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Trump signs an EO clearing a path to add alternative assets like PE and cryptocurrencies into 401(k)s, instructing the US Secretary of Labor to review guidance (Sarah Min/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/trump-orde

Trump signs order allowing alternative assets like cryptocurrencies, private equity in 401(k)s
The executive order directs the U.S. Secretary of Labor to review fiduciary guidance on private market investments in 401(k) and other defined-contribution plans that are governed by ERISA.

Trump to allow cryptocurrency, private equity in 401(k)s
https://qz.com/trump-executive-action-401ks-cryptocurrency-private-equity

Vice Media raises $75M in a credit facility with Western Alliance Bank to support Vice Studios; Vice co-owner Fortress is also contributing an equity investment (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/07/vice-media-news-studios-credit

micro victory: a now-discontinued power adapter (manufactured by a private equity-screwed company) broke last night. had a vague memory of ordering a spare several years ago & it was exactly where i vaguely remembered stashing it, ready to go.

Sources: xAI nears a deal to raise $20B in equity and debt, tied to the Nvidia GPUs that xAI plans to use in Colossus 2; Nvidia is investing as much as $2B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-07/musk-s-…

Big sad that I just found that #fireship got bought by a private equity firm in 2023. That explains why it recently became a slop machine just constantly publishing about AI.
Good for him getting the money he deserves, but the content isn't worth watching anymore in my opinion it's just the same "AI is going to take your job, buy this AI tool".

Sources: Meta picks Pimco and Blue Owl to lead a $29B financing for its Louisiana data center expansion, providing $26B in debt and $3B in equity, respectively (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/met…

The University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law school has
💥paused a full-tuition scholarship program named for its first Black graduate
❌ and plans to close its office of “equal opportunity and engagement” this month.
The changes come as m Donald Trump’s administration pushes for an end to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at universities nationwide.
⭐️The White House has threatened to pull federal funding from those that do not comply.
Penn Carey Law in 2021 …

Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office
Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office. Alumni expressed concern.

State Department cable: Marco Rubio orders diplomats in Europe to lobby against the DSA, arguing it imposes free speech restrictions and high compliance costs (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc…

Electronic Arts vor Buyout: Sind die goldenen EA-Jahre jetzt plötzlich vorbei?
EA wird von Private Equity gekauft. Schlimm! Fans der liebenswürdigen US-Spieleschmiede müssen sich auf so einige Veränderungen gefasst machen. Eine Glosse.

Why isn't this considered wage theft? "“All Common Stock will be canceled for no consideration and all Options will be canceled and extinguished for no consideration,” "
Apparently employees were given stock options, and were encouraged to buy stock - ALL shares held by employees were Common Stock. When Private Equity bought the company, the shares were declared worthless (of course the the CEO, etc all will receive payouts).

Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145 million
Employee stocks will be canceled as part of the deal; former employees point to culture change across Philz Coffee.

Why isn't this considered wage theft? "“All Common Stock will be canceled for no consideration and all Options will be canceled and extinguished for no consideration,” "
Apparently employees were given stock options, and were encouraged to buy stock - ALL shares held by employees were Common Stock. When Private Equity bought the company, the shares were declared worthless (of course the the CEO, etc all will receive payouts).

Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145 million
Employee stocks will be canceled as part of the deal; former employees point to culture change across Philz Coffee.

If true, this explains why the #Browns took #ShedeurSanders for $4.6M:
▫️$15M (6%) of $250M in Shedeur merch equity & tax classification as a business revenue not personal income
▫️Sponsorships like Nike worth $5M-$10M & Beats by Dre, Gatorade, etc. worth $6.5M
▫️Owner…

The groundbreaking clause in Shedeur Sanders’ rookie deal that’s rewriting the rules
Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders has included a groundbreaking clause in his contract that could set a new standard in the NFL.

Scorability, a college sports recruiting marketplace for athletes and coaches, raised $40M led by Bluestone Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to $51M (Jessica Golden/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/scorability…

Startup Scorability wants to revolutionize college sports recruiting as NIL takes off
Scorability now boasts 1.2 million athletes and 3,000 college sports program users.

