Tootfinder

Convey, which is building AI "teammates" to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/convey-raises-38-million-a16z-to-…

Convey raises $38 million from a16z to automate repetitive office work
Convey, a startup founded last year that builds AI "teammates," has raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz,.

Maya glyphic texts from the Classic period (250–900 CE)
typically chronicle the exploits of historical or divine characters;
everyday or functional records are rare.
Here, the authors offer a reconstruction and transcription of a ‘microtext’
painted on an interior wall of Structure 10K-2 at the site of Xultun, Guatemala.
The text records a unique astronomical formula that concludes with a name,
attributing the work to an individual named Sak Tahn Waax …

The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
The identification and work of an eighth-century Maya mathematician

I made a little very specific program that you probably only need if you are me.
I keep getting sidetracked during work. With nobody to judge me and nothing to interrupt my tangents I do a lot of interesting things throughout the day but none of them are the work I am supposed to do.
This little message will pop up at regular time intervals and ask me if I'm doing work right now. I have to answer honestly. The time interval is shortened/lengthened based on my answer.

NFL Supplemental Draft: How Does It Work? What To Know As Brendan Sorsby Enters https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-supplemental-draft-how-does-work-what-know-brendan-sorsby-enters

CNN: DACA Recipients Are Losing Protections and Work Permits as Renewal Delays Surge – ITEP
https://itep.org/cnn-daca-recipients-are-losing-protections-and-work-permits-as-renewal-delays-surge/

Several journalists on Substack say they feel safer working for themselves rather than for legacy outlets, but some say earning a living wage can be difficult (Mallary Tenore Tarpley/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/can-independent-…

What journalists gain — and lose — when they go independent - Poynter
The creator economy is opening new doors for journalists. But can independence replace everything a newsroom provides?

Senators Work to Ban Gambling Ads Targeting Minors (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/senators-work-to-ban-gambling-ads-targeting-minors-9cf39d00
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p63#a260518p63

NFL Supplemental Draft: How Does It Work? What To Know As Brendan Sorsby Enters https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-supplemental-draft-how-does-work-what-know-brendan-sorsby-enters

The Conditional Button
The mid-block crosswalk at a flashing-yellow pedestrian signal does work. A pedestrian presses the button, the overhead lights flash yellow, drivers slow or stop, and the pedestrian crosses. The system responds visibly, with no covert work happening underneath. The button does what it claims. But the same system also fails, often, in ways that have nothing to do with the button itself and everything to do with what is wired several layers behind…

The Conditional Button | David Boles, Blogs
The mid-block crosswalk at a flashing-yellow pedestrian signal does work. A pedestrian presses the button, the overhead lights flash yellow, drivers slow or stop, and the pedestrian crosses. The sy…

"The reasoning it shows along the way looks like the work of a senior researcher rather than the output of an automated scanner."
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what the work around them needs to look like before any of it can scale.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Men at Work:
🎵 Down Under
#MenatWork
https://djkarpiok.bandcamp.com/track/men-at-work-down-under-ext-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZZq9396zv8pcn5GYVhxUi

Again, this is focused on community organizations that work directly with emergency management (police, fire, etc). But the ideas still work well (if not the execution) for all sorts of other types of orgs:
https://cdn.kingcounty.gov/-/media/king-county/depts/dph/documents/safety-injury-prevention/emergency-preparedness/cre/cbo-tabletop-exercise-guide.pdf?rev=e9695770e3e2444ab635e2af14254dfc&hash=55894CC9A38E70249D494DF367FD6310

Alistair Davidson @… on 'How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight': 'Build a web application that works on a playstation portable on a 3G connection - if you do, it will work for all your users, and it will still work 30 years from now'

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...

Wenn Merz davon schwadroniert, daß wir mit 4-Tage-Woche und Work-Life Balance unseren Wohlstand nicht erhalten können: stimmt. Sie erhöhen ihn.
Eine 4-Tage-Woche ist Wohlstand – den sich auch aufgrund der aktuellen Regierungspolitik nur wenige Wohlhabende leisten können. Work-Life Balance ist nur ein anderer Begriff dafür, Zeit zu haben, den Wohlstand auch genießen zu können.
Alles andere ist ein abschätziges: die arbeitende Klasse muß von früh bis spät schuften, damit sie meinen…

XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/colle…

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it. | TechCrunch
If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.

