You unearthed our magic relic—Scribbles Font—and now you’re possessed, the words as though summoned from the depths… In the spirit of sorcery, we’re keeping the incantations coming: enjoy EIGHT new free fonts, FOUR of which are ENTIRELY ILLEGIBLE… just the way you like them! Sans. Unique. Serif. Monospaced. Flow circular. Libre barcode. Yardings 13. and… Scribble. Try ‘em out #scribblefont #redacted

We live in an incredible era. Every day something launches that looks wicked, and I feel like I’m constantly playing catch up just to keep up. In a weird way, all of this has got me looking back at the earlier days of the internet, and wondering which lessons from that era still feel timeless. That’s the idea behind Internet Icons at @meetgranola, a new event series celebrating the pioneers whose work still shapes the internet today. First up in London 🇬🇧 - @EbenUpton, co-founder & CEO @Raspberry_Pi, the affordable little computer that got millions of kids (and plenty of grown-ups) tinkering, coding and building. - Julia Whitney, who led design for the original BBC iPlayer during her eleven years at the BBC, as people’s media habits shifted from radio and TV to online, then mobile. - @veen, co-founder & CEO of Typekit. Hard to imagine now, but websites used to be stuck with the same handful of fonts. Typekit changed that, and it’s part of the reason the web stopped looking so uniform and people could bring some individuality to their corner of it.

We've acquired trail ML, a Munich-based #AI governance company, to strengthen how we help organizations scale. Read the full announcement: ow.ly/Ur5R50ZUrrf #AIGovernance #EnterpriseAI

Line go up big time. (Nearly 8M documents!) 😍 Btw, if you’re not already following us on Instagram and Tiktok, consider it! Memes, product vids, community takes—we’re sharing it all. Instagram: instagram.com/ellipsuswrites Tiktok: tiktok.com/@ellipsus_writes

The factory arrives in a shipping container! 🏗️ I had a chance to meet and talk to Mollie Claypool, CEO and co-founder of @_auar, in London. What they ship to a builder's site is a robotic microfactory inside a container. It builds the entire structure of a home, and Mollie put a range on it I hadn't heard before: anything from a single storey up to six or seven. Her framing is industrialised production delivered on site, on demand, wherever it's needed and when it's needed. The software is called MasterBuilder, and she calls it the brain of the microfactory. It takes a home builder's design, translates it into everything the microfactory needs to manufacture it, then drives the production itself. The part I pushed on is why the facility doesn't look like conventional industrial automation, and the answer turned out to be the material. Timber has bow. It has twist. It has bits taken out of it. Every board is slightly wrong in its own way, and a fixed program has no answer for that. MasterBuilder senses the environment and the material it's touching, and reacts in real time to whatever is actually in front of it. That's the line between automation and physical AI, drawn in a material people have been building with for thousands of years. Thanks Mollie for the time, and for explaining it that clearly 👏🏼 Always hypnotizing to see @ABBRobotics robots work in new industries ;) ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com

For 13 years, the UK has regulated alternative investment funds, including venture capital, with a view to protecting investors — without exceptions for strategy. The result is that failure has become more costly, barriers to entry are higher, and failure no less common. This is a systematic drag on the UK venture industry, which we would like to see corrected. Consider the debut funds of many legendary firms, and how many were in the $5–10M "micro VC" range. Indeed, @seedcamp's Fund I was just €2.5M, and their Fund II just €5.2M; they are now one of the most important early-stage firms in Europe. That small initial scale is what allowed LPs to test their ability without putting too much at risk; the power of cheap experiments with huge upside. It also enables a broader distribution of capital; casting a wider net. Today, micro VC is effectively prohibited in the UK, because of the cost imposed by regulation. For example, admin and compliance would consume about 20% of a £5M fund, and about 11% of a £10M fund — versus 3.5–6% for a US equivalent. This cost raises the hurdle for viable fund size, concentrating capital into fewer firms with a broadly lower risk appetite and weaker coverage. It is a structural leakage of value. The ironic result of legislation intended to protect investors. However, there is a solution: The Exempt Reporting Adviser regime was desgined precisely to eliminate this burden in the US, and that ecosystem has since benefitted from a fertile market for small and emerging managers — broadly outperforming their established peers. Applying a similar concept to the UK would be straightforward, essentially cost-free, and actually improve the regulator's view of the market. This is the basic outline of our proposal, as a response to the current AIFM consultations. We have prepared a policy document and an open letter, signed by organisations across the industry, including: - @join_ef - @formventureshq - @Mountside_V - @Beauhurst - @isomercapital - @AntlerGlobal - @seedcamp - @MozillaVentures - @joinsequel - ...and many more. If the UK is to meet the stated goal of "growth in every postcode", or growth in ANY postcode, it is vital that opportunities like this (sensible deregulation to boost growth) are seized. Read more here: blog.joinodin.com/p/reformin… Sign the letter: aifm.joinodin.com/

