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Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a $3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva (Frank Connelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sony recently informed its PlayStation customers in the United Kingdom that
they will no longer be able to watch previously purchased movies
and shows from production and distribution company StudioCanal.
As of September 1, affected customers will no longer be able to stream 551 titles from the PlayStation Store.
In a legal notice first spotted by gaming news outlet PlayStation LifeStyle,
Sony said that affected customers will lose the ability to stream titles i…

Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy
Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.

Sources: Apple is in negotiations to buy chips from CXMT and YMTC, two Chinese semiconductor makers on a Pentagon blacklist, for use in devices sold in China (Bloomberg)

Some dude wants to "buy" my Instagram account username because he has a business involving "artists" and NFTs and crypto and blockchains and admits 99% of NFTs are "shit" and like, no... no my dude. No.

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📰 Mit Deiner Hilfe teile ich täglich #Forschungserkenntnisse und Neuigkeiten, die uns u. a. vor gesundheitlichen und finanziellen Risiken warnen und Fortschritte in #Klimaanpassung, #Energiewende

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the BVG ticket apps (all 3 of them 🫠) are completely cooked, aren’t they?
Can’t see my Deutschlandticket for August and couldn’t even buy another ticket. Getting generic network errors everywhere.

RTL closes its acquisition of Sky Deutschland from Comcast for an upfront purchase price of €68M, down from the €150M announced in 2025 (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/05/rtl-closes-sky-deutschland-deal-comcast-1236931764/
…

RTL Completes Deal To Buy Sky Deutschland From Comcast
RTL has closed its deal to acquire Sky Deutschland from Comcast.

i kind of want to buy a 1990s dodge stratus just so i can shout “I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS” at people and have it actually be true

On one hand, there's a lot of deserving companies that are going to go out of business when this bubble pops.
OTOH, worse companies are going to buy them up (or get bailed out) and I don't think the people responsible will actually suffer.
https://mstdn.social/@MCDuncanLab/1168

#TIL Peter Zinovieff, co-founder of EMS, sold his wife’s tiara to buy a DEC PDP-8, making him the first private individual in the world to own a computer. He used it to build a revolutionary electronic music studio in his back garden. 🎹💻 https://…

The Story Behind The EMS VCS3 in the 1970s, part 1
A musical review of a great instrument from the golden era of analog synths, the EMS VCS3, featuring The Who, Hawkwind, Roxy Music and Brian Eno.

There is more to #SolarPunk than solar panels and bikes. What we are talking about is being part of a living world. The hegemonic culture is one of hierarchical domination.
But many of the the cultures that hegemony suppresses bring a vibrancy to life. I don't buy yeast from the store, sealed in a plastic packet, a coffin for a living thing. I feed my sourdough. I am obligated to it, in a relationship with it, as the culture is reliant on me for it's survival. It speaks to me, with smell and color. I must pay attention. I have to learn it's nature, how it grows and eats at different temperatures informed by different times of the year. Mushrooms, yeast, kiefer, plants, independent things, things I can't control, life that is intertwined with my own.
But even my #bicycle speaks to me, which is something I hadn't considered until reading this and thinking about that framing.
It is not simply that "we need a different economic system." What we are talking about is a fundamentally different interpretation and experience of the world, from the hierarchical structure of death to a web of life, where even "inanimate" things become imbued with agency.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2936873&post_id=151655646

I am currently in the UK, which meant that on Saturday I was able to buy the actual paper version of my favourite newspaper.
The TL:DR version is that the Tories cut funding for local authorities road repairs. But the longer version below is very informative and probably applies to problems that are not unique to the UK

Today's events just reassured me that regularly buying music and movies in a way, that I can truly own them, was the right call, and I should buy more games DRM-free on GOG or itch, if they are available, there.

Let’s Buy California from Trump – Denmark’s Next Big Adventure
Have you ever looked at a map and thought, "You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates." Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality.
https://denmarkification.com/…

Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not?
Buy it from Trump, the bigliest crowdfunding ever

Finished the Artisan of Glimmith Demo. Decided to rather watch streamers playing the rest of the game instead.

