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

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

London-based Gizmo, which uses AI to turn young students' notes into gamified study materials, raised a $22M Series A led by Shine Capital and reports 13M users (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/04/15/ai-edtech-learning-gi…

Exclusive: AI learning platform Gizmo raises $22M Series A
The London-based company gamifies studying.

Time to dust off your pretty little bonnets, Browncoats. It's baaaaack! (kinda)
✅ Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development With Co-Stars Set To Reprise Roles
https://deadline.com/2026/03/nathan-fillion-firefly-animated…

Nathan Fillion Says ‘Firefly’ Animated Series In Development With Co-Stars Set To Reprise Roles; Concept Art Revealed
Nathan Fillion says 'Firefly' animated series is in development with costars to voice their original roles. Concept art revealed.

The EleMenTs Series Is Complete: A Young Adult Fantasy Trilogy
Twenty years ago, I began imagining a story about three disabled teenage girls who discover they possess elemental powers. The idea stayed with me, growing and changing as I grew and changed, waiting for the right moment to be told. That moment has arrived. The EleMenTs Series is complete, and all three novels are now available.

The EleMenTs Series Is Complete: A Young Adult Fantasy Trilogy | David Boles, Blogs
Twenty years ago, I began imagining a story about three disabled teenage girls who discover they possess elemental powers. The idea stayed with me, growing and changing as I grew and changed, waiti…

Copenhagen-based Spektr, which develops AI agents for compliance teams in financial services, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA, taking total funding to $26M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/fintech-compliance-founders…

Exclusive: Repeat Founders Raise $20M For Spektr, A Fintech Compliance Startup, In NEA-Led Series A
Copenhagen-based Spektr, which uses AI to tackle the manual drudgery of financial compliance, raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: Well, who puts on the head?
AVON: It will be Vila, or it will be me.
VILA: It'll be you!
AVON: [Looks at Vila and smiles] Fine. Help Soolin to get Orac outside.
SOOLIN: Where do we take Orac?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/515

CNN plans to debut a six-episode series called Kara Swisher Wants To Live Forever about longevity science, with interviews of Sam Altman and others, on April 11 (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/kara-swisher-cnn-series-debut-1236751160/

CNN To Debut ‘Kara Swisher Wants To Live Forever’ On April 11
The show will be the latest from its Original Series unit.

@… https://mastodon.online/@jonsnow/116223577750850253

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…

Register for our 4/8 #DefendResearch webinar with information studies researcher Dr. George Cooper to learn about findings from his extensive research on China and #censorship complicity in scholarly publishing.

Hoher Peißenberg (September 2024)
(From my series In The Lands Of Via Claudia Augusta, the ancient and most important Roman road through the Alps which connected the Po Valley in the south with Augsburg and the Danube as northern terminus)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Another banger by J. B. Crawford in his "Computers Are Bad" series, this time going through computer history from PLATO to Lotus Notes. PLATO is probably the most influential computer system almost nobody knows about (unlike, say, Mother of All Demos).
https://computer.rip/2026-03-14-lotusn

LotusNotes

Iran was a puppet state of the western powers, until one day it wasn't.
Great background from the podcast "the Rest is history."
https://therestishistory.com/series/revolution-in-iran

A so-called mini “baby boom” is unfolding across the upper echelons of the Trump administration.
Karoline Leavitt, Usha Vance, and Katie Miller are pregnant, each with due dates in late spring or summer.
Their pregnancies have been accompanied by a bit of culture war, too:
Fox News noted the “full boom” as evidence that the women are enthusiastic devotees of the administration’s pronatalist agenda.
In a December Instagram post announcing her pregnancy, Leavitt thanked…

MAGA's baby boom and me
I've been wracked with indecision over having a second child. Then came a series of public pregnancy announcements.

