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Meta just bought into the enterprise market with its Manus deal, which may eventually help it expand into cloud offerings like those of its Big Tech peers (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/meta-manus-deal/

Manus: The Hands of AI Fate
Meta acquires an AI business model...

Peter Chernin sells North Road to France's Mediawan; sources: the agreement, paid mostly in stock, values the independent film and TV studio at ~$900M (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/business/north-road-mediawan-deal.html

Hollywood’s North Road Studio Acquired by a European Production Giant
Peter Chernin, an industry veteran who founded North Road in 2022, said his deal with Mediawan met a need to get bigger in an era of consolidation.

Freeman returning to ND in '26 amid NFL interest https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/47445456/sources-marcus-freeman-gets-enhanced-deal-stay-notre-dame

'Peace for Profit': Trump Allies Plot $2 Trillion Windfall From Ukraine Deal Leak | IBTimes UK
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peace-profit-trump-allies-plot-2-trillion-windfall-ukraine-deal-leak-1758984

Deal struck to keep government funded, Trump and Democrats say (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/29/shutdown-spending-deal-trump-00756372
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p132#a260129p132

My first reaction: Ooh, he's right. $3/month is a deal.
My second reaction: Hey, there's a deal for an annual subscription.
My third reaction: Whoa! I could get it in an RSS feed so my email isn't overloaded.
Ok, you got me.
https://fed.bri…

Tal Lavin (@swordsjew.bsky.social)
honestly, @flaminghydra.com is a great freakin' deal, $3 a month to get a wild panoply of art and thoughts from some of your fave writers flaminghydra.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Senate Democrats are considering a deal that would head off a partial government shutdown
and give the party time to negotiate new restrictions on immigration operations
in response to the killings of US citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.
The talks, confirmed to the Guardian by a Senate aide, come after Senate Democrats demanded a series of reforms on federal agents involved in Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign,
including a prohibition on weari…

India and the EU signed a security and defense pact yesterday, covering a lot of cyber territory. But Intelligence Online says the EU wanted India to rein in its hacking-for-hire industry, which India denies even exists. So that was left out of the deal.

Europe/India • Indian 'hackers for hire' to continue to thrive under Brussels-New Dehli trade deal
The major trade and strategic agreement signed on 27 January between the European Union and India includes a cyber component, which has been subject to a discreet tug-of-war between cyber diplomats

I've been in pain (of various states) for over a month now, and I'm trying different techniques to deal with it.
Since it's not an injury I am now trying to "push through the pain" and by that I mean instead of lying on a heating pad trying to relieve the pain I get up, get moving, and do things.
And... it hurts like hell. But yesterday it only hurt like hell for like 90 minutes, so I could deal with that.
Contrast to 6 hours lying in bed the day befor…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Best Coast:
🎵 Our Deal
#BestCoast
https://youngreevesy.bandcamp.com/track/best-coast-our-deal-blah-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4sxhA0XuXc6JhxGeXcl8wj

Meanwhile, Schumer’s much-touted list of demands is (oh, shocker) pathetic weak sauce: “a prohibition on [ICE] wearing masks, the imposition of a code of conduct and independent investigations of violations.”
…which, like…
(1) Sure, that would be nice — comically insufficient, but nice
(2) DHS already ignore the very clear laws that are on the books; why on earth do you think it would help to have more rules for them to ignore?
(3) ICE CBP right now are basically the KKK except with a budget the size of Russia’s military. Decimate that budget or GTFO.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/senate-democrats-deal-dhs-funding-bill

Help Ukraine hit more refineries.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/27/putin-insists-ukraine-surrender-territory-for-peace-deal-possible?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Listen to: How to Deal with Mountains of Rubble in Gaza - https://one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5580565:nx-s1-mx-5768967

🔊 Listen Now: How to Deal with Mountains of Rubble in Gaza
State Of The World From NPR on NPR One | 5:18

Senate strikes deal to avert partial shutdown (Al Weaver/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5713935-senate-deal-shutdown-funding/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p141#a260129p141

Perplexity signs a deal with Microsoft; sources say the $750M, three-year commitment will let Perplexity deploy AI models through Microsoft's Foundry service (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29…

