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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-12 22:01:23

Bakkt agrees to acquire Distributed Technologies Research, the stablecoin infrastructure company founded by Bakkt CEO Akshay Naheta; BKKT closes up 18.69% (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
theblock.co/post/385191/bakkt-

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-11 03:10:56

A look at Aaru, a startup founded by teens that uses AI agents to simulate human responses for product development, polling, and more, recently valued at $1B (Suzanne Vranica/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/business/ai-startup-aa

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-09 16:40:38

Holywater, the Ukrainian-founded company behind microdrama platform My Drama, acquires AI-assisted VFX company Jeynix and rebrands as Holywater Tech (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
hollywoodreporter.com/business

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-11 05:50:57

Docs: London-based AI chip startup Olix, founded by James Dacombe, CEO of brain monitoring startup CoMind, raised $220M led by Hummingbird at a $1B valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-09 17:20:37

Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by MrBeast and last valued at $5.2B, acquires Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app (Valida Pau/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/mr

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-12 17:41:19

Swarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023 (Colin Demarest/Axios)
axios.com/2026/03/11/swarm-aer

@tarah@infosec.exchange
2026-03-08 10:44:21

RE: recurse.social/@lindsey/116189
It’s the same thing many techbros were saying out loud when they founded gig economy companies to do their laundry, cook their food, handle their errands, and clean their homes: “now that I have $app, I…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-10 19:50:52

Analysis: Trump's World Liberty Financial used 5B of its WLFI tokens to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded; WLFI falls to an all-time low (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
coindesk.com/markets/202…

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-04-08 13:44:05

Israel does not have the right to exist, just as apartheid South Africa didn't.
Founded on genocide and exclusion, which it continues at ever escalating intensity.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-11 06:01:47

Indian AI lab Lossfunk's prompting method lets LLMs generate Tulu language text without prior training; the method may expand to other low-resource languages (The Economic Times)
economi…

The Wildflower Hotline is back,
starting March 6!
New reports are released every Friday, March through May.
 
Call 818 768-1802 ext 7 to hear weekly recorded wild flower reports, narrated by Tom Henschel.
The acclaimed Theodore Payne Foundation Wild Flower Hotline, founded in 1983, offers free weekly online and recorded updates
— on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California

@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social
2026-02-24 18:40:03

Your reminder that all people deserve the dignity to eat, survive, and thrive. Support the World Central Kitchen. wck.org/

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-09 17:20:43

Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by MrBeast and last valued at $5.2B, acquires Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app (Valida Pau/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/mr

@scott@carfree.city
2026-04-01 21:08:09

To counter an alarming increase in collectivism, I've founded a new group called Individualists United. By working together, we can defend our right to pursue our interests separately ✊

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-05 16:25:56

Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction (Todd Spangler/Variety)
variety.com/2026/film/news/net

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-04-01 22:52:59

2018 - 2026
Founded in 1918, Cusack’s Furniture is one of the longest-running continuous businesses in the Canberra region and has remained family-owned throughout its history. Closing end of October 2026.
#Canberra #History

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-10 14:40:51

Entire, founded by ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, raised a $60M seed at a $300M valuation to build open-source developer tools to better manage AI-written code (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/form

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-03 11:21:32

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Neville Marriner & Academy of St Martin in the Fields:
🎵 3 Preludes Founded on Welsh Hymn Tunes: No. 2, Rhosymedre (Orch. Foster)
open.spotify.com/track/2efUB4L

Thousands of companies are jockeying for billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts
to build a shield designed to intercept and destroy missiles launched against the United States.
⚠️But amid the intense competition, a handful of firms have an important inside connection.
At least four of the companies awarded contracts so far are owned by
⚡️Cerberus Capital Management,
a private equity firm founded by billionaire Steve

