@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-07 15:35:56
Nielsen agrees to acquire DoubleVerify and take it private in an all-cash deal with an enterprise value of around $2.15B, expected to close by Q1 2027 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nielsen-acquire-doubleverify-d…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-11 22:56:39
If there were a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity,
no responsible government would leave its development to companies racing to build it.
Yet until recently, that seemed to be the case.
The warning was all the more ominous because it was made by a researcher at Anthropic,
the trillion-dollar AI company behind the Claude chatbot.
The dangers of AI-enabled pandemics or attacks on nuclear systems are real.
Countries need not agree on democracy or …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-08-06 21:20:51
Nielsen agrees to acquire DoubleVerify and take it private in an all-cash deal with an enterprise value of around $2.15B, expected to close by Q1 2027 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nielsen-acquire-doubleverify-d…
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social2026-09-09 22:06:57
Please read this superb post by @deevybee.bsky.social
I agree with every word of it.
Science is endangered by the demand for speed and by AI slop.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-leap-into-future-or-off-cliff.html
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-08-28 14:57:57
"to develop a 1,350-acre site along the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta for shipbuilding by forgoing a new environmental review. " Heaven forfend that we actually consider the risks of a major industrial development in the delta. After all, we know how responsible the operators of these sorts of installations are. After all, we never have air quality issues near the Richmond refineries, or hazardous fires; the Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard is a paragon of environmental respo…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-08-28 14:57:57
"to develop a 1,350-acre site along the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta for shipbuilding by forgoing a new environmental review. " Heaven forfend that we actually consider the risks of a major industrial development in the delta. After all, we know how responsible the operators of these sorts of installations are. After all, we never have air quality issues near the Richmond refineries, or hazardous fires; the Bayview Hunters Point Shipyard is a paragon of environmental respo…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-03 12:09:45
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest purchase after it paid $20B for Groq assets at the end of last year (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/03/nvidia-agrees-to-buy-hugging-face-for-almost-13-billi…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-01 12:53:24
Sources: Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models, to compete with AWS and Azure (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-01/meta-is-bu…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-23 19:10:46
Foundation Future Industries, backed by Eric Trump, partners with AMD to develop autonomous humanoid robots using the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series chips (Aishwarya Jain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eric-trum
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 15:25:43
Source: Tencent is in talks to acquire Israeli game developer SuperPlay in a deal valuing SuperPlay at $1B-$1.5B; Playtika acquired SuperPlay in 2024 for $690M (Golan Hazani/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hkvfmqsvme