Shutdown Talks: Senate Democrats have struck a deal with Republicans and the White House to pass five spending bills to fund a large portion of the government for the remainder of the fiscal year,
as well as a stopgap measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks while they continue negotiating guardrails to rein in immigration agents.
It is unclear how quickly the House can and will process those funding bills after the Senate passes them.
Cabin…

Trump Live Updates: Senate Democrats and White House Reach Deal to Avoid Shutdown

Italien: Mediamarkt-Tochter verkaufte iPad Air für 15 Euro
Ein Deal für Besitzer einer Kundenkarte, den der Elektronikhänder Mediaworld anbot, war zu schön um wahr zu sein. Nun wird versucht, das Geld zurückzuholen.

I subscribed to Jacobin when they had some deal, but I don't actually read it. Classic champagne socialist behavior. Leftists will be like, "Win an election? That pales in comparison to my idea, subscribing to Jacobin" and then not read Jacobin

It is predictable that Russia will do some nuclear sabre-rattling in the coming weeks to scare the European countries and convince them to make a bad deal with regard to Ukraine. Russia counts on pacifist movements in Western countries that will cry foul.
#Russia #Ukraine

"Meta’s business is both supporting and profiting from organized crime, and at 10% of its revenue, it’s also kind of dependent on it... I can find no analyst commentary on Meta making sixteen billion dollars on fraud, because it doesn’t matter to them"
#Kleptocracy
#Enshittification

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I wonder if Bessent knows that the word "fulsome" has more than one meaning. In particularly, one of its meanings is "particularly bad", or as the M-Webster dictionary puts it "aesthetically, morally, or generally offensive"
"Bessent: Greenland deal is ‘much more fulsome’ for the US"

Bessent: Greenland deal is ‘much more fulsome’ for the US
The treasury secretary defended the deal as more than what's in place now.

Deal reached to get spending bill through Senate (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/30/congress/theyve-got-a-deal-00758107
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p121#a260130p121

Guilbeault quits Carney’s cabinet over energy deal with Alberta | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/guilbeault-quitting-cabinet-9.6995299

Guilbeault quits Carney’s cabinet over energy deal with Alberta | CBC News
Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault has quit cabinet over the federal government signing Thursday’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta.

Insider Reveals Giants, Eagles Deal Bad News to Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/insider-giants-eagles-deal-bad-news/

Lee Enterprises stabilizes its finances as investors buy $50M in new stock, led by $35M invested by David Hoffmann, who will become chair of the company (Josh Funk/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/lee-enterprises-news…

Lee Enterprises secures $50 million investment with help from billionaire investor
Lee Enterprises has announced a compromise with the billionaire investor who tried to take over the nation's third-largest newspaper chain this year. The deal is intended to help stabilize the company's finances with a $50 million investment and set Lee up for the future. Investor David Hoffmann will become Lee's chairman as he continues to pursue his goal of becoming the country's largest newspaper publisher. The deal will also allow Lee to renegotiate its debt and save about $18 million a yea…

• Fossil fuels were not mentioned in the key final decision – petrostates including Saudi Arabia and allies fought fiercely to keep that out.
• A commitment to a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels was not part of the formal deal
https://www.theguardian.c…

Microsoft, Nvidia und Anthropic: Milliarden-Deal für KI
Microsoft, Nvidia und Anthropic haben einen Milliarden-Deal angekündigt. Die Partnerschaft bindet Anthropic enger an die beiden Konzerne.
https://www.

Sources: Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based AI21, which is building its own LLMs, for $2B to $3B; the deal would resemble an acquihire (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkbh00xnzl

Nvidia in advanced talks to acquire AI21 in $2-3 billion deal focused on talent
EXCLUSIVE: The move would mark Nvidia’s fourth major Israeli purchase and signal the limits of Israel’s LLM ambitions.