@mpsgoettingen@academiccloud.social
2026-02-26 08:02:32

The newly founded German Society for Planetary Research (#DGP) will be holding its 1st Annual Meeting, the #DGP2026, from March 16th, 2026 to March 18th, 2026 in Berlin. Registration is still open until March 1st, 2026. More infos here:

Header of DGP-Website
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-03-30 16:41:14

“ Mind the Gap: AI Adoption in Europe and the U.S”
#ai #adoption

AI adoption in the workplace
@vrandecic@mas.to
2026-03-16 10:50:29

Livraria Bertrand in Lisbon, founded in 1732, is certified by Guinness to be the oldest, continually running book store in the world.
A quick search reveals: Osiander, founded 1596 in Tübingen. Korn und Berg 1531 in Nürnberg. Beck'sche in Vienna 1724 (but closed since 2018?), Höllrigl 1598 in Salzburg, Orell Füssli 1519 in Zürich, Cambridge University Press (and store?) 1534.
Now some of these started as print shops, but often also sold books. Anyone know a text discussing Gu…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-10 00:26:43

Sources: SpaceX lost just under $5B last year while generating more than $18.5B in revenue; the loss figure includes xAI (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/sp

@curiouscat@fosstodon.org
2026-02-02 16:02:04

I donated to Develop Africa to support students in Sierra Leone.
developafrica.org/about-develo
"we provide education, child sponsorship, leadership development, workforce empowerment, and more to poverty-stricken African communities. We aid in br…

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2026-02-20 13:27:56

The Fulu Foundation, a group founded by repair advocate and YouTuber Louis Rossmann, which pays out bounties to people who can remove user-hostile features on connected devices, is now offering a potential payout of $10,000 to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require Ring devices to send data to Amazon.

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2026-02-27 15:36:37

Citizen Historians fighting the regime's revisionist history efforts
#resist

@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2026-03-20 20:50:27

With a name like that, do we trust them or *not* trust them?
1984.hosting/

@Nathan@social.lostinok.com
2026-01-29 03:19:13

Even as an Okie who feels the urge to defend local acts, this is not a great one for the resume.
Kennedy Center’s new programming head resigns days after hire was announced washingtonpost.com/entertainme

Text Shot: Couch founded CBC Creative, a Dallas-based branding agency. He also worked as a manager for various touring acts, including the R&B group Color Me Badd, according to the news release.
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl
2026-01-27 08:26:01

Michigan klaagt de olie- en gasindustrie aan voor het overtreden van mededingsregels met een 'seemingly bottomless alphabet soup of organizations that Defendants have founded, joined, and/or actively participated in to advance their anticompetitive scheme".
Doel concurrentie van hernieuwbare energie voorkomen
#klimaatzaak
cleantechnica.com/2026/01/25/u

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-04-03 08:38:11

'The voters sacked Debbonaire in favour of a more progressive Green MP. ...
Debbonaire became a “senior policy adviser” to FGS Global. This lobbying company... founded by its current chair, Roland Rudd (brother of former Tory minister Amber Rudd).
FGS Global say they are “helping our clients to deliver the right messages to the right people to influence policy in decisive moments”'
The Debbonaire deal: how corporate sinecures keep Labour wedded to the right | Morning S…

@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-03-18 22:42:03

Hey - whatdayaknow!? Peter Beck sells out entirely: rnz.co.nz/news/business/590037 If I was the kaumatua of Mahia Peninsula, I'd be telling RocketLab to hit the…

@edintone@mastodon.green
2026-02-22 07:56:11

Teacher Wins $1M Prize for Turning India’s Slums Into Hundreds of Open-Air Classrooms goodnewsnetwork.org/teacher-wi

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-04-06 11:40:35

A look at Amjambo Africa, an immigrant-founded publication in Maine that focuses on immigrant life and news from Africa with coverage in seven languages (Tandy Lau/Editor and Publisher)
editorandpublisher.com/stories

