We can work this out using a simple probability tree:Boy (0.5) Girl (0.5)/ \ / \Boy-Boy (0.25) Boy-Girl (0.25) Girl-Boy (0.25) Girl-Girl (0.25)So the probability of two girls is 0.25.

The birth chance is 0.5 boy and 0.5 girl.

In the probability tree above, we can see four equally likely combinations: {Boy-Boy} (0.25), {Boy-Girl} (0.25), {Girl-Boy} (0.25), and {Girl-Girl} (0.25).

Randomly create a large number of two-children families with the sample space {Boy-Boy}, {Boy-Girl}, {Girl-Boy}, {Girl-Girl} and probabilities 1/4, 1/4, 1/4, and 1/4.

Realistically, the only way forward is prior eduction and the use of sample space arguments.

150 years of research, engineering breakthroughs and hundreds of IDP products later we were finally able to scan a receipt and have the fields be filled out - if it looked nice and friendly enough to the OCR model.

This meant OCR models were basically just helpers for data scientists, handling cleanups, routings, and post-validations to get something only vaguely close to real automation at work.

Multimodal LLMs enter the sceneWith the launch of Multimodal LLMs, most prominently Gemini-Flash-2.0, many AI fields with decades long track records of active research became obsolete.

With that intuition in mind it’s not surprising why they are able to easily solve problems that OCRs gave up on.

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The Cost of Transparency: Living with Schizoaffective Disorder in TechAugust 2025"We celebrate mental health awareness until someone actually needs mental health support."

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Companies tout their mental health benefits and neurodiversity initiatives right up until they encounter someone whose mental health needs actual accommodation.

The community celebrates the abstract idea of mental health awareness while making it clear that actual mental health disclosure makes you a liability.

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GPU Prefix SumsGPUPrefixSums aims to bring state-of-the-art GPU prefix sum techniques from CUDA and make them available in portable compute shaders.

Decoupled FallbackIn Decoupled Fallback, a threadblock will spin for a set amount of cycles while waiting for the reduction of a preceding partition tile.

SurveyA prefix sum, also called a scan, is a running total of a sequence of numbers at the n-th element.

If the prefix sum is inclusive the n-th element is included in that total, if it is exclusive, the n-th element is not included.

The prefix sum is one of the most important algorithmic primitives in parallel computing, underpinning everything from sorting, to compression, to graph traversa…

A lot of boolean data is representing a temporal event having happened.

This may be stored as a boolean column, is_confirmed , in the database.

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fn check_permissions ( user : User) -> bool { false // no one is allowed to do anything i guess }In this case, true means the user can do it and false means they can't.

fn calculate_user_data ( user : User, records : RecordStore) { // this would be some nice long conditional, // but I don't have one.

We might have used a reference (damage may have used d) to mutate an object (the Entity that d is pointing to).

So what's a "child group", and how is it different from the "contents" from the old rule?

13As a user, you can use this rule-of-thumb: any element of a Variant or a collection (List, String, Dict, etc) or Box will be in a child group.

If you want to go deeper, the real rule might be something like: "a Variant's element or anything owned by a pointer will be in a child group."

That all sounds abstract, so I'll state it in more familiar terms: if an object (even indirectly) owns something that could be independently destroyed, it must be in a child group.

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In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into the math behind GANs.

In this section, let’s try to motivate an intuitive understanding of the loss function for each.

\[L_G = \text{Error}(D(G(z)), 1) \tag{2}\]The key here is to remember that a loss function is something that we wish to minimize.

Binary Cross EntropyA common loss function that is used in binary classification problems is binary cross entropy.

\[\begin{align} V(G, D^*) &= \mathbb{E}_{x \sim p_{data}}[\log(D^*(x))] + \mathbb{E}_{x \sim p_g}[\log(1 - D^*(x))] \\ &= \mathbb{E}_{x \sim p_{data}} \left[ \log \frac{p_{data}(x)}{p_{data}(x) + p_g(x)} \right] + \mathbb{E}_{x \sim p_g} \left[ \log \frac{p_g(x)}{p_{data}(x) + p_g(x)} \right]…

Implementation:from sklearn.naive_bayes import GaussianNB import numpy as np X = np .

fit ( X , y ) print ( model .

eig ( A ) print ( f "Eigenvalues: { eigenvalues } " ) print ( f "Eigenvectors:{ eigenvectors } " )Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)Equation:Explanation: SVD breaks down a matrix $A$ into orthogonal matrices $U$ and $V$ and a diagonal matrix $\Sigma$ of singular values.

zeros ( n ) for _ in range ( epochs ): gradient = ( 1 / m ) * X . T @ ( X @ theta - y ) theta -= lr * gradient return theta X = np .

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As Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android (previous discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028A developer started a petition to stop Google from limiting app installation on Android devices unless developers provide personal identity documents.

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I haven't seen anyone really try to deconstruct the costs in running inference at scale and the economics really interest me.

This means each instance can handle 45 passes/s × 32k tokens = 1.44 million input tokens per second.

Across our 9 instances, we're looking at 13 million input tokens per second, or 46.8 billion input tokens per hour.

Across 9 instances, that's 12,960 output tokens per second, or 46.7 million output tokens per hour.

Raw Cost Per TokenThe asymmetry is stark: $144 ÷ 46,800M = $0.003 per million input tokens versus $144 ÷ 46.7M = $3.08 per million output tokens.

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On Tuesday, Anthropic announced the launch of Claude for Chrome, a web browser-based AI agent that can take actions on behalf of users.

The Claude for Chrome extension allows users to chat with the Claude AI model in a sidebar window that maintains the context of everything happening in their browser.

The browser extension builds on Anthropic's Computer Use capability, which the company released in October 2024.

Zooming out, it appears Anthropic's browser extension reflects a new phase of AI lab competition.

In July, Perplexity launched its own browser, Comet, which features an AI agent that attempts to offload tasks for users.

It’s called ‘Rupert’s property’.

Since this polyhedron lacks Rupert’s property, they called it a ‘noperthedron’.

• Jakob Steininger and Sergey Yurkevich, A convex polyhedron without Rupert’s property.

Why is it called ‘Rupert’s property’?

Here Greg Egan shows how Rupert’s property works for the cube:Here he shows how it works for the regular octahedron:And finally, here’s a video by David Renshaw showing 26 polyhedra with Rupert’s property… and 5 polyhedra that might lack it:The triakis tetrahedron is an extremely close call, but it does have Rupert’s property:

We might have used a reference (damage may have used d) to mutate an object (the Entity that d is pointing to).

So what's a "child group", and how is it different from the "contents" from the old rule?

13As a user, you can use this rule-of-thumb: any element of a Variant or a collection (List, String, Dict, etc) or Box will be in a child group.

