Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/deepgram-ac…
Daytime surf show! 🏄♂️ 🎸 🎶
#music #surf #SanFrancisco
Manish Lakhani on Glass:
“I call them Devil’s Eggs. Mangystau never fails to mesmerise with its bizarre formations. “
https://glass.photo/withmanish/3j2TKXHAiuio0GWcP6i5De
Einer der Gründe warum ich mir sehnlichst #Regen wünsche
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/niedri
I have spent most of the time since Labor Day out across the country,
campaigning, knocking on doors, speaking at rallies ahead of the midterms.
I’ve been in upstate New York and eastern Pennsylvania, in northern Montana and the Central Valley of California, on the Kansas-Missouri line and southern Maine, in eastern Iowa and south-central Michigan, in Austin and in Dallas.
And I’ve been online more nights than not, helping with phone banks into every part of America.
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1023763/openai-google-microsoft-ai-scr…
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1023763/openai-google-microsoft-ai-scr…
Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyperexponential, which makes AI-powered insurance underwriting and pricing software, for $1.7B in cash (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/g
Salesforce acquires Rune, which makes AI military logistics software, sources say for $375M in cash and stock; Rune raised $30m from a16z and others (Margaux MacColl/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/scoop-salesforce-is-paying-375m-for-rune-techno…
Salesforce agrees to acquire Rune, which raised ~$30M to make AI military logistics software, as it expands its year-old Missionforce defense business (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/10/29/salesforce-rune-d…