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Marvell is in advanced talks to buy chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal that could exceed $5 billion; Celestial was valued at $2.5 billion in March 2025 (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 2, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Tim Cook’s Senior Year?, The Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push The Big Technology…

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Walmart in talks to acquire R&A Data to combat counterfeits in the market

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 19, 2025

Walmart is in talks to buy a startup called R&A Data, a company founded by two Israeli scientists that works…

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Databricks is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of more than $130 billion, up about 30% from September when it raised a $1 billion Series K at a valuation of $100 billion (The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 18, 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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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential investors to raise around $5 billion and is aiming for a valuation of at least $50 billion (The News)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 18, 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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Samsung is in talks with Barclays to launch a consumer credit card in the United States; it’s also exploring a high-yield savings account, a BNPL product, and more (AnnaMaria Andriotis/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 8, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI bailout?, Elon’s $1 trillion payment deal, Amazon continues perplexity The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Alterra IOS CEO Talks About the Overperforming Real Estate Sector Hiding in Plain Sight

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 5, 2025

Industrial Outdoor Storage in Elgin, IL.Courtesy of Alterra IOSA version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play…

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Sources: Francisco Partners is in talks to acquire Jamf, which provides remote device management tools, by taking it private; Jamf has a market capitalization of around $1.5 billion (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 29, 2025

Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Francisco Partners is in talks to acquire Jamf, which provides remote device management tools, by…

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Sources: Quantum computing companies including IonQ, Rigetti and D-Wave are in talks to give the U.S. Commerce Department equity in exchange for more than $10 million each in funding (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 23, 2025

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Quantum computing companies including IonQ, Rigetti and D-Wave are in talks to give…

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Sources: Anthropic held preliminary financing talks this month with Abu Dhabi-based MGX, which it considers an earlier investor, after closing a $13 billion Series F round in September (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 15, 2025

Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic held preliminary financing talks this month with Abu Dhabi-based MGX, which it considers an earlier investor, after…

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EY survey of 18,000 people across 23 countries: Around 49% of consumers have used AI in the past six months to support their savings and investment decisions (Emma Dunkley/Financial Times)

Trump threatens to “impose significant tariffs on the UK” if he does not scrap his digital services tax, which he sees as unfairly targeting US tech companies (Connor Stringer/Telegraph)

Sources: AI coding company Cognition in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation of $25 billion, up from $10.2 billion announced in September 2025 (Bloomberg)

Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat second-quarter forecasts driven by strong demand for analog chips used in AI data centers (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1 million input tokens and $30/1 million output tokens, double the price of GPT-5.4; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1 million input tokens and $180/1 million output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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Marvell is in advanced talks to buy chip startup Celestial AI in a cash-and-stock deal that could exceed $5 billion; Celestial was valued at $2.5 billion in March 2025 (The Information)

Walmart in talks to acquire R&A Data to combat counterfeits in the market

Databricks is in talks to raise funding at a valuation of more than $130 billion, up about 30% from September when it raised a $1 billion Series K at a valuation of $100 billion (The Information)

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is in talks with potential investors to raise around $5 billion and is aiming for a valuation of at least $50 billion (The News)

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)

Samsung is in talks with Barclays to launch a consumer credit card in the United States; it’s also exploring a high-yield savings account, a BNPL product, and more (AnnaMaria Andriotis/Wall Street Journal)

Alterra IOS CEO Talks About the Overperforming Real Estate Sector Hiding in Plain Sight

Sources: Francisco Partners is in talks to acquire Jamf, which provides remote device management tools, by taking it private; Jamf has a market capitalization of around $1.5 billion (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

Sources: Quantum computing companies including IonQ, Rigetti and D-Wave are in talks to give the U.S. Commerce Department equity in exchange for more than $10 million each in funding (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Anthropic held preliminary financing talks this month with Abu Dhabi-based MGX, which it considers an earlier investor, after closing a $13 billion Series F round in September (Bloomberg)