@Techmeme@techhub.socialThoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/18/tho…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCanal takes a 34% stake in French cinema operator UGC, with the option to build a controlling stake in 2028, and says UGC's content library will expand its own (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/canal-ugc-stake-secondary-listin…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"These findings show that the use of stakeholder tends to performatively entrench the existing power of “industry stakeholders” or nameless but clearly already engaged and empowered “key stakeholders”"
(Original title: You have a stake in reading this – Hi, I'm Heather Burns)
https://
@StephenRees@mas.to“Alberta lawsuit is trying to silence the messenger”
By Adrienne Tanner, National Observer
This column by the former Editor-in-Chief of Canada’s National Observer Adrienne Tanner sums up what’s really at stake in this lawsuit and why it’s so important that we defend our journalism – and win.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWho has the most at stake in 2025 NFL stretch run? Coaches, QBs and rising stars under pressure to deliver
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nfl-stretch-run-coache…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGeneral Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPackers vs. Bears prediction: Is this the biggest rivalry game in years with the NFC North at stake?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers-vs-bears-where-to-watch-odds-pick-…
@sean@scoat.esI sure hope Nvidia is using their own chips to model when their bubble will burst and are informed about what to do when chip demand screeches to a near-halt…
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/softbank-sells-its-entire-stake-in-nvidia-for-5po…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) agree to buy WildBrain's 41% stake in Peanuts Holdings for ~$457M, raising Sony's slice to 80% (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sony-acquire-peanuts-457-mil…
@benb@osintua.euRaiffeisen fails to sell stake in Russia as Moscow opposes the move, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/raiffeisen-fails-to-sell-stake.html
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump Is Weighing Billions More in Cuts to Clean Energy Projects. Here's What's at Stake
https://gizmodo.com/trump-clean-energy-kill-list-threatens-12-billion-funding-whats-at-stake-2000669698
@cdarwin@c.imMillions of Americans have a huge financial stake in the next few weeks of Senate negotiations over the Affordable Care Act's enhanced tax credits.
Absent a deal, health care coverage costs could double next year for people who rely on ACA exchange plans.
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/1…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe EU was not called the European Coal And Steel Community for nothing, folks.
We talk a mean human rights and democracy. But we’re still the European Coal and Steel Community.
Go Single Market, amirite?! https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/11550764176416580…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Approves Road Project in Alaska, Stake in Trilogy Metals (Catherine Lucey/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-06/trump-approves-road-project-in-alaska-stake-in-trilogy-metals
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p134#a251006p134
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pagePoS-CoPOR: Proof-of-Stake Consensus Protocol with Native Onion Routing Providing Scalability and DoS-Resistance
Ivan Homoliak, Martin Pere\v{s}\'ini, Marek Tama\v{s}kovi\v{c}, Timotej Ponek, Luk\'a\v{s} Hellebrandt, Kamil Malinka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04619
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhat Raiders' Pete Carroll Has at Stake https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-pete-carroll-has-at-stake
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPackers vs. Bears prediction: Is this the biggest rivalry game in years with the NFC North at stake?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers-vs-bears-where-to-watch-odds-pick-…
@teledyn@mstdn.ca"Microsoft was an early investor in many of the latest AI companies. It ended up with a serious stake in OpenAI and benefited from early access to its models, creating Bing Chat and Copilot when Google, Meta, and Anthropic were just getting started. But now its momentum has stalled, and like everyone else, it's not making much money from its AI products. That's because no one is buying them, and that is because very few people actually find them useful, The Information reports."
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/803134194609979392?source=share
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Sinclair builds an ~8% stake in E.W. Scripps and is vying to acquire the local TV broadcaster; the companies held constructive talks in recent months (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/sincl…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Orange is seeking to raise €400M-€500M by selling a stake of as much as 50% in its data center business, including its major facility in Normandy (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-15/orange-…
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialThe AI market feels like a heist movie, where all participants are in on the initial job, but will start picking each other off as they scramble to make their stake bigger and take out everyone else.
The problem is that in those movies, there's a ton of collateral damage and no one really gets out alive.
