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Konsortium kauft Electronic Arts für 55 Milliarden US-Dollar
Der Spielepublisher Electronic Arts wird von einem Konsortium gekauft, an dem der saudische Staatsfonds beteiligt ist. Der Deal kostet 55 Milliarden US-Dollar.

»Margaux Blanchard – US-Medien fallen auf KI-generierte Artikel von Freelancerin herein:
Mehrere US-Medien haben offenbar Artikel einer Freelancerin namens Margaux Blanchard veröffentlicht, die komplett per KI erstellt worden sein sollen. Die Artikel sind mittlerweile entfernt. Aber eine Frage bleibt: Wie konnte das passieren?«
Die Frage ist doch, wie überaschend ist dies und wiso werden jenste plumpe News geteilt?
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Margaux Blanchard: US-Medien fallen auf KI-generierte Artikel von Freelancerin herein | t3n
Mehrere US-Medien haben offenbar Artikel einer Freelancerin namens Margaux Blanchard veröffentlicht, die komplett per KI erstellt worden sein sollen. Die Artikel sind mittlerweile entfernt. Aber eine Frage bleibt: Wie konnte das passieren? Im Mai 2025 war die Chicago Sun-Times von einem KI-Debakel durchgerüttelt worden, als in ihrer Sonntagsbeilage Lektüretipps und Empfehlungen zu Sommeraktivitäten erschienen, die […]

wiki_article_words: Wikipedia article-words (en) (2010)
A bipartite network of English Wikipedia articles and the words they contain. The edge weight gives the number of times a word appeared in the connected article.
This network has 276739 nodes and 2941902 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
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A new thing to boycott, if you aren't already: https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

EA to be acquired for $52.5 billion in largest buyout ever of a public company taken private
Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired by an investor group including Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in the largest private equity-funded buyout in history. The investors, who also include a firm managed by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, and the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, valued the deal $55 billion. EA stockholders will receive $210 per share. The deal far exceeds th…

EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.88B est., and says it will no longer issue forward-looking financial guidance due to its $55B sale (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/electronic-arts-sales-down-ea…

Electronic Arts Sales Down, Suspends Earnings Calls
Electronic Arts saw its sales fall 13% year over year during the July-September quarter.

Wow.
Gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55bn deal
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4w3jzx807o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55bn deal
EA is known for making best-selling games such as EA FC, The Sims and Mass Effect.

Seriously looking like France will bring in a wealth tax. Background: https://www.politico.eu/article/gabriel-zucman-economist-france-wealth-tax/ (86% popular support!)
Bloomberg on current politics:

France can’t stop talking about Gabriel Zucman — and his wealth tax
The 38-year-old economist has a recipe to save the EU’s second-biggest economy from a debt crisis — but will the government dare take it?

New accreditation awards to archive services https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/new-accreditation-awards-to-archive-services/

New accreditation awards to archive services - The National Archives
Following a recent Archive Service Accreditation Panel, the UK Archive Service Accreditation Committee is pleased to announce the latest awards to archive services.

A look at Live Nation's Setlist.fm, a wiki-like site with 80M annual users that changed live music by letting users document songs that artists play at concerts (Marc Hogan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/setlist-fm-website-con…

The Website Reshaping Live Music, One Set List at a Time
On Setlist.fm, users track what songs artists play at concerts (and more). The availability of so much data has changed the ways musicians and fans experience shows.

discogs_genre: Discogs artist affiliations
Two bipartite networks of the affiliations between musical artists and either musical genres or musical "styles," as given in the discogs.com database. An edge indicates that a given artist was involved in a production of a particular genre or style. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 1754838 nodes and 19033891 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted