateful to you. [offers his hand and they shake]
MAX: We wish you luck.
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Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
VILA: But did they do it?
AVON: "And the way was found." Does it go on?
MEEGAT: Deliverance was prepared. And Kashell the Wise was satisfied that it was good.
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