💰 @sapiom raises $35M in a Series A round led by @dragonfly_xyz. Also joined by @Accel, @GradientVC, @cbventures, @OpCo_VC, Formus Capital, VanEck Ventures, @okta Ventures, @MenloVentures, @AnthropicAI, @arrayvc. #Sapiom# powers the infra to ship, run & scale AI agents cutting model routing costs at production scale. #AI# #AIAgents# #Funding# #SeriesA#

A friend of mine accidentally proved the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis by learning Toki Pona. She found that learning such a simple language actually negatively impacted her ability to form complex thoughts. Of course, she didn't put it that way, she said "simple language bad think hard word hard speak hard no learn simple language mind death bad bad bad no good no good bad".

The power of Expert Intelligence in @Gemini_Notebook: Add The Sense of Style by @sapinker to a notebook with a draft you're writing. Ask for feedback based on Pinker's ideas. It's the opposite of AI slop: personalized advice based on human expertise, facilitated by AI. And what I love about this is that I'm getting actionable suggestions here AND Notebook is serving as a guide to Pinker's underlying philosophy of writing. So I'm learning deeper principles as I improve my draft. And of course everything in the Notebook response points directly back to specific passages in Pinker (and my own draft) with citations. We have a Featured Notebook curated by Steven Pinker available here, but if you purchase the book, you can add it to any notebook you want. (And read it in its entirely in Notebook or the Google Play Books reader.)

Is Pump Fun leaving Solana? @sapijiju, Co-Founder of @pumpfun, announced the launch of a new blockchain: "I think it's just like the best experience for the user, right? I think the biggest thing is like... you could just optimize it purely around for the best possible user experience. That could be low or zero gas fees... to make the end user experience like 10x better to what it currently is, and you can sort of make it mobile-centric." Pump Fun is also planning to launch stablecoin: "The early ideas is we sort of create a wrapped version of Tether or USDC just to sort of allow it to grow and get like a big time usage, build up the trust - because obviously stablecoin is extremely trust-centric business... and then focus on moving the assets into sort of like bonds and stuff like that once the market cap and liquidity is large enough."

Ancient DNA revealed that our species, Homo sapiens, once interbred with Neanderthals, but what was the nature of those Stone Age encounters tens of thousands of years ago? Discoveries unearthed in a cave in what’s now Turkey indicate the two groups did not merely cross paths but may have shared some cultural traditions, making similar tools and collecting the same kind of shell.