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Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over $300M led by China Mobile's industry investment fund at a $3B valuation, bringing its total funding to $800M (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/galbot-raises-over-300m-467245

Chinese humanoid robot developer Galbot raises $300m at $3b valuation
The financing will accelerate the adoption of the robots across different use cases.

Ampere: US sports rights spending expected to increase 20% by 2030 to over $78B; recent NBA and MLB rights deals will account for nearly half of all spend (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

New NBA and MLB TV Deals Will Drive Global Sports-Media Spend to $78 Billion in Five Years
Ampere Analysis forecasts a 20 percent increase by 2030.

Nvidia: Vertragsschluss mit Inferenz-Chip-Startup
Nvidia hat einen Lizenzvertrag mit dem Chip-Startup Groq vereinbart, auch wechseln Groq Mitarbeiter im Rahmen des 20-Milliarden-Deals zu Nvidia.
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Trump Unveils Flurry of Asia Trade Deals Ahead of Xi Meeting (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-26/trump-unveils-flurry-of-asia-trade-deals-ahead-of-xi-meeting
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p11#a251026p11

Singapore-based wealth management platform Endowus raised $70M , bringing its total funding to $130M , and says the new capital will boost its AI advisory tools (Katrina Bianca Cuaresma/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/endowus-70-m-round-460635/…

Endowus closes $70m round to deepen AI, regional expansion
The funding round was led by Illuminate Financial.

Our presents FU to the world is really working out great for the US auto industry. First Canada/China and now EU/India
FTA: India and EU set for 'mother of all deals' as Trump's tariffs bite - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgyz1ejw9no

FTA: India and EU set for 'mother of all deals' as Trump's tariffs bite
Trade negotiations are nearing the finish line after nearly two decades of hard bargaining on both sides.

Austin-based Roller, a provider of venue management software, raised $50M led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to over $100M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10/22/ve…

Exclusive: Venue management Roller raises $50M
The round comes after Roller bought BookNow Software.

Defakto, which lets enterprises secure automated interactions between internal systems and AI agents or other non-human actors, raised a $30.75M Series B (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10/21/defakt…

Exclusive: Defakto raises $31M to ID nonhumans
XYZ Venture Capital led the round.

PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B , up from $9.24B in 2023 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/cnbc-china

CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Foreign investors warm to China’s cheaper AI valuations despite fears of a U.S. bubble
For all the worries about a bubble in U.S. AI spending, capital flows into China's tech sector is far less, pushing startups to do more with less.

Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now
Curiosity Stream’s owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.