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Sources: Kalshi is generating $2B in annualized revenue, up about three times from November, and has held informal talks with banks about an eventual IPO (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/kalshi-passes-2-b…

Kalshi Passes $2 Billion in Annualized Revenue, Holds Informal IPO Talks
Prediction market Kalshi is generating more than $2 billion in annualized revenue, up about three times from November, as traders betting on NBA and World Cup games drove a surge in trading volume, according to people familiar with the company’s financials. Kalshi’s fast growth has led its top ...

“Trump is trying to pay his way out of the war he started,” wrote New York-based political activist Melanie D’Arrigo
Critics were quick to note the irony in the plan reportedly being considered by Trump, who has frequently accused former President Barack Obama of giving Iran “$150 billion in cash,” an inaccurate claim referring to the “high-end estimate” of Iranian funds that were unfrozen after the lifting of sanctions,
much like what the Trump administration is reportedly consi…

'Trump wants to pay them?' Observers baffled after White House's Iran deal plans leak
Onlookers and critics were left baffled Friday after the Trump administration’s plans for ending its war against Iran were leaked by two U.S. officials and two additional insiders familiar with the White House’s negotiations.As reported by Axios on Friday, the Trump administration is reportedly cons...

from my link log —
Encoding of immediate values on AArch64.
https://dinfuehr.github.io/blog/encoding-of-immediate-values-on-aarch64/
saved 2021-08-20

Les Ladazz 1989-1993 (2022)
Les Ladazz was a French garage punk/DIY band from Strasbourg, active from 1989 to 1993. This is pretty much all I can find about this band. Never heard of them til a friend played this on his show. They have a familiar sound with some unique quirks.
This retrospective album features a rotation of singers and musicians over the band’s lifetime and was released only on Bandcamp.

Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages: it’s a bit familiar
I mentioned in my last post that I'd started to play Oracle of Ages again, and I'm still working my way through it. It seems to be taking an absolute ... er, age ... even though it's very clearly signposted throughout. As soon as you finish a dungeon, the Deku Tree pipes up to tell you where to go next. The thing is, it all seems very familiar.

Hey GenX? Remember Morton Downey Jr? The pioneer of ugly, right-wing rage-bait act so common amongst losers today?
His bottom feeding audiences didn't want logic, debate or decorum. They wanted a hateful drama: A classless man in a cheap suit insulting & screaming vitriol at everyone.
Sound familiar?
▶️ The Rage-Bait King: The Rise & Fall & Redemption of Morton Downey Jr (April 24th, 1989)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #UltimateCalm
The Vernon Spring:
🎵 Under A Familiar Sun
#TheVernonSpring
https://open.spotify.com/track/5EUz3oaNR9W3JtxnBjWnWa

Sources: OpenRouter has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value it at billions of dollars, a premium to its $1.3B valuation in May (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/startup-openroute…

Startup OpenRouter Fields Multi-Billion-Dollar Takeover Interest
OpenRouter, which helps app developers access hundreds of AI models, has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value the startup at billions of dollars, a steep premium to its $1.3 billion valuation, people familiar with the matter said. The discussions reflect a swell ...

What if the worst advice you ever found turned out to be ancient wisdom in terrible packaging?
I stumbled into toxic dating content at 2am after a breakup. Between the awful takes, I heard something familiar: stop gripping outcomes.
Turns out they were badly explaining what Buddhism calls equanimity.
Sometimes truth finds us in the strangest places.
Read more:

I accidentally infiltrated the manosphere
and found a philosophy I now live by in the last place I expected

Anyone familiar with DOSBox and crashes of Windows 3.11 apps?
This app installed fine but it's throwing this. I tried a few different CPU settings in DOSBox but it happens regardless if it's a 486 or Pentium or whatever.
#retrocomputing

a familiar presidential trap

Netflix says it is "not interested" and has no plans to pursue Lionsgate; Lionsgate shares closed up 13.85% on Tuesday before falling ~4% after hours (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/netflix-lionsg…

Netflix Isn't Interested in Lionsgate Despite Takeover Speculation
Sources familiar with the matter disputed Semafor's reporting, telling TheWrap that the streamer is not interested and has no plans to pursue an acquisition

The worst a hacked Roomba could do is trip you near the stairs. The Familiar, according to its creator, “is large enough or mobile enough to follow you to the kitchen, or drag you off the couch [to] take a walk.”
https://www.wsj.com/tech/robots-familiar-r…

Dallas Cowboys' Opening Odds For Week 1 vs Giants Hint Towards Familiar Trend https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-opening-odds-for-week-1-vs-giants-hint-towards-familiar-trend

I ride a bike in Wisconsin but I still own a car... thinking I'll need to get one of these!
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2026/07/15/wisconsin-bike-fed-license-plate/90676326007/

A familiar designer helps Wisconsin Bike Fed create new license plate
The Wisconsin Bike Fed made a new license plate, debuting in 2027, with help from the designer of the 1980s standard "America's Dairyland" plate.