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That all sounds abstract, so I'll state it in more familiar terms: if an object (even indirectly) owns something that could be independently destroyed, it must be in a child group.

In[8]:module SmallInteger ( SmallInteger , mkSmallInteger, unSmallInteger) where import Control.Monad import Data.Functor newtype SmallInteger = SmallInteger { unSmallInteger :: Int } deriving ( Eq , Ord ) mkSmallInteger :: Int -> Maybe SmallInteger mkSmallInteger i = guard (i >= 1 && i <= 100) $> SmallInteger iSome new things!

The SmallInteger type happens to have the same name as the SmallInteger module.

In[11]:newtype SmallInteger = SmallInteger { unSmallInteger :: Int }We define the data type SmallInteger as a newtype wrapper3 A newtype wrapper is a kind of data type that exists only during type checking.

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GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs?

BackgroundWe have fried two Ryzen 9950X CPUs in a few months by running GMP tests.

It might be that the Zen 5 CPUs pull more power than specified when running GMP, or it might be that our cooling solutions are inadequate.

Below is a picture of the 2nd system without the heat sink which shows that offset.

Here is a closeup on the heat sink, indicating how the off-centre mounting squeezed the paste to one end.

Last week, my country’s far-right administration announced they were establishing an “America by Design” initiative, along with a so-called National Design Studio to oversee it.

But to make those words appear in your browser, this new “national studio” used almost three megabytes of code.

Imagine having to download a three-minute MP3 each time you visit a web page, and you’re in the ballpark.

So, no: I don’t think it’s an accident that a simple-looking “America by Design” page is built the way it is.

Because, yes: this “America by Design” page is shoddily made, and poorly written.

Yet again, we’re at the end of our internship season, and so it’s time to summarize what the interns were up to!

We decided to deal with this by (I know, I know) building our own dialect of SQL called JSQL.

The mutability of the objects is more complicated, because the rules are different at different times.

Notably, once an object’s reference count goes back to zero, it can again be the subject of an initialization, so it can again be exposed read_write .

Jane Street interns get a chance to solve fun and challenging problems that have real impact.

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Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:

Dutch web design automation startup Framer raised $100M led by Meritech and Atomico with Accel participation at a $2B valuation, after raising $27M in 2023 — Framer, a Dutch company that makes tools for automating web design, has raised a funding round at a $2 billion valuation.

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M0, which develops stablecoin infrastructure to boost interoperability and liquidity, raised a $40M Series B led by Polychain and Ribbit Capital — M0 cofounders Gregory Di Prisco (left) and Luca Prosperi. — COURTESY OF MO — Another stablecoin startup has raised serious cash.

Yueqi Yang / The Information:

Rain, a stablecoin-backed Visa card issuer, raised a $58M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures, after raising a $24.5M Series A led by Norwest in March — Rain, a stablecoin-backed card issuer that works with Visa, said it raised $58 million in Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures …

Reuters:

Didi reports Q2 revenue up 10.9% YoY to ~$7.8B, overseas revenue up 28% YoY, and a ~$350M net loss, driven by a one-off ~$740M charge in a shareholder lawsuit — Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global reported on Thursday a second-quarter net loss of 2.5 billion yuan ($350 million) …

Bloomberg:

Nvidia CFO Colette Kress says the US hasn't outlined its plan for a 15% China commission, Nvidia won't pay until it has it, and it can sell AI chips without it — An unconventional plan by the Trump administration to charge a 15% commission on Nvidia Corp. AI chip sales to China …

Chris Vallance / BBC:

Apple says the UK CMA's proposed “EU-style” regulation is “bad for users and bad for developers”, “undermines” privacy and security, and “hampers” innovation — Apple has warned that “EU-style rules” proposed by the UK competition watchdog “are bad for users and bad for developers”.

Everything Typepad:

Typepad is shutting down on September 30 and users' “account and all related services will be permanently deactivated”; users can export content before then — We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025. What Does This Mean for You?

Emily Forgash / Bloomberg:

Google plans to invest an additional $9B in Virginia through 2026 to boost its cloud and AI infrastructure, including a new data center in Chesterfield County — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is investing an additional $9 billion in Virginia through 2026 to enhance cloud and AI infrastructure across the state …

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft is expanding Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers, dropping the Game Pass Ultimate requirement, and tests more PC game access — Xbox Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers are also getting access to some PC games.

Anna Heim / TechCrunch:

Maisa AI, which offers an enterprise agentic automation service that uses a proprietary system to limit hallucinations, raised a $25M seed led by Creandum — A staggering 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, according to a recent report published by MIT's NANDA initiative.

Financial Times:

UK banks face losses on billions of pounds in loans to dozens of alternative broadband network providers that have tried to challenge BT and O2's dominance — NatWest and Lloyds among lenders exposed as ‘altnets’ buckle under strain of rising costs and fierce fibre competition

Bloomberg:

An in-depth look at India's quick commerce boom, driven by Blinkit, Zepto, and Instamart, which have collectively lost more than $1.4B in the past four years — A few miles from the bustling, labyrinthine markets of Old Delhi — where traders have hawked spices and textiles for centuries …

Michelle Kim / Rest of World:

How ChatGPT-powered companionship dolls from Hyodol are helping ease loneliness among older adults in South Korea, as the company aims for a US debut in 2026 — A ChatGPT-powered robotic companion called Hyodol is taking over some work from overburdened caregivers, much to the delight of seniors who treat them like grandchildren.

Financial Times:

How legacy carmakers fell behind Tesla and Chinese EV brands in software, as a Toyota Woven engineer says the company's new Arene platform is “full of bugs” — The shift from a manufacturing model to a digital one is proving difficult and expensive for many of the industry's traditional companies

Luke Kawa / Sherwood News:

Nvidia's CFO says Q2 “net other income” was $2.2B, “driven by gains in a publicly-held equity security”, which refers to Nvidia's position in CoreWeave — NvidiaNVDA $175.90 (-.09%) made over $26 billion in net income in its second quarter, putting it third among S&P 500 companies …

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Payroll and HR software provider Gusto agrees to acquire Guideline, which offers 401(k) plans to small businesses; Guideline was valued at $1.15B in 2021 — Gusto, a startup with payroll and human resources software, said Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Guideline, a startup specializing in corporate retirement plans.

Max Knoblauch / Sherwood News:

Nvidia reports record Q2 gaming revenue of $4.29B, up 49% YoY, exceeding estimates of $3.74B — As seen in its second-quarter earnings results, posted on Wednesday, NvidiaNVDA $175.90 (-0.09%) continues to build upon its gamer roots. — The chip designer's gaming division …

Vivek Kaul / Newslaundry:

A look at India's rationale for banning online real-money games, with IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw citing 450M people losing a combined ~$2.3B to them — The real challenge lies in balancing innovation with protection, profit with responsibility, and freedom with regulation.

