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AI/AR Beauty Tech Perfect Corp Signs $2.00/Share Take-Private Deal at 48% Premium — Chairwoman Alice Chang's ProjectNY Vehicle to Delist NYSE Company by Q4

stocktitan.net · 2026-07-10 · Score: 15

Apollo and Blackstone's $35B Anthropic/Broadcom AI Chip Private Credit Deal Set to Begin Trading — Debt Package Financing TPU Purchases via SPV, About $15B Available to Institutional Buyers by Early 2027

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 23

MiniMax CEO Junjie Yan Vows to Take Zero Salary Until AGI, Gives Up 5% of Company Equity — Memo Lands With $2B Hong Kong Raise as Stock Down 80% From Peak

scmp.com · 2026-07-10 · Score: 26

TechCrunch: Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX IPO Trio to Generate More Value Than All US VC-Backed Exits Since 2000 — Combined North of $4 Trillion vs. $70B in 2025 IPO Proceeds

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 18

Carlyle Agrees to Sell Data-Center Power Platform Copia to EQT for $2.6B — Roughly Fivefold Return on Early-2022 Investment as AI Infrastructure M&A Accelerates

ft.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 22

Tencent Leads Consortium to Unwind Meta's $2B Manus Acquisition at Same Valuation — Original Chinese Backers HSG and ZhenFund Rejoin, Tencent Set to Become Largest Shareholder

ft.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 23

Lithuania's Oxylabs Takes First-Ever Outside Investment — $130M From Warburg Pincus at $3.6B Valuation to Build AI Agent Web-Data Infrastructure

siliconangle.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 25

ALERT MiniMax Launches ~$1.9B Hong Kong Fundraise — 35.6M New Shares at HK$268 Plus HK$6.5B Zero-Coupon Convertible Bond to Fuel AI Infrastructure and Global Expansion

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 29

Mercor Buys Deeptune in Its First Major Acquisition — a16z-Backed RL-Environments Startup That Foody Angel-Invested In 3 Months Ago at $43M Series A

fortune.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 26

ALERT PitchBook: US Venture Funding Hits $412.7B in H1 2026 (Up 30% on All of 2025) — AI Startups Capture 86% or $355.9B, With Seven $1B+ Rounds in Q2

siliconangle.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 29

Mercor in Talks for $20B Valuation — Doubles Its October 2025 Mark on $2B ARR, Reportedly Has Term Sheet in Hand

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 25

UK Maritime-Defence AI Startup Kraken Technology Hits Unicorn Status With $175M Series B — DTCP Leads, Backers Include NATO Innovation Fund, Rheinmetall, British Business Bank

tech.eu · 2026-07-09 · Score: 25

Databento Raises $97M Series B Led by NEA to Rival Bloomberg — 24 Employees, Profitable Every Month, Customers Include Nvidia and OpenAI

fortune.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 26

European Startups Raise $24B in Q2 2026, Best Quarter in Four Years — AI Alone Captures $10B+, UK Leads at $10.4B Ahead of Germany and France

news.crunchbase.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 19

ALERT Ollama Raises $65M Series B Led by Theory Venture — Nearly 9M Monthly Active Developers on Local Open-Weight Model Runner, in 85% of Fortune 500 With Just 14 Employees

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 30

Enterprise AI Agent Startup Lyzr in Talks to Raise $100M Series B at ~$500M — Deployed Its Own Agent to Field 130+ Investor Queries and Draft Investment Memos

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-09 · Score: 21

Temasek to Nearly Triple AI Allocation to 15% Over Five Years After Portfolio Hits Record S$518B ($400B) — Deploys Across Energy, Data Centers, Chips, Clouds, Foundation Models

cnbc.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 27

Marc Lore's AI-Powered Food Platform Wonder Ties New ~$9B-Valuation Fundraise to Future IPO — Founder Contributing $200M of the Round Himself

theinformation.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 20

Positron in Talks to Raise ~$750M in Two Tranches at $3.5B → $5B Valuations — Nvidia-Rival Inference Chip Startup Nearly Quintuples From Its February Series B Unicorn Mark

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 23

ALERT Prime Intellect Raises $130M Series A at $1B Valuation Led by Radical Ventures — 'Full-Stack' AI Agent Platform Already at $100M ARR With Ramp and Zapier

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 30

AI Story-World Startup Kaon AI Raises $60M Led by B Capital — Emochi Companion App Hits 2M DAUs, Adds to FlowGPT Storytelling Platform

variety.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 19

Crypto VC Firm Paradigm Closes $1.2B Third Fund to Push Into AI and Robotics — Firm's First Explicit Move Outside Crypto

