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Salesforce agrees to acquire Rune, which raised ~$30M to make AI military logistics software, as it expands its year-old Missionforce defense business (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/10/29/salesforce-rune-d…

Salesforce buys Rune Technologies for new defense unit
Rune had raised about $30M in venture capital.

S&P downgraded Meta's outlook from stable to negative, citing high capex and negative free cash flow; META fell 15% in October, its worst month in four years (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/30/meta-outlook-to…

Meta outlook revised downward by S&P on cash flow and capex concerns
Meta has been given a negative outlook by S&P Global Ratings due to the company's hefty capital expenditures and concerns about free cash flow.

Chicago-based Formic, which provides robots-as-a-service automation to manufacturers, raised $50M, including a $40M Series B and $10M in asset-backed financing (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/10/22/formic-50m-robotics-deployme…

Exclusive: Formic raises $50M to expand robotics deployments
Formic's latest financing combines a Series B round with asset-backed capital as it looks to scale factory automation.

Will the #AI #investment #bubble burst? I say the 1 Trillion market deflates in 2027.
#Qwen 3.8 class models are al…