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Five Billion In Defense Money Is Now Chasing GPUs
The Pentagon office built to finance rare-earth mines and battery plants is in talks to lend Fluidstack $5 billion. It has never financed compute before.
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Silver Lake Merges Its Own Firms, No Regulator Asks Why
Silver Lake is merging Cegid and Silae, two companies it already fully owns, into a 10bn euro group serving 2 million European businesses. Common ownership means no arm's-length merger review.
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Bending Spoons Just Bought Your Whiteboard Too
Bending Spoons is paying $1.355 billion for Miro, its second acquisition in five weeks. If your team runs on Airtable, Evernote or WeTransfer, the same owner now runs your whiteboard.
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One Playbook Now Owns German Notaries and Tax Firms
Motive Partners backed Limetax's EUR 36 million raise to buy German tax firms and run one AI platform across them. It already ran the same play on notaries.
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Europe's SpaceX Alternative Raises $450 Million
The Exploration Company closed the largest Series C any European space company has raised, backed by $2 billion in contracts it already had booked before the money arrived.
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Mistral Raised 3 Billion, Samsung Got a Chip Model
Mistral's 3 billion euro Series D is Europe's largest tech funding round ever, but Samsung's lead check comes with its own prize: an exclusive AI model trained on Samsung's chip design and manufacturing data.
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Anthropic's Biggest Deal Ever Died Weeks Before Its IPO
Anthropic walked away from a $6 billion deal to buy Decart on September 8, 2026, weeks after due diligence began and weeks before a planned IPO.
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The GBP150 Million Northern Fund Has No Manager Yet
The British Business Bank announced a GBP150m Northern scale-up fund on September 7, 2026. It is described as proposed, with no fund manager appointed and no date for when capital reaches a company.
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Molten Ventures Closes GBP 175M Growth Fund
Molten Ventures has closed GBP 175 million (EUR 203 million) of a GBP 350 million growth fund, with the British Business Bank as cornerstone investor.
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Nvidia Buys the Hub Your Open AI Stack Runs On
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for about 13 billion dollars, putting the open-model hub 200,000 companies use for vendor-neutral AI inside one chipmaker's balance sheet.
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GoPro's New Owner Wants Its Patents, Not Its Cameras
Starman Optical is paying GoPro shareholders $285 million and erasing its debt. The strategic prize is 2,500 optics patents for defense and AI hardware.
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Robots Just Got a $1.6 Billion Bet on How They See
Lyte AI raised $165 million at a $1.6 billion valuation for its robot-perception stack, its third capital event in twenty months, taking total funding to $272 million.
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