AI companion tech company Genies launches a tool for celebrities and their agents to develop "expressive AI identities" that can interact with fans (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/ai-companion-genies-celebrity-avatar-…
The US sanctions eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained from cybercrime and IT worker schemes for the North Korean government (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/north-korean-co…
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
The news appeared over the past weekend in a business trade online news publication called Hunterbrook.
A disgruntled Sable Oil investor had leaked a tape recording of a Zoom meeting held last week by company CEO Jim Flores with a group of investors.
Santa Barbara County Supervisor Steve Lavagnino said what he read qualified as some of the worst stuff he’d ever read.
In the tape, Flores can be heard outlining why the company will need to spend $200 million to extend its d…
Indian Company Wants to Transship (Russian) LNG at Svalbard
https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/indian-company-wants-transship-lng-svalbard
Marc Benioff says it "would not shock" him if Salesforce changed its name to Agentforce; the company started using Agentforce for many of its offerings (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce
Fox acquires five-year-old rom-com podcast company Meet Cute, the latest in a series of audio acquisitions; Meet Cute has produced over 300 shows (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/fox-acquires-rom-com-podcast-company-meet-cute-1236606…
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
SoftBank Group consolidates 13 robotics-related companies from its main group and 7 from Vision Fund 2 into a new holding company called SoftBank Robotics Group (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/softbank/beyond-pepper-softba…
LinkedIn sues a company called ProAPIs for allegedly operating millions of fake accounts to scrape LinkedIn member data and selling it for ~$15,000 per month (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company