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-05 15:20:54

Cylake, co-founded by Palo Alto Networks' Nir Zuk to develop an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that doesn't rely on the public cloud, raised a $45M seed (Meir Orbach/CTech)
calcalistech.com/ctechnews/art

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2026-01-18 10:30:39

Ben Franklin founded the Quaker Oats company. The picture on the box is by Ole Ben himself showing what he wished he looked like. Plus Marketing thought that that look is anyway better for sales.
#OddBenFranklinFacts
#HashTagGames

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-03-13 16:01:51

"The center, founded in 1960, is responsible for many of the biggest scientific advances in understanding of weather and climate. Its research aircraft and sophisticated computer models of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are widely used in forecasting weather events and disasters."
Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle NCAR Research Lab - The New York Times
nytimes.com/2026/03/13/climate

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2026-03-13 16:57:47

Really nice piece by Simon Hughes explaining how the IPL auction was created not just to be attention-getting (they really could have chosen a better name; the Bristol comment is on-the-nose) but to overcome a key weakness in "salary cap" methods.
cricverse.substack.com/p/money

@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de
2026-01-18 11:37:59

Wenn man den Nordatlantikvertrag¹ (aka NATO) so liest, wird schnell klar, daß angefangen von Artikel 1 ganz vieles darin Trump nicht gefallen kann – und vor allem aber nicht nur die USA sich nie wirklich daran gehalten haben…
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@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-04-03 19:28:33

“The American-Israeli aggressors have attacked the Pasteur Institute of Iran – the oldest and most prestigious research and public health centre in Iran and the entire Middle East, founded in 1920 through an agreement between the Pasteur Institute of Paris and the Iranian government.”
How the US and Israel are waging war on Iran’s medicines, vaccines | US-Israel war on Iran News | Al Jazeera

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-05 16:30:44

Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction (Todd Spangler/Variety)
variety.com/2026/film/news/net

@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-01 17:00:29

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEarlyMusicShow
- Christ Church 500
Hannah French visits Christ Church College in Oxford, which was founded as Cardinal College by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525.
Relisten now 👇
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gs0m

@jake4480@c.im
2026-01-14 15:25:50

Multiple Ecco the Dolphin games in development, new website launched #EccoTheDolphin

@kingconsult@berlin.social
2026-03-09 15:14:34

🖋️ We have signed the #rebuild letter!
👉 #Fediverse & #Atmosphere: @… @… @… 👀 Who else?
Why we signed:
> … We call on #Europe's private and public institutions to immediately direct their resources to rebuilding European social platforms
#SocialMedia #DiDay #SciComm

@stf@chaos.social
2026-03-14 18:02:07

the mayor and two council members were today "volunteering" at the nijmegen #hackerspace, next week is municipal #elections. i founded that space, but within a year quit due to the vast incompatibility between #principles

Astrobites is partnering with @blackinastro.bsky.social this year for Black Space Week!
If you’d like to register to participate as a writer or interviewee you can fill out the Google Form below or in the QR code in the flyer!
The deadline is Friday March 6th.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-07 08:20:43

Israel-based Q-Factor, which is developing a quantum computer based on neutral atom technology, emerges from stealth with a $24M seed led by NFX and TPY Capital (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
calcalistech.com/ctechnews/art

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-06 20:35:55

Croatian-founded Daytona, which aims to build infrastructure for large-scale agent workloads, raised a $24M Series A led by FirstMark (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
tech.eu/2026/02/06/daytona-rai

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-21 00:36:10

Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/ap

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-30 12:31:04

Peter Chernin sells North Road to France's Mediawan; sources: the agreement, paid mostly in stock, values the independent film and TV studio at ~$900M (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/30/busines

@davej@dice.camp
2026-03-01 03:10:16

I love this: a brief peek at the story behind #Happys, #Canberra’s oldest #Chinese #restaurant, founded 1962:

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-30 15:20:57

Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor AI agents, raised a $65M seed led by Coatue and Lightspeed (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-26 13:50:45