The Artisan of Glimmith Demo on Steam

"Microsoft updated its #Surface buying guide to describe 8GB #RAM as “great for everyday use like browsing, streaming, schoolwork, and productivity apps.” A companion FAQ adds that 16GB or more is what unlocks #Copilot

Hexara (PC) Hey so if you're old enough to have any kind of fond memories of the game Hexic on the 360, this is basically an exact clone of it available on Steam. It's got the same exact gameplay without straight up stealing the assets. Also the dev responded to my (and another) review mentioning repetitive music by patching in more tracks of chillout tunes, bonus. Was an easy 1st day buy, and cheap. Even has a leaderboard (I'm currently in 2nd place woo)

Sources: Baidu's chip unit Kunlunxin Technology plans a Hong Kong IPO at a $50B target valuation, asking investors to buy chips worth 3-7x their IPO investment (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/baidus-chip…

Baidu’s Chip Unit Asked IPO Investors to Buy Its Semiconductors
In China, chip companies may have found a new clientele for their semiconductors: IPO investors. Kunlunxin Technology, an AI chip firm majority owned by search engine company Baidu, is planning to go public in Hong Kong at a target valuation of $50 billion, according to a person who participated ...

Ben Jennings on plans to allow private investors to buy stakes in the World Cup
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jul/29/ben-jennings-gianni-infantino-donald-trumps…

Ben Jennings on plans to allow private investors to buy stakes in the World Cup – cartoon
Fifa has announced plans to sell the commercial rights to its tournaments, including the World Cup

Ben Jennings on plans to allow private investors to buy stakes in the World Cup
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jul/29/ben-jennings-gianni-infantino-donald-trumps…

Ben Jennings on plans to allow private investors to buy stakes in the World Cup – cartoon
Fifa has announced plans to sell the commercial rights to its tournaments, including the World Cup

The story behind Trump’s personal intervention in Coast Guard ships provides new insights into how his administration has cut corners and flouted rules in pursuit of projects that suit his personal desires,
regardless of whether they fit any broader strategic rationale
https://www.

Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts
The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.

Curious to know what repairability is like on the new Jony Ive designed Ferrari Luce.
Knowing Ive, it's completely glued/welded shut. If it breaks down you're expected to throw it out and buy a new one.
[Photo via Trung Phan]

Finding myself browsing for elbow- and knee-protectors ... and if I'm really honest: I probably just want to buy gear. 🙈
But it MIGHT be safer, too - if I bring them to the tours ...

SNAP cuts hurt grocers, too when fewer people buy using them...
Food Insecurity Soars in the US as GOP Celebrates SNAP Cuts - WhoWhatWhy
https://whowhatwhy.org/economy/food-insecurity-soars-in-the-us-as-gop-celebrates-snap-cuts/

I should buy a boa– i mean, meow!

I have a compulsion to buy #videogames when they're deeply discounted -- $10 for 3 Very Positive games? What a steal! -- but when I have a spare moment I only ever want to play AAA games or free art games.

Source: Barry Diller's People Inc. prepares an offer for MGM Resorts that values the casino giant at $18B , seeking the 73.9% stake it does not already own (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/business/dealbook/diller-people-mgm-resorts.…

Barry Diller’s People Inc. Plans a Takeover Bid for MGM Resorts
The mogul’s People Inc. is preparing an offer to buy the portion of the casino giant that it doesn’t already own, at an $18 billion valuation.

"Spotify's effective payout averages roughly $0.003 to $0.005 per stream... By contrast, Bandcamp pays artists roughly 82% of each sale. A direct $10 album sale can exceed revenue from thousands of streams. Buying music or books directly from artists, whether physical or DRM-free digital, is one of the most direct ways to support them."
Artists are likely better off when you #buy o…

So there’s this shop specialized in Japanese knives aptly called « Musashi » that I discovered on my way the other day. Pro: I finally could get my Santoku a good sharpening by someone who knows what they’re doing. Con: I want to buy the whole fucking shop
The Kiritsuke, they’re calling my name
#cooking

The Onion is still the best way to have a chuckle while acknowledging today's American political horror show.
Buy a $99 annual subscription now.
#theonion

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Frog:
🎵 Best Buy
#Frog
https://heyitsfrog.bandcamp.com/track/best-buy
https://open.spotify.com/track/4TYXPuORwqXKR2VPdobpKH

RE: #AltText.