"participating artists will have “full control” over how their likeness and music are used, though it doesn’t share how."
Sure.
https://www.theverge.com/news/829189/warner-music-group-suno-ai-licensing-deal

thinking of writing a cli tool with an interactive prompt and/or tui, and I'm questioning the need for non-tui interactive mode, it feels like an artifact of the teletype era.
weak justification: tui removes information from screen, which you might need. this is not a big deal in window systems, but console ttys are still useful.
maybe instead of a full tui it can just tui the 5-6 lines it adds. this is not supposed to be doable in terminfo/curses, but everyone is ansi-termin…

Northwestern Agrees to Deal With Trump Administration - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/us/politics/northwestern-deal-trump-administration.html

Senate shutdown deal hits a Graham snag (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2026/01/30/senate-shutdown-deal-hits-a-graham-snag-00756838
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p13#a260130p13

Serbia reaches deal to buy Russian gas until March: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/23/serbia-reaches-deal-to-buy.html

Tensions boil in House over emerging Senate deal to avert government shutdown (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tensions-boil-house-over-emerging-senate-deal-avert-government-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p116#a260129p116

Check out today's Metacurity to stay up-to-date on the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The interim head of CISA uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT,
--Koreans to be notified of possible data breaches,
--Operations at Russian security systems outfit were disrupted by a cyberattack,
--EU-India security deal omits hackers-for-hire,
--Threat actors exploit a high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR,
--Mustang Panda can steal logi…

The interim head of CISA uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT
Koreans to be notified of possible data breaches, Operations at Russian security systems outfit were disrupted by a cyberattack, EU-India security deal omits hackers-for-hire, Threat actors exploit a high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR, Mustang Panda can steal login data from browsers, much more

"We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history, all as people are told that there “just isn’t the money” to build things like housing, or provide Americans with universal healthcare, or better schools"
#Kleptocracy
#Enshittification

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Rolex and Gold Given to Trump Before Swiss Deal Queried by Senator (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/rolex-gold-given-to-trump-before-swiss-deal-queried-by-senator
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p52#a260129p52

Source: Commanders to hire Vikes' Jones as DC https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47739154/source-commanders-finalizing-deal-hire-daronte-jones-dc

Khaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partners with Nasdaq-listed Rich Sparkle in a $975M, 36-month deal to monetize his fan base, including an AI version (Katarina Hoije/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

TikTok Star Khaby Lame Signs $975 Million Deal to Monetize Global Fan Base
Khaby Lame, the world’s biggest TikToker, partnered with Rich Sparkle Holdings Ltd. to transform his 360 million social-media followers into a commercial venture.

The headline below is wildly incorrect.
It should read:
"D's cave, again. Allow ICE to continue".
It isn't just trump who is TACO, it is the D-party.
By passing most of the funding the D's have given away their leverage to affect things in the future. Schumer could publish a book titled "The Art of Losing".
I do not think the D party knows the word "No".
"Deal struck to keep government funded, Trump and D…

Donald Trump said on Sunday that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were “getting a lot closer, maybe very close”
to an agreement to end the war in Ukraine, though both leaders acknowledged that some of the thorniest details remain unresolved.

Trump said it will be clear “in a few weeks” whether negotiations to end the war will succeed.

Zelenskyy said an agreement on security guarantees for Ukraine has been reached.

Trump was sli…

The $550 Billion Shadow Budget: Trump's Japan Deal and the Disappearing Appropriations Clause (Scott Levy/Just Security)
https://www.justsecurity.org/123478/trump-japan-deal-appropriations-clause/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p142#a251030p142

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kim Deal:
🎵 Crystal Breath
#KimDeal
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Google gegen Epic: 800-Millionen-Deal ist Teil der außergerichtlichen Einigung
Jahrelang bekriegen sich Epic und Google vor Gericht, bis sich beide Parteien plötzlich außergerichtlich einigen – wohl auch wegen eines neuen Geschäftsdeals.

Trump’s friends controlling TikTok is maybe bad news for the US and US democracy? 🤔
#tiktok

The deal to secure TikTok’s future in the US has finally closed
The joint venture acquiring TikTok’s US assets has been formally established and has announced its leadership team, according to the company, one day before the deadline set by President Donald Trump for the app’s US assets to be spun off by Chinese parent company ByteDance.

