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A look at London-based "neocloud" startup Nscale, which landed a $500M investment from Nvidia and aims to scale up to 300K GPUs globally, on par with CoreWeave (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

Nvidia Keeps Minting New Coreweave-Style AI Data Center Unicorns
Nscale, a tiny London-based startup, just landed $500 million in backing from AI chip giant Nvidia to help build a massive data centers for OpenAI in the U.K. and Europe.

FPF Releases Issue Brief on New CCPA Regulations for Automated Decisionmaking Technology, Risk Assessments, and Cybersecurity Audits
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-issue-brief-on-new-cc…

Russland: Weitere Dörfer in der Ostukraine erobert
Russland meldet einen weiteren Vormarsch seiner Invasionstruppen in der Ostukraine. Russische Soldaten hätten die Ortschaften Seredne und Kleban-Byk in der Region Donezk unter ihre Kontrolle gebracht, teilt das Verteidigungsministerium in Moskau mit.
Mit der Einnahme von Kleban-Byk nähert sich die russische Armee der strategisch wichtigen Ortschaft…
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Rough notes from the #FestivalOfCommoning https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/09/festival-of-commoning-take-two.html

Festival of Commoning take two
Last week was the second Festival of Commoning . It was great last year, and this year we were back in Stroud for a bigger event (albeit one...

Top notch flat white in Lisbon #portugal #coffee

Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity, SerpApi, and two other data scraping companies, accusing them of unlawfully scraping Google for Reddit data (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perpl…

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.

UK-based startup Mantic ranked #8 in the Metaculus forecasting cup that asks entrants to predict 60 geopolitical events, the first time an AI made the top 10 (Nikita Ostrovsky/Time)
https://time.com/7318577/ai-model-forecasting-predict-future-metaculus/

AI Is Learning to Predict the Future—And Beating Humans at It
An AI model just cracked the top 10 in a global prediction contest, signaling how machines are reshaping the future of forecasting.

Source: the Trump administration considers taking equity stakes in CHIPS Act recipients but not in firms that are increasing US investment, like TSMC and Micron (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/chip-makers-us-go…

Pharmacy benefit management startup Capital Rx raised $400M, including a $252M Series F; it has raised $607M to date and was valued at $3.25B pre-Series F (Claire Rychlewski/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/09/23/capi…

Capital Rx raising $400M from Wellington, General Catalyst
The company bills itself as a transparent alternative to the traditional PBM model.