@servelan@newsie.socialUS to take 10% stake in Trilogy Metals, Trump orders Alaska mining road permits
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/us-trilogy-metals-stake-trump-alaska-mining-road-permits
@Techmeme@techhub.socialProsus invests ~$146M in Indian travel app ixigo for a 10.1% stake; sources say Prosus plans to buy more shares from other investors to raise its stake to 15% (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.c…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: DAZN is in advanced talks to acquire a majority stake in US regional sports broadcaster Main Street Sports Group, formerly Diamond Sports Group (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bus…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comStephen Miller's Stock Sale Raises Questions, Ethics Experts Say (Ana Swanson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/stephen-miller-minerals-stake-ethics.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p135#a251209p135
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWhat we learned in NFL Week 11: Eagles' defense dominates, Broncos stake claim https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6813066/2025/11/17/nfl-week-11-highlights-eagles-lions-jared-goff/
@raiders@darktundra.xyzwe know what's at stake. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L8-hGoXHaHw
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"Humanity faces an acute crisis. It is not only a political and technological crisis, but an ethical and theological/religious crisis. Are we members of creation who are morally responsible for how we treat our fellow creatures, or are we masters who may act with impunity towards nature? Ultimately the survival of life as we know it is at stake."
—YDS Dean Greg Sterling in his article in the new issue of Reflections
@barijaona@mastodon.mgYou should read this…
Why isn’t online age verification just like showing your ID in person? | EFF
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Berkshire Hathaway discloses a $4.3B stake in Alphabet in Q3, a surprising move given Warren Buffett's reluctance toward high-growth, tech-driven stocks (Yun Li/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/warren-buffetts-berkshir…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s plan to rig the 2026 midterm election
by pressuring states to create more Republican congressional seats
will face a major test in a federal courtroom in El Paso, Texas
starting Wednesday,
as a panel of judges considers whether to block the state’s new gerrymandered map.
At stake in the hearing,
scheduled for ten days,
are as many as five congressional seats
— perhaps enough to determine control of Congress in next year’s midterms
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org"We need to be very open about [the fact] that it probably is only the beginning,” she said. “We need all Europeans to understand what is at stake and what’s going on. When there are drones or cyber attacks, the idea is to divide us. ”
warns Danish PM - https://on.ft.com/4nXNe3h
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageFederated Data Analytics for Cancer Immunotherapy: A Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Platform for Patient Management
Mira Raheem, Michael Papazoglou, Bernd Kr\"amer, Neamat El-Tazi, Amal Elgammal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09155
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Lynn Forester de Rothschild has put her family's full 26.7% stake in The Economist up for sale, and sellers anticipate it to be valued at up to £400M (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/economist-news-owners-rothschild-family-stak…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialOverall the media consolidation described below is beyond four alarm fire levels.
E. Musk is dangerous to society, but Musk acts like an addled kid who read too much bad Sci-fi. Ellison doesn't have those positive qualities - he is much like the killer car, Christine, in the Steven King novel.
My first experience with Ellison's Oracle was back around 1980 or '81 when Oracle people came to our company and more than asked, they ordered us, to make sure that their produ…
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeWOW, did you know texting currently prohibits PETTING CATS unless you see a kitty in person? Hang out with ME to PET cute kittens!
@NFL@darktundra.xyzOur guide to every Week 16 NFL game: Matchup previews, predictions and what's at stake https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/viewersguide47337400/nfl-week-16-picks-predictions-schedule-fantasy-football-…
@davidbody@fosstodon.orgI voted today.
Even though not much is at stake in my particular local elections, voting still a fundamental right and responsibility that must not be taken for granted.
@servelan@newsie.socialU.S. to Take Equity Stake in Lithium Americas and Its Nevada Mining Project - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/business/u-s-to-take-equity-stake-in-lithium-americas-and-its-nevada-mining-project-8938eab4
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMemo: after Sinclair bought an 8% stake, Scripps says it's exploring stations sales with "many" broadcasters but talks with Sinclair didn't lead to an agreement (Al Tompkins/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Binance has been exploring ways to reboot its Binance.US affiliate, including a recapitalization to cut CZ's stake, which is a hurdle to expansion (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/binan…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Economist reports revenue up 4% YoY to £170.3M in the six months to September 2025 and pre-tax profit up 28% YoY to £19.7M; a 27% stake is up for sale (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/the-economist-rothsch…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAt a Tokyo forum, Masayoshi Son says he "was crying" over SoftBank selling its $5.83B Nvidia stake but "I just had more need for money to invest in OpenAI" (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/softbank-m
@raiders@darktundra.xyz @NFL@darktundra.xyzWhich NFL players and coaches have the most at stake? We picked out 17 under pressure https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47179286/2025-nfl-season-players-coaches-most-gain-lose-pressure-stake-playoffs
@Techmeme@techhub.social1Password founders sold a $75M stake as part of a $100M secondary sale, valuing the company at $6.8B, the same valuation as its $620M Series C in January 2022 (Jeff Stone/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Senate is set to vote on two rival health plans. Here's what's at stake for Americans (Ali Swenson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/health-care-affordable-care-act-senate-vote-e143b36cc01b4d7f27a1c07e17d1583c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p50#a251211p50
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia invests $2B in Synopsys' common stock and announces a strategic partnership to accelerate computing and AI engineering products, including deploying CUDA (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/nvidia-takes-2-billion-stake-in-synopsys.htm…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSource: Piers Morgan's YouTube-based venture Uncensored is raising £22.5M from The Raine Group, Theo Kyriakou, and others at a £97M pre-money valuation (Mark Kleinman/Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/piers-morgan-s-uncensored-nears-…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL playoff picture: Postseason probabilities entering Week 12 of 2025 season https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-playoff-picture-postseason-probabilities-entering-week-12-of-2025-season
@cdarwin@c.imFor several years
– since conservatives, gained a six-three majority on the bench thanks to Donald Trump’s nominations during his first presidency
– the court has been delivering transformative rulings that have reverberated across the social and political landscape.