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Steelers' Aaron Rodgers on familiar Mike McCarthy offense: 'It's stuff that we used to run' https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-aaron-rodgers-on-familiar-mike-mccarthy-offense-it-s-stuff-that-we-used-to-run…

The Close | Adult Animation Comedy Short Film - BBC
"The Close… A quiet neighbourhood… but the peace is shattered as the residents fail to navigate the familiar and mundane moments of everyday life… in the most chaotic way!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHR29X75Hk

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Here in Aotearoa NZ, we need politicians familiar with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Iq6HubIAw France & Germany have been booting Microsoft out of their public service - and have found a) vastly better security, b) 40% cost reduction, and c) much less waste (no more planned obsolescen…

Top Republicans Don't Want To Talk About The DOJ Paying Trump $10 Billion
House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune told HuffPost they're not familiar with Trump's efforts to boost his compensation
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tr…

Top Republicans Don't Want To Talk About The DOJ Paying Trump $10 Billion
House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune told HuffPost they're not familiar with Trump's efforts to boost his compensation.

"Britain’s favourite butterfly revealed – and it’s a familiar backyard beauty"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

Sources: Trump officials discussed ways to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick favoring a sovereign wealth fund (Eleanor Mueller/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/17/2026/trump-advisers…

Exclusive: Trump advisers weigh structure of AI stakes
Two Cabinet members preferred different ideas ahead of the government’s latest Anthropic clash, people familiar with the talks told Semafor.

It’s beginning to smell like 2007.
Also if you aren’t familiar with Chris Kohler’s YouTube channel, you should take a look at the rest of his videos, both long and short.
https://youtube.com/shorts/__Ck7mG18GY

We are all familiar

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🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Moloko:
🎵 Familiar Feelings
#NowPlaying #Moloko
https://open.spotify.com/track/0KVnytFhfPo4nGhULCQtlp

Cowboys UDFA fits familiar mold, can he produce where others couldn't? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/09/michael-trigg-same-story-different-day-dallas-cowboy…

“Pull images and text from are.na to make a strangely familiar documentary critique of late capitalism.”
This is oddly satisfying. 🫠
https://mildlydiverting.github.io/are.na-toolkit/arena-hypernormalisation.html

Are.na Hypernormalisation
Pull images and text from are.na channels and combine them into a strangely familiar documentary critique of late capitalism. Good for full-screen ambient displays, or just staring into the void.

For those familiar with indie digital games: what is your take on the overrepresentation of horror/demonic/gore/etc happening?

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So... it turns out that one of the downsides of using good noise-cancelling headsets to do morse code #HamRadio is that they cancel the sound of thunder as well as of heavy rain. When I finally saw the lightning, I decided to give the rest of the Slow-Speed conTest a pass this evening.
For those not familiar, this is a weekly morse code practice session where you go slow …

BBC: US officials present proposal where 3 new military bases in Greenland will be "formally designated as US sovereign territory." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx21669452lo
To agree to that formulation would probably be as close as you can get to political suicide -…

US in closely guarded talks to open new bases in Greenland
Negotiations have progressed in recent months, according to multiple officials familiar, with the White House optimistic of reaching a deal.

The social media figure “Rathbone” became (or always has been) a horrible antisemite. Not sure how many people here are familiar with his videos, but I must admit that a few years back I liked them. They were often provocative and didn't speak too kindly on Israel's actions, using words like “apartheid”, “imperialism”, “zionism”, etc. The account didn't influence me on my knowledge of these terms, the books I read and my political activism did, but it certainly popped up once or twi…

"Middle Eastern mobile networks were repeatedly hit with cyber attacks to track the locations of US personnel and contractors during the Iran war, according to telecoms data and people familiar with the matter."
https://www.ft.com/content/44351c74-03c8-4

I have some individual faculty funds I can spend on books. Recommendations please! Is there a book you •love• on the any of the following topics?
⁃ software development
⁃ programming languages
⁃ creative coding / generative art
⁃ software teams
⁃ design, usability
⁃ engineering for accessibility
⁃ computing / engineering and society
⁃ computing history
⁃ …etc…
Obvious, well-worn classics welcome, no matter how familiar! I might not know it!
And for once, redundant replies are welcome. I’ll treat them as upvotes.

