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- Josh Scott / BetaKit: Toronto-based Wealthsimple, an online investment management service, raised CA$750M co-led by Dragoneer and GIC at a post-money valuation of CA$10B — Up to $750-million financing includes $550-million primary and $200-million secondary offerings. — Toronto-based FinTech […]
- Vallari Srivastava / Reuters: NextEra Energy and Google sign a 25-year power supply deal, which includes restarting the 615MW Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa, shut down in 2020 — U.S. utility NextEra Energy (NEE.N) and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google […]
- Financial Times: Sources: Forge Global, a leading platform for trading stakes in private startups, is exploring a sale, after its stock fell 90% since its 2021 IPO — Platform for trading stakes in private start-ups went public in 2021 […]
- Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: A look at Anthropic's success with corporate AI, which makes up ~80% of its revenue; a July report put its enterprise API market share at 32% vs. OpenAI's 25% — Anthropic, backed by […]
- Ashley Capoot / CNBC: OpenAI urges the US to commit to building 100GW of new energy capacity each year to stay ahead of China in AI, and says “electrons are the new oil” — OpenAI on Monday said the […]
- Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: SAP is considering a new bid for accounting software company BlackLine, after its previous bid of nearly $4.5B was rejected in June — – Previous $66 per share offer was rejected in June, a […]
- Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10% of corporate staff, or ~30,000 people, its largest layoffs since 2022, to reduce costs and address pandemic overhiring — Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning to cut as many as […]
- Annie Palmer / CNBC: Filing: iRobot says its last potential buyer withdrew from the process and its financials remain dire, following Amazon abandoning a 2024 bid; IRBT drops 33%+ — Shares of iRobot plunged 33% on Monday after the […]
- Jez Corden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft's next Xbox will run Windows, letting users play PlayStation titles on Steam and the full Xbox console library, without a multiplayer paywall — The new Xbox platform is said to be a […]
- Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Internal memo: Vishal Shah, who led Meta's metaverse unit, will now lead AI product management; sources: Vibes was rushed out to get ahead of OpenAI's Sora — Vishal Shah takes on key role after […]
- MiniMax: China's MiniMax releases MiniMax M2, an open-source model optimized for AI agents and coding and priced at $0.30/1M input tokens and $1.20/1M output tokens — From Day 1 of our founding, we have been committed to the vision […]
- OpenAI: OpenAI estimates that around 0.07% of ChatGPT users active in a week show “severe mental health symptoms” like mania, and details its safety improvements — We worked with more than 170 mental health experts to help ChatGPT more […]
- Dion Lim / CEO Dinner Insights: The current AI investment boom will spark a “wildfire” that wipes out some companies, yet bolsters and enables others by unlocking GPUs, energy, and talent — AI won't crash—it will burn. Like every […]
- Webb Wright / ZDNET: Anthropic expands Claude for Financial Services with a beta Claude for Excel integration, additional data connectors, and new pre-built Agent Skills — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic's Claude chatbot just got a suite of finance […]
- Emily Mason / Bloomberg: Citigroup and Coinbase say they are exploring on-chain stablecoin payments and simpler crypto-fiat transfers for Citi's institutional clients — Citigroup Inc. and Coinbase Global Inc. are teaming up to provide expanded digital-asset payment capabilities to […]
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