Thanks everyone for your feedback on my “Kelp Entanglements” series! Over at Framespotting, I’ve just turned the set into a photo essay with some background info and musings. Hoping someone enjoys the read.
https://framespotting.substack.com/p/exploring-kelp-entangle…

Exploring Kelp Entanglements at San Simeon
After an atmospheric river had its way with the coastline, the beach at San Simeon was decorated in large piles of tangled giant and bull kelp.

Jürgen Habermas has died.
An interesting thinker but ultimately he put his weight behind the Washington consensus.
I wrote this short piece 12 years ago, the first in a series that never happened!
Habermas and the Pit | Uncommontater
https://uncommontater.net/2014/04/02/h

Habermas and the Pit
This might be the first of an occasional series of mini summaries of the work of influential thinkers. First:  Jurgen Habermas Good on: Concept of legitimation crisis. Recognition that there a…

New documentary on 'vibe coding' drops:

Is branding and marketing compatible with the Degrowth ethos??
Is marketing compatible with the Degrowth ethos? Gary Quayle* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture Degrowth scholars and increasing numbers of environmental policy researchers are openly voicing their preference for Degrowth over the more publicised and endorsed Green New Deal or green growth (Cox, 2016). There is a flourishing body of evidence espousing the doctrine of Degrowth and…

Is branding and marketing compatible with the Degrowth ethos??
Is marketing compatible with the Degrowth ethos? Gary Quayle* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture Degrowth scholars and increasing numbers of environmental policy researcher…

Ich finde, wir sollten nicht immer so schlecht über Microsoft reden. Ich bin zum Beispiel mit meinem Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 sehr zufrieden. Also, unter Linux funktioniert der hervorragend.

AI cloud infrastructure company Parasail raised a $32M Series A led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures, bringing its total funding to $42M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/parasail-raises-32m-to-feed-tokenmaxxing-ai-de…

This startup is betting tokenmaxxing will create the next compute giant | TechCrunch
Parasail raised $32 million in a Series A, signaling a fractured future of models and compute.

I'm very much enjoying The Rest Is History's series on James Boswell and Samuel Johnson at the moment, which I can only assume they have timed in honour of The Boswell Book Festival, which goes on-sale to Friends and Patrons priority booking today!

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
[Servalan holds the gun to Tarrant's head.]
TARRANT: You can't kill me. If you do your value to the sand is over. You'll be dead in half an hour.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/300 B7B5

My multiplayer days are firmly behind me, but the campaign is one of the best in the series. Too bad I won't pirate Modern Warfare II and III or buy them at these ridiculous prices just for a 5-6 hours campaign. Maybe in half a decade pigs will learn to fly and they will discount them to something more manageable. This one's worth a replay, though.

"Across a variety of tasks, including mathematical reasoning and reading comprehension, we find that although AI assistance improves performance in the short-term, people perform significantly worse without AI and are more likely to give up."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth over immediate results. In contrast, current AI systems are fundamentally short-sighted collaborators - optimized for providing instant and complete responses, without ever saying no (unless for safety reasons). What are the consequences of this dynamic? Here, through a series of randomized contro…

“A week ago, someone sent me a link to an online article describing a flaming confrontation between me and the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank, Matt Comyn, on the set of 7.30.
“The story was 2,000 words long, very detailed, and had pictures of Comyn and me arguing in front of 7.30 host Sarah Ferguson, before Matt throws away his microphone and storms off.
“Not a word nor a photo of it was true. It was an #AI

AI got personal last week, and it's more complicated than we think
A fake news story about me, a series of AI breakthroughs, and a resignation in the tech world show that 2026 could be pivotal for AI. 

#Firefly is making an animated comeback. They have the crew, the script, the rightsholders on board and need to convince a platform to buy in. So let's make sure they can't kill the signal Pardon the platform, but this is the source: https://www.

Another African Country Has Cleared its Debt to the International Monetary Fund https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/another-african-country-has-cleared-its-debt-to-the-international-monetary-fund/

Another African Country Has Cleared its Debt to the International Monetary Fund
The news makes Mozambique the latest in a small series of African country to get out from under internationally-held debt.

