Indigenous Australians were the world's first astronomers. But their knowledge is now at risk
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-indigenous-australians-world-astronomers-knowledge.html
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Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflows by turning their operational data into a living knowledge base, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/two-
Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/indigenous-knowledge-confirms-what-scientists-observe-large-birds-are-disappearing…
Please watch their charming video! Watch, and look at the faces: kids of many races and many genders, all different levels of knowledge, every one of them showing this deep-seated sense of agency and ownership about science and about their own learning: “I belong here. This is for me.” It’s everything the fascists fear.
Full disclosure: my kid is one of the kids in the program (but not in the video, sorry!). I can thus vouch for this fundraiser with extra confidence.
https://vimeo.com/1152657185
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Sources: Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-creates-strike-t…
Sources: Google is in talks with Marvell Technology to develop a memory processing unit that works alongside TPUs, and a new TPU for running AI models (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-talks-marvell-build-new…
Sources: OpenAI has 200 people working on AI devices, including a smart speaker priced between $200 and $300, possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-openai-team-developing-ai-devices
Source: Fal, a GenAI model hosting service, is in talks to raise $300M to $350M at an $8B valuation; annualized revenue has hit $400M, up from $200M in October (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/video-hosti…