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Europe's 3 Euro Parcel Fee Is Now In A Prospectus
Shein swung to a 99 million dollar quarterly loss and named the EU's 3 euro import fee among its headwinds. A policy argument just became an audited disclosure.
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A Leaked Call Paused a 480 Billion Yuan Round
DeepSeek suspended its second funding round on 25 July after its founder's remarks leaked. What he said matters more to a European buyer than the pause does.
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A Fourth DRAM Supplier Just Raised 8.6 Billion
CXMT listed in Shanghai on 27 July and rose 470 percent. The debut number is not the one that changes a European memory budget. The 57.92 billion yuan raise is.
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Europe's First Robot Unicorn Runs On Wheels
Humanoid raised 152 million dollars at a 1.35 billion valuation on July 21. It picked wheels over legs because wheels can be CE marked next year and legs cannot.
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Kimi's Maker Is About To Publish Its Real Numbers
Moonshot AI is raising at up to 50 billion dollars before a Hong Kong listing, with revenue up from 200 to 300 million dollars in two months. A prospectus is the first real diligence a Kimi buyer will get.
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Midjourney's Next Six Projects Are Not Image Tools
Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star and says half a dozen more ambitious projects arrive within six months. What that roadmap does to a studio that depends on it.
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Dassault Will Pay $200m More Only If the AI Earns It
On July 23 Dassault Systemes agreed to buy ArisGlobal for 1.8 billion dollars in cash, plus up to 200 million more tied to AI revenue. The clause is the real lesson for anyone pricing an AI bet.
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Intel's Foundry Grew 31%, and You Still Depend on TSMC
Intel posted its fastest growth in almost 15 years on July 23, but the external foundry revenue that would free you from TSMC was just 293 million dollars. What the beat really means for chip buyers.
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Revolut Priced Itself Above a 335-Year-Old Bank
Revolut confirmed a secondary share sale on July 22 that values it at 115 billion dollars, up 53 percent in under a year, making it worth more on paper than Barclays. Why the mechanism matters more than the headline number.
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A Second AI-Chip Supplier Just Woke Up
Intel posted 16.1 billion dollars in Q2 revenue on July 23, up 25 percent, its fastest growth in more than 15 years, as data-centre and AI chip sales jumped 59 percent. What a credible second silicon source means for European buyers.
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Google Already Sold $514bn of Cloud Capacity
Alphabet's Q2 raised its 2026 capex to $205bn and the stock fell. The number that matters to you is the $514bn cloud backlog and customers who overshot their contracts by half.
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Europe's Newest Unicorn Is a Robot Yet to Ship
Humanoid raised 152 million dollars at a 1.35 billion valuation with its first robot still in beta. Why the cap table, not the number, is the story for operators.
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The Operator Brief
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