Next Woman Up: Madilyn Johnson, Coordinator, Coaching Operations for the New York Jets https://www.nfl.com/news/next-woman-up-madilyn-johnson-coordinator-coaching-operations-for-the-new-york-jets

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

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

Bluefish, which helps brands manage visibility across AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude, raised a $43M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/bluefish-raises-43m-to-help-bran…

Bluefish Raises $43M to Help Brands Show Up in ChatGPT, Rufus, and Others
Series B brings total funding to $68 million as brands rethink AI visibility.

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 514 nodes and 2363 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
AVON: I stand a better chance alone.
TARRANT: No you don't. Are you coming?
DAYNA: We'll try not to get in your way.
CALLY: What's the matter, Avon? Are you afraid of witnesses?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/453 B7B2…

"Our key insight is that, despite being imperfect, such quasi-realistic data still provide priors about human primitive skills in tennis scenarios.... We also propose a series of designs for robust sim-to-real transfer and deploy our policy on the Unitree G1 #humanoid_robot . Our method achieves surprising results in the real world and can stably sustain multi-shot rallies with human p…

DON’T MISS: next lecture in our lecture series “Im Feuerwerk der Sonne” on April 16th, 7 PM. Volker Bothmer from
@…
will speak about the effects of dangerous #SpaceWeather on terrestrial infrastructure. In German. More here: www…

A trial date has been set for Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC.
On Thursday, Judge Roy K. Altman of the Southern District of Florida set a provisional start date of ⭐️February 15, 2027, for a two-week trial. 
The lawsuit was filed following the release of an episode from Panorama,
the BBC's investigative documentary series, titled
"Trump: A Second Chance?"
In it, the BBC cut together two parts of Trump's January 2021 speech to …

Date set for Trump's $10 billion lawsuit over BBC documentary
A federal judge has set the date for the president's push to punish a news organization he dislikes, again.

AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm invest $60M in London-based self-driving tech startup Wayve as part of an extension to its $1.2B Series D, announced in February (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/chip

Chipmakers AMD, Arm, and Qualcomm are all investing in this buzzy self-driving tech startup | TechCrunch
Wayve's $1.2 billion Series D round, which was announced in February, keeps growing.

Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
Editors' note We are delighted to publish this article by Marga Mediavilla on a systems approach to degrowth. It serves to summarise a number of the issues in the Prospects for Degrowth series and also represents an echo of the methodology used in the report which was a major influence on degrowth thinking, the 1974 Limits to Growth report by Donella Meadows and colleagues.

Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
Editors’ note We are delighted to publish this article by Marga Mediavilla on a systems approach to degrowth. It serves to summarise a number of the issues in the Prospects for Degrowth serie…

Ministers should face ICC probe over UK response to Gaza genocide – Corbyn
https://nation.cymru/news/ministers-should-face-icc-probe-over-uk-response-to-gaza-genocide-corbyn/

Ministers should face ICC probe over UK response to Gaza genocide – Corbyn
Ministers should face investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their response to Israel’s actions in Gaza, Jeremy Corbyn’s Gaza Tribunal has said. The former Labour leader’s investigation into the UK response to the conflict has reported back after it held a series of hearings in September. The tribunal was intended to “uncover the […]

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
DAYNA: What's the matter?
VILA: There's something in my boot. [Takes out crystal] Look at that! It's Kairopan. I've just done my foot in on half a million credits worth of Kairopan. Couldn't have happened when I was down on my luck and looking for the price of a drink, could it?

Anthropic raised a $30B Series G from GIC, Coatue, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Nvidia, and others at a $380B post-money valuation (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-…

Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Seahawks vs. 49ers prediction: Can San Francisco overcome injuries, short week at No. 1 seed Seattle?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-seahawks-where-to-watch…

Sources: Qualified Health, which helps health care organizations assess and orchestrate AI tools, is raising a ~$100M Series A from NEA, SignalFire, and others (Erin Brodwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/03/12/qualified-health-s…

Scoop: AI evaluation startup Qualified Health raising roughly $100M Series A
The funding would come as a gold rush in health care AI ushers in demand for better ways to implement and evaluate the tools.

