Taiwan’s Exports Surge to Record on Demand for AI ProductsBBG · 3h
FirstFT: Oil hits $100 as fears rise over global suppliesFT · 3h
France’s Lecornu Seeks to Trim ‘Exceptional’ Tax on Big FirmsBBG · 4h
Millennium, Verition Join Rokos With Plans for Greek OutpostBBG · 4h
Watch the AI Boom’s Weakest LinkWSJ · 4h
Chinese Regulators Seek Higher Bar for Humanoid-Robotics ListingsWSJ · 4h
Silver Lake to merge French software groups in €10bn dealFT · 4h
Fed Officials Signal Openness to Warsh Proposal for Fewer Policy MeetingsBBG · 4h
IMF Rebukes Denmark’s Food Tax Cut Plan as Costly, Too BroadBBG · 4h
The High-Stakes Gamble Playing Out in the Natural-Gas MarketWSJ · 4h
European Gas Prices Hit Highest Since 2023 as Market Braces for Prolonged LNG SqueezeWSJ · 5h
Apple’s Rally Pressures New CEO to Deliver on Foldable iPhoneBBG · 5h
‘I am the house now’: Bessent warns traders not to bet against yenFT · 5h
One ECB Rate Hike 'Could Be Enough,' ING's Blom SaysBBG · 6h
European Indexes Slide as Higher Oil Weighs on Defense Stocks, BanksWSJ · 6h
Stock Market Today: Oil Hits $100 for First Time Since JulyWSJ · 6h
Richemont Names Chairman Johann Rupert’s Son as Nonexecutive Co-Deputy ChairmanWSJ · 7h
Oil nears $100 as US launches new strikes on Iranian tankersFT · 7h
French Industrial Output Drops in Blow to Economic OutlookBBG · 7h
Norway’s oil fund says what everyone is thinkingFT · 8h
The clock is ticking on Senegal’s ‘total return swaps’FT · 9h
BP and Shell’s strategy counterpointFT · 10h
AI borrowing boom shakes up Swiss credit marketFT · 10h
Iran turns to crypto to shore up economyFT · 10h
Revolut takes aim at business banking with FTSE 250 companiesFT · 10h
JPMorgan, Jane Street Probes Show India Scrutinizing TradersBBG · 12h
CVC hires TPG’s second-in-command Todd Sisitsky as co-CEOFT · 12h
Gold Pushes Higher as Weaker Dollar Offsets Inflation RisksBBG · 14h
Block Applies to Establish Builders Bank & TrustWSJ · 15h
Stocks, Bonds Fall as Brent Oil Jumps Above $100: Markets WrapBBG · 16h
Opinion | The SEC Unmuzzles Jamie DimonWSJ · 16h
WSJ Dollar Index Falls 0.08% to 94.91WSJ · 16h
Financial Services Roundup: Market TalkWSJ · 17h
U.S. Stocks Fall After Saudi Oil Facilities HitWSJ · 17h
Oil Near $100 Threatens U.S. Stocks’ Stellar RunWSJ · 17h
Anthropic and OpenAI bankers push for top-tier credit ratings post-IPOFT · 17h
Chile Central Bank Slashes Economic Growth OutlookBBG · 17h
Opinion | How to Make Life Hard for Small BanksWSJ · 17h
Investors led by L Catterton to buy controlling stake in HyroxFT · 17h
Canada’s Tariffs Take EffectWSJ · 17h
What to Know About Anthropic’s Planned IPOWSJ · 19h
UK Youth Unemployment Czar Hints at Change in Minimum WageBBG · 19h
Stocks Slip as Oil Pares GainsWSJ · 20h
Opinion | What if California Becomes a ‘Failed State’?WSJ · 21h
Tech
More Money Than They Ever Imagined—and No Clue How to Spend ItWSJ · 23m
A Quieter Kind of AI BreakthroughWSJ · 1h
Analog Devices to Acquire Alif Semiconductor for $1.35 BillionWSJ · 1h
Huawei Faces U.S. Criminal Trial Weeks Before Trump-Xi MeetingWSJ · 1h
Is China Stealing American AI? Why ‘Distillation’ Has Washington Up in ArmsWSJ · 1h
Readers Respond to Audit and AI Advice; More Trade Disruptions AheadWSJ · 2h
Google to Invest $15 Billion in AI Infrastructure in FinlandWSJ · 4h
Silver Lake to merge French software groups in €10bn dealFT · 4h
What Qualtrics’ CEO Says Software Companies Must PossessWSJ · 4h
Thiel-backed start-up to mass-produce ‘deep strike’ missiles in Europe and USFT · 4h
Anthropic researcher quits over AI labs ‘gambling with our lives’FT · 4h
Gaming group Evolution’s own report found it made money in banned marketsFT · 7h
Europe turns to carbon capture in bid to clamp down on emissionsFT · 9h
Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agencyFT · 10h
Investors pay steep fees for access to DeepSeek fundraisingFT · 12h
OpenAI faces competing claims around maths breakthroughFT · 14h
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI FearsWSJ · 14h
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI FearsWSJ · 14h
U.S. Launches New Round of Strikes on Iranian Oil TankersWSJ · 16h