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 22

Velocity Raises $27M Seed Led by NFX and Red Dot to Build 'Intent-Driven' Ad Layer for AI-Native Apps

axios.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 18

Zhipu AI to Raise ~$4B in Hong Kong Follow-On Share Sale After 1,500% Stock Rally — 19.8M Shares at HK$1,588–HK$1,698

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 23

ALERT SambaNova Raises $1B Series F at $11B Valuation Led by General Atlantic — JPMorgan Signs to Deploy SN40 and SN50 Chips for On-Prem Enterprise AI Inference

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 31

NY Mag Intelligencer: Effective Altruism's Post-SBF Fall — and How Anthropic's Coming IPO Windfall Could Fuel Its Biggest Comeback Yet

nymag.com · 2026-07-08 · Score: 21

Tangos Raises $20M Seed Led by Red Dot Capital to Automate Financial-Crime Investigations With Domain-Specific AI Agent Playbooks

siliconangle.com · 2026-07-07 · Score: 16

Keyfactor Raises $1B+ From Summit Partners for AI Security and Post-Quantum Machine Identity Platform — Insight, Sixth Street Retain Stakes

securityweek.com · 2026-07-07 · Score: 22

ALERT Norm Ai Raises $120M Series C at $1.2B Valuation Led by Khosla Ventures — AI Legal Startup Now Backed by Blackstone, Bain, Coatue, Craft, Vanguard, New York Life, TIAA

prnewswire.com · 2026-07-07 · Score: 28

Google and RWE Back German Nuclear Fusion Startup Proxima Fusion in €411M Round at €2.4B Valuation Led by XTX Markets

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-07 · Score: 20

UK's Nscale Locks In $900M Line of Credit From Nvidia-Backed Consortium for European, US and APAC Data Center Buildout

wsj.com · 2026-07-07 · Score: 23

WSJ: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Rival AI Labs Are Now Handing Out Massive Free Compute Credits to Startups — Chasing Lasting Streams of Enterprise Revenue as Frontier API Competition Intensifies

wsj.com · 2026-07-07 · Score: 22

Register: BIS and Oracle Sound the AI-Bubble Alarm — Central Banks' Central Bank Warns AI Capex Echoes Every Prior Mania as Oracle SEC Filing Details OpenAI Payment Risk

theregister.com · 2026-07-06 · Score: 26

Edge-AI Chipmaker Syntiant Files S-1 for US IPO — $20.9M Q1 Net Loss on $64.5M Revenue for Three Months Ended March 31

sec.gov · 2026-07-06 · Score: 21

Vista Equity and Quinti Make Takeover Bid for Adtech Firm Criteo at 50%+ Premium

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-06 · Score: 21

Thrive Holdings in Talks to Raise ~$2B From SoftBank, Altimeter and D1 for AI-Powered Rollups of Accounting and IT Services Firms

theinformation.com · 2026-07-06 · Score: 22

Mercor's Gross Annualized Revenue Tops $2B in June, Doubling April's Pace — Now Free-Cash-Flow Profitable, Says The Information

theinformation.com · 2026-07-06 · Score: 23

Bespoke Labs Raises $40M Across 8VC-Led Seed and Wing-Led Series A — Nearly Two Years of Runway to Build AI Agent Training Platform

axios.com · 2026-07-06 · Score: 20

Brookfield-Backed Csquare Prices $1.35B Nasdaq IPO at Up to $4.18B Valuation — 80 Data Centers, 500MW Capacity, 2,000+ Clients

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-06 · Score: 23

Agility Robotics Going Public via Churchill Capital XI SPAC at $2.5B — Largest Humanoid Robotics Capital Raise Ever With $620M+ Gross Proceeds

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-05 · Score: 27

Even Realities Hits $1B Valuation With $150M Pre-Series B Led by Meituan and Tencent — Camera-Free Smart Glasses Startup Founded by Ex-Apple Watch Engineers

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-06 · Score: 22

Ex-NSO Founder Shalev Hulio's AI Cyber Startup Dream Opens Four Latin American Offices After $260M Raise at $3B Valuation — Targets Milei's Argentina and Colombia's De la Espriella

thenextweb.com · 2026-07-03 · Score: 26

ALERT Canada Pension Plan Commits $1.75B to EQT/EdgeConneX for 10+ GW AI Data Center Buildout — Sixth Street Retains Minority, Deal Closes Pending Approvals

datacenterdynamics.com · 2026-07-03 · Score: 33

Luxonis Closes $14M Series A Led by Denali to Scale OAK Camera Platform as the 'Perception Layer' for Physical AI

siliconangle.com · 2026-07-03 · Score: 15

UK Law Firm Freshfields Lands Role Advising Anthropic's Bankers on Planned IPO — Same Firm That Advised on Google's Wiz Acquisition and ServiceNow's Armis Deal

theinformation.com · 2026-07-02 · Score: 20

IQM Becomes Europe's First Public Quantum Company via Nasdaq SPAC Merger at ~$1.9B Valuation — Prospectus Warns 'Large-Scale Commercial Traction May Never Occur'

