Rising energy costs across Europe are squeezing food, drink, and pharma manufacturers. GEA Group's answer isn't sympathy, it's equipment: engineering built to cut a customer's energy bill in half, and a CEO who thinks that's the whole pitch.
Corporate bond issuance, driven largely by AI hyperscalers funding data centers, is on pace to top 2 trillion dollars this year. Economists say that borrowing is now competing with the US Treasury for capital, a reversal some are calling a reverse crowding out effect.
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Names like King Slide Works, Henan Shijia Photons and EverProX Technologies have posted gains of up to 90 percent this month as investors rotate away from chipmaking giants toward smaller firms that supply the rest of the AI data center buildout.
Dexmal, an Alibaba backed startup working on physical AI for robots, is in talks for a fresh funding round that would value the company at around 20 billion yuan, the latest sign of strong investor appetite for China's robotics sector.
The world's oldest bank has put forward two separate all share offers at once, an unusual dual bid designed to grow Monte dei Paschi past the point where Intesa Sanpaolo's unwanted takeover attempt still makes sense.
The mining billionaire says his scandium focused company is weighing a move to the United States after securing a 400 million dollar conditional loan commitment from the Pentagon for its Syerston project in Australia.
The London based data center operator is working with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan on a US listing that could arrive as soon as September, joining a wave of AI infrastructure companies heading to public markets.
As a condition of federal approval for a national trust bank tied to the Trump family's crypto venture, Eric Trump signed an agreement promising the entity he represents will not try to direct the bank's management or operations.
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Sundar Pichai says Gemini is Google's fastest growing product ever after crossing a billion monthly users, and the surprise inside that growth is how many people are choosing to speak to it rather than type.
Dario Amodei argues that public anger at technology companies has less to do with artificial intelligence itself than with a broader belief that companies and governments are always working an angle against ordinary people.
David Heacock left a job trading options at Goldman Sachs in 2012 to take over his family's fading manufacturing business in Talladega, Alabama, and rebuilt it as Filterbuy, an air filter maker he argues proves boring businesses can be the most reliable path to real money.
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Pablo Marcelo Barreiro of the early education real estate firm Fortec says America's child care crisis is usually framed as an affordability fight, when the deeper constraint is a shortage of licensed classrooms that investors have largely ignored.
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