Vantage Data Centers seeks $2bn in loans from Pimco and PGIMFT · 19h
America is losing its captive creditorsFT · 20h
Centerbridge-Backed Aareal Bank Studies HCOB AcquisitionBBG · 20h
Brooks Automation Files Confidentially for IPOWSJ · 20h
10 of the Best Financial Advisor Companies: Well-Known Fiduciary Investment Firms to ConsiderWSJ · 22h
Saudi Arabia cuts oil output to lowest this year on Houthi threatsFT · 23h
Tech
The Morning Risk Report: How Chinese AI Firms Tried to Clone U.S. AI ModelsWSJ · 14m
Time to start taking AI risks seriouslyFT · 44m
OpenAI’s Fidji Simo to Join Board of Cloud Provider Nscale Ahead of IPOWSJ · 45m
The Special Forces Ethos Driving Goruck’s Co-FoundersWSJ · 1h
Ipsen Weighs U.S. Manufacturing InvestmentWSJ · 1h
UK economy unexpectedly grew 0.4% in July boosted by AI surgeFT · 2h
Desperately seeking UK data centre dataFT · 2h
Houthis used Anthropic AI to try to build ballistic missilesFT · 2h
How big is the open-model threat to AI hyperscalers?FT · 6h
Elon Musk’s gas turbines could shake up the backlogged sectorFT · 7h
Europe’s difficult choices on AIFT · 7h
Will US debt burst the AI bubble? With Ruchir SharmaFT · 7h
Congress Is Suddenly Waking Up to the AI Doomsday ThreatWSJ · 9h
The Race for the Next Big Weight-Loss Drug Is On—and China Wants InWSJ · 11h
Oracle’s data centre revenue surges as AI strategy acceleratesFT · 12h
California’s Governor Signs New Laws to Protect Children OnlineWSJ · 12h
Anthropic says it stopped scientists potentially developing bioweapons with AIFT · 13h
Opinion | Pause AI for Humanity’s SakeWSJ · 13h
Pentagon in Talks to Get Into AI Infrastructure Funding With a $5 Billion LoanWSJ · 14h
Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market TalkWSJ · 14h
How Chinese AI Firms Tried to Clone U.S. AI ModelsWSJ · 17h
Apple’s big goal after foldable iPhoneFT · 18h
Say goodbye to the SaaSpocalypse and hello to the RenaiSaaSFT · 19h
Vantage Data Centers seeks $2bn in loans from Pimco and PGIMFT · 19h
Positron Valued at $5 Billion in New Funding as Demand for AI Chips SurgesWSJ · 21h
Star AI Researcher Is Leaving Meta for AnthropicWSJ · 22h
How One Financial Services Company Manages Its AI Token CostsWSJ · 22h
Hugging Face co-founder: What we learnt from OpenAI’s hackFT · 23h
Luma, a Life-Sciences Investor, Debuts a $410 Million FundWSJ · 23h
How to teach the next generation in the era of AIFT · 23h
Deal Flow
M&A / Strategic
Saudi's PIF is considering combining Electronic Arts with Savvy Games to create one of the world's biggest gaming firms worth over $75B1h
Italian lender Intesa Sanpaolo approved the issuance of new shares to finance its $41.2B takeover bid for peer BMPS1h
US is investigating Nvidia's $20B licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq1h
Centerbridge-backed real estate lender Aareal Bank is considering a bid for Cerberus-backed Hamburg Commercial Bank, which is seeking over $3.8B1h
Activist Barington Capital took another stake in $3.5B-listed retailer Bath & Body Works and is pushing for a sale1h
Owner Clearlake Capital is nearing a deal to acquire billionaire financiers Mark Walter and Todd Boehly's stakes in UK soccer club Chelsea FC for well over $3.5B1h
Vauban Infrastructure Partners emerged as the lead bidder for EQT-backed GlobalConnect's fiber business in Sweden, which could fetch over $2.3B1h
Southeast Asia biggest ride-hailing group Grab Holdings is in talks to buy a majority stake in Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome Financial from Advance Intelligence Group at an over $2B valuation1h
Online vehicle auctioneer Copart agreed to acquire car digital marketplace ACV Auctions for $1.9B cash at a 45% premium1h
Italian app investor Bending Spoons agreed to acquire workplace-collaboration platform Miro in a $1.8B cash deal, including cash1h
Abu Dhabi SWF Mubadala backed China's biggest coffee chain Luckin Coffee following a $1B deal with PE owner Centurium Capital1h
Constellation Energy will acquire a Rhode Island gas-fired power plant from Shell for $715M1h
Australia's Macquarie is in advanced talks to acquire energy infrastructure services provider SI Solutions from MidOcean Partners for $600M, including debt1h