Or: the US dollar is worth less than half what it was when I got to the states in the mid-90s.
And I say this as someone who lived in Mexico in the 80s. Dollar is worth what a peso was in 1979, in terms of what it'll buy you.
https://econtwitter.net/@acemaxxanalytics/1…

Friday Links 26-24
I liked the "Border Collie" post today, the podcast about air conditioning in Europe, and the interview with Mike D.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/07/friday-links-26-24.html

Sources: NXP is in talks to buy Ambarella, which has a market cap of ~$3.3B and makes image-processing chips for security cameras and self-driving cars (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f02ce02b-fa33-49ad-b8c7-81ab5cec3de0

Adam Schefter Ready to Buy Into Dallas Cowboys Hype Under One Condition https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/adam-schefter-ready-buy-dallas-cowboys-hype-one-condition

@… appreciate you! You won’t have to buy another license.

I guess I’m “time to buy a travel bidet” years old now…

So apparently Apple is now selling the Mac Mini under scalpers rules; had a client suprise me with 4 new hires, & I couldn’t buy 4 Mac Minis; I had to buy 1 Mac Mini at a time over 4 days. 😂
(Have machines on order via the Apple Business store to restock inventory, but they’re still 2 weeks out)

"You cannot try to 'get the job'. Just go in there, have some fun and do your version of that part. 'This is what I'm selling. If you want to buy it, that's cool. Have some adjustments for me? That's fine, I'll make some adjustments, but this is basically what I want to do.' THAT'S the attitude, sort of 'f*ck it' attitude. Not f*ck you...but, f*ck it."
—Sam Rockwell

Las Vegas Raiders Mailbag: Fans Buy Into Klint Kubiak's Staff https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-mailbag-fans-buy-into-klint-kubiak-staff

Currently looking for funding for my next innovative start-up. Don't question it. Do you want to miss out? BUY NOW!

Don’t Buy a #MacMini for Your #AI Setup Until You Read This
https://medium.com/@pranithnaikpranit/

Shawn Nunley helped put hacker-turned-consultant Kevin Mitnick in prison. Decades later, after they became good friends, Mitnick left Nunley enough money to buy a Porsche 911 GTS. (If anyone has Nunley's actual Reddit post telling this story, I can't find it.)
https://www.

This Man Was Gifted His Dream Car by the Notorious Hacker He Put in Prison
Shawn Nunley stopped Kevin Mitnick with a cassette recorder. Decades later, Mitnick left him enough to buy his dream Porsche 911 GTS.

Sources: OpenAI has discussed giving a 5% stake to the US government as the company seeks to clear political obstacles by securing buy-in from the Trump admin (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7c803eab-8e80-4431-9a87-e943bf00e00b

So, I'm (as often is the case) looking at social media - mostly dominated by the looming election in Aotearoa NZ. The main sentiment seems to be a handwringing: "Oh won't someone think of the poor hard-done-by rich folks!" They reckon they're being demonised and their hired political parties are using their donations to kick up a big stink in the algorithm (on those shitty platforms that let you buy exposure).

Absolutely bonkers to me that I can presently sell two DDR5 DIMMs and buy a car with the output.
(Ok, they're huge DIMMs, and it's a cheap car, but it remains absurd!)

Many people wonder why Paulo Freire once said that the revolution was always an act of love for the oppressors too. If you think of Elon Musk, you understand what he meant: He is, by all accounts and by any measurement, the culmination and epitome of the capitalist system. Born in an apartheid state, raised with wealth and privilege created through that, given enough money to buy himself an underdog story when becoming the richest man in the world.
By everything we are told, he's suppo…

Sources: an investor group led by businessman Craig Fuller is planning to buy the Chattanooga Times Free Press from the Arkansas-based Hussman family (Chattanoogan.com)
https://www.chattanoogan.com/2026/7/26/521357/Report-Local-Group-Buying-Chattanoog…

Report: Local Group Buying Chattanooga Times Free Press From Arkansas Owners
A group of investors led by Chattanooga businessman and media specialist Craig Fuller is planning to buy the Chattanooga Times Free Press newspaper from its...

