Shimon
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Shimon
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🇺🇸🇮🇱 @findtapdotcom, @podsnacks, @makespace

New York Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander recited a Quran verse at a Queens mosque, saying he hopes to partner with Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib in Congress. During the same event, the imam prayed for the Mahdi to kill infidels with his sword.



Amazon’s Alexa+ will produce AI-generated “podcasts” featuring chats between two robot “co-hosts”: • Amazon has inked deals with major news organizations to ensure “accurate, real-time news and information” • In an example clip from Amazon, a male Alexa+ narrator says more than 50% of music listening now comes from unsigned artists. “The monoculture is just gone,” a female-voiced Alexa+ narrator chimes in. The male Alexa+ host says there has been “stoner metal,” indie pop and experimental hip-hop “all dropping on the same Friday,” and adds, “That’s not chaos — that’s the healthiest the music ecosystem has ever been.” variety.com/2026/digital/n…


Israel has gained 1,000 square kilometers of territory since October 7, 5% of what it had in 1949. It has emerged from this tragedy stronger than ever.


Multiculturalism has failed. Even the politicians who pursued it now admit it. That's because diversity is not a strength, unity is. The solution to the failure of multiculturalism is monoculturalism, where all citizens subscribe to a shared national identity which is more important than their individual differences.

Status has raised $17M in seed and Series A funding led by @AbstractVC, @generalcatalyst and @usv to let anyone step inside their favorite stories, become famous, and live a million different lives. We quietly launched Status last year and grew to over 1 million users in 19 days - making us the fastest growing AI app since ChatGPT. But we hit a (predictable) snag - the app was incredibly expensive to run. How do you serve millions of users without degrading the product with a cheap LLM? So the team locked in: we rebuilt the whole experience, and our technical bets paid off. Our users now spend 35 minutes on average to (90 minutes each day for power users!), and millions of characters and worlds have been created. All by our users. The next frontier of entertainment is mobile-first and deeply personal. Traditional mobile games take years to build and rarely stick. TV shows are fleeting in the age of streaming. Status is different. It is not a game you finish, it is a world you can live in. Status is a new category entirely: Immersive Social Entertainment, and we believe strongly that it is the next great entertainment paradigm. We’ve 10x’d to millions in annual revenue in Q1 2026, we're just getting started. On Status, you can be anyone.

Pepsi acquires SodaStream for 3.2bn #WaterTech is starting to boil. Will be one of the hottest areas by 2020 w/ some of the greatest social and environmental impacts (Fix Flint, Ban single use plastic bottles) @Jessicalessin @theinformation @TechCrunch @mashable @VentureBeat

A 5-gallon water cooler jug of water produces about $132 in economic output from data centers, but only about 2 cents from almonds.



Everyone asks if Atlas can bring them a drink, but this robot can bring you the whole fridge. Using AI-driven behaviors, Atlas is doing hard work and coordinating its whole body to manage heavy objects, balancing complex contact points with accuracy and reliability.