UK-based Octopus Energy reaches a deal to sell about $1B of equity in Kraken Technologies, its tech spin-off, at an $8.65B valuation to a syndicate of investors (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/eaad78f4-b52c-4116-ad1b-3e79694ebeed

Sen. Lindsey Graham held up shutdown deal over provision letting him and others sue DOJ (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-lindsey-graham-held-shutdown-deal-provision-letting-others-sue-doj-rcna256725
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p123#a260130p123

Criticism of him is now:
'Treasonous!' Trump condemns deal skeptics as he gives desperate farmers absurd order - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674249588/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Oct.30.2025_12.12pm

Omnicom's acquisition of Interpublic Group formally closes; the all-stock deal gives Omnicom shareholders 60.6% of the company and IPG shareholders 39.4% (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/26/omnicom-ipg-deal

Omnicom becomes biggest advertising company
The IPG deal has closed in an era defined by scale, data and AI.

Trump, Schumer reach government funding deal, sacrifice DHS spending bill in the process (Alex Miller/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-schumer-reach-government-funding-deal-sacrifice-dhs-spending-bill-process
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p134#a260129p134

In 1140, a German king captured a castle, and made a deal with the castle wives.
He let them leave with whatever they could carry on their backs.
Leaving everything else, the women carried their men out

In 1140, a German king captured a castle, and made a deal with the castle wives. He let them leave with whatever they could carry on their backs. Leaving everything else, the women carried their men out…
In 1140, a German king captured a castle, and made a deal with the castle wives. He let them leave with whatever they could carry on their backs. Leaving everything else, the women carried their men out...by goswamitulsidas

Trump says he and Democrats are 'getting close' to a deal to resolve shutdown fight (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-says-democrats-are-getting-close-deal-resolve-shutdown-fight-rcna256507
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p155#a260129p155

Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/onlyfan

Trump ‘to hand occupied Ukrainian land to Putin in return for peace deal’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/trump-putin-russia-ukraine-occupied-land-peace-deal-b2874547.html

Source: SpaceX and xAI are in talks to merge ahead of a planned IPO this year; under the proposed deal, shares of xAI would be exchanged for shares in SpaceX (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/musks-spacex-merger-talks-with-xai-…

Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/onlyfan

Milliarden-Dollar-Deal: Adobe kauft den KI-Spezialisten Semrush
Mit der Übernahme des Softwareanbieters Semrush stärkt Adobe seine KI-Marketing-Tools und hat dabei KI-Sprachmodelle wie ChatGPT oder Gemini im Blick.

Meta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and "will discontinue its services and operations in China" (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Meta says AI startup Manus to cut China ties after acquisition
US tech giant says Manus will maintain current operations as it is integrated into Meta platforms

Indie film and anti-monopoly groups urge state attorneys general to block the Netflix-WBD deal and also object to any WBD acquisition by Paramount or Comcast (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-2…

How Manus distanced itself from its Chinese roots to court US investors; a source says Meta's $2.5B deal includes a $500M retention pool for Manus' employees (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…

"Stern warning": China's military holds live drills around Taiwan (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/29/china-taiwan-live-fire-military-drills-us-arms-deal
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p28#a251229p28

Trump: I Get The Final Say On Any Ukraine-Russia Deal - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/trump-i-get-the-final-say-on-any-ukraine-russia-deal/

The Groq deal secures key talent for Nvidia, including CEO Jonathan Ross, creator of the TPU, and keeps them from companies that may try to make their own chips (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/nvidia-groq-deal/

NVIDIA’s Christmas Eve 'Hackquisition' Miracle
NVIDIA gets a creator of the TPU, access to inference tech & IP, and stops anyone else from getting such things. All for a mere $20B...

Sources: BMG, a division of Bertelsmann, is weighing a bid for music rights investor Concord in a deal that could value Concord as high as $7B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/bertelsmann-is-said-to-conside…

Sources: Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100B in OpenAI has stalled after some inside Nvidia expressed doubts about the deal (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-…

David Ellison's disrupt-and-delay strategy on the Netflix-WBD deal hinges on US and EU regulators or Trump killing it outright or attaching onerous conditions (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/david-ellison-w…

What Is David Ellison’s Warner Bros Discovery Endgame?
Paramount Skydance CEO is betting the regulatory tide will turn against the Netflix deal

Apple acquires Q.ai, whose tech can analyze facial expressions to enable non-verbal discussions with AI assistants; sources: the deal values Q.ai at ~$2B (Financial Times)

Northwestern reaches $75M deal with Trump administration to get federal funding reinstated (Bianca Quilantan/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/28/northwestern-deal-trump-administration-federal-funding-00564286
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p67#a251128p67

YouTube TV and TelevisaUnivision strike a deal to return TelevisaUnivision channels to YouTube TV; YouTube will launch Primetime Channels in Mexico (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TelevisaUnivision Channels Return to YouTube TV as Companies Strike Deal
Nearly two months after the Spanish-language media network went dark on the service, it will return, with YouTube bringing its Primetime Channels offering to Mexico with ViX.

