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Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a $15M Series A led by Benchmark (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/popular-ope…

Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users | TechCrunch
Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

Replies to comments on my "#LLMs are eroding my career" post
https://human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev/replies-to-comments-on-my-llms-are-erodi…

Back when I was diagnosed with #diabetes, I've found two apps to help me. Both were proprietary.
The first one came from the glucometer's manufacturer, and it featured the ability to copy its readings over Bluetooth. It also had a pretty useful bolus calculator. However, it was also annoying in a number of ways: it required an account with all the implied data sharing, was premiumware (though using their glucometer implied a free "pro" version), was quite childish in design, didn't respect disabled animations or dark theme.
The second one was an independent Polish app to compute carbs from meals. It wasn't perfect, but it had a rich database of products and quite a few convenient features (like copying meals or calculating carbs based on recipes). Unfortunately, the authors went full way into AI hype, and while I didn't use any of the "AI" features (they were premiumware anyway), the app itself was becoming increasingly crappy.
Eventually, this motivated me to look for a new app. I've settled for #Diaguard. It's just got the basics: meal composition and computing carbs, plus letting me log blood sugar and insulin doses manually. It used to have a bolus calculator before I used it, but it was removed over legal concerns. Still, it's open source, it's nice, it's got no crap and it respects the dark theme. And honestly, given that I've already reached the point of overriding bolus calculator, I've figured out it's enough for me.
In fact, it's so "enough" that I'm not even using it regularly. I mean, if my blood sugar is predictable and my meals are predictable, there's no reason to waste time logging them. The app is there to assist me when I need it, not force me to use it.
I still keep the two other apps installed. The first one in case I had doubts over insulin doses and wanted to use the bolus calculator. The second one over my database of meals; though I had already exported it, so I just need to figure out if the export is complete enough.
#Android

Sure my servants like to use my bed, but they're warm so I allow it.

Jets QB Cade Klubnik forged by 'adversity' of senior season: 'In my mind, I'm a winner' https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-qb-cade-klubnik-forged-by-adversity-of-senior-season-in-my-mind-i-m-a-winner

Someone else wrote a positive review of #uruky privacy search engine!
https://blog.sulimans.space/my-review-of-uruky/

Yikes, today's Metacurity email will surely get clipped by Gmail because it's so packed with cyber and infosec-related AI news you need to know, including
--AI watch: AI companies are building digital workers and attackers may benefit too,
--Interpol fraud crackdown nets 5,800 arrests and $293m,
--Fake Brazilian police station discovered in African scam operation,
--Mystery zero-day broker tied to convicted fraudsters,
--AssuranceAmerica breach exposes 6.…

AI watch: AI companies are building digital workers, and attackers may benefit too
Interpol fraud crackdown nets 5,800 arrests and $293m, Fake Brazilian police station discovered in African scam operation, Mystery zero-day broker tied to convicted fraudsters, AssuranceAmerica breach exposes 6.9m driver’s license numbers, much more

Munich-based QuantumDiamonds, which uses quantum sensors to detect chip defects, raised €91M, including €76M under the European Chips Act (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/quantumdiamonds-91m-eu-chips-act-inspection

MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for $100M in stock; DFlow had raised $7.5M across two rounds (Jack Kubinec/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/05/moonpay-acquires-solana-100m-all-stock/
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MoonPay acquires Solana trading infrastructure platform in $100M all-stock deal
The deal represents MoonPay’s sixth acquisition in the past 18 months

Reserv, which provides software and AI-powered claims processing tech for property and casualty insurers, raised a $125M Series C led by KKR (FinTech Global)
https://fintech.global/2026/05/04/reserv-raises-125m-series-c-led-by-kkr/

Reserv raises $125m Series C led by KKR
Reserv, an AI-native third-party administrator (TPA) and claims technology provider for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector, has closed a $125m Series C funding round. The round was led by KKR, with participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures and Flourish Ventures, alongside select strategic partners and clients. The round will support Reserv’s ambition […]