
AI voice startup Elevenlabs has appointed former Conversant Media executive Michael Costa as its go‑to‑market director for Australia and New Zealand. Costa, who has held senior roles at Salesforce, Twilio and Mixpanel, will lead the company’s expansion despite still being based in the UK. The move coincides with funding talks that could double Elevenlabs’ valuation to about $11 billion, potentially making it the UK’s most valuable startup. Elevenlabs, founded in London in 2022, already operates offices across multiple continents and is backed by investors such as Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz.

Visa has appointed senior vice president Leonardo J. Collado as general manager of Pismo, effective April 1. Collado, who oversees value‑added services for Latin America and the Caribbean, brings 25 years of payments experience to the role. The move follows...

India’s leading pregnancy detection brand PregaNews has launched a digital film ahead of International Women’s Day to spark open conversations about postpartum depression. The short film highlights how many new mothers silently endure emotional and physical strain, normalising these challenges...
It's hard for me to describe how different things are than they were a week ago. I'm moving into more of a player coach role, and in the last 7 days, my team of PMs have been: - creating a "Cash...

Asia‑Pacific airlines face a decade‑long talent crunch as passenger traffic surges, requiring over 400,000 additional aviation professionals by the mid‑2030s. The shortage spans pilots, engineers, cabin crew and digital specialists, creating a structural mismatch between demand and supply. Recruitment struggles...
Our 2020 challenge to Apple and Google brought one immediate gain: both dropped fees from 30% to 15% for small developers: the makers of the 98% of apps that earn 5% of the revenue. The settlement drops Google’s comparable long-term...

Pulled some #Opendoor stats in Sacramento. They are doing better than a few years ago, but some razor thin margins. This is the dollar difference between acquisition price and resale price. Real estate fees, holding costs, credits, & repairs costs...

Former chief financial ombudsman Walter Merricks withdrew as class representative in the Govia Thameslink rail‑fare case after failing to secure after‑the‑event (ATE) insurance. The claim, certified by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in 2021, alleges unfair pricing on the London‑to‑Brighton...

The Halifax House Price Index shows the average UK home price has risen above £300,000 for the first time, reaching £300,077. Prices climbed 0.7% in January after a 0.5% dip in December, lifting annual growth to 1%. Regional gaps have...

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association’s Q4 2025 Mortgage Market Tracker shows a modest dip in overall industry confidence, yet advisers remain highly optimistic about their own firms, with 57 % very confident and 43 % fairly confident. Average case volume slipped to 89...

Tubi has assembled one of the largest free horror libraries on any streaming platform, offering hundreds of titles across classic, cult, and modern sub‑genres. The service runs two dedicated 24/7 FAST horror channels and continuously refreshes its on‑demand catalog, with...

Iran has built a clandestine fleet of roughly 60 Boeing and Airbus jets by exploiting shell companies, forged documents, and mid‑flight diversions that skirt international export controls. The network sources used parts through a global broker chain, reverse‑engineers components, and...
YouTube now accounts for over 12% of all TV viewing time in January, outpacing Netflix by roughly four percentage points, according to Nielsen’s latest "The Gauge" report. The platform’s VP for the Americas, Tara Walpert Levy, framed YouTube as a...
CFX Download hosted CableLabs EVP/CTO Mark Bridges to discuss the company’s new Quality‑by‑Design (QbD) partnership with Zoom, upcoming Tech Summit highlights, and future broadband innovation initiatives. The QbD collaboration aims to accelerate service design and deployment across cable networks using...
Mammoth Energy Services reported $16.4 million revenue in Q2 2025 but posted a $35.7 million GAAP net loss, driven largely by a $31.7 million non‑cash impairment on its Northern White Sand mine. The quarter featured three major portfolio moves: a $108.7 million sale of infrastructure...

Researchers are exposing a century‑long blind spot in biomedical science: the systematic exclusion of women’s bodies from data. Since the NIH’s 2016 mandate to treat sex as a biological variable, large‑scale disaggregation of health datasets has revealed that women live...

A 56‑year‑old Chinese patient became the first living person to be connected to a genetically modified pig liver via extracorporeal perfusion, keeping him alive until a human liver transplant could be performed. The operation, carried out at Xijing Hospital, used...
Mediacom, representing ACA Connects members, petitioned the FCC to revise legacy rules that obligate cable operators to keep detailed signal‑leakage logs and make subscriber records available for inspection. The company argues that in today’s all‑digital networks, signal leakage incidents have...
The Asian Development Bank announced a $5.4 billion financing plan for Kazakhstan, a $1.1 billion package for Tajikistan, and a $2.5 billion commitment to Azerbaijan, all aimed at strengthening the Middle Corridor trade route. The bank also launched a technical assistance program to...
NCTC’s AI Center for Excellence is wrapping up four pilot projects with three member companies, with results expected by May. The pilots aim to prove ROI for use cases such as network‑outage prediction and churn reduction. Successful outcomes could move...

British Columbia’s chief coroner has launched a formal inquest into the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting that claimed nine lives. The inquiry will scrutinize systemic and procedural failures, including how the shooter’s use of two ChatGPT accounts—one banned but not reported...

The article explains that grain basis is the difference between local spot prices and futures contracts, serving as the local market adjustment on top of global pricing. In Australia, wheat basis is measured against CBOT wheat futures in Australian dollars...
My biggest takeaway right now regarding mortgage rates is to expect heightened volatility. They will likely bounce around a lot more than normal thanks to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The good news is 30-year fixed rates remain near ~3-year...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has entered its fourth week of serving contextual ads, with Sensor Tower reporting that retail and grocery promotions dominate the ad inventory. Over a two‑week sample, more than 100 distinct brand ads appeared, outpacing other categories such as...