Revel, founded by ex-SpaceX Starship software lead Scott Morton to replace legacy systems that test complex hardware like rockets, raised $150M led by Index (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/02/26/busines

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2026-01-30 12:28:00

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Lucille Teasdale-Corti (January 30, 1929 – August 1, 1996). She was a Canadian physician and pediatric surgeon, who worked in Uganda from 1961 until her death in 1996. She met her husband, Dr. Piero Corti, during her internship and together they founded a university hospital in the north of Uganda - St. Mary's. For 35 years they battled disease and war to bring medical aid to an impoverished nation. She contracted HIV while operating on patients in the mid-1980s and despite being given a short time to live, she continued to work for 11 more years, eventually dying of AIDS-related complications in 1996.
The attached article from 2011 is written from her daughters perspective. Dr. Dominique Corti has continued to build on her parents legacy and today St. Mary's is an important teaching hospital that has churned out a generation’s worth of homegrown Ugandan doctors and nurses.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
globalnews.ca/news/137248/teas

The message on Trump’s coin is clear.
And it’s chilling.
On Thursday, the Trump administration won approval for an unprecedented coin design from the Commission of Fine Arts,
the advisory panel founded in 1910 that evaluates the aesthetic merit of new federal architecture, landscaping and the design of our money, medals and other commemorative works

The design of the coin,
though not beautiful,
is perfectly clear in its message.
And the message is …

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-24 18:50:43

Mogul, founded by ex-SoundCloud execs to help artists track royalties, raised $5M and says it has helped track $1.5B in lost royalties since 2025 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/mogu

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-04 16:56:04

Sources: Arda, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew to automate manufacturing using AI, is raising $70M at a $700M valuation (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-former

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-27 21:30:58

Indiegraf acquires Hearken, which was founded in 2015 by Jennifer Brandel to help newsrooms build trust by involving the public in the reporting process (Indiegraf)
indiegraf.com/blog/hearken-joi

A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews
recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s
has been digitized and made available online for free listening.
The Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lomax in the 1980s,
has posted some 20,000 recordings.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-26 11:40:41

Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $335M from Sequoia, Radical, Lightspeed, and others at a $4B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/26/technol

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-04 21:02:54

Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
theinformation.com/briefings/e

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-18 14:36:00

RunSybil, whose AI agent runs continuous autonomous penetration testing on live apps to find and document vulnerabilities, raised $40M led by Khosla Ventures (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
fortune.com/2026/03/18/e…

The acclaimed Theodore Payne Foundation Wild Flower Hotline,
founded in 1983,
offers free weekly online and recorded updates
— posted each Friday from March through May
— on the best locations for viewing spring wildflowers in Southern and Central California.
New reports are released every Friday, March through May.
Call 818 768-1802 ext 7 to hear weekly recorded wild flower reports, narrated by Tom Henschel.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-24 00:30:52

Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/poli

@pre@boing.world
2026-01-21 23:49:06

Back to doing some improv, with a 8 week course on the mechanics and structure of story.
Seem to be a nice bunch. Everyone with the right energy and fearlessness. Nice diverse range of people.
Steve Roe leading the course. Him and his friend co-founded Hoopla 20 years ago and now its the biggest improv training school in the UK. Seems like a good teacher as you'd expect.
There will be a show on 19th of March. That'll be about the fifth one I've done. Its nice because you get to do some acting type stuff without having to learn any lines 😆
#improv #london #hooplaImpro

A London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia articles for governments and billionaires
Portland Communications helps rich clients
‘protect their reputation’
– with a shady, off-the-books editing service
The clients who benefitted from this “wikilaundering” are some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
The firm's founder,
Tim Allan, is now the director of communications for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
And it has been busted once already for th…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-18 11:35:41

A profile of women-focused conservative magazine Evie, founded in 2019 and named for a modern take on the Bible's original woman, with 192K Substack followers (Olivia Empson/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-01 15:05:44

