Tootfinder

Filing: Shanghai-based self-driving company Banma aims to spin off from Alibaba via a Hong Kong IPO, reducing Alibaba's stake from the current 44.72% to 30% (Aileen Chuang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/ban…

Alibaba to spin off Banma self-driving business via Hong Kong IPO
Alibaba’s stake in Banma will drop to 30 per cent from the current 44.72 per cent after the IPO, the tech behemoth says.

Nvidia takes $5 billion stake in Intel, offers chip tech in new lifeline to struggling chipmaker | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nvidia-bets-big-intel-with-5-billion-stake-chip-partnership-2025-09-18/

Tom Brady broadcast controversy, explained: How Raiders ownership stake has created conflict of interest https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/tom-brady-broadcast-controversy-conflict-interest/243e07ccc83fa966d7200397

The UK's Channel 4 purchases a majority stake in a production company, Firecrest Films, for the first time; it will now be able to own British IP (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/channel-4-buys-firecrest-films-first-majorit…

Channel 4 Makes History By Taking First Ever Majority Stake In A Production Company
Channel 4 has bought Firecrest Films, the producer of 'Murder Trial' and its first ever majority stake in a production company.

Inside the Lines: What's at stake in Lions vs. Ravens in Week 3 on Monday Night Football?

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/inside-…

What’s at stake for the environment in Bolivia’s upcoming elections? https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/whats-at-stake-for-the-environment-in-bolivias-upcoming-elections/

What’s at stake for the environment in Bolivia’s upcoming elections?
Bolivians will go to the polls on Aug. 17 to vote for a new president, vice president and 166 combined members of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. When it comes to environmental policies, the country has many important decisions to make about climate change commitments, development of the lithium industry, illegal gold mining, […]

Activist investor Elliott announces a $2B stake in Workday and says the company's new multi-year plan will drive "substantial long-term value creation" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/workday-stock-elliott-activist.html

Workday stock climbs as activist investor Elliott takes $2 billion stake
Elliott Investment Management announced it a $2 billion stake in Workday.

Trump has been meddling with Intel,
which now apparently includes mulling
⭐️"the possibility of the US government taking a financial stake in the troubled chip maker,"
the Wall Street Journal reported.
Trump and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan weighed the option during a meeting on Monday at the White House

These talks have only just begun
—with Intel branding them a rumor
—and sources told the WSJ that Trump has yet to iron out how the potential …

US may purchase stake in Intel after Trump attacked CEO
Trump’s attacks on Intel CEO may stem from beef with Biden.

Sources: Lynn Forester de Rothschild is exploring a sale of a ~20% stake in The Economist Group, potentially raising between £200M and £400M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/forester-…

Forester de Rothschild Said to Explore Sale of Stake in The Economist Group
Lynn Forester de Rothschild is exploring a sale of a significant minority stake in The Economist Group, marking the first ownership shake-up in a decade at the 182-year-old magazine read by both the political and business elite.

New EU sanctions could block Rosneft's Indian refinery sale plans, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/new-eu-sanctions-could-block.html

NFC North betting preview: Who gets to double-digit wins? Trust Bears hype? https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/46017611/2025-nfc-north-division-betting-nfl-preview-favorites-odds-standings-…

Sources: Prosus offered to cut its 27% Delivery Hero stake to below 10% and give up its board seat to address EU concerns over its €4.1B Just Eat Takeaway deal (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustaina…

We walked to Tuggeranong for dinner last night. It was colder than we expected. Saw this guy on the way. Had to check: Pied Butcherbird.
#Tuggeranong #Canberra

Lagrangian controllability in perforated domains
Mitsuo Higaki, Jiajiang Liao, Franck Sueur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14913 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.149…

Lagrangian controllability in perforated domains
The question at stake in Lagrangian controllability is whether one can move a patch of fluid particles to a target location by means of remote action in a given time interval. In the last two decades, positive results have been obtained both for the incompressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. However, for the latter, the case where the fluid is contained within domains bounded by solid boundaries with the no-slip condition has not been addressed, with respect to the difficulty caused by v…

OpenAI says its nonprofit parent will continue to have oversight over the company and will own an equity stake of more than $100B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/openai-says-nonprofit-parent-to-own-stake-in-compa…

OpenAI says nonprofit parent will own equity stake in company of over $100 billion
OpenAI said that its nonprofit parent will continue to oversee the company and have a very large stake in its future.

