Seattle-based Phaidra, which develops AI software to automate building controls for power plants and other industrial facilities, has raised a $25M Series A (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Seattle-based Phaidra, which develops AI software to automate building controls for power plants and other industrial facilities, has raised a $25M Series A  —  Industrial production is one of the dirtiest corners of the corporate world.  A startup from former Google engineers thinks it can clean it up with artificial intelligence.

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Despite China's scrutiny of online credit, smaller services have proliferated in China, as the penetration rate of online microlending reached 69.2% in 2021 (Yaling Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Yaling Jiang / South China Morning Post:
Despite China's scrutiny of online credit, smaller services have proliferated in China, as the penetration rate of online microlending reached 69.2% in 2021  —  Trams and cast-iron postboxes speak to the history of the city, while delicacies such as fishballs and egg waffles are street food essentials …

A look at YouTube's strategy that began in 2019 of signing Twitch streamers who have a network of collaborators to try and build its own game streaming culture (Nathan Grayson/Washington Post)

Nathan Grayson / Washington Post:
A look at YouTube's strategy that began in 2019 of signing Twitch streamers who have a network of collaborators to try and build its own game streaming culture  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Where once the departure of Twitch stars for YouTube Gaming elicited shock and awe …

Interview with MetaMask founders who say "we can't stop people from making Ponzis on blockchains" and "putting your money in cryptocurrencies is gambling" (Maxwell Strachan/VICE)

Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
Interview with MetaMask founders who say “we can't stop people from making Ponzis on blockchains” and “putting your money in cryptocurrencies is gambling”  —  Co-founder Aaron Davis says in his first joint interview with Dan Finlay that “it feels too little too late …

Report: in emails sent to three creators, Coinbase says it is "temporarily shutting down" its US affiliate program on July 19 and plans to relaunch it in 2023 (Moneycontrol)

Moneycontrol:
Report: in emails sent to three creators, Coinbase says it is “temporarily shutting down” its US affiliate program on July 19 and plans to relaunch it in 2023  —  According to a Business Insider article, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will “temporarily shut down” its US affiliate-marketing programme on July 19.