A new thing to boycott, if you aren't already: https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

EA to be acquired for $52.5 billion in largest buyout ever of a public company taken private
Electronic Arts, the maker of video games like “Madden NFL,” “Battlefield,” and “The Sims,” is being acquired by an investor group including Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in the largest private equity-funded buyout in history. The investors, who also include a firm managed by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, and the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, valued the deal $55 billion. EA stockholders will receive $210 per share. The deal far exceeds th…

Psalm 58 is about the maga-klan... Here it is (slightly shorted to meet my Mastodon site's posting length limits.)
...
Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity?
No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth.
...
Break the teeth in their mouths, O God;
Lord, tear out the fangs of those lions!
Let them vanish like water that flows away; when they draw the bow, let their arrows fall s…

Bible Gateway passage: Psalm 58 - New International Version
Psalm 58 - For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” Of David. A miktam. Do you rulers indeed speak justly? Do you judge people with equity? No, in your heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the earth. Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies. Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears, that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchante…

The 4th annual International End of Life Doula symposium is this weekend - see you soon!
#EOLD #EOLDIRG #research #event…

#ContemporaryContradictions #HashTagGames
Rules: include as many contradictions s you'd like. Can be profound or trivial. Each contradiction is stated via exactly 1 or 2 questions, no statements and not more than 2 questions. Try to group yours into a single post, rather than one post per contradiction, so that it's easier to see more voices when scrolling the hash tag.
Why does "race" work according to the "one drop rule" if you have Black ancestors, but according to "blood quantum" if you have Indigenous ancestors? Who benefits from this arrangement?
Why do we think of seeds as merely a reproduction mechanism for trees, instead of thinking of trees as merely a reproduction mechanism for seeds, especially since some plants can spend millennia as seeds but can survive for only part of a year after sprouting? Are metabolic activity or structural complexity really so important?
If Columbus discovered America, did Batu Khan discover Europe? What is an "Age of Discovery?"
Why don't corporations in the US try to lobby the government for a single-payer healthcare system where the government foots the bill for healthcare instead of companies paying to deeply subsidize their employees' healthcare? What benefit do they gain that's worth that cost, which in other countries is paid for via taxes?
Why is the cost of renting (which gets you zero equity) anywhere close to the cost of a mortgage (which eventually gets you ownership)? If the costs are similar but the benefits are so different, why does anyone ever rent?
Why do we obsess over the fruit/vegetable classification of tomatoes, but not corn, okra, cucumbers, zucchini, etc.?

Dotdash Meredith rebrands to People to capitalize on the brand equity of its most popular and recognizable title (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/31/people-magazine-publisher-rebrand-dotdash-meredith

Dotdash Meredith rebrands as People Inc.
Dotdash Meredith's rebrand into People Inc. capitalizes on brand equity in a way that its current name does not.

I'm heading to London for Games Transformed: Smash the Fash event.
I'll be on a panel titled "What Can the Left Learn From Struggles in the Games Industry?" & speaking on our @gwuireland.bsky.social union organising with game workers in Ireland.
It's this weekend! Tickets here: https://www.

U.S. to Take Equity Stake in Lithium Americas and Its Nevada Mining Project - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/business/u-s-to-take-equity-stake-in-lithium-americas-and-its-nevada-mining-project-8938eab4

For DC's upcoming report on how historic preservation promotes equity, here's a fine case study.
Guy bought historic townhouse in Alexandria in 2021. Converted three apartments “into something that Louis XIV would be proud of.” A 6-bedroom house with inlaid marble, gold leaf ceilings, gold toilets & a gold fireplace grate from a French chateau.
https://

Ornate Alexandria townhouse is styled after Versailles
House of the Week | Six-bedroom, five-bath ‘The Prince’ has a Midas touch, selling for $4 million.

“How did a sports scene like #MiLB minor league #baseball—with a more than 100-year history of silly mascots, intimate hometown stadiums, and local ownership—get devoured so quickly by #PrivateEquity?”

Some Bollywood stars sue YouTube, seeking the removal of AI videos infringing their IP, and want safeguards to stop other AI models from training on such videos (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc

"…so what exactly is going on between publishers and the NIH?" @ ACRLog: https://acrlog.org/2025/07/15/so-what-exactly-is-going-on-between-publishers-and-the-nih/

@… Oh my! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/8-ottawa-neighbourhoods-urgently-need-more-tre…

8 Ottawa neighbourhoods urgently need more trees. Here's where they are | CBC News
As part of the inaugural 'tree equity' analysis, city staff have identified eight priority areas across the city where more trees are badly needed.