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Frog:
🎵 Best Buy
#Frog
https://heyitsfrog.bandcamp.com/track/best-buy
https://open.spotify.com/track/4TYXPuORwqXKR2VPdobpKH

On April 23, 2026, the White House released a memo warning that Chinese entities were running “industrial-scale” distillation campaigns against American frontier AI models,
leveraging “tens of thousands of proxy accounts” to evade detection.
In February 2026, Anthropic similarly reported on Chinese labs’ coordinated distillation attacks using
“a single proxy network managed more than 20,000 fraudulent accounts”.
Both cases see “proxy”
— the middlemen between …

How to Buy Cheap Claude Tokens in China
The Transfer Station Economy, Explained

Nvidia promises to financially backstop young cloud providers like Firmus that rent out its AI chips, in exchange for a revenue share through a new program (Phoebe Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-says-will-take-cu…

Nvidia Says It Will Take a Cut of Some Customers’ Cloud Revenues
Nvidia is using its powerful balance sheet to help more companies buy its expensive AI chips, and possibly make some money back too. It’s promising to financially backstop young cloud providers that rent out its graphics processing units in exchange for a share of their revenues. The backstop ...

What motivates human behavior isn’t who we are, but the vivid mental image of who we could become. They called these ‘possible selves.’
https://saranpaixao.substack.com/p/people-dont-buy-who-they-are-they

People don't buy who they are. They buy who they want to become.
Why the most successful brands build against a muse, not a demographic

Building the best NFL team money can buy under the 2026 salary cap https://www.nfl.com/news/building-the-best-nfl-team-money-can-buy-under-the-2026-salary-cap

AMD unveils the $330 Ryzen 7 7700X3D CPU, relaunches the 5800X3D as a $349 10th-anniversary edition, and plans to support the AM5 motherboard socket until 2030 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

AMD’s new pitch: our old tech is so good you should just keep using it
AMD is launching three old components alongside a big new promise: you won’t need to buy a new motherboard until 2030. AM5 will last through 2029, it says.

I've done this many, many times before much to my amusement... cuz I'm paying. And I'll buy or not buy what I want. 😉
▶️ Letting her order first then saying I’m not hungry
https://youtube.com/shorts/p5z6c3tmIPQ?si=OxQxNQUXssLrYJov

Adam Schefter Ready to Buy Into Dallas Cowboys Hype Under One Condition https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/adam-schefter-ready-buy-dallas-cowboys-hype-one-condition

Casey Wasserman's talent agency plans to buy his remaining stake with help from Providence Equity Partners, which has a ~60% stake, in a deal set to close in H2 (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Autodesk agrees to buy MaintainX, a company focused on maintenance tools, in an all-cash deal that values MaintainX at $3.6B (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/autodesk-to-buy-maintainx…

Lordy, even I know that they're already required to: "Government agencies are generally required to buy American-made products under the Buy American Act of 1933, which mandates that federal agencies acquire domestic end products for public use."
Trump says federal agencies ‘must buy American’ products
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5871796-buy-american-trump-push/

CBS says it now expects to turn a $15M profit on late night, thanks to Byron Allen's time buy of the former Late Show time slot, which was losing $40M annually (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

CBS Says Late Night Will Now Turn a $15 Million Profit After Byron Allen’s Time Buy
A network rep said that late night was "cost prohibitive" to keep programming itself. Allen's 'Comics Unleashed' debuted to 1.1 million viewers.

Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by $100 for 512GB models and $150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025 (Kenneth Shepard/Kotaku)
https://kotaku.com/xbox-price-increase-2026-tariffs-buy-now-pay-later-2000710565…

Xbox Is Increasing Console Prices For A Third Time
Microsoft is increasing the prices of Xbox Series consoles once more and introducing a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' option

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~$289M, set to close in October (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/06/

Japanese giant SBI Holdings to buy Bitbank for $289 million
SBI said the acquisition, which is subject to regulatory approval, is set to close in October.

For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned
—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies
—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons.
Now the bill has come due in a war zone.
A newly disclosed letter shows the warnings went unheeded:
US Central Command now confirms it has received “multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or su…

The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war.

How to buy Dallas Cowboys tickets, 2026 NFL schedule release https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/shopping/sports/tickets/2026/05/14/how-to-buy-dallas-cowboys-tickets-nfl-schedule-release/90045222007/…

➡️ Dead Format - A community for vinyl collectors
#bookmarks

Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/05/28/fonoa-110m-pwc-tax-platform-buy…

Exclusive: Fonoa raises $110M, buys PwC tax platform
Global tax compliance is becoming real-time, creating risk for cross border sellers.

Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/kk215pdq7

Minute Media lays off 12% of workforce, reverses course on VideoVerse after $200 million acquisition
The unicorn says restructuring reflects push for efficiency and long-term growth amid changes in the media market and rising AI-driven disruption, alongside termination of VideoVerse integration.

Cryptocurrency has stopped being a finance story.
In 2026 it's a political-money machine
- woven into our elections, our regulators, the President's family balance sheet, and the everyday plumbing of how Americans get paid, borrow, and save.
You can decide never to buy a single token and still be exposed to the fallout.
A plain-English tour of where crypto stands heading into the 2026 and 2028 elections:
the collapse of regulatory enforcement;
t…

Crypto Is Interested in You with Molly White and Tonantzin Carmona
Podcast Episode · Dave Troy Presents · S4 E1 · 1h 11m

Digital Realty says it plans to acquire a majority stake in three fully leased Northern Virginia data centers from Blackstone-managed funds in a $7.8B deal (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

Trump earlier this year purchased more than $1 million in the stock of Dell Technologies
-- a transaction that is drawing scrutiny after the Pentagon this week announced a $9.7 billion contract with the Texas-based computer company.
The sequence of events illustrates the complications that emerge when a sitting president continues, even if through financial advisers, to buy and sell publicly traded stocks like Dell.
In the first three months of this year, Mr. Trump’s investme…

Dell Gets a $9.7 Billion Defense Contract. Trump’s Portfolio Stands to Benefit.
The president’s family says his stock purchases are automatically timed, but recent acquisitions of the computer company’s shares raise questions.

Sources: Sky has agreed on terms to buy ITV's broadcast and streaming unit in a £1.6B deal, which will include ITV Studios acquiring Sky's Love Productions (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/comcast-owned-sky-reaches-…

Source: Qualcomm is in talks to buy AI chip designer Tenstorrent for $8B to $10B; Tenstorrent discussed raising $800M at a ~$3.2B valuation last year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/qualcomm-talks-buy-tenstorrent-ex…

Qualcomm in Talks to Buy Tenstorrent to Expand AI Chip Capabilities
Qualcomm has been in talks to buy Tenstorrent, a startup that designs chips for AI, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The two companies have discussed a price between at least $8 billion and $10 billion, the person said, which would be a significant premium to Tenstorrent’ ...

Company filings: if Paramount's deal to buy WBD fails, Larry Ellison and an Ellison family trust would have to reimburse Paramount $9.8B in termination fees (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sports Illustrated rights holder Minute Media lays off 12% of staff and reverses its ~$200M deal to buy VideoVerse, an AI platform to extract sports highlights (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/kk215pdq7

Minute Media lays off 12% of workforce, reverses course on VideoVerse after $200 million acquisition
The unicorn says restructuring reflects push for efficiency and long-term growth amid changes in the media market and rising AI-driven disruption, alongside termination of VideoVerse integration.

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.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association sues Penske Media, saying the company fraudulently acquired the Golden Globes in a plan to monopolize the awards market (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Penske Media Sued by Hollywood Foreign Press Association Over Golden Globes Buy
The lawsuit accuses Penske Media of orchestrating a scheme to dismantle the 80-year-old organization that founded the awards show.

London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a source says for ~$1.65B; Anyscale, which helps AI workloads run more efficiently, had a $1B valuation in 2022 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Intercontinental Exchange agrees to acquire electronic fixed-income trading platform MarketAxess for ~$6B in cash, a 33% premium, set to close in H1 2027 (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.co…

Advaya Capital acquires Comscore Movies, which collects box office data, for $70M in cash; it will be renamed Rentrak, and Chris Aronson will join the board (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

The Return of Rentrak: Private Equity Firm Advaya Capital Inks $70 Million Deal to Buy Box Office Data Firm Comscore Movies
Longtime Hollywood studio distribution chief Chris Aronson has been part of the team working behind the scenes to make the deal happen. Going forward, the venture will once again be known as Rentrak.

Sources: Google told Meta around March it couldn't offer all the Gemini capacity Meta wanted to buy, disrupting and delaying some of Meta's internal AI projects (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c5d52f72-71ef-40bc-bad3-61afdba8b378

A look at a thriving underground economy for Claude access in China, including "transfer station" sites that buy API tokens abroad and distribute them to users (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-people-in-china-keep-outsmar…

How People in China Keep Outsmarting Anthropic’s Geolocation Restrictions
As Anthropic tightens restrictions on access to Claude in China, users keep finding new workarounds, from proxy services to fake identities sourced on Telegram.