Akira Yamashita / Nikkei Asia:

Sources: the $550B US-Japan investment framework, central to the trade agreement, was heavily influenced by Masayoshi Son, with the Stargate Project tied to it — LONDON — The trade agreement struck between Tokyo and Washington had hinged on a $550 billion “investment vehicle” …

Emma Roth / The Verge:

Samsung rolls out Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant in its 2025 lineup of TVs and monitors, letting users ask for movie suggestions, plot recaps, and more — An animated version of the AI assistant can provide movie recommendations or summarize the latest episode of your favorite show.

Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google:

Google launches Pixel Care+, replacing Preferred Care and Fi Device Protection in the US, with upgrades but slightly higher pricing than the previous offering — Google's post-purchase support for Pixel has never been fantastic — a quick glance at r/GooglePixel will make that abundantly clear …

@mingchikuo:

Kuo: Meta's Hypernova AR glasses will enter mass production in Q3 2025 to beat Apple to market, but have a modest sales target of 150-200K over two years — Here are the key points regarding Meta's AI glasses, Hypernova: 1. This device is expected to enter mass production in 3Q25 with a two-year product life cycle.

Hannah Dailey / Billboard:

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement announcement on Instagram surpasses 1M reposts, more than any other post has ever received on the platform — The post reached the milestone in just six hours. … According to data shared with Billboard on Wednesday (Aug. 27) …

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:

Nvidia says it had no new H20 sales to China in Q2 and assumes the same for Q3, but could realize $2B-$5B in H20 sales in Q3 if geopolitical issues are resolved — Surging data-center revenue didn't meet analyst expectations for second quarter — Nvidia sales set a fresh record on Wednesday …

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Generative AI isn't transforming anything, AI isn't replacing anyone, enterprises are trying to adopt generative AI but it doesn't fucking work, and the thing holding back AI is the fact it doesn't fucking work.

No, the AI booster is symbolically aligned with generative AI.

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"I was worried for a while that this incredibly powerful way of changing the world using expertise was gone.

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I am an AI hater.

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AI Browsers promise a future where an Agentic AI working for you fully automates your online tasks, from shopping to handling emails.

A Fake Shop Selling Fake Apple Watches to your AI AgentOne of the most hyped features of AI Browsers, often shown in promo clips, is the “Buy me something” routine.

One that will grow rapidly as AI Browsers and Agentic AI in general move into the mainstream.

Today’s AI Browsers are designed with user experience at the top of the priority stack.

Security must be woven into the very architecture of AI Browsers, not bolted on afterward.

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Whether AI is a bubble or not, it's helping some small businesses save real money. Here's how one has cautiously approached adoption.

The credit reporting giant confirmed unauthorized access to a third-party application storing the personal information of its customers.

The transition from CCS to NACS will unlock thousands more fast chargers for many EV drivers, but they'll need to know their adapters to get the most out of it.

This is a good indication of the sectors that are hot among investors, from biotech and defense tech to AI, AI, and AI.

Maisa AI is built on the premise that enterprise automation requires accountable AI agents, not opaque black boxes.

TransBnk has raised $25 million in a round led by Bessemer Venture Partners to digitize India’s corporate banking.

Nvidia's revenue hit $46.7 billion in the second quarter, a 56% increase compared to the same period last year.

Google says Pixel Care+ provides a "higher level of coverage, service and peace of mind for Google hardware owners."

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: When's the last time you settled down with a good book, just because you enjoyed it? A new survey shows reading as a pastime is becoming dramatically less popular in the U.S., which correlates with an increased consumption of other digital media, like social media and streaming services. The survey was carried out by researchers from the University of Florida and the University of London, and charts a 40 percent decrease in daily reading for pleasure across the years 2003-2023, based on responses from 236,270 US adults. "This is not just a small dip -- it's a sustained, steady decline of about 3 percent per year," says Jill Sonke, directo…

An anonymous reader shares a report: German banks blocked PayPal payments totalling more than 10 billion euros ($11.7 billion) over fraud concerns, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Wednesday, without specifying its sources. The payments were halted on Monday after lenders flagged millions of suspicious direct debits from PayPal that appeared last week, the newspaper said. Asked to comment on the report, a PayPal spokesperson said a temporary service interruption had affected "certain transactions from our banking partners and potentially their customers", but that the issue had now been resolved. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

A U.S.-China research team has developed the world's first one-step process to convert mixed plastic waste into gasoline and hydrochloric acid with up to 95-99% efficiency, all at room temperature and ambient pressure. InterestingEngineering reports: As the authors put it, "The method supports a circular economy by converting diverse plastic waste into valuable products in a single step." To carry out the conversion, the team combines plastic waste with light isoalkanes, hydrocarbon byproducts available from refinery processes. According to the paper, the process yields "gasoline range" hydrocarbons, mainly molecules with six to 12 carbons, which are the primary component of gasoline. The r…

Japan has launched its first entirely homegrown quantum computer, built with domestic superconducting qubits and components, and running on the country's own open-source software toolchain, OQTOPUS. "The system is now ready to take on workloads from its base at the University of Osaka's Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology (QIQB)," reports LiveScience. From the report: The system uses a quantum chip with superconducting qubits -- quantum bits derived from metals that exhibit zero electrical resistance when cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero (minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 273.15 degrees Celsius). The quantum processing unit (QPU) was developed at the Japa…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: SpaceX has long marketed Starship as a fully and rapidly reusable rocket that's designed to deliver thousands of pounds of cargo to Mars and make life multiplanetary. But reusability at scale means a space vehicle that can tolerate mishaps and faults, so that a single failure doesn't spell a mission-ending catastrophe. The 10th test flight on Tuesday evening demonstrated SpaceX's focus on fault tolerance. In a post-flight update, SpaceX said the test stressed "the limits of vehicle capabilities." Understanding these edges will be critical for the company's plans to eventually use Starship to launch Starlink satellites, commercial payloads…

samleecole shares a report from 404 Media: An app developer has jailbroken Echelon exercise bikes to restore functionality that the company put behind a paywall last month, but copyright laws prevent him from being allowed to legally release it. Last month, Peloton competitor Echelon pushed a firmware update to its exercise equipment that forces its machines to connect to the company's servers in order to work properly. Echelon was popular in part because it was possible to connect Echelon bikes, treadmills, and rowing machines to free or cheap third-party apps and collect information like pedaling power, distance traveled, and other basic functionality that one might want from a piece of e…

