• TechCrunch 特派員 Anna Heim 指出了 21 家新興的歐洲 AI 及科技初創公司,這些公司有望在市場領導者 Mistral AI 和 Lovable 之外吸引風險投資者的關注。
• 這份精選的公司名單代表了在人工智慧與新興技術領域中,被低估且正受到風投內部人士悄悄追蹤的機會。
• 這些初創公司在一個既有歐洲企業持續獲得巨額融資並推出具競爭力產品的市場中競爭。
• 一項 POLITICO 的調查顯示,一間人脈廣泛的製藥公司與保守派評論員 Laura Loomer 試圖打壓 Vinay Prasad 博士(參議員 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 的盟友),原因是他批評了某些藥物定價和監管做法。
• 該報告指稱,相關方發起了協調一致的社群媒體活動和幕後遊說工作,旨在詆毀 Prasad 的研究和公共衛生評論。
• 製藥產業團體和一些患者倡導者對此反駁,稱 Big Pharma 自然會試圖捍衛其商業模式,但批評者警告,由企業資助並試圖讓持不同意見的醫學界聲音噤聲的行為正日益增加。
參加該大學年度儀式的學生表示,他們穿著泳裝的照片在未經同意的情況下被刊登在全國性報紙上。
當週五黎明太陽升起時,數百名 St Andrews University 的學生將冒著嚴寒進入 North Sea,參加年度的 May Dip,這是一項據說能為考試帶來好運的大學生儀式。但海灘上並不只有學生。近年來,這項獨特的儀式已成為通訊社和自由攝影師的目標,他們希望利用身穿比基尼的學生照片獲利,有些人甚至在靠近 Fife 海岸步道的 East Sands 沙丘上露宿過夜。「這毀了我的夜晚」,Anna 說道,她是其中一名照片出現在 the Scotsman 刊出版面中的學生。「現在當我想到那個 May Dip 時,我腦海中就只有那張照片,就是這樣。」繼續閱讀...
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...