Swedish streaming service Viaplay buys the remaining 50% stake in broadband and satellite TV provider Allente Group from Telenor for ~$113M (Anna Ringstrom/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/viaplay-buys-remaining-s…

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Intel must give the government an equity stake in the company in return for CHIPS Act funds; INTC closes up 7% (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/19/lutnick-intel-stock-chips-trump.html

Lutnick says Intel has to give government equity in return for CHIPS Act funds
The potential deal would convert the CHIPS ACT grants into equity, but wouldn't come with governance rights in Intel, Lutnick said.

Eli passes on Giants stake: 'Too expensive for me' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45703430/eli-manning-passes-buying-ownership-stake-giants

German Quantum Systems takes 10% ownership in Ukrainian defense robotics firm Frontline: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/german-quantum-systems-takes-ownership.html

Tom Brady owner restrictions, explained: Here are the strict rules for new Raiders ownership stake https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/tom-brady-owner-restrictions-strict-rules-ra…

Coarse Addition and the St. Petersburg Paradox: A Heuristic Perspective
Takashi Izumo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12475 https://arxiv.…

Coarse Addition and the St. Petersburg Paradox: A Heuristic Perspective
The St. Petersburg paradox presents a longstanding challenge in decision theory. It describes a game whose expected value is infinite, yet for which no rational finite stake can be determined. Traditional solutions introduce auxiliary assumptions, such as diminishing marginal utility, temporal discounting, or extended number systems. These methods often involve mathematical refinements that may not correspond to how people actually perceive or process numerical information. This paper explores …

I am 100% certain that the intractable and ancient questions of “What is ‘human?’” and “What is ‘intelligence?’” will finally be resolved once and for all by corporate lawyers in a contract dispute with billions of dollars at stake
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/agi-may-be-impossible-to-define-and-thats-a-multibillion-dollar-problem/

Tom Brady's twin roles as commentator and minority team owner is one in a long line of conflicts of interest in sports media, including the NFL's stake in ESPN (Oliver Connolly/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/18/tom-bradys-…

Bittensor Protocol: The Bitcoin in Decentralized Artificial Intelligence? A Critical and Empirical Analysis
Elizabeth Lui, Jiahao Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02951

Bittensor Protocol: The Bitcoin in Decentralized Artificial Intelligence? A Critical and Empirical Analysis
This paper investigates whether Bittensor can be considered the Bitcoin of decentralized Artificial Intelligence by directly comparing its tokenomics, decentralization properties, consensus mechanism, and incentive structure against those of Bitcoin. Leveraging on-chain data from all 64 active Bittensor subnets, we first document considerable concentration in both stake and rewards. We further show that rewards are overwhelmingly driven by stake, highlighting a clear misalignment between qualit…

Not good.
#USpol

Eli Manning backs out of bid for New York Giants ownership stake citing cost, conflict of interest

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/eli-man

Source: Blackstone has withdrawn from the consortium led by Susquehanna and General Atlantic seeking to invest in TikTok US, after considering a minority stake (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/blackstone-d…

Russia's Rosatom seeks to sell 49% stake in Turkey's first nuclear plant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/russias-rosatom-seeks-to-sell.html

Canal says it is in talks to acquire a 34% stake in production and cinema company UGC, with an option to take full control of UGC in 2028 (Melanie Goodfellow/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/canal-plus-negotiations-minority-stake-ugc-1236504148/

Canal+ Enters Negotiations To Acquire Minority Stake In UGC With Option To Buy French Cinema Group Outright In 2028
Canal+ Enters Negotiations To Acquire Minority Stake In UGC With Option To Buy French Cinema Group Outright In 2028

This is….. FASCINATING... watching on CNN.com live.
Macron is talking, with Trump to his left facing the camera. Zelensky is on the other side of the table.... Starmer is Macron's right.
Macron: we need a "Credible Army”
EUs “own security is at stake"
to Trump: ”You can count on us, as we can count on you”
Starmer: “Article 5 style guarantees”
"A historical step could be taken”
“Trilateral meeting seems a sensible next step”
#RussiaUkraineWar #Russia #Ukraine #EU #USA

Indian IT services company Infosys agrees to take a 75% stake in Versent Group, a cloud services provider wholly owned by Australia's Telstra Group, for ~$153M (Hritam Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Stephen Miller’s Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir
https://www.pogo.org/investigations/stephen-miller-conflicts-of-interest

ESPN acquiring NFL Network, RedZone from NFL https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/45910378/espn-get-nfl-network-rights-redzone-nfl-equity-stake

"The complicity exposed by this report is just the tip of the iceberg; ending it will not happen without holding the private sector accountable, including its executives. International law recognizes varying degrees of responsibility – each requiring scrutiny and accountability, particularly in this case, where a people’s self-determination and very existence are at stake. This is a necessary step to end the #genocide

"What’s At Stake If Companies, NGOs Don’t Go To Belém for COP30"
#COP30 #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateSummit

What’s At Stake If Companies, NGOs Don’t Go To Belém for COP30
Because of logistics and changing dynamics of global climate leadership, many are considering skipping the main COP30 climate negotiations.