Rob Arnott, the founder of smart-beta pioneer Research Affiliates, sold RAFI Indices to TMX Group for $490M and will use the remaining $30B investment manager Syzygy to push deeper into active investing1h
Hong Kong-based luxury goods dealer New Sparkle Roll International is considering selling its 10% stake in $225M-listed Danish audio brand Bang & Olufsen1h
Asian investment firm Boyu Capital agreed to acquire Xiamen Aircraft Leasing1h
UK sports-focused consumer brand THG is attracting bid interest for some of its non-core non-sports nutrition brands, which could sell of over $150M1h
US-backed tin company Nathan Trotter agreed to buy 100% of the metal concentrates produced by Aussie miner Huntore in a multiyear offtake agreement financed by STG Metals1h
Saudi Aramco is considering a sale of its specialty chemicals business Arlanxeo1h
Shell will acquire 100% equity in Hunlock Creek Generating, which owns 169 MW of natural gas-fired generation capacity in Pennsylvania1h
Brazilian ID verification company Unico agreed to acquire Argentine rival Valida1h
Apollo Sports Capital is interested in investing in an NFL team1h
Africa's most valuable bank FirstRand is pushing to wrap up the sale of its Aldermore Group UK unit by year-end1h
France's TotalEnergies signed agreements to buy a 40% operated interest in two new exploration blocks in Angola1h
VC
Musk's The Boring Company raised a $3B Series D at a $23B valuation led by UAE1h
Chip startup Positron AI raised $875M at a $5B valuation1h
AMD-backed South Korean AI startup Upstage is considering a pre-IPO funding round1h
Motive, an AI platform for physical operations, raised $1.3B in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund1h
Positron, an AI inference hardware company, raised an $875M Series C at a $5B post-money valuation co-led by NEA, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Andra Capital, SemiAnalysis Capital, and Jim Clark1h
Mach Industries, a defense tech startup, raised a $600M Series C extension at a $3.7B valuation from Ribbit Capital, Infinite Capital, Bedrock Capital, and Sequoia1h
UniPat AI, a startup focused on training and benchmarking AI models in real-world scenarios, raised a $300M round at a $2.5B valuation led by Alibaba1h
TAR, an off-grid power systems provider for AI data centers, raised a $120M Series A at a $1B post-money valuation led by Spark Capital1h
Crypto exchange Kraken raised $100M from Nasdaq to fund development of tokenized stock trading1h
Maven Robotics, an industrial robotics startup, raised $100M from RoboStrategy, LocalGlobe, Vine Ventures, and XTX Markets Ventures1h
Highstock, a startup addressing unproductive retail inventory, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z1h
Luminary, an AI-native wealth transfer and administration platform, raised a $22M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital1h
IPOs / Listings / Issuances / Block Trades
Silver Lake and Intel-backed chipmaker Altera is preparing to file confidentially for a potential $2B IPO1h
Amman Mineral Internasional, one of Indonesia's biggest copper and gold producers, picked banks for a $1B Hong Kong listing1h
THL-owned semiconductor automation company Brooks Automation confidentially filed for an IPO1h
Chinese robotics startup Galaxea AI is facing regulatory uncertainty over its Hong Kong IPO plans1h
Debt
Pharma CDMO Catalent sold $4.7B of debt for a refinancing1h
Indian telecom Vodafone Idea raised $3.5B from lenders led by State Bank of India to rebuild its business1h
Vantage Data Centers is in talks to raise $2B in debt from PIMCO and PGIM1h
Blackstone and CPPIB-owned UK leisure park operator Merlin Entertainments is seeking an $890M loan backed by the London Eye, Shrek's Adventure! London, and other UK attractions1h
Bankruptcy / Restructuring / Distressed
The largest creditors to French real estate services provider Emeria signed NDAs barring them from trading the firm's debt as they step up talks with owners over a $410M cash injection1h
Reforma
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Tutela Segob al INENacional · 43m
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