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Israeli customer service automation company Nice acquires Cognigy, which develops a conversational and agentic AI platform, for $955M, set to close in Q4 2025 (Shiri Habib-Valdhorn/Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-nice-acquires-ai-co-cognigy-…

Nice acquires AI co Cognigy for $955m
The acquisition combines Nice's purpose built customer service AI platform with Cognigy's conversational and agentic platform, which will enable organizations to accelerate AI adoption in customer experience.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/leidos-acquires-kudu-dynamics-advancing-ai-capabilities-for-cyber-warfighters-302466307.html
Leidos acquires Kudu Dynamics, advancing AI capabilities for…

Leidos acquires Kudu Dynamics, advancing AI capabilities for cyber warfighters
/PRNewswire/ -- Leidos (NYSE:LDOS) announced today that it has acquired Kudu Dynamics, accelerating Leidos' rapid scaling of artificial intelligence...

Alphagenome: Deepmind KI analysiert Auswirkungen von DNA-Veränderungen
Deepminds neue KI Alphagenome analysiert DNA-Veränderungen, um Auswirkungen auf unsere Gesundheit zu entschlüsseln.
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This makes me a bit nervous as I really love this game. However some speculation I’ve seen is the Sasquatch could become a much-needed mascot for Apple Arcade.
https://www.macobserver.com/news/apple-acquires-indie-video-game-studio-rac7/

Jaxson Dart explains how Giants QB room plans to be 'aggressive' not 'reckless'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jaxson-dart-explains-ho…

SpeechIQ: Speech Intelligence Quotient Across Cognitive Levels in Voice Understanding Large Language Models
Zhen Wan, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Yahan Yu, Jinchuan Tian, Sheng Li, Ke Hu, Zhehuai Chen, Shinji Watanabe, Fei Cheng, Chenhui Chu, Sadao Kurohashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19361

SpeechIQ: Speech Intelligence Quotient Across Cognitive Levels in Voice Understanding Large Language Models
We introduce Speech-based Intelligence Quotient (SIQ) as a new form of human cognition-inspired evaluation pipeline for voice understanding large language models, LLM Voice, designed to assess their voice understanding ability. Moving beyond popular voice understanding metrics such as word error rate (WER), SIQ examines LLM Voice across three cognitive levels motivated by Bloom's Taxonomy: (1) Remembering (i.e., WER for verbatim accuracy); (2) Understanding (i.e., similarity of LLM's interpreta…

Apple-Marketingboss: EU-Digitalregeln haben "irrsinnige Auswirkungen"
Greg Joswiak aus Apples Führungsteam meint, dass die aktuellen EU-Digitalregeln eine "gigantische Bedrohung" für die Privatsphäre sind. Er fordert Umdenken.

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Pelican. June 2017

Check Point acquires Israeli cyber startup firm Veriti for $100 million
https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/byjdi4emee

Check Point acquires Israeli cyber startup firm Veriti for $100 million
The Israeli company, founded in 2021 by Check Point alumni, has developed a platform for identifying and fixing security gaps in real time 30 Veriti employees will join Check Point as part of the deal, which is a continuation of the company's Israeli acquisition strategy

Aggressive play goes 'a little too far' sparking multiple fights at Falcons practice https://www.nfl.com/news/aggressive-play-goes-a-little-too-far-sparking-multiple-fights-at-falcons-practice