Nevada has been crippled by a cyberattack that began on August 24, taking down state websites, intermittently disabling phone lines, and forcing offices like the DMV to close. The Register reports: The Office of Governor Joseph Lombardo announced the attack via social media on Monday, saying that a "network security incident" took hold in the early hours of August 24. Official state websites remain unavailable, and Lombardo's office warned that phone lines will be intermittently down, although emergency services lines remain operational. State offices are also closed until further notice, including Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) buildings. The state said any missed appointments will be …

A widely used Node.js utility called fast-glob, relied on by thousands of projectsâ"including over 30 U.S. Department of Defense systems -- is maintained solely by a Russian developer linked to Yandex. While there's no evidence of malicious activity, cybersecurity experts warn that the lack of oversight in such critical open-source projects leaves them vulnerable to potential exploitation by state-backed actors. The Register reports: US cybersecurity firm Hunted Labs reported the revelations on Wednesday. The utility in question is fast-glob, which is used to find files and folders that match specific patterns. Its maintainer goes by the handle "mrmlnc", and the Github profile associated wi…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: 4chan and Kiwi Farms sued the United Kingdom's Office of Communications (Ofcom) over its age verification law in U.S. federal court Wednesday, fulfilling a promise it announced on August 23. In the lawsuit, 4chan and Kiwi Farms claim that threats and fines they have received from Ofcom "constitute foreign judgments that would restrict speech under U.S. law." Both entities say in the lawsuit that they are wholly based in the U.S. and that they do not have any operations in the United Kingdom and are therefore not subject to local laws. Ofcom's attempts to fine and block 4chan and Kiwi Farms, and the lawsuit against Ofcom, highlight the mess…

Starting with Word for Windows version 2509, Microsoft is making cloud saving the default behavior. New documents will automatically save to OneDrive (or another cloud destination), with dated filenames, unless users manually revert to local saving in the settings. From the report: "Anything new you create will be saved automatically to OneDrive or your preferred cloud destination", writes Raul Munoz, product manager at Microsoft on the Office Shared Services and Experiences team. Munoz backs up the decision with half a dozen advantages for saving documents to the cloud. From never losing progress and access anywhere to easy collaboration and increased security and compliance. While cloud s…

The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

Привет, Бюро!

В нашем небольшом фитнес-клубе у дома на шкафах в раздевалке раньше были номерки. Шкафчики периодически добавлялись и заменялись. В итоге их номера встали рандомно. Например, за ящиком № 1 вполне мог пойти ящик № 6. Руководство решило навести порядок, но при этом добавить креатива и персонализированного подхода к клиентам.

Схема такая:

— вы приходите в клуб и на стойке администратора вытягиваете из вазочки ключ;

— на ключе надпись «Самая яркая», «Самая эффективная», «Самая способная» и прочее подобное;

— вы проходите в раздевалку и начинаете проходить квест «Найди свой ящик».

В результате, в небольшом помещении скапливается толпа людей, которые из 50 ящиков пытаются найти свой…

В основном, конечно, коллеги не теряются: вы сейчас запросто найдете, кто крутит рекламу в MyTarget, СберAds, TG-Ads, ведет блоги на Дзене и страницы в ВК, блоги на Рутубе и даже рисует там какие-то кейсы успеха.

To answer a long-standing coverage.py feature request, I

threw together an experiment: a tool to identify lines that have been excluded

from coverage, but which were actually executed.The program is a standalone file in the coverage.py repo. It is unsupported.

I’d like people to try it to see what they think of the idea. Later we can

decide what to do with it.To try it: copy warn_executed.py from

GitHub. Create a .toml file that looks something like this:# Regexes that identify excluded lines:

warn-executed = [ "pragma: no cover", "raise AssertionError", "pragma: cant happen", "pragma: never called", ] # Regexes that identify partial branch lines:

warn-not-partial = [ "pragma: no branch", ]…

Вопрос Ильяхову. Как бы вы сейчас залетали в «Телеграм» с нуля? О чем сейчас вести канал и какую выбрать стратегию, чтобы стать востребованным в текущей ситуации? Буду рад любым мыслям и подсказкам.

Иногда можно показать наличные иконкой доллара, но как быть если речь о рублях, евро или тенге?

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The best Stratechery content from the week of August 11, 2025, including Facebook is Dead; Long Live Meta, GPT-5's Arrival, and the Top 5 Airports.

Meta delivered blowout earnings the same quarter that Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on AI; I don't think it was a coincidence.

Meta delivered blowout earnings the same quarter that Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on AI; I don't think it was a coincidence.

GPT-5 seems fine; the more interesting questions are about the ChatGPT product and OpenAI’s tradeoffs.

Writing tests can be difficult and repetitive. Pytest has a feature called

parametrize that can make it reduce duplication, but it can be hard to

understand if you are new to the testing world. It’s not as complicated as it

seems.Let’s say you have a function called add_nums() that adds up a list of

numbers, and you want to write tests for it. Your tests might look like

this:def test_123(): assert add_nums([1, 2, 3]) == 6 def test_negatives(): assert add_nums([1, 2, -3]) == 0 def test_empty(): assert add_nums([]) == 0 This is great: you’ve tested some behaviors of your add_nums()

function. But it’s getting tedious to write out more test cases. The names of the

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Добрый день! Каждый раз, когда вижу обложку видеозаписи вебинара, я не понимаю, что она мне хочет сказать кодом «25 17 30», «11 17 30», «27 19» и подобными. В маленьком масштабе картинка совсем перестаёт работать и выглядит как СМС с кодом. А лицо ведущего накрывает бирка с длительностью видео. Как пользователь скажу, что на записях вебинаров мне уже не важны ни время, ни день. Обычно интересует, о чём говорили, кто говорил и как давно это было.

Расскажите, как бы вы решали задачу повышения информативности обложек?

President's Trump plan for the U.S. to get paid by Nvidia and AMD for China exports is dubious, but overall policy is headed in the right direction.

Я сверстал расписание автобусов для своего смартфона. Что можно улучшить? Выровнять ли правую колонку по двоеточиям, как совпало в левой или выравнивание по вертикальной границе между числами и надписью красивее?

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The food industry hasn’t changed in decades — but the problems keep multiplying:Trends move faster than brands can react!

Automated spec + compliance engine → turn regulatory bottlenecks into instant outputs.

Also, suggest cost savingsRadical new UX/UI → a design language for food innovation that’s never been done before.

I’m looking for a technical partner — someone who can own the backend + new UX/UI layer and move fast.

If you’re an AI/ML engineer, backend hacker, or designer who wants to blow up the traditional food R&D model, DM me.

You don’t have the luxury of long research cycles, but you need to know how your product stacks up.

Instead of spending hours piecing together comparisons, here’s how to build a sharp, useful competitor analysis — in 30 minutes, using AI.

Look for things like:Simpler setup or onboardingClear pricing advantagesFeatures competitors don’t offerIntegrations your audience cares aboutWhere they win Be honest about their strengths — this builds trust internally and sharpens your positioning.

