OpenAI faces competing claims around maths breakthroughFT · 2h
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI FearsWSJ · 2h
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI FearsWSJ · 2h
U.S. Launches New Round of Strikes on Iranian Oil TankersWSJ · 4h
Anthropic and OpenAI bankers push for top-tier credit ratings post-IPOFT · 5h
Opinion | The AI Agent RubiconWSJ · 5h
What You Can Do to Protect Your Family From SextortionWSJ · 5h
What You Can Do to Protect Your Family From SextortionWSJ · 5h
Meta unveils AI personal assistant linked to WhatsApp and InstagramFT · 5h
The End of the Captcha? Not So FastWSJ · 6h
Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to UseWSJ · 7h
Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to UseWSJ · 7h
UK says it will force tech giants to stop children sharing nude imagesFT · 8h
OpenAI Says It Has Solved a Millennium Prize Problem—a Holy Grail of MathWSJ · 9h
How Shopify’s Push into AI Is Working OutWSJ · 9h
Apple looks to AI capabilities to drive its new foldable phone salesFT · 10h
Google Cloud, Accenture Launch Unit to Put AI Engineers On-Site With CustomersWSJ · 11h
Think Your Anonymous Account Is Safe? AI Might Figure Out Who You AreWSJ · 12h
AI Infrastructure Will Cost Trillions MoreWSJ · 13h
Innovation is the answer to Britain’s elusive growth problemFT · 15h
Europe plays catch-up in spaceFT · 16h
AI Is Disrupting Software Companies—but Not as Fast as Many FearedWSJ · 17h
Will data centres avoid the curse of the mega-project?FT · 17h
Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms studentsFT · 18h
Australia proposes opt-out law for social media algorithmsFT · 20h
Mistral raises record €3bn as Europe strains to keep pace in AI raceFT · 21h
AI is ushering in an era of mass toe-treading at workFT · 22h
Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bidsFT · 22h
Can Huawei build China’s answer to ASML?FT · 23h
Deal Flow
M&A / Strategic
Ken Griffin's Citadel is seeking to buy US shale oil production assets15h
PE-backed Florida-based EverBank Financial will merge with PWN-based WaFd to create a lender with $75B in assets15h
Blackstone is looking to buy the 15.2% stake in $3B-listed Indian shadow lender IIFL Finance from Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings15h
EQT agreed to acquire a majority stake in UK insurance broker McGill and Partners from Warburg Pincus for $2B15h
Dutch PE firm Waterland plans to make a higher offer for UK telecoms firm Gamma Communications than the $1.4B bid from UK PE firm Epiris15h
Australian developer Ingenia Communities rejected a $1.4B takeover bid from Warburg Pincus despite a 30% premium15h
Hedge fund Toscafund will take-private UK's biggest private hospital operator Spire for over $1.4B15h
Sweden will buy Lockheed Martin's Himars artillery rocket system in a $730M deal15h
LVMH-linked PE firm L Catterton is close to buying a controlling stake in fitness competition brand Hyrox from Switzerland-based Infront Sports & Media at a $700M valuation15h
Angola plans to raise $230M from a 34% stake sale in Standard Bank de Angola previously held by a convicted insurance tycoon15h
Abu Dhabi AI firm G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to American firms to safeguard access to US chips15h
Abu Dhabi's ADNOC is in talks with Thai refiner PTT and African conglomerate Dangote for stakes in their refineries15h
Spanish banking group BCC-Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar ended talks over a potential acquisition of Portuguese bank Banco CTT from CTT - Correios de Portugal15h
Australian energy firm Santos acquired an additional 3.3% stake in the Papua LNG project from France's TotalEnergies for $190M to raise its stake to 21% after TotalEnergies transferred operatorship to ExxonMobil and cut its stake to 20% to focus on other JVs15h
P*rn tycoon David Sullivan raised his stake in UK soccer club West Ham United to 40% despite sex abuse allegations while Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky became the biggest shareholder with a 46% stake after acquiring shares from Vanessa Gold15h
