6th January 2026 The future of artificial intelligence took center stage this week as Nvidia unveiled new AI chips and a self-driving car project with Mercedes , signaling a deeper shift from silicon to real-world machines. Markets also found fresh momentum as energy stocks rallied on expectations that the U.S. could reopen Venezuela’s vast oil fields, lifting oil majors and global indices alike. In the AI arms race, AMD fired back at Nvidia at CES with bold claims about next

BlueScope Steel Shares Surge After $8.8 Billion Takeover Bid Bloomberg Hong Kong Developers Sell $750 Million of Luxury Homes in Weeks Bloomberg Buyout Firm Hg Is Nearing a Deal to Take OneStream Private Bloomberg CEO of Salonpas Maker Seeks to Take the $2.9 Billion Drug Firm Private  Bloomberg AB InBev Reacquires Stake in US Container Plants for $3 Billion Bloomberg Insurer Prudential Announces $1.2 Billion Share Buyback Program Bloomberg

Neuraworx Medical Technology Nabs Seed Round  VC Daily  NextFoods Inks $10M Series 3 Funding Round  VC Daily  BlossomHill Therapeutics Inks $84M Series B Extension VC Daily  Thread Lands $18M Growth Financing  VC Daily Truemed Closes $34 Million Series A  VC Daily  Kargo Banks $42 Million Series B Funding  VC Daily

5th January 2025 Global markets and geopolitics opened the year on edge after the   United States announced the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro , triggering international backlash and raising questions about America’s long-term role in the country’s leadership transition. In tech, Samsung is doubling down on artificial intelligence, aiming to roll out Galaxy AI features across 800 million devices as competition with Apple and Chinese rivals intensifies. Afri

Asian Borrowers Start Ramp-Up in Bond Sales at Start of Year Bloomberg MiniMax Is Said to Plan Pricing Hong Kong IPO at Top on AI Fervor Bloomberg India’s Top Asset Manager Taps Citi, HSBC for $1.4 Billion IPO Bloomberg Dubai Private Equity Firm GII Aims to Triple Assets to $10 Billion Bloomberg London Estate Agent Dexters Owner Exploring Potential Sale Bloomberg GetYourGuide Mulls Share Sale After Turning Profitable Bloomberg

K2 Space Raises $250M at $3B Valuation  VC Daily Beycome Banks $2.5 Million Seed Funding  VC Daily Nirvana Insurance Inks $100M Series D Funding  VC Daily Neurable Announces $35 Million Series A Round  VC Daily FINNY Closes $17 Million Series A Funding Round  VC Daily Sanegene Bio Closes Over $110 Million Series B  VC Daily

2nd January 2025 China’s BYD has hit its full-year sales target and likely overtaken Tesla as the world’s largest EV maker, cementing its dominance even as competition at home intensifies. In Nigeria, billionaire investor Tony Elumelu is doubling down on energy, snapping up a $496 million stake in Seplat Energy to expand Heirs Holdings’ oil footprint. Global markets, meanwhile, delivered a surprise in 2025 as international stocks decisively outperformed U.S. equities, reshapi

America’s Test Kitchen Buying Bankrupt Recipe Site Food52 Bloomberg China Buys Two-Thirds of Pledged US Soybeans as 2025 Closes Bloomberg KKR Bid to Take Yomeishu Private Is Derailed By Top Shareholder Bloomberg Tycoon Elumelu Buys Stake in Biggest Nigerian Oil Explorer Bloomberg Apollo to Sell Coinstar to Alaska Buyer, Bonds Set to Be Repaid Bloomberg KFC, Pizza Hut India Operators to Merge in $933 Million Deal Bloomberg China’s Zijin Mining to Expand Global Assets, Says New

Coinbax Raises $4.2M in Seed Funding VC Daily  Dazzle AI Grabs $8M Seed Financing Round VC Daily  Vyriad Raises $25M Series B Round VC Daily  Lucidean Pulls In $18M Seed Round VC Daily  Vibranium Labs Announces $4.6M Seed Round VC Daily  Lemon Slice Launches With $10.5M Seed VC Daily BriefCatch Nabs $6M Series A Round VC Daily  Architect Financial Technologies Inks $35M VC Daily  Traini Raises $7.5 Million VC Daily  CHAMP Titles Secures $55M V C Daily

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

Paramount Skydance  is urging shareholders to support its $108B  hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery;  Trump says a WBD deal should include the sale of CNN    Blackstone  agreed to acquire utility-parts maker MacLean Power Systems  and merge it with PortCo Power Grid Components at a $4B valuation   Chinese investment firm HSG  is nearing a deal to buy luxury Italian sneaker maker Golden Goose  from UK PE firm  Permira  at a $3B valuation   Apollo  and Canada's Cap

Geothermal company Fervo Energy  raised $462M from B Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Google, CalSTRS,  and more.    Saviynt  (identity security) raised $700M Series B led by  KKR at $3B valuation   UK neobank fintech  Revolut  offered to buy back employee shares at a 30% discount to its recent $75B valuation    Boom Supersonic , a supersonic aircraft and natural-gas turbine company, raised a  $300M round led by Darsana Capital Partners    Real-time generative-media inf

12th December 2025   The Federal Reserve  delivers a third and final rate cut for 2025  while projecting just one more for next year amid internal dissent. Disney  invests $1 billion  in OpenAI  to bring its iconic characters to AI video generation. The Trump administration  proposes requiring five years of social media history  from visitors entering the US. Philanthropist  MacKenzie Scott announces  $7.1 billion  in new donations, bringing  her total giving to $26.3 billion

Skild AI (robotic foundation models) in talks for $1B from SoftBank, Nvidia at ~$14B valuation   Saviynt  (identity security) raised  $700M Series B  led by KKR  at  $3B valuation   Boom Supersonic  (aircraft-to-data-center turbines) secured $300M  round led by  Darsana Capital   SanegeneBio  (China biotech) raised $110M+ Series B  from Sino Biopharm, Legend, Vivo   Haven Energy (home solar/battery) secured $40M  from Giant Ventures (equity) & Turtle Hill  (debt)   Parametrix

10th December 2025   The global tech arena is witnessing a wave of trillion-dollar ambitions and critical interventions. SpaceX  is targeting an unprecedented $1.5 trillion valuation  and a record $30 billion IPO  to fund ventures like space-based data centers, while  Australia  enforces the world's first under-16 social media ban , a bold regulatory move other nations are monitoring. Simultaneously, India  has emerged as the new epicenter for frontier AI capital, with Micros

Anglo American, Teck Resources Shareholders Approve $50B Merger   Xtellus Proposes Using Lukoil Asset Sale to Repay Frozen US Investors   Cerberus-Backed Hamburg Bank Explores Sale at ~$4B Valuation   UAE's ADNOC Emerges as Frontrunner to Buy Russian Stake in Serbia's NIS   Jana Urges Fintech Alkami to Explore $2.3B Sale   Grupo Televisa Eyes Acquisition of AT&T Mexico Unit   BlackRock's GIP to Acquire 49% Stake in BHP's WA Iron Ore for $2B   Novartis to Acquire UK's Relation

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