Anthropic and OpenAI bankers push for top-tier credit ratings post-IPOFT · 17h
Opinion | The AI Agent RubiconWSJ · 17h
What You Can Do to Protect Your Family From SextortionWSJ · 17h
What You Can Do to Protect Your Family From SextortionWSJ · 17h
Meta unveils AI personal assistant linked to WhatsApp and InstagramFT · 17h
The End of the Captcha? Not So FastWSJ · 18h
Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to UseWSJ · 19h
Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to UseWSJ · 19h
UK says it will force tech giants to stop children sharing nude imagesFT · 19h
OpenAI Says It Has Solved a Millennium Prize Problem—a Holy Grail of MathWSJ · 21h
How Shopify’s Push into AI Is Working OutWSJ · 21h
Apple looks to AI capabilities to drive its new foldable phone salesFT · 22h
Google Cloud, Accenture Launch Unit to Put AI Engineers On-Site With CustomersWSJ · 22h
Deal Flow
M&A / Strategic
Poste Italiane raised its cash-and-stock takeover offer for Telecom Italia by 5% to $13.2B3h
GE Aerospace agreed to buy castings manufacturer Consolidated Precision Products from Warburg Pincus and Berkshire Partners for $11.75B3h
PE-backed Florida-based lender EverBank Financial will merge with PWN-based peer WaFd in a $3.9B reverse merger3h
Anthropic walked away from a $6B acquisition of real-world AI model startup Decart AI3h
Blackstone is exploring a $2B sale of medical-grade skincare company ZO Skin Health3h
CVC is exploring a $2B sale of personal care rollup Arthea, which counts Dr Teal's in its portfolio3h
Canada's Tamarack Valley Energy agreed to buy Headwater Exploration in a $2.3B all-stock deal3h
PE firm Cerberus is nearing a $1.4B deal for the defense unit of $2B-listed UK engineering group Goodwin3h
LVMH-linked PE firm L Catterton will buy a controlling stake in fitness competition brand Hyrox from Switzerland-based Infront Sports & Media at a $700M valuation3h
Fintech Chime will acquire nationally chartered Stride Bank for $590M3h
Italian PE firm Renaissance Partners will buy yacht interiors maker De Wave from Platinum Equity for $465M3h
Czech activist investor Starteepo built a 7.3% stake in $420M-listed office solutions firm Xerox and is pushing for a review of its financial services business3h
Philippine property developer Vista Land & Landscapes is looking to sell assets to meet debt obligations, including a $420M bond due next year3h
CBRE Investment Management acquired Cerberus' net-lease real estate business Tenet Equity for $1.6B3h
Clinical laboratory giant Labcorp agreed to acquire specialty laboratory provider MLM Medical Labs3h
Robinhood will take minority stakes in Crypto.com's crypto exchange and prediction markets business as part of a prediction markets partnership3h
Volkswagen is considering divesting motorcycle maker Ducati as part of its restructuring3h
Italian lender UniCredit acquired a minority stake in German credit markets fintech VC Trade3h
Miner Rio Tinto agreed to acquire the Aurukun bauxite project in Australia from Glencore and Mitsubishi Development3h
VC
Europe's biggest AI startup Mistral raised a $3.5B round at a $24.5B post-money valuation led by Samsung, EU's Scaleup Europe Fund, and PSG Equity3h
AI coding startup Cognition raised a $2B Series E at a $48B valuation led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir3h
Rocket launch startup Stoke Space raised a $1B Series E at a $10B valuation led by Point72 Ventures and Spark Capital3h
Enterprise banking fintech Ramp is in early talks to raise a $1B round at a $60B valuation3h
UK drone startup Uforce is in talks to raise a $500M round at a $5B valuation led by Valor Equity Partners3h
The Exploration Company, a European reusable-space startup, raised a $450M Series C co-led by Atomico and the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund3h
Celero Communications, an AI infrastructure semiconductor company, raised a $275M Series C at a $3B valuation led by Atreides, Valor Equity Partners, and CapitalG3h
Split Pay, a lending startup focused on rent and mortgage lending, raised $125M across a Series A and Series B led by Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, and Affirm CEO Max Levchin3h
TabaPay, a money movement platform, raised a $155M growth round led by FTV Capital3h
Forus, an AI network connecting doctors, pharmacies, payers and biopharma, raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation led by Bain Capital Ventures3h
Poseidon Aerospace, an uncrewed cargo aircraft startup, raised a $60M Series A led by TQ Ventures3h
Bluecore Energy, a small nuclear reactor startup building floating barges, raised a $50M seed round led by Silverton Partners3h
Antioch, a robotics simulation platform, raised a $32M Series A led by Greylock Partners3h
Blee, a marketing compliance software for financial services, raised $27M across a seed and Series A led by Fin Capital and SMBC3h
IPOs / Listings / Issuances / Block Trades
Amazon acquired rights to buy $4B of Qualcomm stock as part of a $60B AI chip deal3h
National Stock Exchange of India is likely to price its downsized India IPO below a marketed range to raise $2.5B at a $46.6B valuation3h
Chinese chipmaker Longsys raised $903M in an upsized Hong Kong listing priced at a 44% discount to its China trading3h
Nuclear supplier Holtec is seeking to raise $900M at a $10.2B valuation in an IPO3h
Danish energy company Andel Holding is looking to sell a 1.6% stake worth $467M in Danish wind farm company Orsted just one year after its investment3h
Torrent's gas distribution arm Torrent Gas filed updated papers for its $418M India IPO3h
Warburg Pincus-backed Singaporean telecoms tech firm Circles Group plans to spin off its digital software services platform for several hundred million dollars3h
Australian data center company Firmus Technologies is starting investor meetings for an Australia IPO3h
SPAC / SPV
Nuclear services firm HGP Intelligent Energy will merge with Meshflow Acquisition at a $1.2B valuation3h
Telecom infrastructure firm Gibson Technical Services will merge with NMP Acquisition Corp. at a $400M valuation3h
Debt
SoftBank is sounding out interest for a $10B-$20B dollar junk-bond sale3h
Lenders including Bank of America and Deutsche Bank launched a $3.3B debt sale to back Platinum Equity's 50% purchase of Nestle's water business for $2.9B3h
Saudi smart city project NEOM raised $3B in financing from HSBC, Bank of China, Crédit Agricole JPMorgan, Bank of America, and others3h
Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries plans to raise $1.3B in its first local FX bond sale since 20213h
Amazon hired banks for a debut sterling bond sale3h
Bankruptcy / Restructuring / Distressed
Clearlake-backed specialty materials manufacturer Alkegen filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with plans to eliminate $3.1B of debt3h
Senegal will seek to negotiate a debt reprofiling instead of a restructuring in talks with creditors to make its loans sustainable and qualify for an IMF bailout3h
Saudi's PGA rival LIV Golf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after SWF PIF pulled funding with players in advanced talks to take control of the business and BC Partners and others in talks to provide exit financing3h
Funds / Secondaries
a16z added $1.75B of fresh capital to its fifth growth fund, increasing its size to $8.5B just months after closing3h
UK PE firm Cinven raised $2.7B for its second strategic MM fund3h
Nordic PE firm Axcel raised $2.4B for its eighth flagship fund3h
UK PE firm Bridgepoint raised a $1.4B private credit CV led by Pantheon Ventures3h
PennantPark Investment Advisers raised a $745M MM private credit CV led by Pantheon Ventures3h
Lower MM PE firm Tyree & D'Angelo Partners raised $650M for its fourth fund3h
New York Life-owned MM PE firm Apogem Capital raised $600M for its eleventh PE fund3h
UK venture debt firm Claret Capital raised $510M for its fourth European growth debt fund to back 'less sexy' startups3h
Singapore SWF Temasek's real estate arm CapitaLand Investment is seeking to raise $500M for its third APAC credit program3h
VC investor TrueBridge Capital Partners raised $508M for its second secondaries fund3h
Gainline Capital Partners raised a single-asset CV for gym equipment provider Core Health & Fitness led by StepStone3h
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