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At No Point While Rewatching Every ‘Planet Of The Apes’ Does It Occur To Man He Might Be Depressed

GRAND RAPIDS, MI—Despite ample opportunity for the troubling realization to occur to him in the long hours he spent staring at his laptop, sources reported Tuesday that local man Aaron Semple at no point recognized during his recent rewatching of every Planet Of The Apes film that he might, in fact, be depressed. “I thought […]

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Brandon Sanderson might be even better at sci-fi than Cosmere fantasy

By leaving the complex world-bulidng of the Cosmere behind, Sanderson pens more character-driven mysteries focused on simulation theory and time trave

Letter AI, whose sales software provides personalized, deal-specific guidance, raised a $40M Series B, four months after a $10.6M Series A (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)

Geoff Weiss / Business Insider:
Letter AI, whose sales software provides personalized, deal-specific guidance, raised a $40M Series B, four months after a $10.6M Series A  —  - Letter AI has raised $40 million and is now valued in the hundreds of millions.  — The sales software startup uses AI to deliver real-time, deal-specific guidance.

Kraken launches what it claims are the first regulated perpetual futures contracts based on tokenized stocks, available to non-US users and trading 24/7 (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Kraken launches what it claims are the first regulated perpetual futures contracts based on tokenized stocks, available to non-US users and trading 24/7  —  The crypto exchange is bringing U.S. stocks closer to the crypto world, letting users trade derivatives of tokenized stocks around-the-clock and with 20x leverage.

Nimble, whose AI agents structure real-time web data into tables that can be queried like a database, raised a $47M Series B, bringing its total funding to $75M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch:
Nimble, whose AI agents structure real-time web data into tables that can be queried like a database, raised a $47M Series B, bringing its total funding to $75M  —  Believe it or not, web search is still thriving as an industry.  As businesses invest in using AI agents to make the most of their data …