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Paramount, California AG Rob Bonta, and the WGA schedule a two-day meeting for settlement discussions about the WBD deal, starting October 14 (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

It’s a Date: Paramount, California AG and Writers Guild Agree on Meeting for Settlement Talks
The Oct. 14 talks will be the first time the two sides formally sit down to discuss a resolution to the case.

Sources: Uber is in advanced talks to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal valuing the German food-delivery company well above its recent market value of €11.2B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-14/uber-is…

Let’s talk about the billionaires
— the folks cutting the line while the rest of us pay the bill.
They don’t need another champion in Congress.
I’m not going to the Senate to fight for guys like Elon Musk,
and I don’t believe in tax cuts for the wealthiest people on the planet.
That might not be a popular opinion in Washington, but here in Maine, the vast majority of folks would agree.
Except Susan Collins.
Susan Collins has hardly met a billionaire…

Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate
Troy Jackson is ready to flip Maine's Senate seat and unseat Susan Collins once and for all. He's a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, a lifelong labor champion, and former Maine Senate President, who's proven he can win — by 20 points — in a district carried by both Susan Collins and Donald Trump.

Sources: Silver Lake is in talks to acquire HR and financial management software maker Workday, which has a market value of ~$43B; WDAY jumps 18% (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/silver-lake-talks-buy-workday-sources-say-2026-08-13/

Sources: Salesforce has been in talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform for $2B; Listen Labs was valued at $500M earlier this year (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-acquire-ai-startup-listen-labs-2026-9…

Salesforce has been in talks to buy AI startup Listen Labs
Salesforce has had talks to acquire Listen Labs, an AI startup that provides marketing research to brands, for around $2 billion.

Never a weekend slowdown in cybersecurity news, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed since Friday, including
--Alibaba’s Qwen races past Meta, Google with 3 billion AI model downloads,
--AI agent exploits Snowflake flaw introduced by Copilot,
--US tells allies to pick sides in AI race with China,
--China pushes to reshape the world’s AI training data,
--China’s Zhipu claims AI edge over Anthropic in cyber test,
--Pentagon scrambles to keep pace with AI’s military risks,
--France holds crisis meeting over massive tax agency hack,
--Iran targets Israeli journalists with phishing attacks,
--Election officials blast CISA over lack of cyber support,
--AI deepfake scams surge in Australia,
--SafePal breach exposes data of nearly 40k customers,
--Bits of Gold breach exposes customer data,
--Hackers exploit Mac flaw to mine cryptocurrency,
--Seven arrested over $35m German bank hack,
--Hong Kong university probes ransomware breach claims,
--Fake GitHub site spreads Mac infostealer,
--US courts to disclose government spyware use,
--Sogang University breach exposes 180k people,
--DDoS attacks hammer secure messaging service Threema,
--Hackers hawk millions of records stolen from Azure tenants,
--London police expose emails of Al Fayed accusers,
--Microsoft kills Windows tool long abused by malware,
--French court blocks social media ban for children,
--AI can’t seem to produce any tech heroes,
--AI makes data breaches even more expensive,
--Amazon used to sell books, not destroy them
https://www.metacurity.com/alibabas-qwen-races-past-meta-google-with-3-billion-ai-model-downloads/

Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars…

Nvidia has been in talks to buy Hugging Face for more than $13 billion
Nvidia has held talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion as the chip giant expands its AI dealmaking.

Sources: Thoma Bravo-backed Proofpoint is in talks to acquire cybersecurity company Varonis; Varonis rose 10.4% on Wednesday, giving it a market value of ~$5.4B (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Sources: Anthropic has walked away from talks to acquire Decart for ~$6B after performing due diligence on the startup (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/anthropic-said-to-walk-away-from-6-billion-de…

Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a $385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/06/2…

Kraken eyes 15% stake in DeFi lender Aave in deal valuing protocol at $385 million
The DeFi lender is rebuilding after the fallout from April's KelpDAO exploit sparked a multibillion-dollar exodus of deposits despite Aave itself not being hacked.