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axios.com - Dan Primack - Open-source AI push could create troubles for venture capital
Open-source AI push could create troubles for venture capital
Axios

Venture capital might have a concentration problem. The big picture: VC funds have invested hundreds of billions of dollars into a small group of frontier AI labs. OpenAI and Anthropic alone received over 60% of all VC dollars committed to U.S.

crunchbase.com - Gené Teare - Schneider Electric's VC Arm: The AI Buildout Is Creating A New Industrial Investment Cycle
Schneider Electric's VC Arm: The AI Buildout Is Creating A New Industrial Investment Cycle
Crunchbase

This is an ongoing series on investors focused on rebuilding the physical layer. Previous interviews in the series were with ex-Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, founder of Gigascale Capital, and Peter Barrett, a decade-long investor at Playground Global.

scmp.com - Daisy Wu - Quant funds blamed for China's market decline. Data suggests they softened fall
Quant funds blamed for China's market decline. Data suggests they softened fall
South China Morning Post

As Chinese equities suffered a fresh downturn in July, quantitative funds came under renewed scrutiny, accused by some investors of accelerating the sell-off through aggressive share dumping, margin lending or short positions in index futures.

techcrunch.com - Tim De Chant - Antares raises $470M to build nuclear reactors for the US military
Antares raises $470M to build nuclear reactors for the US military
TechCrunch

Nuclear power startup Antares Nuclear said Monday that it has raised $470 million to build small reactors for U.S. military bases. The Series C round, which was led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital with participation from Industrious Ventures…

kbs.co.kr - Lee Arrives in Brazil for Summit after Unveiling AI Vision in US
Lee Arrives in Brazil for Summit after Unveiling AI Vision in US
KBS

Anchor: President Lee Jae Myung arrived in Brazil on Sunday for a summit with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, following a visit to the United States for an AI summit and a meeting with Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

coinpedia.org - Yash Jain - Prediction Markets Could Reach $1 Trillion by 2030: Here's Why Analysts Are Bullish
Prediction Markets Could Reach $1 Trillion by 2030: Here's Why Analysts Are Bullish
Coinpedia Fintech News

Prediction markets have entered a period of accelerated growth, transitioning from niche event-based trading platforms into an increasingly recognized financial market. Between July 2025 and mid-2026, virtually every major industry metric expanded…

www.gov.uk - Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade - UK pension giants join forces to unlock £1bn to back Britain's innovators
UK pension giants join forces to unlock £1bn to back Britain's innovators
GOV.UK

Major UK pension providers are exploring establishment of a new UK Scale-up Fund of over £1billion to back the next generation of high-growth British science and technology companies. The fund aims to increase UK growth capital and give…

afr.com - Aaron Kirchfeld, Sylvia Pfeifer - Defence giants provide record backing for military start-ups
Defence giants provide record backing for military start-ups
Australian Financial Review

Farnborough | The world's largest defence companies have invested a record amount into military start-ups this year as they try to adapt to the rapidly evolving face of modern warfare. So-called defence primes, with longstanding ties to western…

fastcompany.com - Cameron Van Der Berg - Our electric grid wasn't built for this kind of demand
Our electric grid wasn't built for this kind of demand
Fast Company

The U.S. electric grid is the largest and most expensive machine on the planet. Its interconnected pathways cover nearly 7 million miles, serve 400 million customers, and its value is placed at about $1.5 trillion. To build it today, the grid would…

washingtonexaminer.com - Sam Raus - China blows past America on AI. Congress may stop us from catching up
China blows past America on AI. Congress may stop us from catching up
Washington Examiner

Following the release of Kimi K3, the world's leading open-weight AI model, by Chinese company Moonshot AI, American tech companies are scrambling to catch up. While the Department of Commerce maintains that the United States still leads the AI…

techcrunch.com - Dominic-Madori Davis - Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone's angling for a guest spot
Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone's angling for a guest spot
TechCrunch

The European answer to TBPN is here and ready to go live five days a week, starting June 27. Luke Knight and Ronan Chambers first launched the London-based European Technology Network (ETN) last October, breaking down tech trends and news during a…

thestandard.com.hk - The Standard 英文虎報 - Fund managers relocate from Singapore to HK, but sustaining wealth crown demands more than tax breaks
Fund managers relocate from Singapore to HK, but sustaining wealth crown demands more than tax breaks
The Standard

A major recalibration is underway across Asia's financial landscape. Following years of post-pandemic capital and talent migration toward Singapore, the tide is rapidly turning back toward Hong Kong. One of the catalysts is a series of landmark tax…

semafor.com - Tom Chivers - Defense giants invest record $4.1B in startups
Defense giants invest record $4.1B in startups
Semafor

The world's largest defense companies are investing in military startups at record rates. Giants such as BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin have piled $4.1 billion into venture capital rounds this year as they race to adapt to the rapid evolution of…

inc.com - Joe Procopio - An AI Startup Asked Me To 'Shred Their Investor Pitch Deck.' So…
An AI Startup Asked Me To 'Shred Their Investor Pitch Deck.' So…
Inc

Yesterday, I sat down to “shred the investor pitch deck” for one of the startups I work with. To set the right level here, I've got 30 years of tech experience, starting as a low-level software developer, then embracing AI early in…

washingtonexaminer.com - Andrew I. Fillat - The next bubble to pop: AI will change the world - and destroy fortunes
The next bubble to pop: AI will change the world - and destroy fortunes
Washington Examiner

History suggests that every revolutionary technology goes through a period of excessive optimism. Railroads did. Automobiles did. The internet certainly did. Many of those technologies ultimately changed the world, but many of the companies that…

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