Sources: Bloomberg executives have been having informal, preliminary talks with investment bankers about a potential IPO or other transaction (Liz Hoffman/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/28/2026/bloombergs-post-mike-moves-are-in-motion…
The UK CMA launches an investigation into Microsoft over potential consumer law breaches involving Microsoft 365 subscription renewals that added Copilot (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29…
How massive bonuses for Samsung's employees in the memory division have sparked debate over how companies and governments should share profits from the AI boom (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-29/…
As a new law bars DOD from working with companies whose lobbyists also represent blacklisted entities, DC lobbying firms drop companies like Alibaba and Tencent (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-29/a…
Global AI hardware demand is easing China's concerns over a stronger yuan hurting exports, as AI hardware exports surge and chip equipment imports rise (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/world…
Source: the European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as "very large online platforms" under the DSA as soon as August (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/chatgp…
Sources: TikTok is cutting music label-facing jobs to focus on its music distribution arm SoundOn and other projects that connect it more directly with artists (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/tik…
Autodesk agrees to buy MaintainX, a company focused on maintenance tools, in an all-cash deal that values MaintainX at $3.6B (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/autodesk-to-buy-maintainx…
Swiggy CEO Sriharsha Majety says his company plans to stay out of the spending war as Amazon and Flipkart ramp up their quick commerce efforts across India (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Australia's ACCC sues Amazon for allegedly introducing ads to Prime Video under unfair contract terms and forcing existing subscribers to pay more to avoid them (Peter Vercoe/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20