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Copy of Nvidia's $250 Billion Lifeline For OpenAI; Africa's Data Center Capacity Quintuples; Tesla's CyberFlop; & Women Repay Loans Better Than Men Per Moniepoint
The race to build the infrastructure powering artificial intelligence is entering a new phase as Nvidia and OpenAI explore a $250 billion funding backstop for next-generation AI projects, while Africa's operational data centre capacity has surpassed 500MW, signalling the continent's growing role in the global digital economy. Elsewhere, Tesla's Cybertruck is being labelled one of the biggest commercial failures in automotive history as pressure mounts on the EV maker, while n
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Nvidia's $250 Billion Lifeline For OpenAI; Africa's Data Center Capacity Quintuples; Tesla's CyberFlop; & Women Repay Loans Better Than Men Per Moniepoint
The race to build the infrastructure powering artificial intelligence is entering a new phase as Nvidia and OpenAI explore a $250 billion funding backstop for next-generation AI projects, while Africa's operational data centre capacity has surpassed 500MW, signalling the continent's growing role in the global digital economy. Elsewhere, Tesla's Cybertruck is being labelled one of the biggest commercial failures in automotive history as pressure mounts on the EV maker, while n
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M&A
Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Germany's $50B-listed Commerzbank is ready for takeover talks after Italian peer UniCredit secured a 48% stake in a hostile bid Reuters French warehouse specialist Argan and Belgian peer WDP will merge in an all-stock deal to form a $14.8B logistics real estate company Reuters Payments fintech Stripe is in talks to acquire LLM API startup OpenRouter for potentially $10B; the startup is valued at $1.3B Yahoo.Finance Jeff Bezos
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The Economics of Snowfall
A Deep Dive Into Who the Economic Winners and Losers are during Snowfall "The weather outside is frightful.” Frank Sinatra I was working from home on a random weekday when I took a break to look at the view from my apartment and let my mind wander. Whilst I watched people penguin walk and cars all but crawl, I settled on an interesting thought: who benefits and suffers the most financially when it snows? That question led me down an incredibly fascinating rabbit hole, t
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Your "Investment" Is Probably a Gamble. Here's How to Know for Sure.
The Differences between Dice, Deals & Dividends; "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” John Maynard Keynes I commonly get consulted for investment proposals, whereby people are asking of me where I believe is best for them to deploy their capital in order to get a financial return, and the first thing that I ask [after strongly indicating that I am not a financial advisor, and the entire conversation isn’t financial advice] what their time
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From Manger to Markets: An analysis of Christmas’ Commercial Takeover
Has Capitalism Devoured Christmas? Underneath the bustle of the German Christmas markets, the pouring of mulled wine and hot chocolate, the wrapping of selected trinkets, and the voices of the choir singing Christmas carols, is the faint, almost imperceptible, constant pinging of successful transactions, whether it be Apple Pay, Google Pay, cash, or a physical card. That sound is the evidence of the “Golden Quarter” in full swing, and the silent prevalence of the second r
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Copy of Nvidia's $250 Billion Lifeline For OpenAI; Africa's Data Center Capacity Quintuples; Tesla's CyberFlop; & Women Repay Loans Better Than Men Per Moniepoint
The race to build the infrastructure powering artificial intelligence is entering a new phase as Nvidia and OpenAI explore a $250 billion funding backstop for next-generation AI projects, while Africa's operational data centre capacity has surpassed 500MW, signalling the continent's growing role in the global digital economy. Elsewhere, Tesla's Cybertruck is being labelled one of the biggest commercial failures in automotive history as pressure mounts on the EV maker, while n
4 min read
Nvidia's $250 Billion Lifeline For OpenAI; Africa's Data Center Capacity Quintuples; Tesla's CyberFlop; & Women Repay Loans Better Than Men Per Moniepoint
The race to build the infrastructure powering artificial intelligence is entering a new phase as Nvidia and OpenAI explore a $250 billion funding backstop for next-generation AI projects, while Africa's operational data centre capacity has surpassed 500MW, signalling the continent's growing role in the global digital economy. Elsewhere, Tesla's Cybertruck is being labelled one of the biggest commercial failures in automotive history as pressure mounts on the EV maker, while n
4 min read
M&A
Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A) Germany's $50B-listed Commerzbank is ready for takeover talks after Italian peer UniCredit secured a 48% stake in a hostile bid Reuters French warehouse specialist Argan and Belgian peer WDP will merge in an all-stock deal to form a $14.8B logistics real estate company Reuters Payments fintech Stripe is in talks to acquire LLM API startup OpenRouter for potentially $10B; the startup is valued at $1.3B Yahoo.Finance Jeff Bezos
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