Control at Stake: Evaluating the Security Landscape of LLM-Driven Email Agents
Jiangrong Wu, Yuhong Nan, Jianliang Wu, Zitong Yao, Zibin Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02699

Control at Stake: Evaluating the Security Landscape of LLM-Driven Email Agents
The increasing capabilities of LLMs have led to the rapid proliferation of LLM agent apps, where developers enhance LLMs with access to external resources to support complex task execution. Among these, LLM email agent apps represent one of the widely used categories, as email remains a critical communication medium for users. LLM email agents are capable of managing and responding to email using LLM-driven reasoning and autonomously executing user instructions via external email APIs (e.g., se…

Trump forces Intel to sell a 10% stake to him & the Federal govt in an astoundingly hypocritical & socialist move.
▶️ MAGA Melts Down, Calls Trump ‘COMMUNIST’ After STUNNING Move
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Js-GywxArlA&si=uFHGZP8kDX3QYQen

Sony acquires a ~2.5% stake in Tekken and Pac-Man owner Bandai Namco for $464M, to expand "the fan community for IP such as anime and manga around the world" (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/sony-buys-stake-in-pac-man-own…

Sony Pays $464M For Stake In ‘Pac-Man’ Owner Bandai Namco
Sony Corp. has taken a small stake in 'Tekken' and 'Pac-Man' games giant Bandai Namco, as part of a strategic business alliance.

Structured AI Decision-Making in Disaster Management
Julian Gerald Dcruz, Argyrios Zolotas, Niall Ross Greenwood, Miguel Arana-Catania
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01576 https://

Structured AI Decision-Making in Disaster Management
With artificial intelligence (AI) being applied to bring autonomy to decision-making in safety-critical domains such as the ones typified in the aerospace and emergency-response services, there has been a call to address the ethical implications of structuring those decisions, so they remain reliable and justifiable when human lives are at stake. This paper contributes to addressing the challenge of decision-making by proposing a structured decision-making framework as a foundational step towar…

Tech executives say the Trump administration's stake in Intel and its intervention into other private businesses have had a chilling effect on decision-making (Yasmin Khorram/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/16/silicon-valley-ceo-trump-b…

NFL draft prospects with the most at stake this season: Who can make a statement in 2025? https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/45900539/2026-nfl-draft-prospects-most-stake-college-football-season

Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce company Flipkart acquires a majority stake in digital content platform Pinkvilla; source: the deal values Pinkvilla at ~$15M (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/te…

Flipkart acquires majority stake in content platform Pinkvilla to tap Gen Z shoppers
While Flipkart did not disclose details of the deal, a person close to the matter said the online retailer is likely to have picked up more than 75% in Pinkvilla valuing it at around $15 million.

Sources: under the US-China framework, a US investor consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and a16z would hold an ~80% stake in TikTok's US business (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/details-emerge-on

Google will have a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, but will not be taking a stake in the company (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/windsurfs-ceo-goes-to-google-openais-acquisition-falls-apart/

Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls apart | TechCrunch
Notably, Google is not taking a stake in Windsurf and will not have any control over the company.

Sources: under the US-China framework, a US investor consortium that includes Oracle, Silver Lake, and a16z would hold an ~80% stake in TikTok's US business (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/details-emerge-on-u-s-china-tiktok-deal-594e009f

Justin Sun says he is buying another $100M worth of $TRUMP, doubling his total known stake of digital coins tied to President Trump (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/trons-justin-sun-100-million-trump-memecoin.html…

Tron's Justin Sun says he's buying another $100 million of Trump's memecoin
Crypto billionaire Justin Sun is buying another $100 million worth of $TRUMP, doubling his total known stake of digital coins tied to President Donald Trump.

