privately

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I didn’t hear back from Ai² after the newsletter came out, but I did receive this email from Darren Kimura, CEO of AI Squared Holdings, a privately held company in Mountain View, Calif.:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Superior algorithms are held privately, run with institutional capital and protected like trade secrets.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

The decision followed another night of tensions outside the 1,000-bed privately operated facility, which has been the focus of protests for several days.

From Barron's • May 31, 2026

Local authorities say six privately operated buses have been hit in 2026, too.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

Working for the Soros Foundation, a privately funded philanthropy organization, Goldfarb had been focusing on a very specific health crisis—a hundred thousand inmates in Russian prisons with active TB.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French