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/phys…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-02 18:30:50

A profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has more than $6B in global contracts, had roughly $2B in revenue last year, and is valued at ~$31B (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/03/02/technol

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-01 23:40:40

Block is a poster child for the lack of operational discipline common among mid-tier public tech companies that lived on the largesse of cloud, mobile, and ZIRP (Om Malik/On my Om)
om.co/2026/02/28/block-tackle-

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-20 15:46:01

In a memo, Bari Weiss and Tom Cibrowski announce the closure of CBS News Radio on May 22 and attendant layoffs; CBS News Radio was founded in 1927 (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
deadline.com/2026/03/cbs-news-

In his top post at the Department of Homeland Security,
David Harvilicz sets policy on protecting the nation’s elections infrastructure,
including voting machines.
He’s also the co-founder of a company with James Penrose,
who helped hatch debunked conspiracy theories blaming hacked voting machines for Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election.
Penrose assisted in a push to seize voting machines to overturn Trump’s defeat.
On social media, Harv…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-20 12:45:44

Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build interactive AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/01/20/technol

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-20 19:55:43

A jury has found Edo, a TV ad measurement company, liable for breach of contract and says Edo must pay $18.3M in damages to rival iSpot; Edo plans to appeal (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
deadline.com/2026/01/edward-no

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-30 13:20:52

Checkbox, an AI startup that aims to automate legal intake, raised a $23M Series A led by Touring Capital; Checkbox has 100 clients, including SAP and PepsiCo (Anastasia Santoreneos/Forbes Australia)
forbes.com.au/news/innovation/

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-02-13 00:11:07

Scott Borchetta, who founded Big Machine Records and signed Taylor Swift in 2006, is leaving Hybe America, which bought Big Machine in 2021; Hybe retains assets (Jem Aswad/Variety)
variety.com/2026/music/news/sc

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-01-15 18:01:55

Symbolic.ai, founded by ex-eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes, partners with News Corp to offer AI tools to WSJ, Barron's, and others (Ben Sherry/Inc)
inc.com/ben-sherry/this-ai-sta

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-27 14:46:07

Sources: Aetherflux, founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to develop orbital data centers, aims to raise $250M to $300M in a Series B at a $2B valuation (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/articles/orbital-data-

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-24 13:15:45

MatX, an AI chip startup founded by two alumni of Google's chip business, raised $500M led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness to compete with Nvidia (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2026-02-17 13:30:38

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Loreena McKennitt, born OTD in 1957 in Morden Manitoba. In her small town she sang in a choir and studied classical piano and voice. In 1975, she moved to Winnipeg to study veterinary science, but before graduating, she discovered a passion for Celtic music and soon found herself performing in Winnipeg clubs. McKennitt pursued a decades-long quest of discovery into the music and nomadic history of the Celts. Relocating to Stratford, Ontario in 1981, she appeared as an actress, singer, and composer for the Stratford Festival. After learning to play the troubadour harp, in 1985 she embarked on a solo and self-managed music career. She founded her Quinlan Road label and financed her Irish-based debut recording, “Elemental,” by busking in Toronto. After some early success she negotiated a distribution deal with Warner Brothers and became more widely known.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianArtist
youtu.be/qxTpvA-pUG0

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-26 15:25:56

Rowspace, which builds AI tools for PE firms and hedge funds to organize unstructured data for decision-making, launches with $50M in seed and Series A funding (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
fortune.com/2026/02/25/rowspac

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-17 20:55:47

A look at the meteorologists leaving broadcast news to become independent streamers; 19 meteorologists have joined the Digital Weather Network, founded in 2022 (Elizabeth Hewitt/Columbia Journalism Review)
cjr.org/feature/meteorologists

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-25 15:46:14

Israel-based Gambit Security, which offers an AI-native cyber resilience platform that autonomously maps infrastructure, raised $61M across seed and Series A (Globes)
en.globes.co.il/en/article-isr

