Tootfinder

I quibble a bit with the title, how can any knowledge be useless, but there's some lovely examples in this.
The usefulness of useless knowledge - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/47a9e8ac-e0c5-4578-98a2-0dd25cf21ad2 great piece by @…

K: Now streaming on Knowledge Documentaries

EMERGENCE: Women in the Storm
Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper explore the realities of climate change through the perspectives of women on the frontlines during recent disasters in BC and the Northwest Territories. As heat domes, megafires and atmospheric rivers reshape our world, how do we protect the things that are most vital?

New York-based Jedify, whose platform connects to enterprises' knowledge sources via APIs to build a "context graph" for AI agents, raised a $24M Series A (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/jedi

Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business | TechCrunch
The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@nathandyer/116553199114385177
And he was essentially murdered by MIT, the US government, and the copyright industry at age 26 for attempting to liberate academic knowledge.
Meanwhile, folks wholesale downloading the Internet…

I hope these Indigenous families find closure, and that all provinces in Canada start to undertake these investigations so that children and babies buried without the knowledge or consent of the parents can be properly located and identified.
#FirstNations #indigenous #everychildmatters
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/dark-side-of-quebecs-history-indigenous-families-exhuming-their-childrens-bodies-for-answers-closure/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Sydney-based AI data center operator IREN agrees to acquire Mirantis, which offers Kubernetes management and cloud infrastructure software, for $625M in stock (Shane Snider/Data Center Knowledge)
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/infras

IREN Buys Mirantis for $625M to Unlock AI Compute Utilization
The $625 million deal adds Kubernetes and enterprise ops to help turn deployed GPUs into usable, revenue-generating AI infrastructure.

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help boost weekly active users, now at 920M, short of the 1B goal the company targeted last year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-plans-launch-sora-vide…

OpenAI Plans to Launch Sora Video AI in ChatGPT in Strategy Shift
OpenAI plans to soon launch its Sora AI-generated video capabilities in ChatGPT, according to people with knowledge of the effort. The strategy shift could increase the chatbot’s usage as well as its costs. The move comes about five months after OpenAI released a Sora mobile app, which lets ...

Three senior executives who helped launch OpenAI's Stargate initiative are leaving, sources say to join the same new company (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-stargate-leaders-depart-…

OpenAI Stargate Leaders Depart in Latest Shakeup to Data Center Strategy
Three senior OpenAI executives who helped launch the company’s original Stargate data center initiative have left or are preparing to depart the ChatGPT maker in the coming days, according to several people with direct knowledge of the matter. Peter Hoeschele, an OpenAI executive who played a ...

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-t…

OpenAI in Talks to Lease 10 Gigawatt Ohio Data Center with Backing From Nvidia
OpenAI is in advanced negotiations to lease a proposed 10 gigawatt data center campus on federal land in Ohio as part of a deal that could include financial backing from Nvidia, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. The campus under discussion would be among the ...

Sources: Cisco is in talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based Astrix Security, which sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250M and $350M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cisco-talks-buy-ai-security-s…

Cisco in Talks to Buy AI Security Startup Astrix for at Least $250 Million
Cisco Systems is in talks to acquire Astrix Security, a five-year-old Israeli cybersecurity startup that sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250 million and $350 million, according to people with knowledge of the deal. That would represent at least a 25% premium to the ...