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Apple has edged past Nvidia with a US$4.88T valuation versus Nvidia’s US$4.86T, highlighting how investors are rebalancing their AI trade from pure chip exposure toward diversified tech platforms and ecosystem plays, and why this rotation matters for capital allocation over the next cycle.
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An eight-figure exit for a Peruvian foodtech shows that in Latin America, the strategic buyer who already owns a piece of your cap table is often the only buyer who will pay a real price.
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Uber is offering roughly US$15B to take over Delivery Hero while carving out 14 markets to SSW Partners, a deal that reshapes global food delivery scale and raises fresh strategic questions for investors.
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Nvidia‑backed Fireworks AI has raised US$1.5B at a US$17.5B valuation to build a cloud platform for open‑source AI models, signaling how cost pressure and model diversity are reshaping the economics of enterprise AI infrastructure.
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A new Pew Research Center study reveals a significant shift in global perceptions of major powers: China has surpassed the United States in overall favorability worldwide. According to the survey, conducted across 20 comparable countries, China achieves a median favorability rating of 46%, compared to 36% for the United States—
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Stripe and Advent International have reportedly tabled a US$53.4B joint bid for PayPal, a move that could redraw the global payments map and reset valuations across the fintech sector if it goes through.
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Mexican fintech Aviva raised a US$18M Series A led by Valor Capital Group to scale a phygital credit network for the underbanked in Mexico, signaling how infrastructure plays will define the next wave of Latin American fintech.
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TerraFirma has raised US$115M to scale its autonomous construction platform for extreme environments, signaling that infrastructure robotics is becoming a core theme in both industrial and space investing.
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London‑based Valarian just raised US$50M to build a sovereign control layer on top of US hyperscaler clouds, reshaping how governments and enterprises think about AI, data governance, and geopolitical risk for their infrastructure.
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Uber’s effort to shape a law enabling robotaxis in Washington, D.C. puts it on a collision course with Waymo and previews how market power and regulatory capture will play out in the next wave of autonomous mobility.
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Chevron is building AI‑focused power assets and long‑term electricity contracts with Microsoft and GE Vernova, signaling that oil majors can become infrastructure suppliers to the data center boom and reshape their growth profile for the next decade.
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Paradigm has closed a new $1.2 billion frontier-technology fund that formally takes the firm beyond its original crypto-only mandate into artificial intelligence, robotics and adjacent “frontier” sectors. For founders and investors, this move is a clear signal: the line between crypto, AI agents and advanced automation is