Fox says it obtained a $12B loan for the Roku deal; existing Fox shareholders are expected to own ~73% of the combined company and Roku shareholders ~27% (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/15/fox-to-buy-roku.html

Fox to buy streaming device maker Roku for $22 billion
Fox, the owner of the news and sports networks, said it has reached a deal to acquire Roku for about $22 billion in enterprise value.

Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~$36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-2…

Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/source-elastic-…

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M | TechCrunch
DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.

Procurement records: the FBI seeks a vendor that can provide access to automated license plate readers nationwide; Flock and Motorola are among the few options (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-li…

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
Only a couple vendors could likely fulfill what the FBI is after, namely Flock and Motorola.

Sources: Apple is lobbying the Trump admin for clearance to buy memory chips from US-blacklisted Chinese company CXMT to ease pressure from rising chip prices (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d72a25e2-7bde-4aa9-bd8d-0c4f3d6cb2cb

Sources: China plans to let some of the country's major AI companies buy a small number of Nvidia's H200 chips to alleviate a domestic computing shortage (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chi…

China Plans to Let Top AI Firms Buy Limited Amount of Nvidia H200 Chips
China plans to allow some of the country’s biggest AI companies to buy a small number of Nvidia’s H200 chips, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The chip purchase approvals would offset a shortage caused by soaring demand for AI chips. U.S. President Donald Trump gave ...

SoFi says SoFiUSD, its US dollar-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Solana, is now available for members to buy, sell, hold, and convert within the SoFi app (Brian Danga/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/402361/sofi-rolls-out-sofiusd-stablecoin…

Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI chips from UK-based Fractile when they launch in 2027, as it seeks deals to gain more leverage with suppliers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-buy-ai-chips-u-k-startup

Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Chips From U.K. Startup
As Anthropic’s sales explode, straining the servers it uses, the company is considering adding another source of AI server chips in addition to existing suppliers Google, Amazon and Nvidia. The maker of Claude has recently been in talks with London-based startup Fractile to buy its inference ...

Source: Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire New York-based Stainless, which helps developers generate SDKs from APIs, for at least $300M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-buy-developer-tools-…

Anthropic in Talks to Buy Developer Tools Startup Used by OpenAI, Google
Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire developer tools startup Stainless for at least $300 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The four-year-old Stainless sells software to model makers including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google that helps developers, non-technical people ...

OpenAI stands to hold ~$2.6B in combined CoreWeave and Cerebras stock that it acquired by committing to buy cloud services and chips, and to lend Cerebras money (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-making-b…

OpenAI Is Making Billions Just by Promising to Buy From Suppliers
Chipmaker Cerebras brought in one of the greatest pitchmen in tech, Sam Altman, to appear in a video to promote its $5.5 billion initial public offering. Seated on a gray upholstered couch and speaking softly, the OpenAI chief executive touted Cerebras’ chips as “the best high-speed inference ...

The FTC fast-tracks approval for SpaceX to acquire Mesh, which raised a $50M Series A in February to make high-efficiency optical transceivers for data centers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/mus…

Chipmaker Onsemi agrees to buy Synaptics in a nearly $7B all-stock deal expected to close in the middle of 2027; ON drops 9% and SYNA jumps 11% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/on-semi-synaptics-deal-physical-ai.html
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On Semiconductor strikes $7 billion deal for Synaptics in physical AI push
On Semiconductor said the deal bumps up its total addressable market by $30 billion to $243 billion by 2030.

India eases foreign investment rules for e-commerce companies, a win for Amazon, which lobbied to buy goods directly from Indian sellers and sell them overseas (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-relaxe…

SpaceX S-1: xAI plans to buy another $2.8B worth of turbines for its data centers, including a $2B deal for mobile gas turbines, the type it's being sued over (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/musk

Musk’s xAI is being sued over its data center generators — now it’s buying $2.8B more | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion worth of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX's IPO filing.

South Korean media: Hyundai plans to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M to make the US robotics company a wholly owned subsidiary (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles "individually for $1.99" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/937

Spotify is narrating magazine articles now
Spotify is launching a new format for narrated long-form articles, alongside its usual array of music, podcasts, and audiobooks.