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The exclusivity period on OpenAI's $3B offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf has expired, which means that Windsurf is free to explore other options (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/11/the-exc
Sources: David Ellison, the CEO of Skydance, has recently held early discussions about acquiring Bari Weiss' The Free Press (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/business/free-press-skydance-acquisition-talks.html
I don’t agree in one respect:
Neither OOP nor FP (nor 4GLs nor IDEs nor SOAs nor any of the other new hotnesses past) had anything remotely resembling the current money behind them. None led to companies speculatively laying off tens of thousands of employees for imagined productivity boosts that had not actually arrived yet. None shaped whole election cycles, or led to national proposals for preemptive deregulation. None led to the construction of nuclear power plants or the draining of rivers. None sent oligarchs or fascists into spasmodic wet dreams of world domination. None started quasi-religious cults like EA.
All •that• is the part that feels like blockchain — but even worse, if such a thing is possible.
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Hungarian foreign fighter killed in Ukraine fighting against Russia, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/hungarian-foreign-fighter-killed-in.html
Stripe has agreed to acquire Privy, which helps companies build crypto wallets into their user experiences; Privy was last valued at $230M in March 2025 (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Samsung agrees to acquire Seattle-based Xealth, which helps healthcare providers manage digital health tools and has raised over $50M, for an undisclosed sum (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/samsung-acquiring…
Meta has completed a deal to acquire AI voice technology startup PlayAI, and the "entire PlayAI team" is set to join Meta next week, per an internal memo (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Sources: Chinese diplomats agree to a six-month ease of rare-earth export licenses, with the earliest application approval within a week of the deal's signing (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/beijing-pu