Halluminate, a nine-person San Francisco startup building AI training environments for financial work, has raised $30 million in a Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5 million. Halluminate benchmarks AI models on financial tasks to find where they fall short and builds simulated training environments aimed at those gaps. Founded in
Essex cricketer Robin Das has been charged with two counts of rape. The 24-year-old will appear at Inner London Crown Court on Friday, 9 October after he was charged on 23 July. Das was arrested on 27 August last year following reports of a woman being raped in Brixton in March 2024. The Metropolitan Police
YouTube will soon count a view as soon as a video starts to play, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos. The update will go into effect on August 24th, “which means creators will likely see their total view counts increase faster moving forward,” the platform says. YouTube says
