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Private equity company acquires .org registry.
https://domainnamewire.com/2019/11/13/breaking-private-equity-company-acquires-org-registry/
saved 2019-11-15

Breaking: Private Equity company acquires .Org registry - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News
Ethos Capital, led by former ABRY Partners Managing Partner, buys .Org registry. I thought this might happen. And now it has. Fresh off ICANN’s blunder letting Public Interest Registry set whatever price it wants for .org domain names, Internet Society (ISOC) has sold the .org registry Public Interest Registry (PIR) to private equity company Ethos […]

Salesforce is acquiring CMS provider Contentful; source: Salesforce paid between $1B and $1.5B, a steep discount from Contentful's $3B valuation in 2021 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/salesforce-acquires-contentful-…

Salesforce Acquires Contentful in Latest Move to Boost AI
Salesforce is acquiring Contentful, a provider of content management software for businesses, in the latest sign of its efforts to make its customer data more easily accessible to AI agents. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Salesforce paid between $1 billion and $1.5 billion for Contentful, which was founded in 2013, according to a person with direct knowledge of the figure. That’s a

RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/116495973861998046
CLASS TREACHERY!

Werbe-Tracking: Deutsche Ermittler kauften Handydaten
Smartphone-Apps erfassen Standortdaten zu Werbezwecken. Aggregiert verkaufen Händler diese an Interessenten – darunter offenbar auch die deutsche Polizei.
https://w…

Werbe-Tracking: Deutsche Ermittler kauften Handydaten
Smartphone-Apps erfassen Standortdaten zu Werbezwecken. Aggregiert verkaufen Händler diese an Interessenten – darunter offenbar auch die deutsche Polizei.

Source: Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as planning drug research, for ~$400M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-acquires-startup-…

Anthropic Acquires Startup Coefficient Bio for About $400 Million
Anthropic has acquired AI biotech startup Coefficient Bio for roughly $400 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The startup’s team will be joining Anthropic’s health care life sciences group, which is aimed at developing tools for biotech workflows ranging from drug ...

Rams 'aggressive' about rare shot to land Garrett https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48951573/mcvay-rams-aggressive-shot-land-star-garrett

Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A survey of US adults finds 56% support banning social media for under-16s, while 21% oppose; majorities across demographic and partisan groups support a ban (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Majority of Americans support banning social media for kids under 16
Across major demographic and partisan groups, more Americans support than oppose banning those under 16 from using social media.

A look at Pangram, considered the gold standard for detecting AI writing, and the dangers of its claimed 1 in 10,000 false-positive rate when used at scale (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)
https://www.…

America Has a Pangram Problem
AI-detection tools are getting better. But they still aren’t good enough.

Chinese robot maker UBTech launches U1, a line of humanoid robots for personal companionship with lifelike silicone skin and emotional AI, priced from $17,650 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trend…

UBTech launches lifelike humanoid robots built for companionship in China
The unveiling of model U1, which has silicone skin and emotional AI, reflects tech firms’ drive to expand robotics beyond industrial use.