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Google DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can accurately predict a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data, and open sources the model (Victoria Turk/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/deepmind-ai-model-can-predict-hurricanes-earlier…

DeepMind Says Its AI Can Predict Hurricanes Earlier Than Everyone Else
Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict both a storm’s track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data. Researchers don't yet fully understand how it does this.

Disney plans to shift much of its consumer products business from its experiences segment to its entertainment segment, under studios, beginning in October (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/disney-consumer-products-moves-studios-1237018017/

Big Bucks Generating Disney Consumer Products Shifts To Studio Umbrella As Josh D’Amaro-Run Mouse House Drops Earnings Report Tomorrow
Disney is moving its powerhouse Consumer Products division from the Experiences division to Disney Entertainment, specifically under the company's Studios umbrella.

dbpedia_producer: DBpedia producer network (2014)
A bipartite network of producers and the works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 187677 nodes and 207268 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

FPF Statement on the Senior Chatbot Protection Bill
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-statement-on-the-senior-chatbot-protection-bill/
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UK tribunal confirms professor’s anti-Zionism is legally protected belief | Education News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/5/uk-tribunal-confirms-professors-anti-zionism-is-legally-protected…

UK tribunal confirms professor’s anti-Zionism is legally protected belief
David Miller has told Al Jazeera the ruling is a victory that will encourage others to speak out against Zionism.

Much of AI "productivity gains" come from managers implicitly trusting an LLM to do a good job, and suspending the onerous micromanagement that humans employees get subjected to.
You can do that without paying Anthropic a single penny. It just requires letting the experts you hired do their jobs.
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Trust is not built on craft alone
No amount of tooling will let product teams move faster than being trusted to own their process. That trust is earned through rigor rather than mere velocity.

Defense tech company Hadrian raised a $1.37B Series D at an $8B valuation to expand its factories and Opus software platform, after a $260M Series C in 2025 (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/hadrian-series-d-defense-production

Exclusive: Hadrian raises $1.37B amid surging defense-production demand
"Being able to produce — and have advanced factories — is deterrence," CEO Chris Power told Axios.

Polymarket expands its live sports offerings, including partnering with the ATP Tour to integrate official tennis match streams into its platform (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/04/polymarket-atp-tour-tennis-prediction-markets

Polymarket becomes official prediction markets partner of ATP Tour
This deal is different from Polymarket's other sports partnerships because it goes beyond branding and official data into live media rights and product integration.

WindBorne, which deploys weather balloons to collect data for its AI weather forecasting models, raised a $37M Series B at a $250M post-money valuation (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/ai-makes-weather-predictio…

AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative? | TechCrunch
WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.