Musk seeks SEC lawsuit dismissal over Twitter stake disclosure
https://thehill.com/business/5477433-elon-musk-seeks-to-dismiss-sec-lawsuit/

N.Y. Jets owner buys stake in Crystal Palace team https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/45567347/ny-jets-owner-woody-johnson-agrees-buy-crystal-palace-stake

Riyadh-based food delivery service Jahez agrees to acquire a 76.56% stake in Qatari e-commerce platform Snoonu for $245M in cash and stock (Yassmin Jabri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-09/…

The latest extraordinary intervention by the White House in corporate America.
Trump said on Friday the U.S. would take a 10% stake in Intel
under a deal with the struggling chipmaker
-- and is planning more such moves,
An official announcement on the arrangement is expected later in the day, a source familiar with the matter said. Trump is set to meet with CEO Lip-Bu Tan later on Friday

NFL Will Get a Stake in ESPN in a Complex Deal https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/business/media/nfl-espn-disney-deal.html

Sources: the NFL is in talks to take a minority stake of up to 10% in ESPN, which would own NFL Network and RedZone rather than just hold a controlling stake (Alex Sherman/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/nfl-media-espn-equity-ownership-deal.html

NFL in talks to take a 10% stake in ESPN
ESPN would own all of NFL Network and NFL RedZone, rather than just a controlling stake, if the deal moves forward as currently constructed, CNBC has learned.

Source: Amazon took a stake in Colombian delivery startup Rappi via a $25M convertible note, entitling it to buy up to 12% via warrants if milestones are met (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-08/amazon-bu…

Commanders' Bobby Wagner on ownership stake in WNBA's Storm: 'I want to be on the right side of change' https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-bobby-wagner-on-ownership-stake-in-wnba-s-storm-i-want-to-be-on-t…

Sources: Meta has bought under 3% of Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica, a stake worth ~€3B, and is considering further investment that could build the stake to ~5% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The NFL agrees to take a 10% stake in Disney's ESPN in exchange for control over NFL Network, RedZone, and more; analysts estimate ESPN is valued at $25B-$30B (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/the-nfl…

Tether acquires a minority stake in MiCA-licensed Spanish crypto exchange Bit2Me and is leading a €30M funding round that will close in the coming weeks (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/366000/tether

Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/trump-intel-stake.html

Intel Agrees to Sell U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business
The deal is among the largest government interventions in a U.S. company since the rescue of the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis.

WBD CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels says the company is considering selling a 20% stake in its studio and streaming business before its planned separation in Q2 2026 (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09…

A term sheet shows Ant will sell its remaining 5.84% Paytm stake via block deals that could total ~$433.72M; Ant sold a 4% stake in May and 10.3% in August 2023 (Ananta Agarwal/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-ant-group-e…

Blackstone acquires Vista Equity Partners' minority stake in event software company Cvent, sources say for $1.3B; Blackstone acquired Cvent for $4.6B in 2023 (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A profile of Figma CEO Dylan Field, a former Thiel fellow whose Figma stake is worth ~$6.6B after the company ended its NYSE debut week with a $71B market cap (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/03/figma-ceo-dylan-fields-path…

Figma CEO's path from college dropout and Thiel fellow to tech billionaire
After Figma's first two days of trading on the NYSE, 33-year-old CEO Dylan Field owns a stake worth about $6.6 billion.

NFL sells RedZone, NFL Media assets to Disney for stake in ESPN in blockbuster trade: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6530655/2025/08/01/nfl-espn-media-deal-tv-broadcast/

Fox acquires one-third of Penske Entertainment, owner of the IndyCar Series, sources say for between $125M and $135M; Fox started carrying IndyCar in 2025 (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/fox-takes-stake-in-i…

Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire a stake in Chicago-based capital markets industry SaaS provider Trading Technologies, sources say in a deal valued at over $1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-30/thoma-brav…

Foxconn partners with Taiwan-based Teco for AI servers and other AI data center hardware, taking a 10% stake, while Teco gets a less than 1% stake in Foxconn (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Sources: Google is paying $2.4B for a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf tech and hire some of its employees, but won't be taking a stake in the company (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

India's RBI grants Paytm "in-principle" approval to operate as a payment services provider for online merchants, after China's Ant Group sold its entire stake (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/indi

Indian fintech Paytm wins a major regulatory battle days after key investor exit | TechCrunch
Paytm has received approval from India’s central bank to resume onboarding new online merchants and offer its digital payment services.

Letter: activist investment firm Fivespan takes a stake in the NYT; Fivespan was started by the financiers who led ValueAct's investment in the NYT in 2022 (Crystal Tse/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-…

Source: the clause rescinding Microsoft's access to OpenAI's most powerful tech if OpenAI develops AGI remains part of their new deal, but it has been modified (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/technology/openai-microsoft-deal.html

OpenAI Takes Big Steps Toward Its Long-Planned Reorganization
The start-up reached a tentative deal with Microsoft, its biggest investor, and said it would give a $100 billion stake to the nonprofit that manages it.

