Investment

egaranti, the Türkiye-based warranty technology company, has raised $1.1 million in pre-Series A funding to accelerate its expansion in Uzbekistan, enter Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, and develop a new consumer-facing warranty application in Türkiye.

AMD’s acquisition of San Francisco AI startup World Labs is taking the chip race into a new territory, combining compute, spatial intelligence and physical AI as the industry moves beyond models that only understand language.

The White House meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping has placed artificial intelligence at the center of the U.S.-China relationship, while the presence of Silicon Valley’s most powerful technology executives has underscored how deeply AI has become tied to global economics, national security and geopolitical power.

Emulate, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is reportedly in talks to raise up to $700 million just weeks after its creation, putting a new spotlight on the growing market for AI systems that can model the physical world.

KKR is investing €528 million in a new European real estate joint venture with Realty Income, gaining a 49% stake in a 54-property portfolio spanning four major markets.

Novo Nordisk is backing Orbis Medicines in a deal worth up to $1.4 billion, betting that AI-enabled drug discovery can help turn traditionally injectable treatments into oral medicines.

Paramount’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has moved into a critical phase as the companies negotiate with U.S. states challenging the deal, putting some of Hollywood’s most valuable entertainment assets at the centre of a $110 billion corporate battle.

A newly revealed 2002 agreement has brought fresh scrutiny to LVMH’s long-running effort to build a stake in Hermès, while an heir to the luxury family says his 6% holding, now worth around $10 billion, disappeared from his control.

Google’s latest deal with Mechanize shows how leading technology companies are increasingly competing for the people and expertise behind emerging AI startups.

Global entrepreneurs and investors are exploring new opportunities in the U.S. They seek new paths for expansion, investment and growth.

Nvidia is reportedly considering a $10 billion investment in Anthropic as the AI company moves closer to a potential IPO.

Its largest European bet, and a 22-year nuclear contract to keep the servers running.

More than 100 investors and $100 billion of assets arrive to look at what the ecosystem built.

Capital is moving from software that scales cheaply to machines, chips and power that do not.

Brussels is rethinking whether size is a problem to police or a capability to build.

A $60 billion commercial arrangement, custom inference silicon and 1.6-terabit optical connectivity.

Growth makes its financial demands long before it returns them, so finance is treated as management.