Iraq Embarks on Preservation Work for the Ziggurat of Ur Using Bricks of Identical Material to 5,000-yo Original https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/iraq-embarks-on-preservation-work-for-the-ziggurat-of-ur…

Iraq Embarks on Preservation Work for the Ziggurat of Ur Using Bricks of Identical Material to 5,000-yo Original
The Iraqi government has budgeted around $382,000 for new conservation work to protect the exposed upper sections of the original ziggurat. 

This does put me in mind of the time that #JuliaChild (she of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” fame) was publicly outed as an agent of #DeltaGreen (qv,

The French Chef and Lovecraft: Or How I Discovered a Historical Writer had Used the Cthulhu Mythos in her Book.
I have a forty-five minute drive each way from my home to work, and my car radio doesn’t work. Fortunately the CD player does, so I often raid the Estacada Public Library for books on CD to listen …

Truly inspired design work from Apple here /s

"Information Austerity Threatens the Future of Library Work. Let’s Teach Future Librarians to Fight Back." @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2026/information-austerity-and-lis-education

New AI questions in the Great Places to Work survey this year:
I am excited about what artificial intelligence can bring to my work.
I trust my company to use artificial intelligence in a way that treats all groups of people fairly and ethically.
My company encourages me to use artificial intelligence to do my work.
My manager helps our team find smart ways to use artificial intelligence.
My company provides artificial intelligence tools that help me do my job b…

When you block everyone who has posted enthusiastically about Eurovision, the #eurovision tag becomes a steam of decent people who oppose genocide.
My work here is done.

'Little shocked': Steelers react to Rodgers' retur... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48808409/aaron-rodgers-quickly-gets-back-work-steelers-otas

"Come to work on time, know your lines and don't bump into the other actors."
—Spencer Tracy
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Have other work so don't feel like building this, but:
I wanted to make an AI-generated prose detector that for a small sum will assess whether a piece of prose was written by AI. It will simply ignore the text return a random number between 91% and 98%. Think about it…

That’ll work fine.

For my work machine at home I have been dual monitor for over a year. This year work upgraded us to dual monitors. It makes my work easier. Rather than tabbing between apps I organize them across monitors to make my work easier.
https://flip.it/ck9y2e

Do you work at the LMU campus in Martinsried? I'll be there tomorrow to give a talk!
Open Science and Research Software Engineering – Building Blocks for Quality Research
13:00 @ Biozentrum
#OpenScience #RSEng

Open Science and Research Software Engineering – Building Blocks for Quality Research
Vortrag im Rahmen des PlantMicrobe-Seminars von Heidi Seibold

Just 10 months ago, NASA asked three companies if they could do something nobody had done before.
Could they build and launch a satellite to save a $500 million astronomy mission at risk of crashing back to Earth?
What’s more, could they do it in less than a year on a tight budget?
Katalyst Space Technologies, a startup founded in 2020, presented the most compelling solution.
“They came back with a response that was technically and programmatically plausible,
an…

A bold satellite rescue mission came together in record time, but will it work?
I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."

In the midst of work chaos, I decided to watch KAOS
I've now only watched one episode but I'm already mad that there's only one season.
Goldblum hamming as Zeus is alone worth the price of admission, and *what* a cast.

It’s difficult to be excited about any of the big updates to WebKit/Safari when Apple continues to shun any reasonable PWA-related work, even for basic functionality like share_target, and muzzles their developers from even discussing it. And the only reason I care is because users have zero choice but to use that engine on iOS devices.

