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Sources: Microsoft is in talks with US publishers about launching a two-sided marketplace that would compensate publishers for their content used by AI products (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/microsoft-ai-marketplace-publishers

Scoop: Microsoft looks to build AI marketplace for publishers
Copilot would be the first buyer in the Publisher Content Marketplace.

Fire engulfs iconic Odesa market amid Russian attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/24/fire-engulfs-iconic-odesa-market.html

Sources: Microsoft is in talks with US publishers about launching a two-sided marketplace that would compensate publishers for their content used by AI products (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/microsoft-ai-marketplace-publishers

Scoop: Microsoft looks to build AI marketplace for publishers
Copilot would be the first buyer in the Publisher Content Marketplace.

This week's legacy edu space goes to "[...] an American technology company that provides a marketing automation platform, used primarily for email marketing and SMS marketing."
Yay
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01K86WJ0N3EAWS9AW2QXNFR…

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"St. Francis Xavier University" transferred 141.109.240.0/20 (Taken from 141.109.176.0 - 141.109.255.255) to "Klaviyo, Inc" (Estimated Market Value: $90.11 K)

Huh, how time flies. 6 or 7 years ago, at the OER Foundation, for whom I work as Open Source Technologist, we decided to replace our MailChimp with, eventually, a self-hosted instance of Mautic (https://mautic.org) to communicate with learners taking courses in our online open university courses (

ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised $70M led by Avenir at a $1.5B valuation, up from ~$410M after raising $77.5M in March 2024 (Diana Pearl/The Business of Fashion)
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/marketing-pr…

As GenAI disrupts media content creation by lowering barriers and costs, value will shift to complements such as merchandise, live events, and exclusive access (Doug Shapiro/The Mediator)
https://dougshapiro.substack.com/p/what-if-all-media-is-marketing-no

What If All Media is Marketing? (No Paywall)
The Logical Conclusion of Plummeting Creation Costs

Email: Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to resume operations on October 24, following a court-approved restructuring, after hackers stole $230M in July 2024 (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/2

WazirX Latest News: Users Can Start Trading on Friday After $230M Hack Comes to Close
That was the final step in a process that began after a massive security breach last year froze assets, shuttered withdrawals, and effectively took India’s oldest crypto platform offline.

ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised $70M led by Avenir at a $1.5B valuation, up from ~$410M when it raised $77.5M in March 2024 (Diana Pearl/The Business of Fashion)
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/marketing-p…

A surge in AI company valuations is driving the popularity of special purpose vehicles, but some involve high fees, opaque structures, and layers of middlemen (Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/mar

Investors warn AI FOMO could be fueling a risky bubble in companies like OpenAI and Anthropic
As AI valuations soar into the hundreds of billions, a parallel market of temporary financial shells is proliferating to meet investor FOMO, and many investors are starting to sound the alarm bells that it portends a bubble in the AI gold rush