CNN staff face uncertainty as Paramount Skydance prepares to acquire the network from Warner Bros. Discovery in October, potentially upending recent progress with digital initiatives like CNN All Access. The mood at the outlet is compared to a funeral, with employees concerned about leadership changes and strategic shifts, given Paramount's controversial management of CBS News under editor Bari Weiss.
S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, a blockchain security firm that has secured $37 trillion in onchain value since 2015. The acquisition aims to integrate OpenZeppelin's open-source security standards with S&P Global's institutional relationships and trust in financial markets as traditional finance moves onchain. OpenZeppelin's open-source libraries and security commitments will remain unchanged under S&P Global ownership.
Gladia, a Paris-based speech-to-text AI company, is joining OVH Groupe to accelerate European sovereign AI capabilities. Gladia will maintain its independence as a product line while gaining access to OVH's infrastructure across 46 data centers, enabling lower-latency transcription and deeper EU data residency guarantees. The acquisition follows OVHcloud's earlier purchase of OVHai LLM, building a full-stack European AI ecosystem.
IBM announced the acquisition of HRL Laboratories, a quantum research institution jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors, to advance its quantum computing capabilities. HRL's expertise in silicon-spin qubit engineering and quantum materials will complement IBM's superconducting qubit technology and accelerate development of fault-tolerant quantum computers, quantum sensing, and quantum networking.
Infillion has acquired Foursquare, combining location intelligence data with purchase signals to help advertisers measure real-world outcomes like store visits and purchases. The deal unites Foursquare's 100 million points of interest and 250 million U.S. device coverage with Infillion's Catalina purchase data, creating an independent platform to close the advertising loop.
European SaaS founders should concentrate their first 100 users in a narrow, homogeneous segment rather than spreading across multiple countries, as this density reveals actionable patterns about user behavior and willingness to pay. The initial ten users should be reached through personal networks, and founders must distinguish between users and paying customers while respecting EU data protection regulations.
S&P Global announced an agreement to acquire OpenZeppelin, a leading provider of smart contract security assessments and open-source libraries for onchain finance. The acquisition will expand S&P Global's risk assessment capabilities into blockchain technology as traditional finance and DeFi institutions move onchain, with OpenZeppelin continuing to operate as a separate business unit.
A freelance journalist describes pitching an urgent investigative story about fentanyl adulterants to Scientific American, only to face editorial turmoil when the publication was acquired by LabX Media Group, resulting in staff layoffs and editorial changes that jeopardized the story's publication and left the author facing a kill fee despite the story's public health importance.
CodeProject, a community platform for programmers offering articles and code across multiple languages, entered read-only mode in October 2024 due to financial losses. The site was acquired by D2 Emerge LLC in November 2024 but went offline in March 2026, with content preserved by the Internet Archive.