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| SoftBank deal talks: SoftBank is in discussions to acquire DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers, as the Japanese conglomerate continues to look for ways to take advantage of the AI boom. EU fines X: European authorities fined Elon Musk’s X social network €120 million in its first ever penalty for violating the bloc’s content-moderation law, a move set to raise tensions with the White House over free speech and tech regulation. Crypto trade meltdown: This year was a fruitful one for companies following the template set by Michael Saylor’s Strategy — buying digital tokens to turn themselves into crypto-investment vehicles and seeing their share prices rocket up — right up until it wasn’t. | |
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| Parloa, a German startup developing AI for customer service, is looking to raise about $200 million that would potentially more than double its valuation from May to beyond $2 billion. It competes with Salesforce and other AI agent developers focused on handling customer queries via chat or over the phone. | |
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| Amazon’s cloud unit executives pitched customers at the company’s re:Invent conference on the coming future of AI agents to help make their workforces leaner and more efficient, Ed Ludlow reports in today’s Tech In Depth. The push raised uncomfortable questions as Amazon is cutting jobs and researchers debate whether AI tools will take the place of human workers, he writes. Get the Tech In Depth newsletter for analysis and scoops about the business of technology from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. | |
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| The creator of Blue Prince, a puzzle game released to rave reviews in April, tells Jason Schreier in this week’s Game On that he’ll never explain some of the game’s biggest mysteries, leaving players with little to do but imagine the endings of countless unresolved threads. But if it’s any consolation, Tonda Ros is still working on a big update, Schreier writes.
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