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PitchBook: VC exits through public listings, acquisitions, and buyouts reached $67.7B in Q2 2025, up from $38.5B a year ago and the strongest showing since 2021 (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Ukrainian drone strike military and industrial sites across Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/ukrainian-drone-strike-military-and.html

Hach! Ich erinnere mich immer wieder mal daran, wie sehr mich Menschen ausgelacht haben oder wie sie Sorgen um meine geistige Gesundheit geäußert haben, als ich ihnen jahrelang verbot, mich zu fotografieren.
http://www.tamagothi.de/2013/07/28/nein-du-da…

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The Trump administration found
“no viable path” forward
to complete California’s high-speed rail project
following a nearly four-month investigation that jeopardizes
$4 billion in federal funding.
In a 310-page compliance review released Wednesday,
the Department of Transportation cited budget shortfalls,
missed deadlines and a misleading projected ridership to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles via fast rail.
The review targets federal gran…

Trump administration moves to pull funding on high-speed rail
The Trump administration could pull $4 billion in federal funding from California's high-speed rail project within 37 days, following a Department of Transportation compliance review.

Russian Artillery Strike Destroys Kherson Hospital, Injures Civilians
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-shelling-hospital-ukraine-kherson-injuries-civilians-dnipropetrovsk-saratov-west-weapons/33461745.html

Learning to optimize convex risk measures: The cases of utility-based shortfall risk and optimized certainty equivalent risk
Sumedh Gupte, Prashanth L. A., Sanjay P. Bhat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01101

Learning to optimize convex risk measures: The cases of utility-based shortfall risk and optimized certainty equivalent risk
We consider the problems of estimation and optimization of two popular convex risk mea- sures: utility-based shortfall risk (UBSR) and Optimized Certainty Equivalent (OCE) risk. We extend these risk measures to cover possibly unbounded random variables. We cover prominent risk measures like the entropic risk, expectile risk, monotone mean-variance risk, Value-at-Risk, and Conditional Value-at-Risk as few special cases of either the UBSR or the OCE risk. In the context of estimation, we derive n…

'Important facility hit' — Ukraine attacks Russian oil refinery in Saratov Oblast, military says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/important-facility-hit-ukraine-attacks.html

An interview with Gaia Marcus, director of the UK-based think tank Ada Lovelace Institute, on AI regulation in the UK and Europe, AI safety, bias, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Ada Lovelace Institute’s Gaia Marcus: regulation would increase people’s comfort with AI
The head of the UK-based think-tank talks about her hopes and fears for future oversight of AI

Sources: Toronto-based AI startup Cohere is seeking to raise $500M at a valuation of over $5.5B; it raised a $500M Series D at a $5.5B valuation in July 2024 (Financial Times)

AI start-up Cohere seeks $500mn in effort to catch up to OpenAI and Anthropic
Canadian group seeks valuation of up to $6.5bn but rivals have soared far higher in comparison