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

Really pleased to publish this article.
Our new series, "Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture".
The first article.
The EU’s Retreat on Corporate Accountability – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2026/03/11/the-eus-retreat-on-co…

The EU’s Retreat on Corporate Accountability
The EU’s Retreat on Corporate Accountability: Growth, Imperial Extraction, and the Limits of Regulation by Alice Puerto* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture In 2025, the Eur…

Chicago-based restaurant software startup Chowbus raised an $81M Series E led by Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital; it focuses primarily on Asian restaurants (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/03/11/chowbus-series-e-asian-re…

Exclusive: Chowbus raises $81M Series E
Chowbus specializes in tools for Asian and immigrant-owned restaurants.

Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
AVON: Cally and I have finished checking the damage. I can give you a fairly accurate assessment of the situation now. We can fit things together and we can make repairs.
BLAKE: And?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/174 B7B4

Crypto accounting startup Cryptio raised a $45M Series B led by BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global and reports having 450 clients, including Circle (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/12/cryptio-series-b-fundraise-b…

Exclusive: Accounting startup Cryptio raises $45 million to help big firms keep track of digital assets
BlackFin Capital Partners and Sentinel Global led the Series B fundraise, which closed three weeks ago.

celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 468 nodes and 3701 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
AVON: Vila, listen, this is some kind of a Federation trap.
[Rest Room Door [Exterior]. Vila is working on the damaged opening mechanism]
AVON: [V.O.] Get us out of here.
VILA: I'm trying to.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/288

Samsung releases an ad for the Galaxy S26 series that briefly shows a "Zero-peeking privacy" toggle to black out on-screen content for onlookers at an angle (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/879652/samsung-ga…

Samsung ad confirms rumors of a useful S26 ‘privacy display’
Leaker Ice Universe has shared a video of Samsung’s privacy display in action, while the company teases the tech in a new advert.

Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
VILA: Mock if you like, but I can always sense danger.
GAN: Yes, even when there isn't any.
AVON: Scan doesn't show any modifications. I think it's just what it seems to be.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/26 B7B4

Sources: UK paraplegic athlete Claire Lomas was being filmed for Apple Vision Pro series Adventure when she crashed a microlight in Jordan and died in July 2024 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
CALLY: Thank you. [Leaves]
SONHEIM: Be back in a moment. [Gets up and goes out]
[Blue corridor - Cally hears Sara and Mandrian argue in the filtration plant.]
SARA: ...You are always snooping.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/251 B7…

Mintlify, which uses AI to help companies generate software documentation, raised a $45M Series B led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures at a $500M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-prompt/20

Anthropic Uses This Startup’s AI To Answer People’s Questions About Claude Code
It’s just one of 20,000 companies that use Mintlify’s AI system to generate and maintain FAQs and user guides about their software products.

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
JENNA: [V.O.]I think she's holding. We're levelling off.
BLAKE: [V.O.]Keep it steady.
CALLY: How are you feeling?
GAN: Tired. Very tired. What's been happening?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/263 B7B3

Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors, building a "grid-to-GPU" power system for datacenters, raised a $15M Series A led by Peak XV, bringing total funding to $19M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/as-a

As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck | TechCrunch
C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers.

Halcyon, which uses AI to aggregate documents from public utility commissions, energy regulators, and more, raised a $21M Series A led by Energize Capital (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/03/16/halcyon-funding-21-million

Exclusive: Halcyon closes $21M to expand energy data service
Demand for electricity is booming as AI data centers hunt for power.

