Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A)     Devon Agrees to Buy US Shale Rival Coterra for $21.4 Billion Bloomberg India to Merge Key Power Lenders to Help Electrify Economic Boom Bloomberg Zurich Reveals Beazley Stake After UK Insurer Spurns Bid Bloomberg   Eldorado Gold to Buy Foran for $2.8 Billion in Latest Mine Deal Amid Metals Frenzy Bloomberg  GDI’s Top Investors Oppose Birch Hill’s Takeover Bid as Too Low Bloomberg   BlackRock’s GIP Teams Up With EQT in Bid to Acquire Power

Venture Capital (VC) News     Redwood Materials , a lithium-ion battery recycling and materials remanufacturing startup, raised a $425M Series E led by Capricorn  and Goldman Sachs Alternatives  TechCrunch       VulcanForms , a 3D printing metal parts maker, raised a  $220M  round led by Eclipse and 1789 Capital  Bloomberg      Asian stablecoin and payments platform OSL Group  raised a  $200M  round from undisclosed investors Yahoo.Finance     Privacy-centric blockchain start

Nvidia  moved to dial back expectations around its headline-grabbing $100 billion OpenAI pledge , with CEO Jensen Huang stressing the plan was never a binding commitment as internal concerns surfaced. In Silicon Valley, Moltbook , a fast-rising social network populated entirely by AI agents , has sparked fascination and unease as bots debate, post, and even moderate themselves. Elon Musk , meanwhile, rewrote the dealmaking history books after SpaceX acquired xAI in a record-s

Venture Capital (VC) News   Upwind Security , a runtime cloud security startup, raised a  $250M  Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners TechCrunch RobCo , an industrial physical-AI robotics startup, raised a  $100M Series C co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation StarupResearch   On-chain launch protocol Doppler  raised a  $9M  seed round led by Pantera Capital   PR Newswire   European tech-ecosystem data platform Dealroom  raised a 7M  round led by Í

Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A)    JPMorgan Starts Selling a Chunk of $20 Billion EA Buyout Debt Bloomberg   Rio and Glencore Set to Extend Deadline for Talks on Mega Deal Bloomberg   Levy Is Said in Talks to Sell Stake in Tottenham Hotspur Bloomberg   Jersey Mike’s Sells Debt It Can Pay Down With IPO Proceeds   Bloomberg   Canadian Tycoon Nixes Plan to Sell Warehouse for Use as ICE Jail Bloomberg    Seattle Seahawks to Be Up for Sale After Super Bowl, ESPN Says   Bloomberg

Markets were thrown off balance after President Donald Trump  nominated Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell  as Federal Reserve chair , a move investors quickly interpreted as a shift in the future path of U.S. monetary policy. The announcement sent shockwaves through the so-called debasement trade , triggering a brutal sell-off in gold and silver and spilling into Asian equities  as leveraged positions were unwound. At the same time, China’s tech giants are escalating an al

Venture Capital (VC) News     Prenosis  Raises $20M Series A  Round led by PACE  Healthcare Capital  VC Daily   Northslope  Inks  $22M Series A  Round led by  Friends & Family Capital   VC Daily   Arkero Pulls In  $6M Pre-Seed Round led by Roger Ehrenberg   VC Daily   Decagon Announces $250M Series D  Round led by Coatue and Index     VC Daily    RobCo Secures $100M Series C  Financing Round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation   VC Daily   Indigo Grabs

Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A)   Elon Musk’s  SpaceX  Said to Consider Merger With  Tesla  or xAI   Bloomberg    Wells Fargo  Boosts CEO Pay 28% to $40 Million in Key Year Bloomberg   New World Shares Jump as Blackstone Is Said to Be in Stake Talks    Bloomberg   Bertelsmann  Is Said to Consider Buying Concord Music   Bloomberg    Perplexity  signs $750 million AI cloud deal with Microsoft   Reuters   ICE  Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Bloomber

Global capital is on the move and it’s moving fast. South Korea  has quietly leapfrogged Germany  to become one of the world’s biggest stock markets , riding the same AI and robotics  wave reshaping portfolios everywhere. At the center of that wave, OpenAI  is drawing eye-watering interest from Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon,  and even SoftBank , as the race to own the future of intelligence intensifies. Meanwhile, Elon Musk  is reportedly toying with the idea of tying SpaceX clos

Venture Capital (VC) News     Eliyan Secures $50 Million in Strategic Investments led by Ramin Farjadrad   VC Daily   Cellares Banks $257 Million Series D led by BlackRock and Eclipse VC Daily   Gyde  Launches with  $60M Financing led by Lightspeed  VC Daily   Checkbox  Inks  $23 Million Series A led by Touring Capital   VC Daily    Genspark Tops off  $300M Series B  led by  Eric Jing   VC Daily   Outtake  Raises $40M Series B led by Iconiq's Murali Joshi   VC Daily   Concour

Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A)   Nvidia , Others in Talks for OpenAI Funding, Information Says Bloomberg    Stonepeak’s Rinchem  Seeks Distressed Exchange to Fund Buyout Bloomberg   Sony , Singapore’s GIC to Invest $2 Billion in Music  Catalogs Bloomberg   First Quantum  Said to Seek Buyer for  Turkish Copper Mine   Bloomberg    Kuwait  readies $7 billion pipeline deal as Gulf turns to foreign capital    Reuters   Universal Music Buys Stake in Superfan App  to Foster Artis

Wall Street just smashed through a historic ceiling, with the S&P 500 crossing 7,000 as investors shrugged off geopolitical jitters and doubled down on earnings, momentum, and the AI trade. The rally comes even as the Federal Reserve hits pause, holding rates steady in a split decision that signals caution, patience, and plenty of internal debate about where inflation and growth go next. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is drawing a brutal line between yesterday and tomorrow. Tesla is re

Venture Capital (VC) News     Fulcrum  Raises $25M Seed and Series A led by  CRV   VC Daily   Fiddler AI Scores $30M Series C  Round led by  RPS Ventures   VC Daily   Brickanta  Raises  $8 Million in Seed Round   The Saas News   SpotDraft  raised $8 million  from  Qualcomm Ventures in a strategic Series B extension   VC Daily    Barnwell Bio  raised $6 million in  seed funding led by Twelve Below   VC Daily   Paraglide  Raises $5M Seed Funding  From  Bessemer and DN Capital  

Amazon is quietly walking away from its most futuristic retail experiment, shutting down Go and Fresh stores as Big Tech sobers up on what actually scales in the real world. Zoom, once written off as a post-pandemic relic, is suddenly back in the spotlight after a stealth AI bet on Anthropic may be worth billions. Microsoft is escalating the AI arms race with a new in-house chip designed to loosen Nvidia’s grip on data centers and outmuscle cloud rivals. And in the rapidly cr

Venture Capital (VC) News     AI inference startup Inferact raised a  $150M  seed round at an $800M valuation led by  a16z and  Lightspeed TechCrunch     LiveKit , an open-source agent for AI agents, raised a $100M  round at a  $1B  valuation  led by Index Ventures Bloomberg     Crypto social media startup Merkle Manufactory  will return investor money to backers after its flagship product was acquired; the firm last raised a $150M  round at a $1B  valuation led by Paradigm  

Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A)    IonQ Agrees to Buy Chipmaker SkyWater  in $1.8 Billion Deal Bloomberg   Italy Fiber Group Retelit  Mulls €700 Million Data Unit Sale Bloomberg   China’s Zijin  to Buy  Allied Gold  for C$5.5 Billion in Growth Push Bloomberg   Mini-Grid Firms  Need $46 Billion for World Bank Power Plan   Bloomberg   Blackstone, Yanmar Are Said to Consider Bids for VW’s Everllence   Bloomberg   Merger Arbs  See Wide-Open Deal Window With Biotech Top of List

The artificial intelligence boom is no longer just reshaping Silicon Valley, it’s rewriting balance sheets, trade alliances, and even national development stories. Anguilla’s .ai  domain crosses one million registrations, turning a digital suffix into a powerful economic engine for a small island nation.  Nvidia doubles down on AI infrastructure with a fresh $2 billion investment in CoreWeave , highlighting how the race for computers is becoming as critical as the race for ch

Markets are flashing stress signals and strategic pivots all at once. Gold  and silver  smash historic milestones as investors flee uncertainty, piling into hard assets amid geopolitical tension, tariff anxiety, and questions around the Fed’s independence. Saudi Arabia  quietly redraws its NEOM  ambitions as fiscal reality collides with megaproject  dreams, while Intel’s  turnaround narrative takes a hit after manufacturing bottlenecks overshadow an earnings beat. Meanwhile,

Zarminali Pediatrics Raises  $110M Series A led by Healthier Capital   VC Daily Datarails Inks  $70M Series C led   by  One Peak   VC Daily Duetti Secures  $50 Million Series C led by  Raine Partners   VC Daily  PraxisPro Grabs  $6M Seed Round led by  AlleyCorp   VC Daily Renterra Banks  $9M Series A Funding led by  Avenue Growth Partners   VC Daily  Benepass Nets  $40M Series B Funding led by  Centana Growth Partners   VC Daily  OpenEvidence Raises  $250M in Series  D led by

Crypto Firm BitGo, Backers Raise $212.8 Million in US IPO. Bloomberg Tokyo Looks to Rev Up IPO Market by Luring Startups Across Asia Bloomberg OpenAI’s Altman Meets Mideast Investors for $50 Billion Round Bloomberg  Blackstone Backs Startup Applecart at $700 Million Valuation Bloomberg  AI Startup SambaNova Seeks Up to $500 Million Funding After Intel Talks Stall Bloomberg Deutsche Borse Group to Acquire Allfunds for $6.19 Billion Wall Street Journal  Eaton Considers a Sale o