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Circle announces it will offer 10M shares to the public, of which 8M will be sold by existing stockholders; CRCL drops 6% after hours (Christina Cheddar Berk/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/circle-shares-fall-after-s…

Circle shares fall after stablecoin issuer says it will offer 10 million shares
Circle Internet Group shares fell after the company said it would offer 10 million Class A common shares.

Souveränität: Öffentlicher Gesundheitsdienst setzt verstärkt auf Open Source
Das Zendis und das Robert-Koch-Institut wollen die MS-365-Alternative OpenDesk in eine Kommunikationsplattform des Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdiensts integrieren.

Apple Watch Series 11 und Ultra 3: Lob für bessere Akkulaufzeiten
Technisch unterscheiden sich die neuen Apple-Uhren nur kleinteilig von ihren Vorgängern. Immerhin gibt es gute Nachrichten bei den Akkus.
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NYC-based Profound, which helps brands optimize visibility in AI search responses, raised a $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $58.5M (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/12/ai-search-startup-profound-rais…

Exclusive: Profound raises $35M as Sequoia backs its ambitious bid to become the Salesforce of AI search
The startup wants to help brands stay visible as AI reshapes search, in what backers call a once-in-a-generation marketing shift.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Studie: Schwarze Löcher explodieren womöglich viel häufiger als angenommen

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised a $50M Series A led by GFT Ventures (Amit Chowdhry/Pulse 2.0)
https://pulse2.com/higgsfield-50-million-series-a-raised-to-transform-ai-video-creation/

Higgsfield: $50 Million Series A Raised To Transform AI Video Creation
Higgsfield.ai, a rapidly growing company specializing in AI for video creation, has announced the successful close of its $50 million Series A funding round. The investment was led by GFT Ventures and joined by a group of firms, including BroadLight Capital, NextEquity Partners, AI Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Alpha Square Group, and other strategic backers. 

At the end of June, Australia quietly introduced rules forcing search engine companies such as Google and Microsoft to check the ages of logged-in users (Ange Lavoipierre/ABC)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/1…

Australia is quietly introducing 'unprecedented' age checks for search engines like Google
Just as Australians are adjusting to the idea of having their ages checked for social media, age assurance rules are being applied to search engines and many other corners of the internet.

Google launches Preferred Sources in the US and India, allowing users to personalize the news in Search's "top stories" section by selecting favorite outlets (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/757979/google-search-preferr…

Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see
Google is rolling out a new “preferred sources” feature that lets you choose which outlets you want to see the most in Search’s “top stories” section.

Current and former employees of OpenAI have sold nearly $3B worth of shares in tender offers since 2021, with $1.5B going to SoftBank alone (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-employees-cashed-3-bil…

OpenAI Employees Have Cashed Out $3 Billion in Shares
My colleague Sri Muppidi broke the news Wednesday of OpenAI’s latest fundraising talks as it seeks to raise an unprecedented $40 billion. One previously unreported detail is that SoftBank bought about $240 million in shares from a small group of current and former employees this spring.That deal ...

Virtru, which offers data security services to clients like the US DOD and Salesforce, raised a $50M Series D led by Iconiq Capital at a $500M valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/11/exclusi

Exclusive: Virtru, data security company, raises $50 million Series D as valuation hits $500 million
Virtru has recently raised a $50 million Series D, led by Iconiq Capital, Fortune has exclusively learned.