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

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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

Abu Dhabi’s Lunate Eyes $1 Billion Commitment to AI Firm MGX Bloomberg Billionaire Expands Family Office in Bold Bet on UK’s Future Bloomberg Revolut Notches $75 Billion Valuation in Latest Share Sale Bloomberg Barclays Taps Macquarie’s Alden to Lead Aerospace and Defense Bloomberg Iberdrola Offers to Take Neoenergia Private for $1.2 Billion Bloomberg Morocco Hospital Giant Akdital Plans $1.6 Billion Gulf Expansion Bloomberg Barrick, Mali government agree to resolve gold mine

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

24th November 2025 Waymo just secured sweeping regulatory approval that opens up massive new terrain across the Bay Area and Southern California. Bill Ackman is eyeing an unprecedented pair of public listings. Marjorie Taylor Greene is walking away from Congress after a stunning rift with President Trump. And Elon Musk’s X is throwing both MAGA and Democratic circles into chaos with a new country-of-origin label exposing foreign-run political accounts. All this and more in to

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Aspen Neuroscience Lands $115M Series C  VC Daily  Peek Scores $70M Funding Round VC Daily  Point One Navigation Scores $35M Series C  VC Daily  Flux Marine Secures $15M VC Daily  Perelel Raises $27M Financing Round  VC Daily  Pibit AI Pulls In $7M Series A Round  VC Daily  Genspark Completes $275M Series B Round  VC Daily  Nest Health Completes $22.5M Series A Round  VC Daily  Sorcero Secures $42.5M Series B  VC Daily  bQuest Receives Seed Investment  VC Daily  and

21th November 2025 Meta  executives, including  Mark Zuckerberg , will pay $190M to settle shareholder claims over privacy failures, with new board policies on oversight and whistleblowers. Nvidia  beat Q3 estimates with $57B revenue and $1.30 EPS, but Michael Burry  warned of an AI bubble, questioning older GPUs and circular deals; Nvidia  defended long-term growth via its CUDA ecosystem. Walmart  will switch from the NYSE to Nasdaq, highlighting 27% online sales growth and

20th November 2025 Nvidia  eased AI bubble fears with strong earnings and $500B in chip bookings, though analysts warn of concentration risks. AI pioneer Yann LeCun  will leave Meta  to launch a new Advanced Machine Intelligence  venture, with Meta as a partner. President Trump  criticized Fed Chair Powell , urging a faster search for a successor amid a divided Fed and incomplete labor data. The Dutch government  paused intervention at Chinese-owned Nexperia  after talks with

19th November 2025 There were major disruptions and developments across tech, finance, and policy. Cloudflare  outages briefly knocked platforms like X, Spotify, and ChatGPT  offline, exposing the risks of relying on a few cloud providers. Meta  won a landmark FTC antitrust case, with a judge ruling it does not currently hold a monopoly over social networking, amid evolving competition from TikTok .  In crypto , over $1 billion in liquidations hit 190,000 traders as high leve