DeepSeek Hired Bankers. That Is Not the Same as Filing to List.
Four underwriters for a STAR Market float, a pre-IPO round near $74.5bn, and no prospectus. The reports do not agree on...
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Forus Raised Less Money at Three Times the Price, Four Months Later
A $150m Series C at $3bn follows a $160m Series B at about $1bn in May. The founders sold roughly five per cent instead...
Mistral Raised €3 Billion. The Gigawatt by 2030 Is Not Funded Yet.
Mistral's Series D is led by Samsung at a valuation above €21 billion, nearly double last year's. The money is for compu...
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Asian Chip Stocks Rallied on GPT-6 Astra. The Independent Index Scored It Flat.
MSCI Asia Pacific rose 1.3 per cent on compute-demand optimism. Artificial Analysis put Astra at 61, exactly its predece...
Foxconn's August Sales Rose 52 Per Cent. Its Gross Margin Still Fell.
AI servers passed half of revenue for the first time and the margin slipped to 6.12 per cent. An assembler books the acc...
Pichai Promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June. Google Shipped Three Flash Models.
Alphabet entered September on its longest monthly losing streak since 2015. Flash is the small tier, and shipping three...
Dell's $95bn AI Backlog Exceeds Its $74bn Full-Year AI Guidance
Record revenue of $47bn and $60.9bn of AI orders against $16.4bn recognised. The order queue grew by about $44bn in thre...
Moonshot's $50bn Valuation Is the Smallest of China's Three Model Labs
The Hong Kong filing seeks about $3bn. DeepSeek is marked near $74bn and Z.AI near $66bn, and the $50bn figure came from...
Broadcom's AI Revenue Tripled to $16.70bn. The Stock Fell on a 0.66 Per Cent Miss.
AI chips reached $16.70bn, up 221 per cent, and the shares dropped 4.4 per cent because next quarter's guide came in abo...
Tencent Is 84 Per Cent of the Revenue in Enflame's 6.1 Billion Yuan IPO
Two oversubscription figures are circulating for the same STAR Market listing. They count different tranches, both measu...
Uber Is Buying Delivery Hero and Selling the Overlap Before Anyone Asks
Delivery Hero's boards have backed €41.50 a share. Alongside it, the 14 markets where Uber Eats already competes are bei...
GoPro Shareholders Keep 10 Per Cent. Read That, Not the Price.
Starman Optical pays US$285m and existing GoPro holders keep about 10 per cent of the combined company, which stays on N...
Forty-Four State Attorneys General Say the CFTC Has No Business Here
Polymarket has raised US$300m while 44 state attorneys general fight the CFTC over jurisdiction. If an event contract is...
Cronos Validators Rolled Back the Chain to Undo a US$74m Exploit
The bridge was the real rate limiter, trapping US$68m long enough for a human decision. The rollback then cleaned up wha...
Shein's Growth Collapsed From 41.1 Per Cent to 1.1 Per Cent in Three Years
Shein raised US$1.7bn in Hong Kong and fell on its first day, at a valuation about a quarter of what private investors p...
Pay-to-Play Is Not a Funding Round. It Is a Choice With a Penalty.
Reported as a funding round, it is a mechanism: investors who decline to put in more money have their preferred shares c...
SBI Buys Access to 20 Million Indonesian Investors. Do They Want Yen?
Indonesians earn, spend and save in rupiah, and hold dollars when they hold a stablecoin at all. The question nobody is...
A Memory Maker Forecasts Five More Years of Memory Shortage
The forecast is five more years of shortage and no glut, and it comes from the person selling the memory. It also has a...
One Deal Was Two Thirds of Singapore's Fintech Funding This Half
The report says investment moderated. Money fell by two thirds while global fintech funding rose 43 per cent, and a sing...
Pasqal's First-Day Gain Was Reported at 40%, 43%, 52% and 95%
Four outlets reported four different first-day gains, and all four are correct. The figure that does not depend on which...
Lambda Borrowed $1bn for Nvidia Chips, Which Nvidia Is Reported to Lease Back
Short-dated private debt arranged by JPMorgan, for accelerators leased to Microsoft, from a company Nvidia backs and fro...
Bill Gates Wants a Robot Tax Again, Nine Years After the First Time
The reserved-jobs proposal has no mechanism attached. The argument underneath it is sharper: a business writes off a rob...
Korea's Wrtn Raised at 1 Trillion Won, Reported as Three Different Valuations
The same Series C has appeared as over $722m, over $760m and about $870m. The won figure is the fact and the dollar figu...
Marvell Beat Expectations and Fell 8%. The $120bn Arrives in 2029.
The figure is the ceiling at which a warrant's performance tranche vests through fiscal 2033, not committed revenue. Man...
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