Gemini will return a version with bolded sections and clear talking points — ready to copy into a doc or slide.

Remember, the point of this isn’t just “knowing your competitors.” It’s knowing what to say when …

I ended up dropping out of college almost immediately because I was getting paid $50/hour as an independent consultant when I was just 18.

That didn't stop me, though — within months, I was recruited by Seth Godin to become CTO at his brand new startup Squidoo.

At its peak, we were serving over a million users per day with an engineering team of only three people.

Fast forward to today, and I'm now working on Subscribr, a tool that helps people start and grow their YouTube channels.

It took 100 days after launch to start hitting $10k months.

🚀 I’ve been building a trading charts SaaS that’s almost ready for public release.

Think of it as an alternative to TradingView, but built specifically for cryptocurrencies.

See it in:https://spotcanvas.com/I’m now looking for a co-founder to join me and lead the go-to-market push.

If you’re experienced in growth hacking, product-led growth strategies, or the crypto space, I’d love to connect.

The product’s core features are built and ready — the next step is finding strong product-market fit and scaling adoption.

Hey folks,I’ve built PokeShani, a platform for selling digital products (courses, ebooks, templates, services—anything digital).

Creators keep 100% of their earningsInstant payouts within 7 seconds straight to their PayPal (no holding funds, no waiting weeks)Simple setup: create a sales page, link your product, start sellingRight now, PokeShani is live and working.

I’m looking for someone who can help attract good, active creators to sign up and list their products.

If you have experience in growth, community building, or creator acquisition, I’d love to team up.

If this sounds interesting, let’s connect—I’m open to chatting about how we could make this a win-win partnership.

Google just rolled out Nano Banana (Aug 26, 2025) inside Gemini.

YouTube/TikTok: Crank out thumbnail variants from a winning face.

Crank out thumbnail variants from a winning face.

Quick prompting trick 🛠️When using Nano Banana, layer your edits instead of cramming them all into one prompt:Lock the subject → “Keep hairstyle + logo unchanged.” Add one edit → “Background is neon Shibuya at night.” Reassert guardrails → “Don’t alter skin tone or hands.”Stack and repeat.

Where Textideo comes in 🚀We’ve fully integrated Nano Banana into Textideo.

Hey everyone 👋I’ve built PokeShani, a platform where creators can sell digital products (courses, ebooks, services, etc.)

It’s already live, functional, and we’ve had our first real creators onboard and make sales.

I’ve handled all the product building, backend/frontend, and early user acquisition.

What I’m looking for now is someone who’s excited about growth—community building, marketing, distribution, partnerships—the kind of person who enjoys getting products into people’s hands.

I’m looking for a partner—someone who wants to actually own part of this journey, not just “help out.”If you’re into digital products, creator economy, or just like the idea of helping creators earn more direct…

When musicians trade gear, it’s rarely just about money.

That was the frustration that led us to build Resyn, a new music gear marketplace designed by and for musicians.

Building Something DifferentFrom day one, our mission with Resyn was clear: build a player-first marketplace that restores the soul of gear exchange.

For musicians, community is core to the experience.

For musicians, community is core to the experience.

For indie hackers who build in public and move fast, voice AI offers a new canvas for creative product design.

A 2025 analysis of AI voice dialers found that companies adopting voice AI for customer communications saw reductions in handling time and higher conversion rates.

Linguistics and writing: crafting voices that sound humanUnlike chatbots, voice AI must handle prosody, accents, and hesitation.

For people interested in writing and linguistics, voice AI opens a unique niche: designing dialogue flows that feel empathetic while fulfilling a function.

Voice AI can be a powerful tool, but only if it solves a real problem.

Both promise to revolutionize how we create video content, but which one deserves your time, money, and creative energy?

Feature HighlightsAudio Capabilities: Veo3 includes synchronized audio by default, allowing you to create dialogue-driven or immersive scenes without post-production.

If your content demands 4K resolution, immersive sound, and consistent visuals, Veo3 is the best choice.

Final VerdictIf you want high-quality, audio-integrated, cinematic 4K videos, Textideo Veo3 is your go-to choice.

If you need flexible, fast, and social media-ready content, Sora is a strong option.

After 14 months of building Refgrow, I finally crossed $500 MRR this week.

Here, the fact that I added lifetime deals also played a role and perhaps this attracted more attention.

In May, I refused lifetime deals to focus on the growth of MRR (at that time it was $48).

On lifetime deals in April - May, I earned $5.5k, which for me was a sufficient signal to focus on the development of this product.

And after another 3 months, the MRR reached $500 (and 1 day after dropped to $468).

Yes, discounted Forever stamps online can absolutely be legitimate – I've been buying from reputable online retailers like Postages Co. for over three years without a single issue.

But after extensive research and real-world testing, I've learned exactly how to separate legitimate discount retailers from scammers.

When Postages Co. sells Forever stamps at a discount, they're genuine USPS stamps purchased through legitimate wholesale channels.

Conclusion: Your Roadmap to Safe, Legitimate Stamp DiscountsYes, discounted Forever stamps online can absolutely be legitimate – but only when you're smart about where you shop.

What's been your experience with online stamp retailers?

A few days ago, I shared a little about the AI tool I'm building, TopicLens.io, and received some great feedback on other platforms.

Many had also faced the problem of trying to get a quick take on thousands of online comments.

The most valuable feedback was the idea that my tool could also be a powerful market research solution.

I originally built it for personal use to analyze news comments, but your feedback has me thinking bigger.

I’d love to know what you think: What's the #1 pain point you face when doing market research or trying to understand what people are saying online?

Written by Keshav GoelAugust 21, 2025Modern FP&A: A journeyThe role of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) has undergone a fundamental transformation, moving from a backward-looking "scorekeeper" to a proactive strategic partner and business driver.

While traditional accounting focuses on recording past transactions, FP&A is a forward-looking function that provides critical financial insights and strategic guidance to support an organization's decision-making.

The modern FP&A professional is no longer just a number cruncher; they are a strategic advisor who helps guide the business.

The Strategic Impact and Future OutlookThis transformation positions FP&A as a critical component of a compa…

This is the leverage paradox.

Except… the leverage paradox means we all have to climb way higher to get to the top while competing against many more people.

But that's why the leverage paradox is the leverage paradox.

"One-hundred-shot" your projectsOne of the main reasons for all the AI slop is that everyone's trying to "one-shot" everything.

