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Show HN: Sturnus, a latency-based LLM load balancer

Unreasonable and unfair: damning investigation criticises Labor’s algorithm-based tool for aged care

TaskWire An MCP-based taskboard for managing AI agent workflows

LSEG agrees to acquire Octus, an NY-based provider of credit intelligence, data, and workflow software, from Permira and Octus' management for $3.54B in cash (Dominic Chopping/Wall Street Journal)

How LLM-Based Penetration Testing Harnesses Work

Google will target ads based on Gmail, Photos data if Personal Intelligence is enabled

Glyphh Ada – Precedent-based classifier and LLM fallthrough router

Sources: Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agree to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses (Financial Times)

Microsoft and Alphabet join 14 other companies objecting to a plan by OKXICE, a venture of OKX and ICE, to trade blockchain-based versions of their shares (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)

Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

Atlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and sensors to predict machine failures and recommend maintenance, raised a $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)

Rocket Drew / The Information : Atlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and sensors to predict machine failures and recommend maintenance, raised a $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuatio…

Show HN: Linden – a rule based verification layer for AI agents

What to Wear When Exercising Outdoors, Based on How Cold It Is

Minneapolis-based Slingshot, which uses AI to help businesses offer embedded insurance, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed co-led by Rally and Skyward Group (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Minneapolis-based Slingshot, which uses AI to help businesses offer embedded insurance, emerges from stealth with a $27M seed co-led by Rally a…

At GTC Berlin, Jensen Huang says he urged UK-based neocloud Nscale to "work around the clock" to resolve data center delays amid investor doubts about its IPO (Bloomberg)

US military failed to notify UK police of drink-driving allegation against airman based in England

British authorities were unable to investigate case of Christopher Mooty, who went on to commit another offence The US military failed to notify British police of an allegation tha…

[$] Hash-based module integrity for reproducible distributions

Stockholm-based legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series E at an $8.8B post-money valuation, up from $5.55B after raising a $550M Series D in March (Rosie Harris-Davison/City A.M.)

Qualcomm to cut jobs globally in "performance-based" layoffs, as company pivots to AI data center and edge computing markets

Films Based On ‘D’Orc’ and ‘Mouthwashing’ Now in Development

Amazon's Bee AI wants to listen to your life, and then sell you things based on what you say

Apple commits up to $100M over three years to Pennsylvania-based Perryman Company, a titanium supplier for the iPhone Duo, and expands its Qnity partnership (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)