LLM-Based Multi-Task Bangla Hate Speech Detection: Type, Severity, and Target
Md Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam, Md Fahad Hossain, Usman Naseem, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01995

LLM-Based Multi-Task Bangla Hate Speech Detection: Type, Severity, and Target
Online social media platforms are central to everyday communication and information seeking. While these platforms serve positive purposes, they also provide fertile ground for the spread of hate speech, offensive language, and bullying content targeting individuals, organizations, and communities. Such content undermines safety, participation, and equity online. Reliable detection systems are therefore needed, especially for low-resource languages where moderation tools are limited. In Bangla,…

Coinbase says its new "everything exchange" will include tokenized assets, stocks, derivatives, prediction markets, and more, for US users in the coming months (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/coinbase-t

Coinbase says it's launching tokenized stocks, predictions markets for U.S. users in coming months
The expansion puts Coinbase in even closer competition with Robinhood, Gemini and Kraken, all of whom have tokenized equity offerings for users outside the U.S.

Greenleaf Book Group and Amplify Publishing Group have been acquired by Civica Media, a new publishing company formed by private equity firm BlackBern Partners (Jim Milliot/Publishers Weekly)
http://www.publishersweekly.…

Private Equity Firm Acquires Two Leading Hybrid Publishers
Greenleaf Book Group and Amplify Publishing Group, two of the country’s oldest and best-known hybrid publishing companies, have been acquired by Civica Media, a new publisher formed by private equity firm BlackBern Partners.

I am using Desktop Linux¹ for decades because it is woke and gay²!
We want all the gay and merry people playing together :-)
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¹specifically Debian
²read @… in https://

Education software company EdSights, which uses SMS texting and AI to reach students and identify those at risk of dropping out, raised $80M from JMI Equity (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/…

Exclusive: EdSights raises $80M from JMI Equity
The company is growing revenue 70% year to year.

UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk and UC President James B. Milliken have appeared to reject Trump administration demands tied to the restoration of federal funding. The demands reportedly include a large monetary settlement, an end to diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, and a rollback of transgender rights on campus. That rollback would ban transgender students from participating in sports, living in dorms, and likely using bathrooms …

UCLA Rejects Trump Demands To Capitulate To Anti-Trans Policies—For Now
The university has refused to bow to the President’s sweeping list of anti-transgender demands—bucking a growing trend of large universities that have caved to similar pressure.

DOJ probes CalEPA hiring for potential racial bias
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5473143-doj-california-epa-calepa-racial-equity-newsom-trump/

After the spinoff, WBD's streaming and studios business will be called The Warner Bros Company and its cable networks business will be called Discovery Global (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/07/wbd-new-names-discovery-global-warner-bros/…

WBD reveals new names for cable networks business, film studio segment
The spin-off is expected to be finalized in the near future, with the cable networks company owning equity in the film and streaming business.

Just finished "Go With the Flow" by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann. It's a great graphic novel about period equity and teen activism, with a lot of depth through a variety of intertwined sub-plots.
#AmReading

Sources: Saudi Arabia's PIF is the largest contributor to the $36B in equity used to finance the EA deal; it will roll over its $5B EA stake into the new entity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-29/s…

DC historic districts, where it's very hard to build new housing, contain 20% of city's population. All but a few are wealthy white areas. DC Office of Planning agrees to study historic districts' equity effects.
Then it turns around & turns study over to preservation advocates.

Sources: the NFL is in talks to take a minority stake of up to 10% in ESPN, which would own NFL Network and RedZone rather than just hold a controlling stake (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/nfl-media-espn-equity-ownership-deal.html

NFL in talks to take a 10% stake in ESPN
ESPN would own all of NFL Network and NFL RedZone, rather than just a controlling stake, if the deal moves forward as currently constructed, CNBC has learned.

Nvidia's CFO says Q2 "net other income" was $2.2B, "driven by gains in a publicly-held equity security", which refers to Nvidia's position in CoreWeave (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/nvidia-t

Nvidia, the asset manager, had a massive Q2 thanks to CoreWeave’s rally
“Other net income” for Nvidia is way more than most S&P 500 companies’ total net income.

The US taking a 10% equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea and a dangerous turn for US industrial policy, but also the least bad idea to make Foundry viable (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/u-s-intel/

U.S. Intel
The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

There are "concerns that the deal could lead to widespread store closures, layoffs and reduced access to healthcare in vulnerable communities."
What’s Next for Walgreens Following its Private Equity Sale? - MedCity News
https://medcitynews.com/2025/09/walgreens-private-equity-sale/

Generative AI as a catalyst for democratic Innovation: Enhancing citizen engagement in participatory budgeting
Italo Alberto do Nascimento Sousa, Jorge Machado, Jose Carlos Vaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19497

