The complicated implications of the spectacular ‘Apollo premium’FT · 22h
DWS embraces Deutsche Bank name eight years after distancing itselfFT · 22h
European Indexes Edge Lower as Inflation Concerns LoomWSJ · 22h
Bessent’s Yen Bet Is Paying Off—for NowWSJ · 23h
Tech
Europe turns to carbon capture in bid to clamp down on emissionsFT · 1h
Anthropic withheld latest AI model from UK testing agencyFT · 2h
Fundraising frenzy for China AI lab DeepSeek spawns shadow marketFT · 4h
OpenAI faces competing claims around maths breakthroughFT · 7h
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI FearsWSJ · 7h
Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI FearsWSJ · 7h
U.S. Launches New Round of Strikes on Iranian Oil TankersWSJ · 9h
Anthropic and OpenAI bankers push for top-tier credit ratings post-IPOFT · 9h
Opinion | The AI Agent RubiconWSJ · 9h
What You Can Do to Protect Your Family From SextortionWSJ · 9h
What You Can Do to Protect Your Family From SextortionWSJ · 9h
Meta unveils AI personal assistant linked to WhatsApp and InstagramFT · 10h
The End of the Captcha? Not So FastWSJ · 10h
Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to UseWSJ · 11h
Meta Launches a Personal AI Agent Designed to Be Easy to UseWSJ · 11h
UK says it will force tech giants to stop children sharing nude imagesFT · 12h
OpenAI Says It Has Solved a Millennium Prize Problem—a Holy Grail of MathWSJ · 13h
How Shopify’s Push into AI Is Working OutWSJ · 14h
Apple looks to AI capabilities to drive its new foldable phone salesFT · 14h
Google Cloud, Accenture Launch Unit to Put AI Engineers On-Site With CustomersWSJ · 15h
Think Your Anonymous Account Is Safe? AI Might Figure Out Who You AreWSJ · 16h
AI Infrastructure Will Cost Trillions MoreWSJ · 17h
Innovation is the answer to Britain’s elusive growth problemFT · 20h
Europe plays catch-up in spaceFT · 20h
AI Is Disrupting Software Companies—but Not as Fast as Many FearedWSJ · 21h
Will data centres avoid the curse of the mega-project?FT · 21h
Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms studentsFT · 22h
Deal Flow
M&A / Strategic
Ken Griffin's Citadel is seeking to buy US shale oil production assets20h
PE-backed Florida-based EverBank Financial will merge with PWN-based WaFd to create a lender with $75B in assets20h
Blackstone is looking to buy the 15.2% stake in $3B-listed Indian shadow lender IIFL Finance from Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings20h
EQT agreed to acquire a majority stake in UK insurance broker McGill and Partners from Warburg Pincus for $2B20h
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 Epiris20h
Australian developer Ingenia Communities rejected a $1.4B takeover bid from Warburg Pincus despite a 30% premium20h
Hedge fund Toscafund will take-private UK's biggest private hospital operator Spire for over $1.4B20h
Sweden will buy Lockheed Martin's Himars artillery rocket system in a $730M deal20h
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 valuation20h
Angola plans to raise $230M from a 34% stake sale in Standard Bank de Angola previously held by a convicted insurance tycoon20h
Abu Dhabi AI firm G42 is exploring selling a majority stake to American firms to safeguard access to US chips20h
Abu Dhabi's ADNOC is in talks with Thai refiner PTT and African conglomerate Dangote for stakes in their refineries20h
Spanish banking group BCC-Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar ended talks over a potential acquisition of Portuguese bank Banco CTT from CTT - Correios de Portugal20h
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 JVs20h
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 Gold20h
Polish anti-drone company Advanced Protection Systems is exploring a sale20h
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 entities20h
Portugal asked Air France-KLM and Lufthansa to submit improved offers for a 49.9% stake in the privatization of flag carrier TAP20h
VC
Google-backed Indian space tech startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by SWF Temasek and Seraphim20h
Nua, a women's wellness brand, raised a $50M Series C led by Peak XV Partners and Filter Capital20h
Gimlet Labs, an applied AI research and product company, raised a $300M Series B at a $3B valuation led by a16z20h
IPOs / Listings / Issuances / Block Trades
Anthropic will launch its $100B IPO in mid-October with Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs set to lead the offering20h
China's Moonshot AI is considering raising $5B in a Hong Kong IPO this year20h
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 valuation20h
Nigeria's Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals is seeking to raise $1.6B at a $49B valuation in Africa's biggest IPO ever20h
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 valuation20h
KKR-backed South Korean fashion retailer Musinsa plans to IPO at a $7.5B valuation in Korea's biggest IPO in years20h
Blue Owl Capital is seeking to launch a $6.5B-listed data center REIT20h
Swedish smart ring maker Oura Health named Robinhood as an underwriter in its first ever IPO mandate20h
RNA-focused Adarx Pharmaceuticals filed for an IPO20h
Indonesian miner Merdeka Battery Materials is considering a Hong Kong share sale20h
South Africa is seeking to spinoff Eskom Transmission into a fully independent transmission system operator20h
Japanese unicorn chip startup Preferred Networks plans to IPO this decade20h
Debt
China's ByteDance secured a $29.6B loan from 30 banks for its AI push20h
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 IPO20h
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 Towers20h
Chinese University of Hong Kong is seeking a $510M bank loan to refinance a facility supporting its private hospital20h
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 June20h
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 debt20h
Struggling Ukrainian iron ore miner Ferrexpo raised $100M from investors to stave off insolvency20h
Funds / Secondaries
Millennium AUM is nearing $100B amid a $22B fundraising haul20h
Saudi's leading AI firm HUMAIN plans to launch a large $10B VC fund20h
UK venture debt firm Claret Capital raised $670M for its fourth European growth debt fund to back 'less sexy' startups20h
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 region20h
Reforma
Matan a Amy Navarrete, aspirante del PAN en OaxacaNacional · 3h
Propone CSP reformas a aduanas, pagos digitales y catastroPortada · 4h
Reducen estimación de crecimientoPortada · 6h
Prevén ingresos tributarios de 15.9% del PIB por IEPS e ISRNegocios · 6h
Nominan a Quiñones y Scarlett Camberos al Balón de OroPortada · 15h
Análisis de expertos: Atraso en educaciónPortada · 19h
Exhibe PISA fracaso educativo en MéxicoPortada · 19h
Acaparan pensiones 67% de los apoyos socialesPortada · 19h