9th December 2025 Paramount has blown up Hollywood’s dealmaking calendar with a hostile $108.4 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, challenging Netflix’s earlier takeover pact and igniting a new round of antitrust questions. China, meanwhile, posted a record-shattering $1.08 trillion trade surplus, powered by surging exports to Europe and Asia despite collapsing shipments to the U.S. Back in Washington, President Trump says the U.S. will allow Nvidia’s H200 chips to ship t

IBM to acquire Confluent for $11B as it seeks to bolster its data offerings TechCrunch  BHP Sells Pilbara Power Stake to BlackRock Unit for $2 Billion Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Names New Japan M&A Heads in Dealmaking Push Bloomberg Novartis Strikes Deal With UK Biotech for Up To $1.7 Billion Bloomberg Hermes Billionaires’ Family Office Quietly Starts New Offshoot Bloomberg Bain Is Said to Mull Selling Tanabe Pharma’s Non-Japanese Assets Bloomberg TotalEnergies Buys 40% Stake in

Heat pump startup Quilt raises $20M Series B to expand sales  TechCrunch  Samba TV Secures Up to $60 Million Growth Capital Facility  VC Daily  Rotostitch Raises $1M in Pre-Seed Funding  VC Daily  Blue Current Banks $80M Series D Extension Funding  VC Daily  Airwallex Raises $330M Series G  Bloomberg Protego Biopharma Lands $130 Million Oversubscribed Series B Financing VC Daily  Scowtt Raises $12M Series A  VC Daily

8th December 2025 SpaceX is closing in on a record-setting $800 billion valuation as it prepares a new insider share sale, cementing its return as the world’s most valuable private company and renewing speculation about a potential IPO as early as next year. At Art Basel, Beeple once again captured the cultural moment with a bizarre, headline-grabbing installation of robot dogs modeled after tech titans that quite literally “print” art, turning anxieties about AI and automati

Constellation Settles With US on $16.4 Billion Calpine Deal Bloomberg IFood Is Said to Eye Ticket, Alelo to Expand in Meal Vouchers Bloomberg KKR Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Arctos Stake in Sports Push Bloomberg Biocon Moves to Fully Own Biologics Unit Valued at $5.5 Billion Bloomberg ICICI Prudential AMC Set to Launch $1.2 Billion IPO on Dec. 12 Bloomberg Germany’s Klöckner in Takeover Talks With Worthington Steel Bloomberg

Addis Energy Grabs $8.3M Seed Financing  VC Daily  7AI Announces $130M Series A Round VC Daily  Castelion Closes $350 Million Series B VC Daily  Anysphere Bags $900M Round  VC Daily  Lemurian Labs Raises $28 Million Series A  VC Daily  Gradial Nets $35 Million Series B Funding  VC Daily  Autolane Lands $7.4M in Funding  VC Daily  Junevity Expands Seed Funding to $20M  VC Daily  Angle Health Announces $134 Million Series B Funding  VC Daily

4th December 2025 A historic $6.25 billion pledge from Michael and Susan Dell is set to reshape financial access for 25 million American children, marking the largest donation ever directed toward U.S. youth as “Trump accounts” prepare to launch nationwide. In the Middle East, Washington is urgently pressing Lebanon to return an unexploded U.S.-made GBU-39 glide bomb that failed to detonate during an Israeli strike a rare intelligence risk that has sparked fears the sensitive

Goldman Is Pitching a Risky $500 Million Deal to Finance Shareholder Payout Bloomberg SGX Says Not Exploring or Considering Bid for Cboe Australia Bloomberg Canada's EQB to Buy Banking Unit of Country's Largest Supermarket Chain VC Daily  Paramount Hikes Warner Bros. Breakup Fee to $5 Billion Bloomberg Entel, America Movil Drop Joint Bid for Telefonica Chile, To Go it Alone Bloomberg Shareholders of FineToday to Get Payout Funded by $350 Million Goldman Loan Bloomberg Vodacom

Axiado Inks $100M Series C+ Funding  VC Daily  Supper Raises $11M Seed Round  VC Daily  Autolane Lands $7.4M in Funding  VC Daily  Ridley Scores $6.4 Million Seed Round  VC Daily  Pine Snares $25M in Series A  VC Daily Junevity Expands Seed Funding to $20M  VC Daily  Angle Health Announces $134 Million Series B Funding  VC Daily  Unlimited Industries Bags $12M  VC Daily  Circulate Health Grabs Strategic Investment  VC Daily  Antithesis Banks $105 million Series A Funding  VC

2nd December, 2025 Michael Burry is back with a new “Big Short,” warning that generative AI is deep in bubble territory as Scion’s analysis shows trillion-dollar infrastructure spend far outpacing real economic value. Bitcoin sinks as much as 8% as crypto sentiment sours, ETFs bleed billions, and fears of a Japan-driven unwind hit Coinbase, Strategy, and Robinhood. Nvidia tightens its grip on the AI ecosystem with a bold $2 billion stake in Synopsys, expanding its influence a