They may be perfect cows, attractive cows, cows with great personalities, cows lit by beautiful light, but they’re still boring.

https://apps.apple.com/vn/app/habitual-build-lasting-habits/id6749281483 Tons of great features: - Multiple themes - Rich analytics - Widgets - Vacation mode - iCloud syncing - Custom reminders; Can set multiple reminders per habit - Different views: row, grid, list. Choose what you like - Set what day to start the week on and a whole lot more submitted by /u/TheLazyAdministrator [link] [comments]

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So here’s the story. When I launched, everything went wrong at the same time. On mobile, Lungo’s site had a nasty bug where things wouldn’t even load properly. At the same time, there were performance issues on the backend. Bad timing, stacked problems, and I felt like everything broke at once. I decided not to stop. I went into full non-vibe coding mode, just building fast, fixing, refactoring, and taking back control of the infrastructure. Slowly, things stabilized and people could actually use the product again. That’s when I shipped the new Face Swap feature. It doesn’t just swap faces. It adjusts skin tone, hair, lighting, even the environment so it looks natural, like the person was a…

Hey everyone, I’ve recently built a voice and video chat platform called Vocably chat. where users can create their own topic-based public or private rooms and chat with anyone all around the world about anything. Right now, I’m in the early stage and I’m looking for my first 100 users. To thank those early supporters, I’ll will give free premium in the future once it’s available. This is only for the first 100 people who join in WhatsApp community. If you’d like to be part of the early community, I’ve set up a WhatsApp group where I’ll share details, room announcements, and events. This invite is limited to the first 100 members only. Drop a comment or DM me if you’re interested, and I’ll …

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Ох и ох:Улететь на остров Маргарита на 11 ночей можно из Москвы за 68800 рублей с человека!

Старт сегодня в 3 часа ночи, отели на быстром подтверждении.

В цену тура включено:прямой перелет из Москвы на Маргариту (с багажом);проживание в отеле — 11 ночей;трансферы;завтраки;медицинская страховка.

Цена может измениться в любой момент — бронируйте при первой возможности, пока это не сделал кто-то другой!

Посмотреть все варианты туров и забронироватьСамый дешевый, цена по ссылке за двоих:Самый дешевый в 5*, цена по ссылке за двоих:Всё.

Сегодня мы решили слепить готовое путешествие из Сочи в жаркий Тай — вышло от 32700 рублей с человека при поездке вдвоем.

Туроператор FUN&SUN предлагает билеты из Сочи на Пхукет за 29000 рублей туда-обратно.

Раз — 3700 рублей на человека / 7400 рублей на двоих:Итого — 32700 рублей с человека за перелеты и проживание (при поездке вдвоем).

Два — 4100 рублей на человека / 8200 рублей на двоих:Итого — 33100 рублей с человека за перелеты и проживание (при поездке вдвоем).

Три — 5000 рублей на человека / 10000 рублей на двоих:Итого — 34000 рублей с человека за перелеты и проживание (при поездке вдвоем).

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

с 2012 года мы ищем и находим дешевые авиабилеты, отели, туры и круизы.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Недавно мы уже писали о том, что а/к Centrum открыла продажу билетов в Узбекистан на зимний сезон — билеты на НГ в Ташкент и Ургенч вы разобрали, молодцы.

Но сейчас в продаже появились билеты в Наманган и Самарканд на любые даты в ноябре-марте.

Как и в Ташкент и Ургенч (Хиву) — туда кроме новогодних лишь.

Наманган в ноябреСамарканд в ноябреТашкент в январев мартеУргенч (Хива) в мартеСамо собой — можно и нужно брать билеты с разными городами прилета/вылета.

Например, прилетаете в Ургенча возвращаетесь из Наманганаили ТашкентаИли прилетаете в любой город Узбекистана: НаманганУргенча улетаете из Самарканда или Ташкента Победой (на сайте а/к будет рублей на 400 дешевле, скорее всего)РазИ два

Вечная классика для дальневосточников: Китай + Вьетнам в сентябре за почти бесплатно и без виз.

Благодаря распродажам Ы7 и Аэрофлота летим в Пекин, тусим там 1-2-3 или сколько-то дней (до 10!

), а после летим куда глаза глядят.

Глаза глядят на Вьетнам.

Билеты на сайте Ы7, Аэрофлота или на авиасейлсКартинки для наглядности:На подольшеДалее: Пекин — Ханой — ПекинМожно взять билет в одну сторону в Пекин, но уже у Ы7 — например, на 14 сентябряПосле закинуть себя во Вьетнам: Пекин — Ханой за 6500 рублей + из Ханоя взять билет в Нячанг за 3500 рублейИ вернуться прямым рейсом Нячанг — Владивосток за 8100 рублейИтого: второй вариант обойдется в 25k, а первый в 22300 рублей.

База: прямые рейсы между Калугой и Питером в сентябре от 1579 рублей.

Да, не 888 рублей и да, не 3500.

Что-то между.

Туда-сюдаВ одну (+2 сентября +4 сентября) + куча дат на весь месяц по 2300 рублейИз Калуги чуть дороже — но много дат по 2300 рублей на весь сентябрь: тыцПример бронирования отеля в Питере: тыц (код LOOKUM или какой-нибудь другой)

Всё дешевеют и дешевеют билеты из Москвы в Хошимин на вечер пятницы — ох, уже в субботу утром можно очутиться в Хошимине за 18800 рублей.

Багаж в цене, билетов пока много и есть ощущение, что, если не покупать их еще пару часов, то они будут стоить 12 тысяч.

Сыграем в эту игру?

ТыцОбратно?

Окей — из ХанояИли попозжеCамо собой, можно чуть подольше полетать по Азии и вернуться из других точекБангкок — ЕкатеринбургМакао — МоскваСеул — Москва

5* авиакомпания Hainan Airlines предлагает билеты из Москвы в Малайзию с возвратом из Таиланда за 43500 рублей.

А мы вместо стыковки по пути из Москвы сделаем недельную остановку на Хайнане — авиакомпания допускает такое без доплат за перелет.

Вылеты из Москвы в Хайкоу по понедельникам, средам и субботам; из Бангкока в Москву — по вторникам, пятницам и воскресеньям.

Куала-Лумпур — Бали:Бали — Бангкок с длинной стыковкой в Сингапуре (погуляем в городе без визы):Итого — 53200 рублей за весь маршрут.

То же самое на январь-февраль:Москва — Хайкоу — Куала-Лумпур и Бангкок — Москва:Куала-Лумпур — Бали:Бали — Бангкок с длинной стыковкой в Сингапуре (погуляем в городе без визы):

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Немного красивых картинок, а вместе с ними, возможностей красиво закончить лето или начать осень — полеты по России (половина в сторону МинВод, ага )за 2000 рублей и около.

