Moody Urbanity - Relations III 🧶
情绪化城市 - 关系 III 🧶
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Prezent, which offers an AI-powered presentation builder to enterprises, raised $30M at a $400M valuation, bringing its total raised to $74M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/prezent-raises…
Xia & Lindell have also published a response (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518837122) – unsurprisingly, we don’t agree with most of their arguments. What puzzles us most is their claim that the re-analysis (their Table 1) "strengthens [their] conclusions." On the contrary:
In the Polysynthesis analysis, Small_Family has a minuscule averaged effect estimate (0.02) with a standard error more than four times larger (0.085). Together with a posterior inclusion probability (PIP) of just 0.085, this means the variable is rarely included in the best-supported models and its estimated effect is highly uncertain – essentially indistinguishable from zero. We therefore still struggle to see how this could be taken as support for their earlier statement that "different measures of language isolation – social, physical and *phylogenetic* – are important predictors of polysynthesis."
🇫🇷 France has introduced a subsidy scheme for electric farm machinery, including 🚜 tractors and other equipment.
https://agirpourlatransition.ademe.fr/entreprises/aides-financieres/catalogue/2025/engins-agr…
Sources: Coinbase and Mastercard have each held talks to acquire stablecoin startup BVNK for $1.5B-$2.5B; a deal would be the largest stablecoin acquisition yet (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/10/09/bvnk-acquisition-coinbase-mastercard-stable…
Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer vision startup Prompt AI; it was approached by other potential suitors, including xAI and Neuralink (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/apple-nears-deal-to-acquire-ta…
Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source AI agent standards as soon as this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai…
A group of American investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds has agreed to acquire NSO Group in a deal valued at "several tens of millions of dollars" (Omer Kabir/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1jgvmitgx
Dutch payments group Mollie agrees to acquire London-based fintech GoCardless for €1.5B, set to close in 2026; GoCardless was last valued at $2.1B in early 2022 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7904647c-91ea-4e90-b496-5d249a7a5d91
Sources: Microsoft's US data center crunch will last through H1 2026, longer than previously outlined, as the company restricts new Azure cloud subscriptions (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20