Warner Music and AI music generator Suno strike a deal, settling previous litigation; Suno will launch licensed AI models and will acquire WMG's Songkick (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/w…

Warner strikes ‘landmark’ deal with Suno; settles copyright lawsuit against AI music generator
The deal also settles previous litigation between the companies; Firms will collaborate ‘on next-generation licensed AI music’…

👍 Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv says Zelensky will never give up territory to Putin | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-trump-putin-zelensky-peace-deal-latest-news-b2874076.html

Warner Music and Suno strike a deal, settling previous litigation; Suno will launch licensed AI models and will acquire WMG's Songkick (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/war

Warner Music Group strikes ‘landmark’ deal with Suno; settles copyright lawsuit against AI music generator
The deal also settles previous litigation between the companies; Firms will collaborate ‘on next-generation licensed AI music’…

Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to buy NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and digital infrastructure operators (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29…

Sources: bids for GroqCloud, Groq's AI inference platform, are expected to exceed $1B after Nvidia's $20B non-exclusive licensing agreement with Groq (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/nvidia-

China's SMIC plans to acquire the remaining 49% stake in its SMNC unit for ~$5.8B, making the unit wholly owned, per a Shanghai Stock Exchange filing (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-smic-take-full-…

Senate aims to vote on funding deal before shutdown deadline (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/30/senate-dhs-spending-shutdown-vote/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY5NzQ5MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcxMTMxNTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Njk3NDkyMDAsImp0aSI6IjY2MTM1MmZjLTA4NWUtNGQ4Mi1iMDZhLTVhMzc2MjM0NjkyYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI2LzAxLzMwL3NlbmF0ZS1kaHMtc3BlbmRpbmctc2h1dGRvd24tdm90ZS8ifQ.-fbhyfstidH42HHoJYbhQlQ18zOL3J8JTnTQfepxu3w&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p21#a260130p21

Some Republicans Lament the Spending Deal Trump Has Blessed (Carl Hulse/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/senate-republicans-trump-spending-bill.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p131#a260130p131

Northwestern to pay $75 million in deal with Trump administration to restore federal funding (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-northwestern-agreement-antisemitism-d646516c3f800faa416228deab61532c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p50#a251129p50

Mike Johnson braces for conservative revolt over ICE funding deal (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/30/mike-johnson-republicans-ice-funding-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p147#a260129p147

Daily Mail owner DMGT strikes a £500M deal with RedBird IMI to buy Telegraph titles, in a deal likely to trigger an in-depth investigation by Ofcom and the CMA (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/22…

Source: Google DeepMind signs a licensing deal with Hume AI, which builds emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and ~7 top engineers (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-hires-hume-ai-ceo-licensing-deal-gemini/

Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal
Hume AI’s CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.

Russia's losses in Ukraine rise faster than ever as US pushes for peace deal (Olga Ivshina/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62n922dnw7o
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p27#a251230p27

Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Democrats and White House Reach Deal to Avoid Shutdown (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/29/us/trump-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p127#a260129p127

Source: the TikTok US deal values it at just around $14B; TikTok's US entity makes roughly $14B annually in advertising revenues alone, per analyst estimates (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/23/tiktok-deal-trump-app-ban

TikTok divestiture deal closes
The deal ends a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks fail to deliver breakthrough on Ukraine peace deal (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f88fd9e5-df0e-45d6-af8e-29b5f53a41a4
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p30#a251229p30

Source: the TikTok US deal values it at just around $14B; TikTok's US entity makes roughly $14B annually in advertising revenues alone, per analyst estimates (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/23/tiktok-deal-trump-app-ban

TikTok divestiture deal closes
The deal ends a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

Senators Seek Last-Minute Deal on Immigration Enforcement (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senators-seek-last-minute-deal-on-immigration-enforcement-02383de6
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p106#a260127p106

Sources: C3.ai is in talks to merge with Automation Anywhere, which would go public in the deal; C3.ai's market cap is now ~$1.7B, a tenth of its 2020 valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/c3-ai-talks-merge-startup-autom…

C3.AI in Talks to Merge with Startup Automation Anywhere
C3.AI, founded by tech industry veteran Thomas Siebel, is in talks to merge with privately held startup Automation Anywhere, which will effectively go public in the deal, according to people familiar with the discussions. C3.AI, which sells AI to large companies and government agencies, was the ...

