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Indian IT services provider Coforge agrees to acquire Encora, which offers AI tools for product, cloud, and data engineering, at an enterprise value of $2.35B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-coforge-acquire-us-based…

Talks kick off Monday between U.S. and Mexican trade officials.
The North American economies could agree to renew the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
or USMCA as it is for another 16 years
— a prospect that appears unlikely.
Or they could keep working on ways to improve it;
Under a convoluted renewal process, they have until 2036 to reach an agreement
Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that Do…

Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada — The Associated Press
Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico – U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup.

It's only a /24 from from an edu to Nebius, but if you don't know Nebius, they are like a CoreWeave, which if you don't know, they are the two of the leading (start up) AI-driven, GPU-fueled infrastructure providers outside of the big, better-known hyperscalers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
https://

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"Des Moines Area Community College" transferred 161.210.111.0/24 (Taken from 161.210.110.0 - 161.210.255.255) to "Nebius Inc." (Estimated Market Value: $6.40 K)

Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
AVON: I agree with Mida. When you talk of compensation, Chalsa, remember: Zukan has already pledged more to this alliance than anyone else.
CHALSA: All right, all right, I agree. I accept. [Avon looks about at the others. Boorva nods. Avon gives a sickeningly sweet smile.]
https://blake.torpidity.…

Lux Optics CEO Ben Sandofsky sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now a part of the design team at Apple, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ap

Apple Acquisition Talks, Fraud Accusations: Behind One App Startup’s Nasty Split
Last summer, Apple held talks to acquire Lux Optics, a tiny startup that makes Halide, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed camera apps in the App Store. The deal never happened. Instead, a couple months after the talks ended, Apple began recruiting Sebastiaan de With, Lux’s ...

OpenAI will acquire Astral and integrate its tools into the Codex ecosystem. Perhaps it’s time for forks: #OpenAI

OpenAI to acquire Astral
Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

Everything we’re learning now strongly suggests that Donald Trump’s war is about to get worse.
♦️First, officials leaked word to The Washington Post that the Pentagon and the White House are likely to
💥demand $200 billion more from Congress.
Trump sort of confirmed this in remarks to reporters while adding some unsettling threats of unspecified additional military action.
♦️Second, sources told Reuters that Trump is considering the deployment of thousands of troops…

Trump War Takes Darker Turn as Leaked Plans Unnerve Experts: “Madness”
In an interview, Congressman Adam Smith, the top Armed Services Democrat, sharply condemns the newly leaked war schemes—and tells us that Dems must not agree to one more dime in war funding.

I often agree with Robert Reich, but not this time. Trump is a wholly US creation; a product of a national glorification of greed, selfishness, and ego all disguised as some sort of conquering hero.
So, USians: You made him, you elected him, and he is your responsibility. His actions absolutely reflect on you, and he is your responsibility to deal with.
Get rid of him. Now. And then we can talk about being friends again.

Korean AI startup Upstage says it is in talks to acquire 10K of AMD's MI355 chips, in a bid to "diversify to other chips" as "we have a lot of Nvidia chips" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/adobe-acr…

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries | TechCrunch
Adobe is adding AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of files, create presentations, and a way for users to edit files using prompts.