PE firm TPG completes its $7.6B acquisition of the remaining 70% stake in DirecTV from AT&T, marking AT&T's exit from media (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/07/att-directv-tpg

AT&T completes $7.6 billion sale of DirecTV
Buying a media company in the name of vertical synergies rarely ends well.

Sources: Sequoia stands to gain about $2.65B in Klarna's IPO, a six-fold return on its total investment of ~$500M; it is selling ~2% of its stake in the IPO (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sequoia-poised-nearly-…

Sequoia Poised for Nearly $3 Billion Gain From Klarna IPO
Klarna’s two-decade journey to a public listing means a lucrative return for its biggest backer—Sequoia Capital. The Silicon Valley firm stands to make about $2.65 billion on paper from its investment in the buy now, pay later lender, which endured boardroom drama and tumbling valuations on its ...

Italian broadcaster MFE acquires a 76% stake in Germany's ProSieben, valuing ProSieben at €1.9B and creating Europe's biggest free-to-air broadcaster (Laura Pitel/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a66f44fe-8c71-41b5-8661-0a492e2769b8

The US taking a 10% equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea and a dangerous turn for US industrial policy, but also the least bad idea to make Foundry viable (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/u-s-intel/

U.S. Intel
The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

Blackstone agrees to acquire a majority stake in NetBrain, valuing the Burlington, Massachusetts-based network operations and automation company at $750M (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-…

PE firm TPG completes its $7.6B acquisition of the remaining 70% stake in DirecTV from AT&T, marking AT&T's exit from media (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/07/att-directv-tpg

AT&T completes $7.6 billion sale of DirecTV
Buying a media company in the name of vertical synergies rarely ends well.

Apollo Global agrees to acquire a majority stake in Stream Data Centers, which builds, leases, and operates data center campuses, in its first such acquisition (Laura Benitez/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Howard Lutnick says the US took a 10% stake in Intel; he said earlier that the US won't be on the board or play a role in Intel's governance; INTC closes up 5% (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-to-announce…

Filings: SoftBank increased its Nvidia stake to ~$3B in Q1 and bought $330M worth of TSMC stock; a source says Vision Fund monetized ~$2B of assets in H1 2025 (Min Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump says Intel has agreed to give US a 10% stake in the chipmaker; source: the government won't be on the board or play a major role in Intel's governance (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-to-announce-u-s-taking-nearly-10-s…

Quantum computing company IonQ raised $1B via a sale of stock and warrants to Heights Capital Management, an affiliate of Susquehanna International Group (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

ESPN makes a minority investment in Premier Lacrosse League, marking a shift in the network's strategy as it looks to invest in areas beyond traditional TV (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/25/espn-premier-lacrosse-league-media-right…

ESPN takes minority stake in Premier Lacrosse League
This marks a shift in ESPN's strategy.

Cinven acquires a majority stake in Smart Communications from Accel-KKR; sources: the deal values the customer conversations platform at ~$1.8B including debt (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/cinven…

Sources: Meta offers to buy ~49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023, has been invested (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https:/…

Intel CFO says the US deal aims to deter Intel from selling its foundry; it lets the US buy 5% more at $20/share if Intel's stake in the unit falls below 51% (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/29fb5020-2b25-429a-b63f-18356b467e7a

Filing: Intel says its funding deal with the US loosens its requirements under the CHIPS Act, including removing the need to meet certain project milestones (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/t…

Filing: Intel warns the US taking a 10% stake could trigger "adverse reactions", including in international sales, which made up 76% of revenue last fiscal year (Chris Eudaily/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/intel-trump-deal-risks-stock.html
…

Intel says Trump deal has risks for shareholders, international sales
President Donald Trump called the agreement "a great Deal for America" and said the building of advanced chips "is fundamental to the future of our Nation." 

Intel has partnerships with multiple Chinese surveillance companies sanctioned by the US for enabling human rights abuses, including Uniview and Hikvision (Emily Baker-White/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-wh

Intel Worked With Chinese Firms Sanctioned For Enabling Human Rights Abuses
As the U.S. government takes a 10% stake in Intel, Forbes has learned the tech company partnered with sanctioned Chinese surveillance firms Uniview, Hikvision and Cloudwalk.

US investment firm Carlyle agrees to acquire a majority stake in IT consultancy and services provider Adastra, sources say valuing it at $400M including debt (Swetha Gopinath/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20