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US tech startups are reviving US hiring plans as President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill lets companies accelerate R&D tax deductions, starting in 2025 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/tech-startups-hiri…

Biometrie-Grenzkontrolle: Chaos beim Start des Ein-/Ausreisesystems befürchtet
Reisende aus Drittstaaten sollen sich laut Airlines auf lange Wartezeiten einstellen, wenn das automatisierte EU-Registrierungsverfahren EES in Betrieb geht.

Performance Starts Within
Performance Starts Within hosted by Tash Miller, former creative agency owner turned business strategist...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/performance-starts-within/

Pelissero: Raiders sticking with Geno Smith as starter amid start https://www.nfl.com/videos/pelissero-raiders-sticking-with-geno-smith-as-starter-amid-start-nfl-gameday-kickoff

One of the main questions of my life with its many projects and ideas... The only proven solution for me has been a round-robin approach, rather than a binary decision. So for as long as possible more a question of "when" than "what"...
https://mas.to/@oblique_strategies/115

Oblique Strategies (@oblique_strategies@mas.to)
Attached: 1 image What to maintain? #ObliqueStrategies

StreetViewAI: Making Street View Accessible Using Context-Aware Multimodal AI
Jon E. Froehlich, Alexander Fiannaca, Nimer Jaber, Victor Tsara, Shaun Kane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08524

StreetViewAI: Making Street View Accessible Using Context-Aware Multimodal AI
Interactive streetscape mapping tools such as Google Street View (GSV) and Meta Mapillary enable users to virtually navigate and experience real-world environments via immersive 360° imagery but remain fundamentally inaccessible to blind users. We introduce StreetViewAI, the first-ever accessible street view tool, which combines context-aware, multimodal AI, accessible navigation controls, and conversational speech. With StreetViewAI, blind users can virtually examine destinations, engage in o…

Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M users globally (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

Alibaba leads US$60 million investment in AI video generation start-up AIsphere
AIsphere’s PixVerse has over 100 million users globally, more than double the number it had at the start of the year.

Strewth - Australian True Crime And Mystery Podcast
Welcome to Strewth, where we uncover Australia's most captivating tales of true crime and mysterious happenings...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/strewth/

Search and browser startup Brave says it has passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/li

The Little-Known Search and Browser Startup Generating $100 Million in Annualized Revenue
Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google’s Chrome. But before they have a chance of dethroning Chrome, they first have to surpass Brave.Brave has been around for a decade and passed $100 million in ...

Sources: Polymarket considers an offer valuing it at ~$9B, up from $1B in the summer; Kalshi is close to raising money at a $5B valuation, up from $2B in June (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/pr

Prediction Startup Polymarket Fields Offer for $9 Billion Valuation; Kalshi Nears $5 Billion Financing
Startups that enable people to bet on events such as the New York mayoral race, NFL games and the Federal Reserve rate decisions are in talks to raise more money at multi-billion-dollar valuations, as trading volume and rivalry between the two apps intensifies. Polymarket has considered an offer ...