On some devices does #AI modify text on a site or post? I have people complain of errors that I did not make. I have a screen capture, for example, where God is addressed in a familiar manner which I NEVER use. What might be happening here?

Sources: Apple is looking for chip companies to buy to boost its AI server chip efforts as it struggles with the performance of its servers running on M2 Ultra (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-hunts-ai-chip-acquisitions
…

Apple Hunts for AI Chip Acquisitions
Apple is on the lookout for acquisitions of chip companies to boost its efforts to build server chips for running AI, said people familiar with the company’s efforts. In recent months, the iPhone maker has talked with bankers about possible deals. It has also approached semiconductor startups to ...

Blog post on the Gemini protocol is up: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/the-gemini-protocol -- with links to the capsules and phlogs (remove the space before the TLD before viewing them in a Gemini browser) of @…

The Gemini protocol
Most people familiar with the internet know the HTTP protocol, the one that retrieves and displays our www websites. HTTP was initiated in 1989 and went from there. Gopher is another web protocol, …

Funny memo from the National Aeronautics and Space Council (predecessor of the National Space Council) to the U.S. Department of State from 18 July 1963 about what to do should contact with intelligent #aliens be made: https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/59_214434_sp_16_7.18.1963.pdf - according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Hunter the author had no background in exobiology but apparently he was familiar with both astronomical views and SF ideas of the time ... and certain fringe claims, too.

Kash #Patel has given out bottles of a personalized whiskey to FBI staff as well as civilians he encounters in his duties, according to eight people, including current and former FBI and Department of Justice employees and others who are familiar.

Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash
The FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card.

"A visitor at the site complained to park staff about a quote related to women’s suffrage as being “woke” feminist ideology, the people familiar said, and the visitor later sent an email complaint."
Park Service orders removal of ‘woke’ quotes at Boston’s Bunker Hill monument - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/06/04/park-service-orders-removal-woke-quotes-bostons-bunker-hill-monument/

Trump's latest declaration of an emergency leaves GOP allies scrambling again (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/25/trump-save-america-act-fight-puts-republican-allies-familiar-predicament/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p103#a260625p103

I had an interesting chat with a friend who mentioned a book called "The Living Company." Apparently Shell was one of the few companies that saw the 1970's oil crisis coming and was able to adapt. They did it by talking to a bunch of people randomly about the future, identifying patterns, and coming up with possible future scenarios. They then formed clear plans for these future scenarios, where those plans would cover as many related scenarios as possible.
This was actually really familiar to me, though I hadn't read the book, because that's very close to what the Seattle GDC disaster prep committee did. We identified possible disaster scenarios, then identified preparedness steps that served multiple purposes. We got boxes of n95 masks in 2018 and 2019 for wildfire smoke and did a bit of work building box-fan air purifiers. Over the years we handed out these masks to houseless folks who were most exposed to the smoke. When the pandemic hit, we were able to take some of those boxes to first responders just as manufacturing in China dropped because of their lockdowns and as others started PPE hoarding. We focused on N95 because that was one of the overlap points between the unexpected but catastrophic "flu pandemic" that we knew was possible, and the regular "wildfire smoke" problem we were just getting used to.
The book sounds like it's at least partially influenced by cybernetics. There's this Dutch cybernetics connection that I haven't quite figured out. Anyway, this guy talked about how a company needs to be sustainable and all that. My dude, you worked for an oil company. That is categorically not sustainable. All this aside, I think there are a lot of things we can and should take from capitalists (or take back, in some cases). This practice is one of them.
So maybe get together with friends and talk about what you think might happen. We live in a world of crisis, so I'll always recommend disaster preparedness. But there's more than that.
What do you think will happen in the next 5 years?
Assuming that happens, what actions would you take to push that towards the most positive outcome?
I'm listening to Revolutions and reminded of how much effort monarchies put in to preventing revolutions. Corporations can be even more advanced in their planning and preemption. What would it look like if we planned like that?

