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Profound, which tracks how AI models recommend brands across millions of prompts, raised a $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $155M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/exclusi

Exclusive: As AI threatens search, Profound raises $96 million to help brands stay visible
The Lightspeed-led round values the 18-month-old startup at $1 billion as marketers race to understand how ChatGPT and other AI systems describe them.

🤕 The first headbutting paravian: Bird-like dinosaur likely used thick skull to win over mates
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-headbutting-paravian-bird-dinosaur-thick.html

The first headbutting paravian: Bird-like dinosaur likely used thick skull to win over mates
Whether it's digging up weathered bones from a paleontological site or reexamining forgotten trays in museum and university collections, the study of dinosaurs still throws up something new.

Profound, which tracks how AI models recommend brands across millions of prompts, raised a $96M Series C at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $155M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/exclusi

Exclusive: As AI threatens search, Profound raises $96 million to help brands stay visible
The Lightspeed-led round values the 18-month-old startup at $1 billion as marketers race to understand how ChatGPT and other AI systems describe them.

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Perfume Tree:
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https://perfumetree.bandcamp.com/track/sunlounger
https://open.spotify.com/track/6kuAL3sDiiymmcIMea2Bmb

In case you want to feel old https://profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/

Widely used method underestimates forests' ability to prevent major floods, researchers argue https://phys.org/news/2026-02-widely-method-underestimates-forests-ability.html

Widely used method underestimates forests' ability to prevent major floods, researchers argue
Researchers from the University of British Columbia argue that a widely used method to understand and predict flood risk has led scientists to miscalculate how forests can prevent major flooding. The paper, published in Ambio, synthesizes decades of research to explain why the standard approach used to evaluate how forests impact flooding—comparing individual flood peaks before and after disturbance—fails to capture how floods actually develop.

Microsoft says Copilot's agentic features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now generally available and enabled by default for 365 Copilot and 365 Premium (Sumit Chauhan/Microsoft 365 Blog)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u…

Copilot's agentic capabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are generally available | Microsoft 365 Blog
Copilot's newest features are now generally available as the default experience across all Microsoft 365 subscriptions.

Sandy Hook Promise and others use anonymous tips to prevent school shootings. Hackers exposed their data
https://san.com/cc/sandy-hook-promise-

Sandy Hook Promise and others use anonymous tips to prevent school shootings. Hackers exposed their data
Software used for submitting anonymous tips in schools was hacked, exposing sensitive records on issues such as potential school shootings.

Anthropic announces an "auto mode" that enables Claude Code to make permission-level decisions while preventing destructive actions like mass file deletion (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-code-auto-mode/

How Claude Code's new auto mode prevents AI coding disasters - without slowing you down
Anthropic's middle-ground mode aims to reduce interruptions while protecting developers from destructive commands. Here's why I like this new option.