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German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M and was last valued at $1.35B in 2021 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/3icwf2pbx

Munich Re to acquire Israeli startup At-Bay for $575 million
The German insurance giant is buying the cyber insurtech at less than half its 2021 valuation, as insurers increasingly seek to combine coverage with technology that can prevent cyber losses.

Só agora eu descobri que em abril faleceu a #MaireBrennan (irmã da #Enya e principal componente da banda #Clannad). Fiquei triste agora, gostava da música dela.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117298578578338675
With several companies already developing replacements for the ISS,
which is also slated for retirement around 2030,
NASA needs to assure its commercial partners that astronauts will have a dependable way to …

Cowboys Bolster Their Pass Rush, Reportedly Agree To Deal With Von Miller https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/allas-cowboys-reportedly-sign-two-time-super-bowl-champion-von-miller

Sources: Paramount is in advanced settlement talks with California Attorney General Rob Bonta over the company's deal to acquire WBD (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/…

Sources: SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about a potential acquisition; deal talks are inactive, but the companies are discussing working together (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/spacex-at…

David Ellison Should Never Own a Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery, because of course he shouldn't.
No one person, family or company should own so much news, media and entertainment.
But that didn't stop David Ellison from trying to convince us he should (and oddly making it clear he should not).

David Ellison Convinced Me He Should Never Own nor Control a Combined Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery
David Ellison wrote an editorial in the New York Times (gift link) in which (I think) he tries to make the case for why he should be allowed to have his Paramount acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. He accomplished the opposite. He should not own them. I read his writing with

Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/08/18/f…

Francisco Partners to acquire Weave Communications for $650M
The deal comes less than five years after Weave went public at a $1.5 billion valuation.

The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/08/openai-deployment-company-northslope-acquisi…

Exclusive: OpenAI deployment arm to acquire Northslope
AI companies are starting to do work that was traditionally left to consulting firms.

Uber agrees to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal that values the German food delivery company at ~$14.8B, offering €41.50 per share and buying out Prosus' stake (Edwin Chan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…