Generative AI as a catalyst for democratic Innovation: Enhancing citizen engagement in participatory budgeting
This research examines the role of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in enhancing citizen engagement in participatory budgeting. In response to challenges like declining civic participation and increased societal polarization, the study explores how online political participation can strengthen democracy and promote social equity. By integrating Generative AI into public consultation platforms, the research aims to improve citizen proposal formulation and foster effective dialogue between…

The US makes it harder for Samsung, SK Hynix, and Intel to produce chips in China by revoking waivers for the use of US equipment in their Chinese operations (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc

Pakistan arrests over a dozen suspects as ‘honour killing’ video goes viral | Gender Equity News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/21/pakistan-arrests-over-a-dozen-suspects-as-honour-killing-video-goes-viral?traffic_source=rss

A White House official says the US will not hold a golden share or equity in TikTok US and the new board will not have a member selected by the US government (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/no-golden-…

OpenAI warns investors against "unauthorized opportunities" to gain exposure to its equity, including through special purpose vehicles (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/23/openai-warns-against-spvs-and-other-unaut…

OpenAI warns against SPVs and other ‘unauthorized’ investments | TechCrunch
OpenAI isn't the only AI company looking to crack down on SPVs.

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Intel must give the government an equity stake in the company in return for CHIPS Act funds; INTC closes up 7% (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/19/lutnick-intel-stock-chips-trump.html

Lutnick says Intel has to give government equity in return for CHIPS Act funds
The potential deal would convert the CHIPS ACT grants into equity, but wouldn't come with governance rights in Intel, Lutnick said.

Source: Founders Fund and Dragoneer have committed to investing $1B each in OpenAI's second, $30B installment of its $40B round announced in March (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/founders-fund-dragon…

Founders Fund, Dragoneer Each Commit $1 Billion–Plus to OpenAI Deal
As OpenAI tries to raise a record-breaking $40 billion in equity funding this year, it’s getting help from more of its existing investors. Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Dragoneer Investment Group have committed to investing more than $1 billion each in the second, $30 billion installment of ...

Q&A with Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Company, a book on PE firms' impact on media and other industries, on unionization efforts, nonprofit outlets, and more (Camille Bromley/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/megan-gr

Megan Greenwell on How Private Equity Is Devastating the Media
A conversation with the author of Bad Company.

Sources: xAI has raised $10B at a post-money valuation of $200B, weeks after reportedly raising $10B in debt and equity at a ~$150B valuation (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/19/musks-xai-10-billion-at-200-billion-valuation.html

Elon Musk's xAI raising $10 billion at $200 billion valuation: sources
The fundraising comes weeks after Musk raised $10 billion in debt and equity at what was believed to be a roughly $150 billion valuation, according to Faber.

Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/trump-intel-stake.html

Intel Agrees to Sell U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business
The deal is among the largest government interventions in a U.S. company since the rescue of the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis.

How the NFL changed its streaming strategy as the TV landscape shifted; in a first, every NFL game will be available on streaming by the end of August (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

The NFL’s Next Big Play: Owning the Media
The league isn’t content to be a ratings juggernaut for partners. As it takes equity in ESPN and Paramount Skydance, it's muscling into Hollywood’s end zone.

"The white supremacists told Reuters they love Trump’s repeated praise of “Western values,” his attacks on DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives, and his opposition to immigration."
Nazis are having a moment—and they’re thanking Trump
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/8/2337463/-Nazis-are-having-a-moment-and-they-re-thanking-Trump

Boulevard, which provides business management software for the self-care sector, raised an $80M Series D led by JMI Equity at an ~$800M post-money valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/saas-ai-scheduling-startup-boule…

Salon Software Platform Boulevard Nearly Doubles Valuation To $800M With $80M Series D
Los Angeles-based Boulevard, a business management software platform for self-care businesses, has raised $80 million in Series D funding led by JMI Equity, the company announced on Thursday.

Disney and Webtoon announce a new digital platform with 35K Disney comics; Disney plans to acquire a 2% equity interest in Webtoon; WBTN jumps 70% after hours (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/d…

Eight Sleep, which makes the AI-powered Pod smart mattress to monitor sleep stages and more, raised $100M from HSG and others, after an $86M Series C in 2021 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/19/eight-sleep-grabs-100m-to-bring-ai-into-y…

Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand its AI-powered sleep tech | TechCrunch
The sleep tech company raised from HSG, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Y Combinator and big F1 names like Charles Leclerc and Zak Brown.