I feel like more work could be put in to what shows on the mastodon road map. lol. now that 4.6 is out there are only 2 items on it.
https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap

Public Roadmap
Learn what we are working on in Mastodon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcfadden/116590848112694824
I’ll throw a “strong agree” behind this one. Give us:
⁃ scholars
⁃ writers, musicians, artists
⁃ scientists
⁃ people whose own thoughts, creativity, and hard work have made something that makes the world better (and no, this does not include CEOs)

>At work.
>unload trailer.
>go a bit too fast for the depot workers so accidentallly lock myself into trailer (cus carts were blocking it).
>depot workers finally catch up and I can exit trailer.
>Me: "Most normal people come out of the closet but apparently I come out of the trailer"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Blondshell:
🎵 Heart Has to Work So Hard
#Blondshell
https://blondshell.bandcamp.com/track/heart-has-to-work-so-hard
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wwOje67xW4mPCf8JvmWYK

Good morning from my way to the train.
It's a bit a tough week:
Monday: office evening IT event
Wednesday: office half day workshop work evening event
Thursday: office full day workshop evening IT event.

from my link log —
Byrne's Euclid.
https://www.c82.net/euclid/
saved 2020-04-27 https://dotat.at/:/YEFV2.html

Byrne's Euclid
A reproduction of Oliver Byrne's celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux

This weekend has been mostly crap. Lots of pain, spent too much time horizontal. Burned my hand. Partner had a really rough day yesterday. I did manage to bake a bunch, and minus the burn everything turned out well. Cleared a few things out of the basement. Napped too much due to pain though, did not get enough work done. Oh well.

Playing around with an idea.
Structured alt:
https://cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/NPdrONq/
Source:
https://codepen.io/aardrian/pen/NPdrO…

@… @… thanks for all the work you've put into Tangerine! I was surely hoping for an update, but it's more than understandable that your hesitant to do it at this point. As others said before me: do what makes you happy and - aga…

I thought I've read that #hashtags can't be found via "follow hashtag" of posts that did not have the hashtag in its initial version. Therefore, editing a post for adding hashtags doesn't work.
This does seem to confirm: https://

blah blah blah knicks blah blah trump blah blah "we should all not go to work and fucking take this country back"
(okay, now you've got my attention.)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3molwhnfl6c25

The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)
“How do you feel about Trump?” KNICKS FAN: “I f*cking hate him… This shit right here? The revolution starts in NYC. Brunson is the Messiah— if we bring this energy to the pedophiles that run 🌎, we can do anything.” @nyknicks @NY_KnicksPR really going to the White House?😬

I've had this Guardian Angel Devices "Elite Series" LED safety strobe on my SAR pack for a year or so now. It's USB charged, has a fixed internal lithium ion battery, and is available in a range of configurations.
It's come in handy a lot on urban missions where we're searching along road sides... Hi vis gear doesn't work well when you have a backpack over it blocking the view of all the reflective stripes.
The thing is supposed to be waterproof but …

I'm technically not a manager but I'm juggling enough things at work right now that I've just set up the second calendar, one of my favourite ways to give the impression of having ducks in a row https://lornajane.net/posts/2023/managers-secret-second-calendar
(One of the ducks is a chicken, and the row was inspired by a fractal, but I'm getting there)

Suppose a government created a new fiat currency paid only as a universal #BasicIncome to all residents, and levied highly progressive taxes on property which must be paid in this new currency.
Would this work to redistribute wealth, or would it merely drive up rents?

Just got confirmation that I will be documenting and helping with some maintenance works at Breslauer Hütte, before the main season starts. This hut, built in 1882, is one of the oldest high-alpine mountain huts in the eastern Alps, and located just below Wildspitze (3768m), Tyrol's highest mountain.
The hut belongs to the Breslau section of the Alpenverein (now based in Stuttgart) and it's their upcoming 150th anniversary next year. Aside from the repair work, for me it's a long await…

Are you making slides with Quarto or R Markdown and need a timer e.g. for breaks or group work? There is the {countdown} package for you: #rstats

Is there any good explanation why the automatic alt text generator doesn’t work anymore (language DE)?
@… #icecubesapp

I forget Facebook and Instagram exist as I don’t use those platforms. Would rather not work with Meta if I can help it.

Not EVERY work of culture (books, arts, music, theater, film) has to be remade to represent EVERY marginalized community.
It seems to me 't'would be much better to more heavily promote new works by marginalized creatives and / or covering marginalized communities as subject matter.
For example, I'm seeing a lot more new LBGTQ and BIPOC science fiction and fantasy than I used to. Some, awful, but a lot of it excellent.

