Indian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical dramas, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a $500M valuation and has 10M paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/indias-kuku-snags-85m-as-mobil…
Good advice generally, but especially at this moment: 'How to avoid seeing disturbing content on social media and protect your peace of mind' https://theconversation.com/how-to-avoid-seeing-disturbing-conte…
"UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/16/uk-public-paid-200bn-to-shareholders-of-key-industries-since-privatisation-study…
lastfm: last.fm listening habits (2007)
Two bipartite networks from the music website last.fm, giving the user-song and user-band interactions. Nodes are users and songs/bands, and an edge (i,j) denotes that a user i listens to the song/band j.
This network has 1085612 nodes and 19150868 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
lastfm: last.fm listening habits (2007)
Two bipartite networks from the music website last.fm, giving the user-song and user-band interactions. Nodes are users and songs/bands, and an edge (i,j) denotes that a user i listens to the song/band j.
This network has 1085612 nodes and 19150868 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
A profile of Song-Chun Zhu, an AI scientist and NSF and Pentagon grantee, who left the US after 28 years to lead China's state-backed AI institute BIGAI in 2020 (Chang Che/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/n…
OpenAI hires black hole physicist Alex Lupsasca, the first person to join the OpenAI for Science initiative led by Kevin Weil (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/16/openai-science-black-hole-physicist