Madrid-based Orbio, which uses AI agents to help businesses interview, onboard, and manage frontline workers, raised a $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/14/orbi…
from my link log —
Inko: Friendship ended with the garbage collector.
https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/friendship-ended-with-the-garbage-collector/
saved 2021-08-26
Costa Rica: Diputada del Frente Amplio anuncia rechazo al TLC con Israel: "¿Queremos fortalecer lazos con un Estado genocida?"
https://delfino.cr/2026/05/diputada-de
residence_hall: ANU Residence Hall network
A network of friendships among students living in a residence hall at Australian National University (date unknown). Edge direction indicates that resident i named resident j as a friend, and edge weight indicates the level of friendship: 5 (best friend), 4 (close friend), 3 (friend), 2, 1.
This network has 217 nodes and 2672 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
A look at neighborhood newsletters in NY and elsewhere, which tend to be solo operations with small-scale followings, but point to a desire for local media (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/your-friendly-neighbo…
OpenRouter debuts Fusion, a tool for prompting multiple AI models in parallel, claiming it can achieve "Fable-level intelligence at half the price" (Brian Thomas/OpenRouter Blog)
https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/fusion-beats-frontier/
Nikita Bier says X made a "tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals", or those who users follow back, to avoid replies becoming a "battleground" (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/x-ju