Polish anti-drone company Advanced Protection Systems is exploring a sale15h
South Africa's Industrial Development Corp. plans to sell its 10.5% stake in Namibia's Rossing Uranium to cut ties with Iranian and Russian entities15h
Portugal asked Air France-KLM and Lufthansa to submit improved offers for a 49.9% stake in the privatization of flag carrier TAP15h
VC
Google-backed Indian space tech startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by SWF Temasek and Seraphim15h
Nua, a women's wellness brand, raised a $50M Series C led by Peak XV Partners and Filter Capital15h
Gimlet Labs, an applied AI research and product company, raised a $300M Series B at a $3B valuation led by a16z15h
IPOs / Listings / Issuances / Block Trades
Anthropic will launch its $100B IPO in mid-October with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs set to lead the offering15h
China's Moonshot AI is considering raising $5B in a Hong Kong IPO this year15h
Jio Platforms, the telecoms unit of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, is set to market its record $4B India IPO this week; the listing could fetch a $150B valuation15h
Nigeria's Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals is seeking to raise $1.6B at a $49B valuation in Africa's biggest IPO ever15h
SHEIN shares are down 19% from their IPO price to become Hong Kong's worst IPO in years after raising $1.75B at a $26.5B valuation15h
KKR-backed South Korean fashion retailer Musinsa plans to IPO at a $7.5B valuation in Korea's biggest IPO in years15h
Blue Owl Capital is seeking to launch a $6.5B-listed data center REIT15h
Swedish smart ring maker Oura Health named Robinhood as an underwriter in its first ever IPO mandate15h
RNA-focused Adarx Pharmaceuticals filed for an IPO15h
Indonesian miner Merdeka Battery Materials is considering a Hong Kong share sale15h
South Africa is seeking to spinoff Eskom Transmission into a fully independent transmission system operator15h
Japanese unicorn chip startup Preferred Networks plans to IPO this decade15h
Debt
China's ByteDance secured a $29.6B loan from 30 banks for its AI push15h
UK AI cloud firm Nscale is seeking to sell $1.5B of convertibles and secure $2B in financing from Nvidia ahead of its $3B US IPO15h
Africa's largest mobile network operator MTN Group is exploring its first international bond sale in a decade to fund its $2.2B buyout of the remaining 30% shares of IHS Towers15h
Chinese University of Hong Kong is seeking a $510M bank loan to refinance a facility supporting its private hospital15h
Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp., the software-focused private credit fund of Blue Owl, raised $150M in a private placement its its third financing since June15h
Bankruptcy / Restructuring / Distressed
A slice of EQT-backed French medical diagnostics firm Cerba Healthcare's revolving credit facility is up for sale as the firm moves toward a court-supervised restructuring to tackle $5.8B in debt15h
Struggling Ukrainian iron ore miner Ferrexpo raised $100M from investors to stave off insolvency15h
Funds / Secondaries
Millennium AUM is nearing $100B amid a $22B fundraising haul15h
Saudi's leading AI firm HUMAIN plans to launch a large $10B VC fund15h
UK venture debt firm Claret Capital raised $670M for its fourth European growth debt fund to back 'less sexy' startups15h
A group of Nordic companies and investors are seeking to create an investment fund to close a funding gap for firms who seek capital outside the region15h
Reforma
Avanza en Diputados reforma contra doble nacionalidadNacional · 40m
Dan a Agencia de Trenes 17.5% más de presupuestoNegocios · 1h
Reducen estimación de crecimientoPortada · 2h
Liga defensa de Farías a Ojeda con documentos halladosPortada · 4h
Nominan a Quiñones y Scarlett Camberos al Balón de OroPortada · 11h
Análisis de expertos: Atraso en educaciónPortada · 15h
Exhibe PISA fracaso educativo en MéxicoPortada · 15h
Acaparan pensiones 67% de los apoyos socialesPortada · 15h