HL7 announced the Caliper FHIR Accelerator, a new implementation community focused on standardizing medical device data exchange. The initiative builds on HL7’s 2025 effort and joins existing FHIR accelerators such as Argonaut and CARIN. Founding members Dexcom and GE HealthCare...

Angelalign Technology has launched a recycling program for used clear aligners in partnership with TerraCycle, covering dental and orthodontic practices across Australia and New Zealand. The initiative uses TerraCycle’s Zero Waste Box system to collect multi‑layered plastic aligners, which are...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that about 50 medical schools across 31 states will add at least 40 hours of nutrition training to their four‑year undergraduate curricula starting this fall. The initiative, driven by HHS Secretary...
What good things is AI doing? Here's 10 things my AI agents found here on X that are examples of good things AI has done for humans. +++++ 1. "ChatGPT saved my life" — grocery store conversation about an ultra-rare diagnosis "Doctors...

Polish startup Liftero has signed a contract with India’s OrbitAID to provide two multi‑thruster BOOSTER configurations for an in‑orbit servicing mission slated for the fourth quarter of 2026. The boosters use nitrous‑oxide (N₂O) chemical propulsion to deliver six‑degree‑of‑freedom (6‑DOF) maneuvering,...
I don't believe any of this is true. I have seen on big outlets and influencers hyping this up. I don't believe HELIOS is even deployed to the region nor has it downed a drone in combat nor would it...
Tenosynovial giant cell tumour (TGCT) is a rare, locally aggressive neoplasm driven by CSF‑1 over‑expression. The phase 3 MANEUVER trial evaluated pimicotinib, a selective CSF1R kinase inhibitor, against placebo in patients with inoperable or relapsed diffuse‑type TGCT. Results demonstrated statistically significant...
The White House briefing on Sept 22 2025 linking prenatal acetaminophen to autism and promoting leucovorin was followed by an interrupted‑time‑series analysis of the Epic Cosmos database. Emergency‑department orders for paracetamol among pregnant women fell 10% (OER 0.90) while use among non‑pregnant women showed...

The United States designated six Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, prompting President‑elect Claudia Sheinbaum to reassess Mexico’s security strategy. The authors model three possible responses—total subordination to U.S. efforts, covert subordination while preserving public sovereignty, and strategic resistance...

Here’s how to identify when a deal is too risky: Sometimes the deals you don’t do are more important than the deals you do This 40-unit deal that I underwrote a while ago had 4 major deal breakers 1. Having to take...
"Twenty-Four States Led by Oregon File Lawsuit Challenging Trump's Section 122 Tariffs" https://t.co/SqGRbF04Xc "This may be the first time a lawsuit filed by blue state governments quoted Milton Friedman" 🔥
Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Celeste Maloy have filed a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s management plan for Grand Staircase‑Escalante National Monument. The Government Accountability Office affirmed...
giving ai agents specific cards that can be locked per merchant and have spending caps is an obvious payment solution. probably more obvious than stablecoins which have a ton of payment adoptions. @lithic is probably the only fintech platform company...
Indices of Sleep Health Are Associated With Timing and Duration of Eating in Young Adults - Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics https://t.co/RztLzXUScr

The American press are letting them. And then the #BrokenTimes editorial board bothsides even this... Politicians Are Trying to Control the News https://t.co/SKjiPhNbe1 https://t.co/zNDaP3UHNs
#WhosNext? Oil and gas workers? #Automation means the industry doesn't employ as many people as it used to. #AV #Robotics #RPA https://t.co/7icqDY8Mvf
There are other CNRL projects that have material carbon pricing liabilities, including at Jackfish and Primrose. The mines don't have that issue.
New solar tracking strategies aim to maximize crop yield in agrivoltaics #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/XYthEuKWUC
It seems like this is now happening, with the news that the Iranian Navy auxiliary ship Bandar Abbas is now seeking shelter in port in Sri Lanka to wait out the war in an interned status.
Ribosomes as Drug Targets. The Quiet Rewrite of Psychiatry and Beyond. | Ep. 950 https://t.co/gKlWpzO1Ci https://t.co/ImGOmUVrSO
“"The Mark 48 is one of the most lethal anti-ship weapons in the U.S. inventory," Thomas Shugart, an adjunct senior fellow at [@cnasdc], told Fox News Digital.” https://t.co/B4fV7Sgz82
I'm sure Pierre checked whether this project made money or paid money under the industrial carbon pricing regime, right?
OpenAI is eons behind here, esp for financial modeling. Think they were in early on Rogo which may help (probably good acquisition opportunity tbh) but Anthropic has been crushing and Mistral is doing well with EU banks (mainly because of...
Over 270,000 TEU Stranded as Container Carriers Halt Gulf Cargo Bookings. As Penny said on Big Bang—holy crap on a cracker. https://t.co/YA2vB0MmHv
Why the Middle East crisis could prompt a doubling down on solar #energysky -- via pv-tech: https://t.co/6ieL0gTNmJ
Container Shipping Rates Rise as Asian Factories Reopen—But Hormuz Crisis Threatens New Shock. Is it time to stop talking about rates? Instead cite the metrics for container lines and for supply chains? Rethink a new reality of increasing disruption? ...