The GPU market right now is pure financial engineering. You can't get them on demand. So you sign a 3-year contract. But to get that contract, you need to put 30% down upfront. Most companies can't do that. So they find someone who can. - that person puts down your 30% - you sign the 3 year contract - your payments cover the entire cost of the GPU plus some - the person who put down your deposit owns the gpu outright So basically they took on zero hardware risk, got paid back entirely through your contract, and even kept the asset at the end. It's not a chip shortage anymore. Everywhere I see it's a capital access problem. If you have the 30% money, you're literally printing it right now. If you don't, you can't even get in the door.

back with more confessions 🤫 this week with @sarahdrinkwater prev of Omidyar Network on power and patronage analogue.press/p/confessions…

my new investment thesis is to fund TRUST. everything is a scam right now and i'm sure the pendulum will swing back hard. What are tools/products/devices that give consumers and businesses a sense of trust?

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We think Europe needs more pro-European, pro-tech, pro-abundance, pro-optimism propaganda. So we made it. Posters, t-shirts, hoodies. Full-on propaganda. We've been handing them out at robotics meetups and clubs all over Europe for weeks, and people love them. Why we are doing this: Europeans know more about the companies in the States than the ones right here at home. We need to change that. Time for propaganda. Every poster features a real European company: 🦾 Allonic is braiding humanoids. A completely new approach to building robotic parts. If it works, a number one company worldwide, right here in Europe. 🚜 Voltrac, the electric autonomous tractor (we made a whole video about them). 🏗️ Automated Architecture (AUAR), doing micro-factories for wooden houses.  🪨 Gondor Industries, a stone mason company using robotics. And many, many more to come. This is the first of many drops. More launching in the next few weeks, including flags, EU posters and more. 👉 Get yours at prototype-shop.com For Europe 🇪🇺🔥 PS: If you're organizing a robotics event or meetup, have a student club or hacker space, comment or message us and we'll send you a swag box.

A UK AI startup has just raised a £2.8m pre-seed to make planning applications faster and more accurate. This is exactly what we need to get Britain BUILDING. The planning process is one of the biggest bottlenecks in getting things built in the UK. The team at Xylo have built agents that are massively reducing the workload of planning agents, enabling their work to get faster and more accurately. It has been working with, and building the technology alongside, Leeds City Council. Today it has announced a £2.8m pre-seed led by CapitalT, with backing from @sarahdrinkwater, SVV, @tinyvc and Endurance Ventures. LETS GO I LOVE to see AI companies build tools that can have huge public benefits and Xylo is one. Congrats @Dermot_Oriordan and Habs Isabelle Kim!

In this episode of Going Solo, @ry_paddy sits down with @sarahdrinkwater, GP at @_CommonMagic; a pre-seed fund launched in 2023 that invests in products with community at their core. Before Common Magic, Sarah built one of Europe's most influential startup communities as head of Google Campus London and had been angel investing for many years. 01:22 - The joy of being a solo GP 03:07 - Organisations as world models 05:46 - The energy required to raise a fund 08:56 - Community as a core thesis 11:22 - "Brand" for solo GPs 14:35 - Getting out of the VC-shaped box 18:15 - Why this, why now? 19:57 - Investing like an angel 24:20 - The hardest problems are social 29:00 - Do one thing really well 35:52 - The valley of death for European VC 39:54 - Outsiders make great first-time GPs 43:00 - The world in 10 years 43:50 - Shoutouts to @MayaBakhai and @FinnMurphy12 46:04 - The joy of many careers

Can robots build new towns — and other blue-sky thinking ft.trib.al/8zOtZkQ