Amazon partners with Harris Farm to offer fresh food delivery in Australia for the first time, starting in inner Sydney, free for Prime members on AU$100 orders (Carrie LaFrenz/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/companies/retail/amazo…

Harris Farm Amazon grocery delivery partnership challenges Woolworths, Coles
Amazon has partnered with Harris Farm to begin same-day delivery of fruit and vegetables for the first time across Sydney as it competes with Coles and Woolworths

Khaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partners with Nasdaq-listed Rich Sparkle in a $975M, 36-month deal to monetize his fan base, including an AI version (Katarina Hoije/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Epic v. Google: Epic and Google have a secret deal involving Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and Android, with Epic spending $800M over six years on Google services (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/866140/epic-google-fortnite-android-u…

Epic and Google have a secret $800 million Unreal Engine and services deal
Antitrust settlement talks have revealed a deal between Epic and Google over the Unreal Engine and unspecified services, which could impact the judge’s decision.

TikTok says ByteDance sold a majority stake in the app's US operations to a group of non-Chinese investors, including Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/tiktok-deal-oracle-bytedance-china-us…

TikTok Strikes Deal to Split Off an American Version, Ending Long Legal Saga
The Chinese parent company for the popular video app said it had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new American TikTok to avoid a ban in the United States.

EU Parliament delays decision to unfreeze US trade deal (Max Griera/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliament-delays-decision-unfreeze-us-trade-deal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p85#a260126p85

Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Chew hailed the establishment of the TikTok USDS JV as "great news", and said the app is used by 200M US users and 7.5M US businesses (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/read-tiktok-ceo-memo-cl…

Read the memo TikTok's CEO sent staff after closing a deal to avoid a US ban
TikTok CEO Shou Chew sent a memo to staff celebrating the "good news" that the company had finalized a deal to keep its business operating in the US.

The BBC confirms a "strategic partnership" with YouTube to produce exclusive content, including news and kids shows, a landmark deal for the UK broadcaster (Alex Ritman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/bbc-confirms-landmark-youtube-deal-…

BBC Confirms Landmark YouTube Deal
The arrangement includes new BBC channels on YouTube and Winter Olympics coverage

Sources: Temasek is in talks to buy a ~5% stake in Quest Global, in a deal that values the engineering services company at $4.6B in the lead-up to its India IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-28/t…

A look at Craig Federighi's approach to AI at Apple; sources say he led a push to use other companies' models to help launch a revamped Siri later in 2026 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-deal-apples-…

With Google Deal, Apple’s Craig Federighi Plots a Cautious Course in AI
Last fall, Apple’s software chief, Craig Federighi, delivered a warm message to a meeting of the company’s combined software and AI groups. Federighi said he was excited about deeper collaboration between his software team and Apple’s AI group. But then came Federighi’s criticism. He added that ...

The US Army signs a $5.6B, 10-year contract with Salesforce to speed up outdated practices; as part of the deal, military recruiters will get access to Slack (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-…

Sources: ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy corporate data management and security startup Veza for $1B in a deal as early as next week (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/servicenow-advanced-talks-buy-security…

ServiceNow in Advanced Talks to Buy Security Startup For At Least $1 Billion
ServiceNow, an IT and HR software provider, is in advanced talks to buy five-year-old security startup Veza for more than $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the deal. Veza’s subscription software helps businesses see which of their employees, as well as AI agents that automate ...

ServiceNow reports Q4 revenue up 20.5% YoY to $3.57B, vs. $3.53B est., and subscription revenue up 21% YoY to $3.47B; NOW drops ~3% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/servicenow-now-q4-2025-earnings-report.html

ServiceNow posts better-than-expected fourth-quarter results
ServiceNow announced an expanded partnership with Anthropic about a week after it inked a similar deal with competitor OpenAI.