Blackstone Sells $800 Million Stake in Las Vegas Strip Resorts Bloomberg Netflix Offers Mostly Cash for Warner Bros. in New Bid Round Bloomberg Hong Kong Tycoon Cheng Seeks Sale of Some Rosewood Hotels Bloomberg Monte Paschi Drops for Third Day Amid Probe of Mediobanca Deal Bloomberg SoftBank’s Son ‘Cried’ About Nvidia Stake Sale to Fund AI Bets Bloomberg BHP Is Said to Have Offered £40 Billion in Aborted Anglo Bid Bloomberg Targa to Buy Rival Permian Pipeline Operator for $1

Data analytics software platform Databricks  is in talks to raise a $5B round at a $134B valuation   CNBC Function Health , a startup consolidating health data and making it usable for its customers, raised a $298M Series B at a of $2.5B valuation led by  Redpoint Ventures   TechCrunch  Embodied-intelligence robotics startup Robotera  raised a $140M  Series A+ round led by Geely Capital  TechinAsia Autonomous earthmoving startup Gravis Robotics  raised a $23M equity round co-

1st December 2025 Global markets were left blinking on Friday after a rare CME outage froze trading across futures tied to stocks, bonds, commodities, and currencies for more than eleven hours, underscoring just how fragile the world’s financial plumbing can be. Meanwhile, American consumers went in the opposite direction, shattering online spending records with an $11.8 billion Black Friday surge as AI-driven shopping tools reshape how people hunt for deals. Back on Wall Str

Orban in Serbia as Hungary Eyes Sanctioned Russia Refinery Bloomberg Paschi CEO Lovaglio Faces Probe After His Mediobanca Deal Bloomberg SoftBank-Backed Meesho Set to Seek Up to $605 Million Via IPO Bloomberg Deutsche Boerse in Talks on €5.3 Billion Allfunds Deal Bloomberg Allfunds Said to Draw Takeover Interest From Deutsche Boerse Bloomberg Anglo-Teck Deal Clears Canada’s National Security Test, Globe Reports Bloomberg Delivery Hero Investors Are Said to Push for Sale, Dive

Zetagen Therapeutics Scores $12.9M Series B1 VC Daily  MiCare Path Announces Additional Funding  VC Daily  Vijil Scoops Up $17M  VC Daily  CreatorFi Lands $2M Funding Round  VC Daily  Codenotary Nabs $16.5M  VC Daily  Tidalwave Announces $22M Series A Round  VC Daily  Harmonic Raises $120M Series C Round  VC Daily  Voio Launches With $8.6M Seed Round  VC Daily  Tailor Closes Series A Financing Round  VC Daily  Made Card Grabs $8M+ Seed Financing  VC Daily

27th November 2025 The UK budget  freezes tax thresholds, raises gambling and EV levies, and introduces a mansion tax, ride-hailing VAT, and pension reforms while boosting defense spending. Bitcoin  topped $90K but may face near-term resistance. Meta  appeals EU antitrust data requests it calls intrusive, with a ruling expected next year. HSBC  warns OpenAI  won’t be profitable by 2030, facing a $207B funding gap to scale its AI operations. All this and more in today’s Read I

26th November 2025 Tesla  Europe Sales October EV registrations fell nearly 50%, with competitors like BYD and SAIC gaining. Full self-driving approvals could help stabilize demand. Meta & Google Chips Meta may spend billions on Google’s AI chips, challenging Nvidia’s dominance in the data center market. Apple  Tops Smartphones. Apple surpasses Samsung in global shipments for the first time since 2011, driven by iPhone 17 demand and favorable market conditions. Heathrow’s   T

25th November 2025 The tech market is rewriting the leaderboard again as Google’s meteoric AI run shakes Nvidia’s dominance. Pharma makes history as Eli Lilly becomes the world’s first trillion-dollar healthcare company. Trump’s unexpected show of harmony with Mamdani has his base unraveling online. And Robinhood is expanding beyond trading, positioning itself at the center of the booming global prediction-markets wave. All this and more in today’s Read It And Eat! Major Head

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Momentic raises $15M to automate software testing TechCrunch  Archetype AI Grabs $35M Series A Round  VC Daily  Coverbase Announces Series A Financing  VC Daily  Stuut Technologies Raises $29.5M Series A  VC Daily  Wispr Scoops Up $25M Series A Extension  VC Daily  Lumafield Secures $50M  VC Daily  Sortera Technologies Inks $45M  VC Daily  Sorcero raises $42.5m to support global expansion  VC Daily Eros Innovation, an AI-focused media and entertainment company, raised $150M l