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Filing: Netflix paid $587M in cash for Ben Affleck's AI company, InterPositive, in March (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-price-ben-affleck-ai-company-r…

Netflix Paid $587 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Company
The streaming giant disclosed the figure in a footnote in a securities filing Friday.

Filing: Elon Musk quietly bought Jacksonville, FL-based APR Energy, which operates mobile gas and diesel turbines similar to those used in Colossus 2, for ~$1B (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company-apr-energy-grok/

Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok
Elon Musk quietly bought APR Energy, a 1 GW gas and diesel turbine fleet, to power xAI's Grok — years after building his brand on solar energy.

Nick Blair, a 40-year-old former football agent, and son of ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair,
is seeking funding for a military technology startup called “Pyra”
to the tune of 200 million dollars.
It’s not clear what, exactly, Pyra needs all that money to do:
its website only says “Deploying Summer 2026…Stand By.”
Blair is at the moment the only active officer of the company, according to UK government filings.
In an article published this week, an unnamed sour…

Tony Blair's son is launching yet another military tech company
Nick Blair is seeking $200 million for a project with no product.

Filing: a Chinese company says a fund in which its unit invested paid ~$420M for an indirect 0.8265% stake in DeepSeek, implying DeepSeek is valued at ~$52B (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Filing: Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch's FY 2026 compensation was $31M, down from $33M a year earlier; COO John Nallen's compensation rose from $15.3M to $18.1M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Lachlan Murdoch’s Fox Pay Dipped to $31 Million Last Year
Fox Corp.'s pay disclosure comes as the company seeks to complete its deal for Roku.

So, https://mastodon.social/@JenniferSmith345 is an odd bot. I don’t think it’s even a LLM behind it, the replies are just too weird.
Profile looks like it was taken from someone real…

Jennifer Bennett (@JenniferSmith345@mastodon.social)
20 Posts, 1 Following, 1 Follower · My name is Jessica, I currently live in Los Angeles, California, in the western United States. I graduated from Stanford University with dual master’s degrees in Business Administration and Clinical Psychology. I enjoy exploring the unknown, and I love cycling, yoga, golf, traveling, and reading books on finance and economics. I am currently the CEO of a publicly traded jewelry company. My favorite animal is the dog. I detest conversations with ulterior mo…

From Sputnik to Starship - estimating the experience curve of #SpaceLaunch technology: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/7/pgag217/8732400?login=false -> For more than 60 years, the cost of transporting payload into space has been falling: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Transport-of-payload-into-space-SpaceX-as-the-East-India-Company-of-our-time-11365594.html - according to an analysis, there is no comparable development in history.

Every Surprise Standout From Dallas Cowboys' Preseason Week 1 Win https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/every-surprise-standout-from-dallas-cowboys-preseason-week-1-win

The thing I hate about working in the #JavaScript space is bit-rot. My #ClojureScript swinging needle meter demo, written in 2017, still works, but I can no longer compile it from source.
Probably this won't take too long to fix, but it is work which should not have to be done.
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Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/motorola-leads-125m…

Motorola leads $125M round for Brinc, fueling 911 drone expansion amid U.S. import crackdown
Seattle-based 911 drone maker Brinc raised $125 million led by Motorola Solutions, at a valuation the company says has nearly doubled from a year ago. The funding will support expanded manufacturing and a new Seattle headquarters and factory later this year.