A White House official says the US will not hold a golden share or equity in TikTok US and the new board will not have a member selected by the US government (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/no-golden-…

Source: the Trump administration considers taking equity stakes in CHIPS Act recipients but not in firms that are increasing US investment, like TSMC and Micron (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/chip-makers-us-go…

What is required for a post-growth model?
Rob Van Eynde, Kevin J. Dillman, Jefim Vogel, Daniel W. O'Neill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07974 https://arxi…

What is required for a post-growth model?
Post-growth has emerged as an umbrella term for various sustainability visions that advocate the pursuit of environmental sustainability, social equity, and human wellbeing, while questioning the continued pursuit of economic growth. Although there are increasing calls to include post-growth scenarios in high-level assessments, a coherent framework with what is required to model post-growth adequately remains absent. This article addresses this gap by: (1) identifying the minimum requirements f…

The main factors in student satisfaction with a campus environment: A mixed approach vs. a quantitative approach
Mohammed Eddaou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10571 https://…

The main factors in student satisfaction with a campus environment: A mixed approach vs. a quantitative approach
University dropout rates in Morocco continue to increase, with approximately 49 percent of students leaving university before graduating, despite the successive reforms and measures taken to achieve Morocco's 2015_2030 strategic vision in the higher education sector : For a university of equity, quality and promotion, which raises questions about the state of knowledge on social inclusion at the university, capable of informing decision-making and the achievement of this strategic vision. While…

Seattle-based tax compliance software maker Avalara, acquired by Vista Equity Partners in a 2022 deal valuing it at $8.4B, confidentially files for a US IPO (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/tax-software-compan…

Sources: after raising $10B, xAI is now working with a trusted financier to secure up to $12B to buy Nvidia chips, led by Elon Musk-linked Valor Equity Partners (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/elon-musk-x-ai-funding-feecede1

Martin Sorrell's S4 says it is in early talks to combine with private equity-owned MSQ; S4 has a ~£130M market cap after its stock has declined ~35% in 2025 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Clothing subscription service Rent the Runway gives up around 86% ownership to three lenders in exchange for $240M in debt relief and $20M in fresh financing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/rent-the-…

A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/so…

OpenAI says its nonprofit parent will continue to have oversight over the company and will own an equity stake of more than $100B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/openai-says-nonprofit-parent-to-own-stake-in-compa…

OpenAI says nonprofit parent will own equity stake in company of over $100 billion
OpenAI said that its nonprofit parent will continue to oversee the company and have a very large stake in its future.

Sources: US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is exploring government equity stakes in return for CHIPS Act funding from Micron, TSMC, Samsung, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/t…

Accenture plans to acquire Australian cybersecurity company CyberCX from private equity firm BGH Capital; the deal reportedly values CyberCX at more than AU$1B (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-tel…

Accenture Acquires Australian Cybersecurity Firm CyberCX
Accenture Plc is buying Australian cybersecurity firm CyberCX, its largest acquisition to date in the sector that will boost operations in the Asia-Pacific region.

Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation, following a $20M Series A in 2021 (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/363026/ephemera-xmtp-fu…

Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
Dave Guruge, Samuel Mann, Ruth Myers, Oliver Bates, Mikey Goldweber, Andy Williamson, Jon Lasenby, Ian Brooks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05992

Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
Sustainability-driven computing research - encompassing equity, diversity, climate change, and social justice - is increasingly dismissed as woke or even dangerous in many sociopolitical contexts. As misinformation, ideological polarisation, deliberate ignorance and reactionary narratives gain ground, how can sustainability research in computing continue to exist and make an impact? This paper explores these tensions through Fictomorphosis, a creative story retelling method that reframes contes…

Disney and Webtoon announce a new digital platform with 35K Disney comics; Disney plans to acquire a 2% equity interest in Webtoon; WBTN jumps 70% after hours (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/d…

Airalo, which offers affordable eSIM roaming packages for travelers, raised $220M at a $1B valuation (Kelsey Warner/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/11/2025/singapore-esim-startup-raises-220-million

Singapore eSIM startup raises $220 million
Airalo, led by a Dubai-based founder, was valued at more than $1 billion in its latest funding round, led by private equity giant CVC.

Sources: Cantor Equity Partners 1, a SPAC backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, is in late-stage talks with Blockstream Capital founder Adam Back to buy $3B in bitcoin (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a4a362a6-cc8b-4188-8658-75183a3d6f5f

Sources: SpaceX has agreed to invest $2B in xAI, as part of xAI's $5B equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/spacex-to-invest-2-billion-into-el…

A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/so…

Sources: Mistral AI is in talks to raise as much as $1B in equity from several investors including Abu Dhabi's MGX; it has raised €1B since its 2023 founding (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…