In 2022, it overturned Roe v Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion that had existed for nearly half-a-century.
In July 2024, in a far-reaching decision, it granted Trump
– and, by exten…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS filing: Peter Thiel's Thiel Macro sold 537,742 Nvidia shares, worth ~$100M as of September 30, during Q3, amid rising concerns about an AI investment bubble (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSenator says FAA administrator failed to sell multimillion-dollar airline stake as promised (Josh Funk/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/faa-administrator-bedford-ethics-republic-airways-stock-5b3185d367f3766fd1be75b3e8762a58
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p141#a251211p141
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Indian ride-hailing app Rapido doubled its valuation to $2.3B after Swiggy offloaded its 12% Rapido stake for ~$270M in a secondary share sale (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/23/uber-rival-rapido-dou…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 15: What's at stake in historic slate of CBS matchups, from Bills-Patriots to Packers-Broncos
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-15-historic-slate…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhat did Sunday’s loss do for the Raiders’ draft position? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/what-did-sundays-loss-do-for-the-raiders-draft-position-3595621/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFox Entertainment takes an equity stake in Holywater, which primarily uses AI to create vertical microdramas on platforms such as My Drama and My Muse (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn EssilorLuxottica independent board director says Meta now holds an "at least 3%" stake in the Ray-Ban maker, and possibly up to 5%, confirming media reports (Mathieu Rosemain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/e
@NFL@darktundra.xyz49ers vs. Rams: What's at stake in Week 5 Thursday Night Football game according to proven model
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/49e
@cdarwin@c.imDemocracy Docket has a reporter in the courtroom covering the Texas redistricting hearing every single day.
Meanwhile, the big legacy media is nowhere to be found.
At stake are 5 congressional seats.
If this matters more than both sides journalism, become a DD subscriber today.
https://hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSEC filing: Jeff Bezos discloses that he now owns 9% of Amazon's shares, down from 10.1% a year ago, after selling 100M shares over the course of the past year (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Disney's Sora deal is entirely in OpenAI stock rather than a cash licensing fee; Disney has the option to buy additional stock beyond the $1B stake (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/ope…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSwedish news giant Bonnier takes a majority stake in Danish digital outlet Zetland, which has 70,000 members, with subscriptions making up 80% of revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/zetland-bonnier-n…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhich Key Matchup Will Decide Raiders' Fortunes vs Eagles https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-key-matchup-decide-fortunes-eagles
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI and AMD announce a deal as part of which OpenAI could take a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs over multiple years (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/openai-amd-chip-deal-ai.html
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRobert Kraft to sell minority stake in the Patriots at $9 billion valuation, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/robert-kraft-to-sell-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: SoftBank agrees to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi back to the Indian mobile ad company for ~$250M, reducing its holding to <10% from 30% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/softbank…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzInside the Lines: What's at stake in Cardinals vs. Seahawks Week 4 Thursday Night Football game
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/ins
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: SoftBank agrees to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi back to the Indian mobile ad company for ~$250M, reducing its holding to <10% from 30% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/softbank…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: PayPal to take over Carlyle's stake in Shopware, a German provider of e-commerce tools to merchants, with PayPal's stake increasing to ~41% from ~11% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTether submits an all-cash offer to acquire a 65.4% stake in Italian soccer club Juventus, says it will invest €1B in the club if the acquisition is completed (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sports/tether-submits-offer-buy-italian-soccer-clu…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialChernin Group agrees to take a minority stake in Entangled Publishing, a publisher of romance-fantasy books; sources say the deal values Entangled at ~$400M (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/chernin