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
ZEN: The continuing malfunction of hull sensors is limiting data for analysis. Operational systems indicate that the damage is widespread but superficial.
DAYNA: The nature of the damage. What's causing it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/255 B7B4

Hilbert, whose AI software connects data across teams to help companies make decisions from a single system, raised a $28M Series A led by a16z (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/15/exclusive-a16z-backed-hilbert-raises-28-million

Exclusive: a16z-backed Hilbert raises $28 million
The a16z-backed startup says their tools can fix AI's ROI problem.

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
SOOLIN: Thirty seconds to impact.
PLAXTON: [V.O.] One more connection to- [Her voice is cut off as Avon pushes some buttons.]
TARRANT: [To Avon] What are you doing?
AVON: Programing in the main circuit drive.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/444

Vega, which uses AI to detect security threats directly within cloud services, raised a $120M Series B at a $700M valuation, bringing its total raised to $185M (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/vega-rais…

Vega raises $120M Series B to rethink how enterprises detect cyber threats | TechCrunch
Vega Security raised $120 million Series B, bringing its valuation to $700 million, in a round led by Accel. The company aims to rethink how enterprises detect cybersecurity threats.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
VILA: [V.O. Over communicator] Blake, ready to teleport.
BLAKE: Teleporting, Vila. [Le Grand and Vila appear in the teleport bay. Vila bows to Le Grand, who advances to Blake]
LE GRAND: My homage to you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/462…

Online DTC luxury brand Quince raised a $500M Series E led by Iconiq at a $10.1B valuation; it recently launched in Canada and its revenue topped $1B in 2025 (James Manso/WWD)
https://wwd.com/business-news/financial/quince-10-1-billion-v…

EXCLUSIVE: Quince Closes $500 Million Series E at $10.1 Billion Valuation
Quince reached a $10.1 billion valuation for its $500 million series E, following 2025 revenues of over $1 billion.

Scanner, which helps organizations build cloud-native security data lakes for threat hunting, detection, and response, raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
https://www.securityweek.com/scanner-raises-22-million-for-ai-powere…

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
DAYNA: Not too young for you?
SERVALAN: Oh, I don't think so, do you? I find unsophisticated clothes quite amusing, like unsophisticated people. Obvious, but amusing. [Dayna laughs]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/211 B7B5

Artemis, which aims to replace rule-based cybersecurity systems with an AI-driven centralized "brain", emerges from stealth with a $70M Series A led by Felicis (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/15/exclusive-ar…

Exclusive: Artemis raises $70M to help fight AI-powered attacks with AI
Backed by $70 million, Artemis is tackling the new reality of faster, cheaper AI-driven attacks.

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BLAKE: Maybe it wasn't anything - anything real.
ZEN: Information. Flight time remaining is now fourty-eight minutes. Visual and detector readouts are now available.
BLAKE: Let's see it, Zen. [Zondar is shown on the screen]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/438

Glydways, a robocar startup backed by Sam Altman, Khosla, and others, says it is in talks to raise $250M at a $1B valuation, following a ~$170M Series C (Min-Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04…

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: For the past year now, I've been collecting all the information I could find. With Orac's help, I now know more about Control than anyone outside the senior echelon of the Federation. I think I can destroy it. [Avon claps slowly.] I'm not going to minimize the danger. It's a high-risk operation. That is why I'm not going to ask any of you to come with me.
GAN: You think you could do it without us?

NY-based Auctor, which uses AI to curate resource plans and process flows to help companies adopt new software, raised $20M in a combined seed and Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026…

Exclusive: Auctor snags Sequoia investment for software implementation
The new funding includes backing from Sequoia Capital and Microsoft's M12.

Sandbar, which is developing the Stream Ring, a $249 AI-powered wearable that transcribes audio notes, raised a $23M Series A, bringing total funding to $36M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/sandbar-secures-23m-series-a-fo…

Sandbar secures $23M Series A for its AI note-taking ring | TechCrunch
Sandbar aims to ship the Stream, which can be used to take notes, chat with an AI assistant, and for media playback, this summer.

