Thrive Holdings raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation from SoftBank, D1 Capital and Altimeter to keep buying accounting, IT and compliance firms and rewiring them with OpenAI's AI. What it means if you compete with, or buy from, one of its targets.
Ridgeview Partners has offered GBP 545 million to take Pinewood Technologies private. UK car dealers running its software should raise contract terms now, before the August 21 deadline, not after.
Accel closed an $800 million fund for Europe and Israel, up from $650 million, part of a $3.5 billion raise. What it means for Series A and B founders.
Lovable's $400M Series C, co-led by Menlo Ventures and the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund, doubles its valuation to $13.3B in eight months. What it means for AI coding-tool buyers.
Foxconn's cloud and networking arm passed half of revenue for the first time on real AI server shipments. What EU and UK infrastructure buyers should take from the numbers, and what they still do not prove.
Cognition is in early talks at a $40B+ valuation, up from $26B in May 2026. Servola explains what the revenue jump means for enterprise AI coding budgets.
CoreWeave, Supermicro and TSMC all beat this week, but capex now eats 94 percent of hyperscaler cash flow, forcing a record debt pivot. Here is what an EU or UK business relying on this capacity should actually track over the next 12 to 18 months.
Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC on June 1, 2026 and began investor meetings in July, valued at $965 billion - what a listing changes for anyone holding Anthropic exposure indirectly.
Riot Platforms disclosed a $9.1 billion, 191 MW Rockdale data center lease in its SEC filing without naming the tenant. Bloomberg says Anthropic. Neither has confirmed it.
OpenAI completed a $7 billion employee tender offer funded entirely by the company itself, holding its $852 billion valuation flat ahead of a reported 2026 IPO push - and what that means for European businesses that depend on it.
ZEISS Ventures led a EUR2.2 million round in Finland's SeeTrue Technologies, putting a 150-year-old optics maker, not a chipmaker, in control of a key smart-glasses sensing layer.
Oslo-based Visoid raised EUR2.16 million ($2.5 million), led by Skyfall Ventures, for AI that turns 3D architectural models into renders in minutes - work firms have long sent to outside studios.
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