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-02 · Score: 19

LinqAlpha Raises $22M Series A Anchored by AVP, Atinum, and GFT Ventures — AI Alpha-Intelligence Layer for Public Markets Serves 70+ Financial Institutions Managing Over $5T in Assets

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-02 · Score: 19

Crusoe In Talks to Raise ~$3B at ~$30B Valuation — Neocloud Operator Would Nearly Triple Its Series E Mark of ~$10B From October

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-02 · Score: 23

UK Sovereign-Intelligence Startup StirlingX Raises $20M Series A Led by Ventura Capital and Rokos-Managed RCM — Ex-GCHQ Director Chairs the Board

tech.eu · 2026-07-02 · Score: 16

ElevenLabs In Talks for Employee Tender Offer at ~$22B Valuation — Double Its February Series D Valuation of $11B

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-02 · Score: 23

Kuaishou's Kling AI Raises $2B at $15B Pre-Money, Round Could Extend to $3B — General Atlantic Leads First External Financing Ahead of Hong Kong IPO

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-02 · Score: 23

Palmer Luckey's Erebor Bank in Talks to Raise at Least $8B Valuation — Deposits Nearly Quadrupled to $4.05B Since March, Targets Profitability by Year-End

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-02 · Score: 23

ALERT Crunchbase H1 2026 Report: Global VC Funding Hits Record $510B, OpenAI and Anthropic Alone Account for $217B (43%) of All Startup Capital

news.crunchbase.com · 2026-07-02 · Score: 32

India's Persistent Systems to Acquire Germany's Nagarro for €1.27B (~$1.45B) — Voluntary Tender at €81/Share Would Create $2.9B-Revenue Digital Engineering Giant

asia.nikkei.com · 2026-07-02 · Score: 27

ALERT OpenAI Proposes Giving US Government a 5% Stake — Would Be Worth ~$42.6B at $852B Valuation, Altman Reportedly Pitched Trump, Lutnick, and Bessent

Financial Times · 2026-07-02 · Score: 34

Bloomberg: Data-Center Operator Switch Seeks ~$2B Funding Round at ~$50B Valuation, Led by $400M From Andreessen Horowitz

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-02 · Score: 23

Higharc Raises $95M Series C Led by Insight Partners to Scale AI Homebuilding Platform — Total Funding Now Over $170M, Extends Into US LBM Materials Supply Chain

prnewswire.com · 2026-06-30 · Score: 17

SoftBank Reopens Talks for $10B Loan Backed by OpenAI Stake — Offers to Personally Guarantee Repayment If Collateral Falls Short

reuters.com · 2026-07-01 · Score: 23

Venice AI Hits $1B Valuation With $65M Series A Led by Dragonfly — Privacy-First Platform Hits 3M Users, $70M+ ARR With 200+ Models

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-01 · Score: 22

Aligned Raises $60M Series B Led by PeakSpan Capital — AI 'Deal Workspace' Where Sellers, Buyers, and AI Agents Run B2B Deals Together Hits 70K Sellers, 1M Buyers Monthly

axios.com · 2026-07-01 · Score: 17

ALERT Abu Dhabi's MGX Closes $49B AI Fund — Exceeds $45B Target, Backed Anthropic Series H and OpenAI, Aligned Data Centres, Plans 3GW Paris AI Campus

cnbc.com · 2026-07-01 · Score: 33

Wayve Becomes First Major Test of London Stock Exchange's New Private Securities Market — Closed Auction July 8 to Sell $85M in Employee Shares at $8.5B Valuation

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-30 · Score: 21

Twelve Labs Raises $100M Series B Co-Led by NEA and Naver — Nvidia-Backed Video AI Startup Signs AWS Distribution Deal