Ordinarily my #actuallyautistic coping strategies work well. I have a life which avoids crowds, perfume, loud noises, most street food, and many other stimuli which could incapacitate me. This week, however, the next door folk are having insulating cladding installed. There are extremely loud drilling sounds and vibrations that I cannot escape from 08:00 onwards, even today, a Saturday. I am…

ADAC (German automobile association) tested the vehicle-to-load function on nine EVs — a mostly easy way to power devices directly from your car. Works well, safety features work as they should, but with additional 500 W of standby power not for daily use (and power level not enough for a house)
https://www.…

E-Auto als Powerbank im ADAC Test: Genial oder teure Falle?
Vehicle-to-Load: Das Elektroauto als Powerstation für Outdoor- und Campingaktivitäten. Kann mich da ein Schlag treffen?

Huh, there's a deleted article claiming that Amazon has been firing people with AI:
https://web.archive.org/web/20251201000000*/https://www.yeetmagazine.com/at-amazon-employees-are-now-fired-by-artificial-intelligence-the-future-of-work-or-just-cold-tech/

Convey, which is building AI "teammates" to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/convey-raises-38-million-a16z-to-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Godfathers:
🎵 Birth, School, Work, Death
#TheGodfathers
https://thegodfathers.bandcamp.com/track/birth-school-work-death
https://open.spotify.com/track/7lWvECULXPh7RoAT1fmgo3

I figured out how to thwart the robot uprising - run Arch Linux 🙂
Today:
Me: Claude, can you fix this problem with my Debian system?
Claude: Sure. Done
Me: Claude, can you fix this problem with my Arch system?
Claude: Sure. [Fails]
Me: That didn't work
Claude: Oops, I found the problem [Fails]
Me: That didn't work
Claude: Oops, I found the problem [Fails]
Me: That didn't work
Claude: Oops, I found the problem [Fails]

Dak Prescott 'comfortable' with offseason work he's had with George Pickens https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7286850/2026/05/18/cowboys-dak-prescott-george-pickens/

Epic says Unreal Engine 6, planned for early access in late 2027, will unify UE5 and Unreal Editor for Fortnite, add integrations with Claude and Gemini, more (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle)
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news…

Epic reveals Unreal Engine 6 is integrating AI models so developers can ‘reduce tedious work’
Epic claims UE6 is "going to change a lot about how games are made"

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@scrappy_capy_distro/116595476430224824
Oh hey! I've been part of a writing group and this recent edition has our work in it. I'm pretty happy with it, and everyone else's work is great. Really excited to be in this.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

New York magazine is reviewing the past work of contract writer Ross Barkan after his story on Ben Shapiro appeared to copy a WaPo piece published days earlier (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/17/nx-s1-5824503/new-york-magazine-review-ross-barka…

New Plan Scales Back C.D.C.'s Work on Diseases Abroad (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/health/pepfar-cdc-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p120#a260617p120

From the Museums Association on Bluesky:
Read the 2026 Empowering Collections report now 📥
Back in 2019 we published Empowering Collections, a report which made recommendations calling for museums, funders and policy-makers to work together to ensure that museum collections are empowering, relevant and dynamic.

Empowering Collections 2026 - Museums Association
Read the updated report, the follow-up to our initial research in 2019

I can't get over how bad the docker ecosystem is.
"we provide a docker image, just use that!"
*install container image & run it - it doesn't work*
"oops, we didn't test it"

Workers Spend As Much Time 'Botsitting' AI As Producing Useful Work, Survey Finds - Slashdot
https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/06/15/0117225/workers-spend-as-much-time-botsitting-ai-as-producing-useful-work-survey-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
—Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Bunkerhill Health, which uses AI agents for hospital tasks like managing wait times, raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla, bringing its total funding to $55M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/16/bunkerhill-health-raises-…

Bunkerhill Health raises $55 million to put AI agents to work inside hospitals
Backed by Sequoia's Alfred Lin and Khosla Ventures, this startup is betting that healthcare's real AI opportunity isn't diagnosis—it's process.