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-28 05:02:03

Sources: C3.ai is in talks to merge with Automation Anywhere, which would go public in the deal; C3.ai's market cap is now ~$1.7B, a tenth of its 2020 valuation (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/c3

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-03-16 19:20:37

Notus hires several Washington Post journalists, including columnist Dana Milbank and reporters Paul Kane and Jeff Stein, as well as Politico reporter Joe Gould (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-23 06:35:52

A look at Japan's Team Mirai, a party founded by software engineers that won 11 of 465 parliament seats by promising self-driving buses and high-tech jobs (New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/02/22/world/a

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-25 13:27:05

Sources: AI science startup Periodic Labs, founded by ex-OpenAI VP Liam Fedus and DeepMind's Ekin Cubuk, aims to raise hundreds of millions at a ~$7B valuation (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-22 16:50:46

Inferact, founded by the creators of vLLM to create a commercial AI product for cross-hardware efficiency, raised a $150M seed led by a16z at an $800M valuation (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-18 07:04:00

Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Hugo Barra, and others, launches in beta to let technical and non-technical users build agentic AI apps (David Singleton/flurries of latent creativity)
blog.singleton.io/posts/2026-0

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-21 12:21:05

Ukrainian-founded language learning marketplace Preply raised a $150M Series D led by WestCap at a $1.2B valuation; the startup has a 150-person office in Kyiv (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/lang

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-18 05:35:55

Sources: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by Google DeepMind's former principal scientist David Silver, is raising a $1B seed led by Sequoia at a $4B valuation (George Hammond/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/dffe72d0-4064-4

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-17 17:35:50

Mesh, founded by ex-SpaceX staff to mass produce optical transceivers that convert optical signals to electrical signals, raised a $50M Series A led by Thrive (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-23 06:51:02

Bengaluru-based digital payments startup Juspay raised $50M, in a mix of primary and secondary investments, from WestBridge Capital at a $1.2B valuation (The Economic Times)
economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-19 02:36:00

Sources: Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions for a VC fund; Patel raised a $50M SPV toward Fluidstack's $700M fundraising (The Information)
theinformation.com/briefings/d

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-15 18:35:58

Symbolic.ai, founded by ex-eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes, partners with News Corp to offer AI tools to WSJ, Barron's, and others (Ben Sherry/Inc)
inc.com/ben-sherry/this-ai-sta

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-18 19:31:06

Compute startup Andromeda raised new funding from Paradigm at a $1.5B valuation, bringing Paradigm's total to $60M; it passed a $100M revenue run rate in 2025 (Upstarts Media)
upstartsmedia.com/p/andromeda-

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-13 21:02:22

Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to raise $175M at a $1B valuation (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/ex

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-13 16:01:41

CrowdStrike acquires Israel-based browser security startup Seraphic, a source says for around $400M; Seraphic has raised around $37M in total (Meir Orbach/CTech)
calcalistech.com/ctechnews/art

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-13 17:51:20

Sources: Travis Kalanick prepares to launch a self-driving car company with backing from Uber and has been discussing acquiring Anthony Levandowski's Pronto.ai (Jessica E. Lessin/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/tr

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2026-03-18 13:22:41

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Maude Elizabeth Seymour Abbott (Mar 18, 1868 – Sept 2, 1940), a physician and researcher who contributed to the early study of congenital heart disease. She was born in St. Andrews East, Quebec, and was among the first women in Canada to earn a medical degree and one of the first women to receive a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University. After being denied admission to McGill’s medical faculty, she completed her medical education at Bishop’s University and went on to develop a career in pathology, medical curation, and clinical research. Abbott held curatorial and teaching roles at McGill, co-founded the International Association of Medical Museums, and published extensively. She established organizations supporting women in medicine, received an honorary medical degree from McGill and was posthumously recognized through several national and institutional honours.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/