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-01 · Score: 19

Together AI Raises $800M at $8.3B Valuation Led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 — Total Funding Hits $1.3B

nytimes.com · 2026-07-01 · Score: 22

LeapXpert Raises $180M Led by Riverwood Capital to Deploy AI Across Governed Enterprise Messaging — Monitors WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, and WeChat for Banks, Sports, and Government Clients

siliconangle.com · 2026-06-30 · Score: 26

Pie Emerges From Stealth With $19.5M Series A Led by Lightspeed — Ex-Toast/Square Founders Build AI Customer Acquisition and Answer-Engine Optimization for Local Merchants, Launch 24/7 'Front Desk' AI Call Agent

inc.com · 2026-06-30 · Score: 21

Vimeo Parent Bending Spoons Prices $1.68B Nasdaq IPO at $29 — Values Italian Software Rollup at ~$18.4B, One of Largest European Tech IPOs of 2026

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-01 · Score: 22

Omen AI Raises $31M Series A Led by Nava Ventures for Real-Time Spectrometer Monitoring of Data Center Liquid Coolants

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-29 · Score: 17

MDOTM Raises $27M Series Led by Expedition Growth Capital for AI Portfolio-Construction Software Used by Asset and Wealth Managers

axios.com · 2026-06-30 · Score: 18

ALERT Schneider Electric to Acquire Norway's Cognite for $3.1B All-Cash — Largest Norwegian AI Exit, Will Be Folded Into AVEVA Industrial Software Division

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-30 · Score: 31

AI Chip Startup Etched Reveals $800M Cumulative Raise — Jane Street, TSMC-Linked VentureTech Alliance Among Backers as Sohu Transformer Accelerator Targets Summer Shipments

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-30 · Score: 26

NYT: SF Tech Workers on $180K Salaries Say They Can No Longer Compete as OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX IPOs Threaten to Mint 20+ New Billionaires

nytimes.com · 2026-06-29 · Score: 22

Gulf-Focused Applied-AI Startup 1001 Raises $30M Series A Led by Lux Capital With Saudi PIF Unit Sanabil to Embed Engineers in Aviation, Ports, and Energy Operators

semafor.com · 2026-06-30 · Score: 21

AI Video Startup Higgsfield in Talks to Raise $300M–$500M at $5B Pre-Money — Nearly 4× Its January Round Valuation as Run-Rate Hits ~$500M

theinformation.com · 2026-06-29 · Score: 22

Chamath Palihapitiya Returns to Full-Time Operating Role as CEO of AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs After $135M Series A Led by Salesforce Ventures

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-29 · Score: 21

Arena Hits $100M Annualized Run-Rate Revenue Eight Months After Launching Commercial AI Evaluations Service — Up From $30M in January

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-29 · Score: 19

Baz Planner Launches With Four-Agent Architecture That Moves Code Review to the Planning Stage; Startup Extends Seed to $17M With $9M From Battery and Boldstart

siliconangle.com · 2026-06-29 · Score: 19

Crunchbase: Q2 2026 Posts 13 US Billion-Dollar Venture-Backed Exits — Most Since 2021 Peak, Led by SpaceX $75B IPO and $60B Cursor Acquisition

news.crunchbase.com · 2026-06-29 · Score: 20

Straiker Raises $64M Series A to Secure Autonomous AI Agents Against Prompt Injection and Tool Misuse

axios.com · 2026-06-29 · Score: 23

China's AI² Robotics Raises ~$736M at ~$2.9B Valuation; Alibaba-Backed X Square Robot Simultaneously Closes at Same $2.9B Valuation — Two New Unicorns on Same Day

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-29 · Score: 23

Momenta Launches $751M Hong Kong IPO With Mercedes-Benz, BlackRock as Cornerstones — Level 4 Robotaxi Services in Abu Dhabi and Munich Planned With Uber

reuters.com · 2026-06-29 · Score: 23

BIS Annual Report Warns AI Investment Bubble Could Trigger Sharper, Faster Crash Than Traditional Banking Crisis — Non-Bank Debt Channels Named as Core Risk

scmp.com · 2026-06-28 · Score: 25

Baidu's Chip Unit Kunlunxin Targets $50B Hong Kong IPO While Requiring Investors to Buy Its Semiconductors — BIS Warns of Circular Financing Risk

thenextweb.com · 2026-06-28 · Score: 26

Chinese AI and Chip Companies Drive Mainland IPO Rebound to $3.1B YTD — Five Times Year-Earlier Pace as STAR Market Opens LLM Listing Pathway

reuters.com · 2026-06-27 · Score: 19

AI Fever Powers Hong Kong Share Sales Through Hurdles to Five-Year High — H1 2026 IPOs, Placements, and Block Trades Raise ~$44 Billion

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-28 · Score: 16

Go Inc. Eyes Robotaxis and Acquisitions After Japan's Biggest IPO of 2026

techcrunch.com · 2026-06-19 · Score: 18

Apoha Raises $36 Million Series A to Commercialize 'Liquid Intelligence' for Materials Discovery

