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Mehr Geld für Gründer: Rekord bei Milliarden-Start-ups
Deutsche Start-ups bekommen wieder mehr Kapital, eine Rekordzahl erreicht eine Milliardenbewertung – und das trotz Zollstreits und großer Börsenturbulenzen.

Shenzhen-based humanoid startup X Square Robot raised ~$100M led by Alibaba, bringing total funding to ~$280M, and released a foundation model for embodied AI (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/08/alibaba-leads-100-mil…

Alibaba leads $100 million investment in Chinese humanoid robot startup
Capital is rushing into humanoids — X Square Robot has completed eight fundraising rounds in less than two years since the startup was founded.

Saturday, March 15, 2025, may have seemed unremarkable to most Americans.
But in time, history will remember it as Black Saturday
—the moment the United States ceased to function as a constitutional democracy.
For the first time in modern American history, a sitting president openly defied a direct federal court order
—and nothing happened.
No intervention. No enforcement. No consequences.
A legal ruling was issued, and the White House simply ignored it

Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy
Black Saturday, March 15, 2025, will be remembered as the day the U.S. ceased to function as a constitutional democracy. A sitting president defied a federal court order, proving that judicial authority no longer constrains executive power. This is not a warning—it is confirmation that democracy has already collapsed.

Yeah, I don't know about this. I think they'd be better off making an animated movie in the style of edge runners or even spiderverse.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/07/06/heres-the-rather-absurd-street-…

Here’s The Rather Absurd ‘Street Fighter’ Movie Cast List Right Now
You may not even realize this is happening, but there is a new Street Fighter movie in the works, and it's cast is insane.

Noch sind KI-Chatbots werbefrei – doch dieses Start-up will das ändern
Wie lassen sich KI-Produkte sinnvoll monetarisieren? Das US-Start-up Koah setzt auf ein klassisches Modell: Werbung. Dafür gab es jetzt 5 Millionen US-Dollar.

Source: Meta has acquired WaveForms AI, which is working on AI that understands and mimics emotion in audio and debuted in December with a $40M seed led by a16z (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-acquires-ai-audio-star…

Meta Acquires AI Audio Startup WaveForms
Meta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a small startup working on artificial intelligence capable of understanding emotion and mimicking it in audio form, according to a person with direct knowledge. The acquisition comes as Meta continues to overhaul its efforts in AI, after stumbles earlier ...

Ecosia und Qwant starten Web-Suche über europäischen Index
Die beiden europäischen Suchmaschinenanbieter nutzen für ihre Websuche schrittweise einen eigenen Suchmaschinenindex. Der soll auch der KI-Entwicklung dienen.

Cowboy: Beim belgischen E-Bike-Startup scheint es zu brennen
Lange Lieferzeiten, miserable Kommunikation, hohe Schulden und ein kostspieliger Rückruf: Cowboy steckt offenbar in einer massiven Krise.
https://www.…

EU-Datenmaut: Gegenwind für geplantes Streitbeilegungsverfahren für Peering
Statt einer offenen Big-Tech-Kostenbeteiligung am Netzausbau schwebt der EU-Kommission die Einführung eines Schiedsverfahrens für "IP-Zusammenschaltungen" vor.

Virtual Reality in den 90ern: Wie in Spielhallen der erste VR-Hype entstand
Vor Oculus & Co. kam Virtuality: Wie ein britisches Start-up Virtual Reality populär machte und an Technik, Heimkonsolen und Zeitgeist scheiterte.