On Bluesky last night
Catherine Rampell noted that in documents Trump released
there were confirmations of Russia’s work on Trump’s behalf in 2020
and that China “did not intend to “try to affect the election.”
https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/…

Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social)
one of the supposedly damning docs the White House released tonight says Russia tried to undermine BIDEN. Also says China "prefers that President Trump be defeated" but actually "Beijing did not intend to try to affect the election" (!)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kraftwerk:
🎵 The Model
#Kraftwerk
https://vertigini.bandcamp.com/track/kraftwerk-the-model-vertigini-re-work
https://open.spotify.com/track/1FL9DHDSED6lxNMDJUJQvB

The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…

New York Magazine reviewing work of writer facing plagiarism allegations (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/17/nx-s1-5824503/new-york-magazine-review-ross-barkan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p61#a260517p61

It's that time of year when @… Executive Board, Officers, Committees and Journal Editors submit their reports ahead of the AGM at #DH2026. Reading the reports is a reminder of the constant, invisible work that so many good people to do support Digital Humanities interna…

The wildfire sparked on Santa Rosa Island on Friday grew to more than 10,000 acres over the weekend,
destroying two historic structures and encroaching on sensitive habitat for endangered plant species
— including the rare Santa Rosa torrey pine tree, which is found only on the island and in two California preserves.
Problems such as wildfire run the risk of the trees disappearing from the island entirely.
Five other rare plant species, found only on the island and no…

Trump jokes he'll blame Vance if Iran deal doesn't work out (Julia Manchester/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5928503-trump-vance-iran-deal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260617/p79#a260617p79

A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trainer" for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the "new waiting tables" for entertainment workers (Ruth Fowler/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-ev…

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.

Cursor releases Composer 2.5, saying it's better at sustained work on long-running tasks and follows complex instructions more reliably; it's built on Kimi K2.5 (Cursor)
https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-5

Introducing Composer 2.5 · Cursor
A substantial improvement in intelligence and behavior over Composer 2, particularly on long-horizon agentic tasks.

Mullin threatens states that refuse Trump's election demands
Mullin also repeated his threat of withholding Federal Emergency Management Agency grant funding to states that don’t work to “secure” elections.
“If they’re not willing to do it, it should raise serious questions.
It’s not that hard. This isn’t a partisan issue,”
the homeland security secretary said.
This also comes after the Trump justice department sent letters to election officials in every sta…

DHS chief threatens states that refuse Trump’s election demands after president’s widely condemned speech – live
Markwayne Mullin follows up on president’s unproven claims as Democrats accuse Trump of ‘working to rig the midterms’ in advance

On the LIRR Picket Line (Hamilton Nolan/How Things Work)
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/on-the-lirr-picket-line
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p72#a260518p72

Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy specialized AI agents that work alongside humans, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/05/18/agentic-a…

Exclusive: Agentic AI startup Dust raises $40M
The round includes strategic investment from Datadog and Snowflake.

Sports Illustrated deleted the profile and articles of writer Parker Loverich, after Sportico editor Dan Bernstein accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sp…

Sports Illustrated Deletes Entire Author After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
Sports Illustrated deleted an author, and his entire archive of published work, after allegations of AI plagiarism.

When asked by Doocy, Trump answers with candor, admitting that the MOU with Iran is nothing,
that he doesn't want to put his signature on it,
and that all of this is a trumped up attempt to move on from war with Iran . . .
for which he will throw someone else, Vance, under the bus.
(JD, he's not kidding.
Ask Mike Pence.)

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
DOOCY: Why not stick around for the signing ceremony of this Iran peace deal? TRUMP: I might. But this is a memorandum of understanding. It might not be the kind of document I should be signing. If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming JD.