Fortune · 2026-06-03 · Score: 16

Ray Dalio Warns AI Bubble Is Bursting as Wealth Converts to Money — Likens Current Boom to Dot-Com Era

bloomberg.com · 2026-06-03 · Score: 20

Newsletter Issues (44)

#7 La Chine accélère pendant que Washington serre la vis

2026-06-22 · 3 mentions

AI for Good: fairness is now a number you can audit

2026-06-21 · 1 mentions

AI in Healthcare: Vermont just made the therapy bot a crime

2026-06-21 · 2 mentions

World Models: $610M Bets the World Is Not a Token

2026-06-21 · 9 mentions

Robotics: Mobileye decides to compete with its own customers

2026-06-21 · 1 mentions

AI Geopolitics: Washington's AI kill switch broke the alliance

2026-06-21 · 4 mentions

AI Safety, Security & Ethics: train one trait, get alignment free

2026-06-21 · 2 mentions

AI in Business: the agents you sell now run up your own bill

2026-06-21 · 4 mentions

AI Applications: HSBC will only ship AI that returns $100M

2026-06-21 · 2 mentions

AI Regulation: export-control law just became an AI kill switch

2026-06-21 · 1 mentions

#504 America blocked its best AI. China just raised $7.4 billion.

2026-06-17 · 4 mentions

#503 Washington just repriced frontier AI

2026-06-15 · 2 mentions

#500 $1.3 trillion vanished Friday. Bubble, or just profit-taking?

2026-06-07 · 1 mentions

#499 Microsoft proves it doesn't need OpenAI; Alphabet raises $85B

2026-06-04 · 1 mentions

AI Geopolitics: the autonomous-weapons budget outran the rulebook

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

AI in Business: Anthropic at $900B as Meta funds AI by firing 8,000

2026-05-26 · 4 mentions

AI Applications: the in-house team gets its own AI stack

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

AI for Good: $200M bet on whether AI reaches 4.6 billion people

2026-05-26 · 2 mentions

AI in Healthcare: sepsis gets its first AI guardian

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

AI in Education: federal cash flows in as parents push back hard

2026-05-26 · 2 mentions

Frontier Research: LLMs reach Nature as the field bets against them

2026-05-26 · 3 mentions

World Models: Google Ships Omni, and the LLM Monopoly Cracks

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

Machine Learning: nobody trained bigger, everyone shrank the cache

2026-05-21 · 1 mentions

AI Careers: 11,000 jobs cut in a day, one role is booming

2026-05-21 · 2 mentions

World Models: Google's Genie now simulates real streets, not just dreams

2026-05-21 · 1 mentions

AI Safety: Washington floats an FDA for AI models

2026-05-21 · 1 mentions

AI in Business: $2.59T will be spent, 80% can't prove it works

2026-05-21 · 4 mentions

#494 SpaceX wants $80 billion. OpenAI wants a trillion.

2026-05-21 · 5 mentions

#493 Meta hired $145B in capex and fired 8,000 people

2026-05-19 · 1 mentions

AI business: capex now writes the org chart

2026-04-25 · 3 mentions

#485 When AI teaches AI, it teaches in secret

2026-04-19 · 1 mentions

AI Business: Anthropic said no to $800B

2026-04-18 · 6 mentions

#478 The machines are hacking back — and so is everyone else

2026-04-03 · 1 mentions

#477 Jensen Huang says we've achieved AGI. The benchmarks say 0.37%.

2026-03-31 · 2 mentions

#476 Weekly Intelligence Briefing: Tech, AI & Policy

2026-03-27 · 2 mentions

#403 Issue #403: AI Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies

2024-09-12 · 3 mentions

#430 Issue #430 : Here’s why Google pitched its $32B Wiz acquisition as ‘multicloud’

2025-03-20 · 2 mentions

#438 Issue #438: OpenAI’s new for-profit plan leaves many unanswered questions

2025-05-08 · 1 mentions

#446 Issue #446: Meta sacrifices a heap of money at the altar of AI

2025-06-20 · 2 mentions

#458 Issue #458: From

2025-12-16 · 11 mentions

#460 Agentic AI takes over as Gartner sees $2.5T spending

2026-01-20 · 3 mentions

#462 Issue #462: Is AI spending crashing ? Where is the ROI?

2026-01-29 · 1 mentions

#468 Issue #468: AI would nuke us 95% of the time

2026-03-03 · 2 mentions

#474 $27B for AI, 16K jobs gone, and the first real deepfake campaign ad

2026-03-19 · 2 mentions