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Amazon is seeking to raise about $12 billion through a bond sale, its first such deal in U.S. dollars since 2022, to help fund acquisitions, investments and more. (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 17, 2025

Featured Podcasts Decoder with Nilay Patel: Ring’s Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime A show from The Verge about…

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Stockholm-based mood coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of around $6 billion, up from $1.8 billion in July when it raised a $200 million Series A (Iain Martin/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 14, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Data Centers in Space + Right-wing AI Politics + A Mystery of Gemini History The future…

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Pony AI plans to raise $863 million in its Nov. 6 Hong Kong IPO by selling 48.3 million shares at about $17.88 each, below its Oct. 31 Nasdaq close of $18.68 (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 3, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The woman behind Canva shares how she built a $42 billion business from scratch | Melanie…

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Tech companies including Meta and xAI are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, allowing them to keep debt off their balance sheets (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 1, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Meatbags,” with Brian Mueller The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long…

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Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform for crypto companies to quickly raise capital, for approximately $375 million, marking Coinbase’s 8th acquisition in 2025 (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 21, 2025

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform for crypto companies to quickly raise…

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The former chief of Databricks AI, Naveen Rao, is in talks to raise $ 1 billion led by A16Z to an evaluation of $ 5 billion for his new unconventional AI equipment startup (Marina Temkin / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 3, 2025

Featured podcasts Hard Fork: Sora and Infinite Slobe Foods + Chatgpt goes to therapy + Hot Mess Express The future…

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Trump’s World Liberty Financial is looking to raise $ 1.5 billion to launch a cryptographic cash company listed on the stock market which would hold its WLFI token and its species (fortune)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 9, 2025

Featured podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-5 is it up to the threshing The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the…

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The German Startup of the N8N should raise hundreds of millions of euros led by Accel to an evaluation before a monye of $ 2.3 billion, against around $ 350 million four months ago (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 7, 2025

Featured podcasts Tech Brew is home: GPT-5 released Tech News titles every day. 15 minutes and you are up to…

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Sources: Before the American-chinese discussions in London, President Trump gives us negotiators to raise export controls on a wide variety of technologies and other products (Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 9, 2025

Lingling wei / Wall Street Journal:: Sources: Before the American-chinese discussions in London, President Trump gives us negotiators to raise…

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An overview of the use of automation by Walmart to increase sales without adding staff, because analysts say that their efforts raise questions about the future of American retail work (Gregory Meyer / Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 3, 2025

Gregory Meyer / Financial time:: An overview of the use of Walmart automation to increase sales without adding personnel, as…

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From discreet cooperation to strategic partnership? – The diplomat

Counter-drone efforts in Southeast Asia – The Diplomat

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Transnational repression against Hong Kongers in the UK is worrying – The Diplomat

Chinese electric vehicles are coming to Canada and dealers are eager to sell them

Family Investors Turn to Old Economy Companies to Avoid AI Disruption

Starbucks to lay off 300 US employees, close some regional offices

Detroit automakers cut more than 20,000 U.S. payroll jobs as AI looms

China to order 200 Boeing planes, Trump tells Fox News

Trump doesn’t have enough votes to get his ballroom money

The war in Iran broke Trump

China humiliated Trump and now he’s in a damage control frenzy

HUD Secretary’s BDS is completely closed

JD Vance Compares Himself to Child Abandoned at Deranged White House Event

Sources: OpenAI acquired Weights.gg, which offered AI tools for creating clones of people’s voices, earlier this year; PitchBook: Weights.gg raised about $4 million (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how these efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AV, and more. (Bill Gurley/Bill’s Substack)

Kraken cut about 150 employees after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO could be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to falling digital asset prices (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

A profile of Runway, an AI video generation startup that trains models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3 billion and added $40 million in ARR in the second quarter (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Ofcom says X committed to implementing tougher protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hateful content within 24 hours, following an investigation (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

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Amazon is seeking to raise about $12 billion through a bond sale, its first such deal in U.S. dollars since 2022, to help fund acquisitions, investments and more. (Bloomberg)

Stockholm-based mood coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of around $6 billion, up from $1.8 billion in July when it raised a $200 million Series A (Iain Martin/Forbes)

Pony AI plans to raise $863 million in its Nov. 6 Hong Kong IPO by selling 48.3 million shares at about $17.88 each, below its Oct. 31 Nasdaq close of $18.68 (Bloomberg)

Tech companies including Meta and xAI are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, allowing them to keep debt off their balance sheets (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

Coinbase agrees to acquire Echo, a blockchain platform for crypto companies to quickly raise capital, for approximately $375 million, marking Coinbase’s 8th acquisition in 2025 (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

The former chief of Databricks AI, Naveen Rao, is in talks to raise $ 1 billion led by A16Z to an evaluation of $ 5 billion for his new unconventional AI equipment startup (Marina Temkin / Techcrunch)

Trump’s World Liberty Financial is looking to raise $ 1.5 billion to launch a cryptographic cash company listed on the stock market which would hold its WLFI token and its species (fortune)

The German Startup of the N8N should raise hundreds of millions of euros led by Accel to an evaluation before a monye of $ 2.3 billion, against around $ 350 million four months ago (Bloomberg)

Sources: Before the American-chinese discussions in London, President Trump gives us negotiators to raise export controls on a wide variety of technologies and other products (Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal)

An overview of the use of automation by Walmart to increase sales without adding staff, because analysts say that their efforts raise questions about the future of American retail work (Gregory Meyer / Financial Times)