Mark Bergen
@mhbergen.bsky.social
Bloomberg hack, yank in London, NBA sicko author of "Like, Comment, Subscribe" bit.ly/3EUxVE5 hmu: mbergen10@bloomberg.net
SaaSpocalypse --> Milan rapture www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Bending Spoons Will Buy Airtable After Steep Fall From $11.7 Billion Peak
App developer Bending Spoons SpA has agreed to buy software firm Airtable for an equity value of $2.25 billion, a sharp decline from the startup’s 2021 peak valuation.
bloomberg.com
nothing says British Sovereign AI like a dude in a yankee cap www.ft.com/content/7a8c...
James Dacombe, 25, triples AI chip start-up’s valuation to $3.3bn
British entrepreneur behind Olix raises $312mn from investors including Arm in effort to take on Nvidia
ft.com
DSIT split into DBT and DCMS. Unclear where ARIA, AISI and Sov AI go. But UK still very much fan of ACRONYMS www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Burnham Picks Narayan as First UK AI Minister to Attend Cabinet
Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham has appointed Kanishka Narayan as minister for artificial intelligence, making the post a cabinet-level position for the first time.
bloomberg.com
"The funding round also saw participation from Ari Emanuel, Claudia Schiffer and Sir Matthew Vaughn, Danny Meyer, Jimmy Iovine, Maria Sharapova, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Thierry Henry, Tim Ferriss and will.i.am ...."
just Freudian slipped it in a draft as "Russia's full-scale invasion of Europe"
“The systems we have weren’t built for this moment. And pretending they still work serves no one.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Microsoft in Talks to Ax Key Energy Pledge Amid Data Center Boom
Microsoft Corp. is in discussions to shelve one of the industry’s most ambitious clean-energy targets as it tries to remove hurdles that could hold it back in the race to power data centers, according...
bloomberg.com
"At heart, though, he remains a YouTuber, unafraid of looking stupid on camera in pursuit of views and clout." www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/d...
Jake Paul’s artless spectacle robbed boxing of its democratic dream | Bryan Armen Graham
Netflix’s 300 million global subscribers got just what they wanted: to see a former YouTuber knocked out brutally
theguardian.com
“You often plan in 10, 20 years. You have the privilege, in a way, of a longer-term government.” in which the cfo of openai says the quiet part out loud www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Saudi’s Oil Wealth Is Moving to AI. Now MBS Needs Trump’s Blessing
Tareq Amin has a sales pitch that’s opened virtually every door in Silicon Valley: If you’re looking for AI computing power, come to Saudi Arabia.
bloomberg.com
new magazine feature. important subject. cool photos. please read. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The UAE Is Winning the Race to Sequence an Entire Country’s DNA
With almost all of its citizens’ genes already sequenced in a national database, it’s the test case for an ambitious—and, to some, concerning—approach to public health.
bloomberg.com
"a London newspaper" is one of the coldest burns ever www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
How a London newspaper botched a New York political story
Welcome to New York.
semafor.com
New: San Franciscans were aghast by Marc Benioff’s hard tight turn. His company, Salesforce, is seeking new contracts with ICE to help it triple its ranks under the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force
nytimes.com
of all the metaphors for AI enthusiasm, you'd think you want to steer clear of 'icebergs'? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
JPMorgan’s Dimon Says AI Cost Savings Now Matching Money Spent
Jamie Dimon said JPMorgan Chase & Co. spends $2 billion a year on developing artificial intelligence technology, and saves about the same amount annually from the investment.
bloomberg.com
besides the point, but Advanced Micro Devices is the most normcore company name
BENDING SPOONS, BABY www.reuters.com/world/yahoo-...
Exclusive: Yahoo nears deal to sell AOL to Italy's Bending Spoons for $1.4 billion, sources say
Bending Spoons has emerged as one of Europe's most prominent technology firms, with a strategy of purchasing struggling tech companies and revamping them.
reuters.com
data center, server farm, computer warehouse. hell even data centre. not a factory.
upgraded my pixel phone & now every time I get directions in maps - say, within a London borough - then reopen the app, it zooms out to the entire African and Eurasian continent. thinking about this & how Google's press release this week called maps and "AI service" lol