Series D, Episode 08 - Games
ORAC: Oh! That implies an emotional tie, which is no part of a computer's function.
AVON: These adaptations, if they went in haphazardly, could they be removed the same way?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/343 B7B2

BackOps, which makes automation tools for supply chain operations, raised a $26M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2026/03/12/backops-series-a-supply-chain-operations

Exclusive: BackOps raises $26M to automate supply chain operations
Increasing geopolitical risks are driving supply chain leaders to make their operations more flexible.

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
AVON: I wasn't going to say anything. [The ship is shaken and they are all thrown to the ground.]
SOOLIN: How much more of this can the ship take?
DAYNA: Look, there must be some way to get Tarrant off that planet.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/409/287…

Apple says a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content; all Apple-designed batteries now use 100% recycled cobalt (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/16/apple-hits-record-recycled-content/

Apple Hits Record 30% Recycled Content Across All Products in 2025
Apple today announced that a record 30% of material across all products it shipped in 2025 came from recycled content, alongside a series of other...

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
TARRANT: Thank you, Zen.
DARVID: [On screen] And so everything is ready. The formalities are complete. The Champions are prepared. The Arbiters have activated the combat computer which will control the conditions of battle. Only the computer knows when it will begin and where. [the screen fades to black. A computer display prints up:

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
KENDALL: We've calculated the orbital pattern required to maintain a balance and save our planet. [quickly takes neutrotope from Blake holding it up high]
BLAKE: Impressive.
https://

Slide, which develops data backup and disaster recovery tech for managed service providers, raised a $70M Series B led by GC, bringing its total funding to $95M (CJ Fairfield/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/2026

BCDR Firm Slide Raises $70M Series B To Fuel Global MSP Expansion: ‘The Train Keeps Rolling’
With new funding, Slide plans to expand into Europe, adds new platform capabilities.

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 12 - The Keeper
GOLA: While I decide how you will die. Get him out of here!
FOOL: I did nothing! I did nothing! [carried off protesting just like Vila]
GOLA: Are you all right, my love?
https://b…

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
BLAKE: All right, Avon, that's enough!
BLAKE: The signal to abort the auxiliary computers came from Zen. Can you override it, bypass Zen, and get them working again?
AVON: Possibly.
BLAKE: Well, try.

Translucent, a health care finance startup that helps hospitals improve cash management, raised a $27M Series A led by GV, after a $7M seed in August 2024 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/11/exclusive-…

Exclusive: Translucent, an AI-native healthcare finance startup, raises $27 million Series A
After seeing the challenges of rural hospitals firsthand, Jack O’Hara set his sights on transforming the financials of healthcare.

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
AVON: I doubt it. [Turns and leaves]
[Blake smiles]
[End of episode. Roll credits.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/209/537 B7B1

Series C, Episode 02 - Powerplay
KLEGG: You were supposed to have searched the ship. These two should have been found. Where were you hiding?
DAYNA: We weren't hiding. We've...
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/302/5 B7B3

Qdrant, which develops an open-source vector search engine for production AI systems, raised a $50M Series B led by AVP (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/03/12/qdrant-closes-50m-series-b-to-expand-vector-search-infrastructure/

C09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: [Approaches Avon and hands him the calculator.] Here, take a look at this. That asteroid's less than thirty- two hours away, but we'll still be cutting it fine.
AVON: Let's get going then. There's nothing keeping us here.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/309/22

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 08 - Hostage
BLAKE: I see, yes of course.
TRAVIS: It is the fastest, the most powerful ship in existence.
BLAKE: Not a chance, Travis.
TRAVIS: We'll see.
[Exbar. Avon running, like a sleek silver colussus]

AI networking equipment startup Eridu emerges from stealth and raised a $200M Series A led by Socratic, John Doerr, and more, taking its total funding to $230M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/ai-network-start…

AI network startup Eridu emerges from stealth with hefty $200M Series A | TechCrunch
Unlike a vibe-coded product built by a college dropout, Eridu's co-founder, Drew Perkins, has been inventing networking tech since the dawn of the internet.