Тикеты на сайтах авиакомпаний или на aviasalesПитер — УфаПитер — ПермьОмск — УфаКалуга — ПитерПитер — СаранскСыктывкар — МинВодыСамара — МинВодыЧебоксары — МинВодыЧелябинск — МинВодыУфа — МинВодыЕкб — МинВоды (подешевеет, скорее всего)

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«Магнит» договорился о покупке контрольного пакета в сети «Азбука вкуса». В сделку вошли магазины «Азбука вкуса» в Москве и Петербурге, пять фабрик-кухонь и три распределительных центра. Условия сделки не раскрываются. По оценке опрошенных РБК экспертов, стоимость контрольного пакета «Азбуки вкуса» может составлять 35—40 млрд рублей.

Совет директоров ВТБ рекомендовал направить на годовые дивиденды 25,58 ₽ на акцию. Такая выплата дает доходность больше 20%. Но сможет ли компания позволить себе это? Оцениваем риски накануне собрания акционеров.

In the latest episode of the EU-Startups Podcast, Marco Trombetti, Co-Founder and CEO of Translated and Pi Campus, shares his views on entrepreneurship that blends raw curiosity, enduring optimism, and the patient craft of building long-term impact. Hosted by Marcin Lewandowski, the conversation dives deep into how Marco has navigated decades at the intersection of […]

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EnsiliTech, a Bristol-based BioTech startup, has secured €5.2 million in Seed funding to revolutionise the way life-saving medicines are stored and transported globally. The round was led by Eos Advisory and joined by Calculus Capital, Empirical Ventures, Fink Family Office, QantX, Angel Investors Bristol (AIB), HERmesa, Penn Park Capital, chANGELS, and several individual angel investors. […]

The post British BioTech startup EnsiliTech raises €5.2 million to cut cold-chain costs in biopharma transport appeared first on EU-Startups.

Amsterdam-based HospitalityTech startup Toppi has completed its first investment round of almost €1 million, according to information obtained by EU-Startups. This will accelerate product development, strengthen its team, and scale its AI-powered solutions for the hospitality sector. The round was led by X Investments with Ollie Dapper and William van Lith. “What began with guidance […]

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Detechgene, a Cologne-based BioTech startup, has successfully raised €3.2 million in its second Seed round as it pursues its mission to make molecular diagnostics fast, mobile and accessible to all. The round was led by neoteq ventures, joined by NRW.BANK, Aquarius Invest, Meerkat Holding, Campus Capital, and several strategic business angels. “We are very grateful […]

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Stockport-based Property Sense, the PropTech-driven lettings specialist has successfully secured €1.1 million of Series A investment to advance its growth and is now extending the round by a further €1.1 million due to oversubscription and early-stage VC interest. The combined €2.3 million funding round marks a major milestone for the growing business, which is on […]

The post British PropTech startup Property Sense extends Series A after securing over €1 million for its national rollout appeared first on EU-Startups.

Amsterdam-based Vox AI, a conversational voice AI platform purpose-built for drive-thru and operations automations in quick service restaurants (QSRs), today announced it has raised €7.5 million in Seed funding. The round was led by global venture capital firm Headline, with additional participation from True, Simon Capital, and returning investor Souschef Ventures. The funding brings Vox […]

The post Dutch startup Vox AI raises €7.5 million to transform drive-thrus with autonomous voice AI appeared first on EU-Startups.

Ghent-based Showpad, a revenue enablement startup harnessing AI to power smarter buyer-seller interactions, is being acquired by private equity firm Vector Capital, with plans to merge it with Bigtincan, another prominent player in AI sales enablement. The combined entity, which will operate under the Showpad brand, aims to deliver a full-spectrum, AI-first platform for revenue […]

The post Belgium’s Showpad to lead AI sales tech charge after Vector Capital-backed merger appeared first on EU-Startups.

Ortivity, a German HealthTech startup reshaping outpatient orthopaedic care, has secured a fresh capital injection of around €200 million in a strategic transaction led by existing majority investor Apheon, with new backing from Swiss private equity firm Unigestion. The deal allows existing shareholders a partial exit, and accompanies the appointment of Ortivity’s new co-CEO, Dr […]

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Farang, a Swedish AI research lab developing next-generation foundational LLMs, today announced it has raised €1.5 million in Seed funding to scale its proof-of-concept models and invest in the compute power needed for training and fine-tuning models toward select specialisations. The round was led by Voima Ventures and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund, with notable entrepreneur […]

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Copenhagen-based Propane, a new entrant in the European AI scene, has announced a €1.2 million pre-Seed round as it sets out to build what it calls the “Operating System for Customer Intelligence”. The funding round attracted backing from EIFO, Heartfelt, and several notable angel investors including Anton Osika (Lovable) and Morten Wulff (GameAnalytics). “For us, […]

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Multinational asset finance provider PEAC Solutions has announced the acquisition of Berlin-based fintech topi.

"The continued transformation of our industry towards ‘as a service’ based subscription models is undeniable,” said William Stephenson, Global CEO of PEAC Solutions.

“We are confident that this strategic acquisition of topi will be a massive differentiator for PEAC Solutions.

The company will now function as a subsidiary of PEAC Solutions.

“We are excited to join the PEAC Solutions family,” said Charlotte Pallua, CEO and co-founder of topi.

It’s designed to help teams (e.g., product, finance, strategy) present data clearly and persuasively in live settings, such as board meetings or investor updates.

According to Vidos, the old data paradigm is that you make a chart when you already know what you want to show.

But with Vizzu, you drop in raw data, and then pivot, analyse, and explore it directly in the chart.

Using Vizzu, users could switch chart types, stack or unstack data, and vary the filter.

“You’re exploring and combining data visually — and the tool saves every chart you generate.

EnsiliTech’s mission is to make therapeutics and biologics stable at room temperature, ensuring broader access, simplifying logistics, and reducing environmental impact.

Dr.Asel Sartbaeva, co-founder and CEO of EnsiliTech, explained:Our mission is to ensure that life-saving medicines and vaccines reach everyone, everywhere, regardless of infrastructure or geography.

The technology utilises silica, the material from which sand is made, to create an individual, tailored protective coat around the active ingredient.

He shared:We believe EnsiliTech has the potential to become the category leader in biologics thermostabilisation, unlocking new global markets for vaccines, mRNA therapies, and ant…

A London-based startup, which claims to have developed AI-powered tech which can forecast world events, has come out of stealth, following a $4m pre-seed funding.

Called Mantic, the startup’s pre-seed funding round was led by London-based early stage VC Episode 1, with participation from VC tech investor DRW and several angel investors.

“Mantic are building a cutting-edge AI system that can predict the complex world of human affairs,” the startup says.

Mantic says: "In the past, purely data-driven approaches to prediction in human affairs have not worked because both flexible reasoning and research are required to provide the most accurate prediction of the future.

“Mantic is building a cut…

Fueled by a growing startup scene, targeted government support, and increasing international visibility, the country is carving out its role in the European tech landscape.