Raiders sign UDFA WR who is following Fernando Mendoza to 3rd stop https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/04/raiders-sign-udfa-wr-jonathan-brady-fo…

I thought I was familiar with a lot of codecs, but Captain Crunch and DVI are names I've never heard. #avpreservation

Phil Salvador (@philsalv.bsky.social)
Some real banger multimedia coverage in this issue of CD-ROM Professional

"Did the Philistines Speak Greek?"
https://dannybate.com/2026/07/03/did-the-philistines-speak-greek/

Sources: Lesley Stahl has inked a new two-year contract to remain a correspondent on 60 Minutes; her most recent deals were year-to-year (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/daniel-dale-cnn-fact-check-missing

The Curious Disappearance of Daniel Dale
CNN’s resident fact-checker has been absent from the network’s airwaves for more than three months, Status has found, raising questions about the sudden disappearance of one of its most familiar on-air fixtures.

look at dis - seems familiar, huh? :)

@… I just saw a very familiar name popping up on the latest Evercade video. :D

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3× Super Bowl champion sees a familiar pattern behind Jerry Jones' Micah Parsons trade https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/emmitt-smith-sees-pattern-jerry-jones/7fd361f5e6d8434b5f632984

Ex-iRobot CEO Colin Angle launches Familiar Machines & Magic and unveils Familiar, a dog-like, "emotionally intelligent" robot that reacts to owner's feelings (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/familiar…

Anybody familiar enough with Supermicro main board architecture to know what they're using the little Lattice CPLD for? Just IO expansion for the BMC or what?

Interesting article about "turtle tanks"
#military

Turtle Tanks: A Dead End in Modern Warfare
Turtle tanks have become a familiar sight on the Ukrainian battlefield, but are they a dead end in modern warfare?

Ursache für den DNSSEC Fehler wurde gefunden: alle betrunken.
#denic

Bills boost pass-rush depth with ex-Chief Danna https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48741642/bills-sign-ex-chiefs-pass-rusher-mike-danna-1-year-deal

Coming from Seattle, I'm pretty amazed at the level of anarchist (and adjacent) activity in Amsterdam (and the Netherlands more generally). There are dozens of squats (legalized and not), some of which host events daily.
Squat radar is amazing. The idea of a while site just to keep track of events is wild. But the events are really just a portion of it. There's Vrijbond, which has Vrij Markt. Vrij Markt is a place you can buy stuff made by anarchists. Of course there's patches and buttons, like Americans would be familiar with, but there's also things like pasta and soap...
https://vrijemarkt.org

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Sources: Cursor is building a general-purpose AI agent codenamed Sand, aimed at non-developers, that handles emails, texts, and documents to rival Claude Cowork (Grace Kay/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cursor-developing-ai-a…

Cursor Is Developing an AI Agent to Compete With Claude Cowork
Cursor is developing a general-purpose AI agent meant to compete with popular tools like Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, two people familiar with the project said, part of a broader push by the company to diversify beyond coding-focused tools. Work on the new agent began after Cursor started leasing ...

Trump administration officials earlier this year
killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by
Sen. Jim Justice, a Republican from West Virginia and a close ally of the president’s.
The investigation examined potential criminal violations of the Clean Water Act by the multistate mining operations largely run by Justice’s son, Jay,
according to current and former officials familiar with the matter.
The criminal probe was a significant esca…

Trump Administration Killed Criminal Investigation of GOP Senator’s Coal Companies
EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”

"Russia’s security services shut parts of a special surveillance system protecting President Vladimir Putin and his closest aides in the wake of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s assassination in Tehran, according to two people familiar with the matter."
https://www.ft.com/content/6f4d806c-eb22-4

Wow. Wanted to update the OS on my old iPad Mini running 26.4.2. Pressing the update button brings up the familiar "enter your code" window, but... no keyboard. I tried force quitting Settings and a full reboot, but nope... no way to enter the code to update from this OS. Bravo, #Apple

How One Raiders' Rivalry Sparked Kubiak's Passion for Las Vegas https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-one-rivalry-sparked-kubiak-passion

Google says it is hiring a team of "forward deployed engineers", a source says in the hundreds, to help customers use its business-focused AI products (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/google-hire-hun…

Google to Hire Hundreds of Engineers to Help Customers Adopt Its AI
Google plans to hire hundreds of engineers to help customers start using its business-focused AI products, according to a person familiar with the situation. Google’s new “forward deployed engineers” will form a new team within Google Cloud, the unit’s chief, Thomas Kurian, said on LinkedIn on Tuesday, without disclosing the size of the effort. Matt Renner, Google Cloud’s chief revenue

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3 Points: Donovan Ezeiruaku poised for big role in 2026 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/3-points-donovan-ezeiruaku-poised-for-big-role-in-2026

Soon after Trump took office, the lead prosecutor, Jorge Matos, was told by a supervisor to take the investigation no further
“Before the election, it was definitely full steam ahead,” said one person familiar with the case.
“After the election, that all changed.”
https://www.

Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges.
Before the 2024 election, federal prosecutors were "full steam ahead" looking into how a prison gang in Puerto Rico gave drugs to inmates if they voted for a GOP gubernatorial candidate. After Trump’s election, the investigation evaporated.

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Raiders QB Kirk Cousins on Brock Bowers: 'Is there anything he can't do?' https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/06/09/raiders-qb-kirk-cousins-on-brock-bowers-…

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IBM security executive emerges as possible contender to lead CISA
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/05/ibm-security-executive-emerges-possible-contender-lead-cisa/413291/

IBM security executive emerges as possible contender to lead CISA
Tom Parker doesn’t have prior government experience, characteristics the Trump administration may be seeking in its next pick to lead the cyber agency, a person familiar said.

3 Points: Donovan Ezeiruaku poised for big role in 2026 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/3-points-donovan-ezeiruaku-poised-for-big-role-in-2026

The Iran deal comes with a familiar false promise
Vance’s defense of the Iran deal contradicts itself.
Asked whether Iran would gain access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund, he did not say no.
Instead, he laid out the points about Iran’s cooperation and its integration into the “world economy” and the United States inviting other countries to invest.
But, once the funds were invested, they would not evaporate because Iran violated the agreement.
If a c…

The Iran deal comes with a familiar false promise
Bad actors tend to betray agreements, without consequences.

Source: Kraken is pursuing a full banking license in Europe, with a focus on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure it (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/07/crypto-exchange-kraken-is-trying-to-become-a-ba…

Crypto exchange Kraken is trying to become a bank in Europe
The focus is on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure the license, according to a person familiar with the plans.

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Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job
A convicted Jan. 6 rioter who later said that he regretted his participation in the U.S. Capitol attack
has been hired by the Trump administration to work inside a Pentagon office that manages highly classified military operations,
according to four people familiar with the matter.

The appointment of Elias Irizarry,
who was 19 at the time of the riot in 2021,
to a post in the Defens…

Pentagon hires convicted Jan. 6 rioter for sensitive counterterrorism job
The Trump administration’s appointment of Elias Irizarry, who was 19 at the time of the Capitol attack, has alarmed some in the Defense Department.

Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta…

Meta Is Building an AI Agent Called ‘Hatch’ and an AI Shopping Tool in Instagram
Meta Platforms is building a consumer version of the AI agent OpenClaw and a new agentic shopping tool, people familiar with the efforts said, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushes for products to deliver returns on the company’s huge artificial intelligence investments. Meta is training the ...

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Netflix will air Week 1 matchup between 49ers and Rams in Australia, AP source says https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/netflix-will-air-week-1-matchup-between-49ers-and-rams-in-australia-ap-source-says

Unfortunately, we have been privy to an abundance of Trump's humiliating public spectacles
(e.g., the Kennedy Center defacement,
the cancel-plagued concert,
The sleazy UFC extravaganza,
the algae sludge debacle).
They follow a familiar script, punctuated by Trumpian grandiosity,
contempt for expertise,
attachment to money-grabbing grift,
refusal to listen to critics or bad news,
dismal personal taste,
and jaw-dropping ignorance…

Words & Phases
‘A Golden Age’ and a ‘Great America State Fair’?!

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Sources: Anthropic's bankers have hired UK law firm Freshfields to advise on its IPO; it also advised on Google's acquisition of Wiz and ServiceNow's Armis deal (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/freshfields-anthropic-…

Freshfields’ Anthropic Win; A Squeeze of Lime Returns
A British law firm has scored a big win: a role in the Anthropic initial public offering, expected to raise tens of billions at a valuation of more than $1 trillion.Anthropic’s bankers have brought on U.K. law firm Freshfields to work on the IPO, according to people familiar with the matter.The ...

Amazon is preparing a potential reboot of Donald Trump's signature former show, "The Apprentice,"
-- hosted by his son, Donald Trump Jr.,
-- as Amazon woos MAGA
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-amazon/

'The Apprentice' may get reboot starring Trump Jr. as Amazon woos MAGA fans: report
Amazon is preparing a potential reboot of President Donald Trump's signature former show, "The Apprentice," hosted by his son, Donald Trump Jr., according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing "people familiar with the matter," that Amazon is in "early stage" discuss...

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