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, whose estimated 11% stake is now worth $1B following ICE's $2B investment, as its rivalry with Kalshi intensifies (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciap…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI takes a stake in Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings and plans to embed AI agents in its companies, which already includes an accounting and IT business (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/business/dealbook/o…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzOur guide to every Week 15 NFL game: Matchup previews, predictions and what's at stake https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/page/viewersguide47256881/nfl-week-15-picks-predictions-schedule-fantasy-football-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Trump administration agrees to inject up to $150M in xLight, which develops lasers for EUV machines and has Pat Gelsinger on its board, for an equity stake (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-administration-to…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft's Q1 earnings, showing that it had a $3.1B net loss from its OpenAI stake, imply OpenAI lost $11.5B during the quarter based on Microsoft's 27% stake (Matt Rosoff/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/microsoft_earnings_q1_26_open…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Canal is exploring buying the remaining 30% stake in Showmax, Africa's biggest streaming service, from Comcast (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/canal-said-to-explore-buying-out-comca…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Temasek is in talks to buy a ~5% stake in Quest Global, in a deal that values the engineering services company at $4.6B in the lead-up to its India IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-28/t…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSoftBank-owned PayPay takes a 40% stake in Binance Japan for an undisclosed sum, to capitalize on Japan's crypto boom; PayPay filed for a US IPO in August (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 15: Bears, Chiefs among 5 playoff contenders facing most pressure https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-15-bears-chiefs-among-5-playoff-contenders-facing-most-pressure
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialEx-Tory MP Ben Howlett says he paid £100 for a 50% stake in influential X account PoliticsUK, which he used for posts that aligned with his clients' interests (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-our-fake-chinese-ai-investor<…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle agrees to guarantee $1.4B of AI computing startup Fluidstack's $3B, 10-year agreement with Cipher Mining and gets the right to buy a 5.4% stake in Cipher (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-2…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSwedish investment firm EQT agrees to invest $930M in Douzone Bizon, a South Korea-based provider of ERP and business software to SMBs, for a 37.6% stake (Atharva Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpen letter: 40 European companies oppose the EU's "Chat Control" proposal, which forces services to scan messages for CSAM, fearing it would mandate backdoors (CryptPad Blog)
https://blog.cryptpad.org/2025/10/07/open-letter-against-chat-control/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialJensen Huang says AMD's deal to offer 10% of itself to OpenAI is "surprising" and "imaginative" considering AMD was "so excited about" its next-generation chip (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/08/nvidia-huang-amd-open-ai.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange invests $2B in Polymarket in a deal that values the prediction market at ~$8B; Atlanta-based ICE has a $90B market cap (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/nyse-ow
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIntel shelves plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division NEX, after deciding that the business is more likely to succeed as an internal unit (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/intel-perfo…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, last summer for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-has
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet's X is increasingly spinning out independent companies via a dedicated Series X Capital fund, which has raised $500M with a minority Alphabet stake (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/alph
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to distribute its new USAT token on Rumble to capture US market share; Tether holds a 48% stake in Rumble (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/10/30/mercor-younge…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Saudi Arabia's PIF is the largest contributor to the $36B in equity used to finance the EA deal; it will roll over its $5B EA stake into the new entity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-29/s…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI-Microsoft deal: Microsoft gets a 27% stake, access to its AI models until 2032, including AGI-level models, and OpenAI will buy $250B of Azure services (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia plans to invest $1B in Nokia for a 2.9% stake in the company, an apparent vindication of the Finnish company's pivot from mobile networking to AI (Jillian Deutsch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant, including putting OpenAI-related losses into a $4.7B "other, net" expense line in the FY ended June 30 (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLondon-based "neocloud" startup Nscale raised a $1.1B Series B led by Aker, with Nvidia participating; Aker says it is investing $285M for a 9.3% stake (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-25/a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUbisoft says Tencent's €1.16B investment in Vantage Studios, set to reduce its debt, is complete, giving Tencent a 26% stake in Vantage and valuing it at €3.8B (Daniel Zuidijk/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Tether is in talks to raise $15B to $20B in exchange for a ~3% stake through a private placement in a deal that could value the company at ~$500B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-23/crypto-g…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: as crypto sheds $1T , the Trump family's fortune has fallen to ~$6.7B from $7.7B in early September; President Trump's TMTG stake fell by ~$800M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