Sources: Apple has sent personal legal warnings to ~40 former employees who now work at OpenAI, asking them to preserve documents and meet with its lawyers (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9-426b-ba47-f1811f859166

The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…

The Trump administration has said it will drastically shorten visas for foreign journalists in the US
to 240 days -- down from five years,
and cut those for Chinese journalists to only 90 days.
The rule announced by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
will do away with the “duration of status” system,
which allows foreign journalists to stay and work in the United States as long as they meet eligibility requirements.
In addition to journalists,

Trump administration drastically cuts length of foreign journalist visas
Visas will be shortened to 240 days, down from five years, and Chinese journalists will be limited to 90 days

The UK CMA orders Google to provide greater transparency on how its search rankings work and to let users transfer their search data to authorized third parties (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-regulator-sets-out…

Intel stock jumps around 9% in premarket trading, after Trump said "Apple has agreed to work with Intel to design and build its Chips in America" (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/trump-intel-apple-chip-design-deal.html

Intel rises 9% after Trump says company will partner with Apple on U.S. chip design
The boost continues Intel's recent rally as the chipmaker bounces back from years of headwinds.

Andera, which uses AI to automate corporate audit and compliance testing, raised a $37M Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/06/17/andera-37m-ai-audit-lightspeed

Exclusive: Andera raises $37M to automate audit work
Audit remains a costly, manual back-office function.

A look at a new class of jobs created by AI companies, including AI storytellers or "evangelists", forward deployed engineers, AI chiefs, and AI gig workers (Brent D. Griffiths/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-ai-jobs-2026-5

Say hello to the new class of AI jobs
AI-related jobs span the org chart from gig work to AI accelerators to the C-suite.

Sources: Dave Brown, former SVP of AWS Compute, AI, and Platform, will join Meta in the coming weeks, where he will work on the company's data center build-out (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…

Seattle-based Gradial, which makes AI agents that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $65M Series C led by Insight Partners at a $675M valuation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/gradial-ai-agents-marketing

Exclusive: Gradial raises $65M for agentic marketing
The startup seeks to automate operational work so marketers can focus on creativity.

A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trainer" for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the "new waiting tables" for entertainment workers (Ruth Fowler/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-ev…

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.

Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 (AI Security Institute)
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/how-far-behind-the-fronti…

How Far Behind the Frontier are Leading Open Weight Models on Cyber? | AISI Work
We evaluated the cyber capabilities of leading open and closed weight AI models, and found that recent open models GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro perform similarly to frontier closed models released 4 to 7 months before them – a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months we measured through most of 2025.

Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-j…

Star Google AI Researcher Shazeer Joins OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told some staff Wednesday. Shazeer, who left Google in 2021 to cofound a chatbot startup, Character.AI, rejoined Google’s AI team DeepMind in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion ...

Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, two days before it is set to lay off 10% of its workforce (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/technology/meta-reassigns-7000-employees-…

Meta Reassigns 7,000 Employees to Focus on A.I.
The company announced the changes two days before it plans to lay off 10 percent of its work force, or about 8,000 employees.

InstaLILY, which develops AI agents to automate sales, operations, and service workflows, raised a $60M Series B led by Energize Capital (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/14/instalily-dev…

InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M - SiliconANGLE
InstaLILY, a developer of AI teammates that can automate complex, business-specific work, raises $60M - SiliconANGLE

XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/colle…

Cloudflare tests Mythos against 50 repositories, highlights its ability to chain bugs into a single exploit, and details a vulnerability discovery harness (Grant Bourzikas/Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-frontier-models/

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what the work around them needs to look like before any of it can scale.

Mistral, which once aimed for top open models, now leans on being an alternative to Chinese and US labs, says it's on track for $80M in monthly revenue by Dec. (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

How France’s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American
Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didn’t work out. But it turns out lots of folks don’t care if the AI is bleeding edge – as long as it wasn’t made in America or China.

A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM
Microsoft’s new entry-level 13-inch Surface Laptop pairs last year’s  great hardware with a higher price and just 8GB of RAM. Thanks, RAMageddon.

Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/apptio-co-fo

Apptio co-founders reunite to launch enterprise AI startup Thira with $21M in funding led by Madrona
Apptio co-founders Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer launched Thira, a Bellevue-based enterprise AI startup, with $21 million in seed funding led by Madrona. Thira is building AI agents to autonomously handle IT support tickets and other back-office work at large companies.