• TechCrunch 记者 Anna Heim 确定了 21 家新兴的欧洲 AI 和科技初创公司,它们有望在市场领导者 Mistral AI 和 Lovable 之外吸引风险投资者的关注。
• 这份精选的公司名单代表了人工智能和新兴技术领域中被低估的机会,风险投资内部人士正对此进行悄悄跟踪。
• 这些初创公司竞争的市场环境是:成熟的欧洲公司继续获得大规模融资并推出极具竞争力的产品。
• POLITICO 的一项调查显示,一家背景深厚的制药公司和保守派评论员 Laura Loomer 试图削弱 Vinay Prasad 博士的影响力,他是参议员 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 的盟友,此前他曾对某些药品定价和监管做法提出批评。
• 报道指称,存在协调一致的社交媒体运动和幕后游说活动,旨在抹黑 Vinay Prasad 的研究和公共卫生评论。
• 制药行业团体和一些患者倡导者对此进行了反击,称 Big Pharma 捍卫其商业模式实属自然,但批评人士警告称,企业支持的压制医学界异见声音的企图正日益增多。
• Donald J. Trump 总统签署了一项行政命令,对几名 Cuban 政权官员和实体实施针对性制裁,政府指控这些官员和实体支持镇压和侵犯人权行为。
• White House 表示,此举传达了与 Cuban 异见人士团结一致的信息,并是对向 Latin America 独裁政权施压的更广泛努力的补充。
• Congress 中的批评人士,包括一些 Democrats 甚至一些 Republicans,认为此举在即将举行的移民和地区安全谈判之前收紧了 U.S. 的筹码,可能会适得其反。
参加该校年度仪式的大学生表示,她们穿着泳装的照片在未经同意的情况下被发表在全国性报纸上。
周五黎明太阳升起时,数百名 St Andrews University 的学生将冒着严寒进入北海,参加一年一度的 May Dip,这是一项据称能为考试带来好运的本科生仪式。但海滩上并不仅有学生。近年来,这一奇特的仪式已成为通讯社和自由摄影师的目标,他们希望利用穿着比基尼的学生照片牟利,其中一些人甚至在 Fife 海岸路径附近的 East Sands 沙丘上露营过夜。
“它毁了我的夜晚,”照片出现在 Scotsman 刊登的一组照片中的学生之一 Anna 说道。“现在每当我想到那次 May Dip,我就会想到那张形象,仅此而已。” 继续阅读...
Federal raids unfold in Twin Cities amid ongoing tensions between the Trump administration and Minnesota officialsSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxFederal agents under the command of the Trump administration have descended on Minnesota’s Twin Cities again to primarily target alleged fraud at daycares after the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s so-called “Operation Metro Surge” all but wound down earlier in the year.“Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” the US justice department told the Guardian in a statement on Tuesday. Continue reading...
Ceasefire frays further as Israel also carries out airstrikes and issues new displacement orders for south Lebanon Hezbollah launched several drones at Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon on Tuesday, while Israel issued new displacement orders for south Lebanon and carried out airstrikes, as the fraying ceasefire failed to stop fighting between the two sides.Hezbollah claimed Tuesday’s attack injured several Israeli soldiers, but no confirmation was given from the Israeli military, apart from a statement saying interceptor missiles had been fired at incoming Hezbollah drones. Continue reading...
Fiona Hill tells MPs UK is ‘vulnerable’ because it does not educate people on how to deal with information warfareBritain is becoming a soft target for Russian and other state propaganda because the UK is not prepared to educate people on how to deal with information warfare, according to a former White House adviser and security expert.Fiona Hill told a parliamentary committee that she feared the UK had become “extraordinarily vulnerable” to online manipulation feeding into the electoral system because there was a lack of discussion about civil defence. Continue reading...
Trump and first lady were safely evacuated and police arrested Cole Tomas Allen of southern California at eventThe gunman who tried to breach the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night is believed to have been targeting members of the Trump administration, the acting US attorney general, Todd Blanche, said on Sunday morning.Blanche also said officials believe that the suspect traveled by train from California to Chicago and then on to Washington, where he checked in as a guest at the hotel where one of the capital’s glitziest annual events was being held, the Washington Hilton. Continue reading...