In 2024, the European Innovation Scoreboard ranked Slovakia as an “Emerging Innovator,” placing 28th overall with a score equal to 65 per cent of the EU average.

The country shows particular strength in tech exports and innovation-driven sales, although it continues to face challenges in R&D investment and design-driven innovation.

According to the Global Innovation Index 2024, Slovakia ranks 46th globally, performing better in innovation outputs (44th) than inputs (52nd).

With increased attention from investors and supp…

ChatGPT developer OpenAI has launched an online centralised hub for startups, as it ramps up its offering for early-stage businesses in Europe and beyond.

The hub effectively puts under one roof OpenAI’s offering to startups.

Marc Manara, head of startups, OpenAI, said: “OpenAI for startups has a new home.

Startups can also sign up for a dedicated newsletter and get details of OpenAI events from the hub.

Laura Modiano, head of startups, EMEA, has previously spoken about how OpenAI works with Euroepean startups.

Breaking into new renewable energy markets is notoriously slow and expensive.

Designed for developers, investors, EPCs, and suppliers, it delivers insights on solar, wind, hydrogen, biofuels, storage, regulations, and funding opportunities in minutes instead of weeks.

“Let’s say a US company wants to understand what’s happening in the Spanish solar energy market in real time.

We consistently heard, ‘Yes — it would be incredibly helpful to have easy access to new renewable energy markets, especially with real-time updates, ’” shared Masevych.

Right now, Greenvi AI is targeting small to medium-sized renewable energy companies.

Today, VC data provider Dealroom released its inaugural Thoroughbreds 100 report, a list of the 100 most promising tech scaleups in EMEA, with revenues of $100 million+.

The ranking now includes Thoroughbreds ($100 million+ revenues) and Colts ($25–100 million revenues) alongside Unicorns.

The Thoroughbreds 100 EMEA represent the companies with the most momentum in 2025, out of over 700 Thoroughbreds across EMEA, with 38 created in the last two years alone.

Thoroughbreds now account for 27 per cent of EMEA’s $5.6 trillion tech ecosystem.

That’s why our 2025 ranking includes a focus on Thoroughbreds: companies generating $100 million+ in ARR, rooted in strong customer demand and lasting valu…

Europe boasts a “swarm” of global-scale AI companies, according to a leading VC, who said Europe was well-placed to take a key role in the AI investment boom.

Ziv Reichert, partner at LocalGlobe, the London-based investor which has backed Mistral and Wise, was speaking on the Tech.eu podcast, alongside Bobby Jackle, partner, Visionaries Club, the early-stage European VC.

Reichert pointed to the likes of Synthesia, Lovable and N8n as examples of application-layer European startups with a “global-scale”.

Jackle said: “If I look at the application layer, I think there is a huge possibility and room for growth in Europe.

Reichert said: “This is something that as an investment team we are increa…

Conversational AI startup Vox AI has raised $8.7 million in Seed funding to accelerate the rollout of its autonomous, multilingual voice platform built specifically for the quick service restaurant or "drive thru" industry.

Vox AI is taking aim at the $1 trillion global QSR market, which continues to struggle with persistent labor shortages, high employee turnover, and rising wage costs.

The startup’s solution offers AI-driven voice interaction for drive-thru, mobile ordering, and in-restaurant operations, positioning voice technology not as a feature, but a full-stack platform shift.

“Vox AI is pushing voice technology far beyond generic Natural Language Processing.

“Vox AI delivers someth…

Stockholm-based Farang, an AI research lab developing next-generation foundational Large Language Models, has raised €1.5 million in seed funding.

Instead of predicting text word-by-word, Farang's architecture comprehends the complete response first, like imagining a picture before painting it, and then translates that concept into words.

While many recent AI models add reasoning steps to simulate “thinking time,” they still depend on word prediction.

Farang’s technology also enables organizations to deploy specialized AI models on-premises with full privacy controls.

Instead of sending proprietary information to external AI services, companies can train and run Farang’s models entirely in-…

The companies want to launch the robotaxi services in Germany and the U.K. first, pending regulatory approval.

Europe’s fintech darling Revolut is looking to raise a new funding round that would give it a $65 billion valuation, the Financial Times reports. The UK-based company is reportedly in talks to raise around $1 billion by issuing new shares and selling existing ones. The US-based firm Greenoaks is said to be leading the round, […]

The confirmation of two hacked victims further deepens an ongoing spyware scandal that, for now, appears largely focused on the Italian government.

The Italian government claims that accepting Paragon’s help would have compromised national security and classified information.

All Thibault Launay and his wife Simi wanted nearly five years ago was to build a dream home in Portugal, where they both now live. But what they encountered instead was a broken system. “Fourteen months of delays, 20% budget overruns, and endless stress managing over 10 subcontractors,” Thibault recalled. They bought the land in […]

This week on StrictlyVC Download, Strictly VC’s Alex Gove speaks with Eric Slesinger from 201 Ventures, a firm focused on seed-stage defense tech startups in Europe. They discuss Slesinger’s journey from CIA to investor and how he recognized the untapped potential in European defense tech while others were dismissive. They also chat about how he’s […]

As the AI Summit got underway in Paris on Monday, some 60 European companies — from incumbent industrial giants to AI startups (including France’s LLM-maker Mistral) — signed up to an initiative to help establish Europe as a leader in AI. But the fact that they felt the need to sign up at all highlights the […]

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Following allegations of potential abuse, Paragon Solutions has cut off Italy from its spyware systems.

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OpenAI on Thursday launched data residency in Europe, allowing European organizations to meet local data sovereignty requirements while using the AI company’s products. Data residency refers to the physical location of an organization’s data, as well as the local laws and policy requirements imposed on that data. Most tech giants and cloud providers offer European […]

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WhatsApp said users in several European countries were targeted with Paragon spyware, according to the Italian government.

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Despite news that Andreessen Horowitz closed its London crypto-focused office, the VC reportedly still has dozens of scouts in Europe looking for startups.

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The European Commission (EC) says it has requested information from Elon Musk’s X related to the algorithms that determine the content it recommends to users. The EC wants to determine how those algorithms may or may not be compliant with the Digital Services Act (DSA), which imposes key obligations on online platforms operating across the […]

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TikTok’s e-commerce Shop feature is going live in Spain, the company announced on Tuesday, marking the first step of a wider European rollout. The launch indicates that TikTok parent ByteDance is speeding up the expansion of the TikTok Shop in European markets as a potential U.S. ban looms. Users in Spain will now be able […]

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The European Commission (EC) has quietly closed a longstanding antitrust investigation into Apple over rules it enforces against third-party e-book and audiobook app developers. The EC opened the probe back in 2020 after receiving complaints over how Apple forced competing e-book and audiobook app developers to use Apple’s own in-app payment system, while also preventing […]

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