Bengaluru-based KreditBee, a digital lending service for personal and business loans and more, raised a $280M Series E at a $1.5B post-money valuation (Harsh Upadhyay/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/kreditbee-enters-unicorn-club-with-280-mn-ser…

KreditBee enters unicorn club with $280 Mn Series E round
The round was led by Motilal Oswal Alternates, Hornbill Capital, and MUFG-backed Dragon Funds. WhiteOak Capital, A.P. Moller Holding, Premji Invest, and Advent International also participated.

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
DAYNA: Yes, he is. Quite impregnable. You'll never get to him.
SERVALAN: I need him, Dayna. I need him alive. The animals are no use to me without him. I have to have him, Dayna. You do see that.
DAYNA: I can't help you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/321

Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raised a $100M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/12/oro-labs-corporate-procurement-ai-efficiency/

Exclusive: Oro Labs, which uses AI to streamline corporate procurement, raises $100 million
Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Brighton Park Capital are leading the Series C round in the five-year old Silicon Valley startup

Sygaldry, which wants to design AI data center servers that integrate quantum hardware and classical chips, raised a $34M seed and a $105M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/14/exclusive-chad-rig…

Exclusive: Chad Rigetti’s Sygaldry raises $139 million to bring quantum hardware to AI data centers
Sygaldry is the company Chad Rigetti cofounded in 2024 after leaving Rigetti Computing.

Singapore-based MetaComp, which bridges traditional fiat payment rails and stablecoin settlement infrastructure, raised $35M across two pre-Series A rounds (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/393509/metacomp-raises-35-million-alibaba

Rozana, which offers rural e-commerce and logistics services to 21,000 villages across India, raised a $31.6M Series B led by Bertelsmann India Investments (Gyan Vardhan/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/rural-commerce-startu…

Rural commerce startup Rozana raises Rs 290 Cr in Series B led by Bertelsmann
Rural omnichannel retail platform Rozana has raised Rs 290 crore ($31.6 million) in a Series B funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investments.

Inertia, cofounded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/twil

Twilio co-founder’s fusion power startup raises $450M from Bessemer and Alphabet’s GV | TechCrunch
Inertia Enterprises will use the Series A investment to build one of the world's most powerful lasers, a key part of its power plant design.

Dify, which offers an open-source platform to build and run AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30M pre-Series A led by HSG at a $180M valuation (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2026/03/dify-raises-30m-in-series-pre-a-funding.html

London-based Lawhive, whose lawyers and AI tools help individuals and SMBs automate legal tasks, raised a $60M Series B, after a $40M Series A in December 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/05/lawhive-ai-law-firm-startup-series-b-ventu…

Exclusive: Lawhive, a startup using AI to reimagine the general practice law firm, raises $60 million in new venture capital funding
The company is expanding rapidly in the U.S. with its technology-centric vision of the general practice law firm

Lio, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise procurement, including document reading and supplier evaluation, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/lio-ai-series-a-a16z-30m-…

Lio raises $30M from Andreessen Horowitz and others to automate enterprise procurement | TechCrunch
AI procurement startup Lio announced a $30 million Series A in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Reco, which makes AI agents that monitor SaaS environments for threats, raised a $30M Series B led by Zeev Ventures, bringing its total funding to $85M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hk42i2ddbg

Reco raises $30 million Series B to secure AI SaaS adoption across enterprises
The funding aims to expand platform reach amid rising Shadow AI usage and regulatory scrutiny. 

Xoople, which is developing a satellite constellation to collect earth data for training AI models, raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to $225M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/06/spains-xoople-rais…

Spain's Xoople raises $130 million Series B to map the Earth for AI | TechCrunch
The company is also announcing a deal with L3Harris to build the sensors for Xoople's spacecraft.