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Freak Pulse
Category: Capital Flows & Deals
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AI Regulation, Clean Energy Prices, White House accelerates plans AI model standards, and more.
AI Regulation, Clean Energy Prices, and Data Center Conflicts this week: Imminent federal AI standards signal regulatory capture risk for foundational model developers; and Signals continued executive resistance to centralized AI…
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Venture Capital, IPOs, and Hedge Fund, DeepMind trio who built poker AI are now, and more.
Venture Capital, IPOs, and Hedge Fund Moves in Tech and Finance this week: EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three former DeepMind researchers, has raised a Series A at; and Copper Sky Capital, a Phoenix-based VC…
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Comcast’s NBCUniversal Spin-Off and, Comcast Bosses Say NBCU-Cable, and more.
Comcast’s NBCUniversal Spin-Off and Its Ripple Effects on Media M&A this week: Comcast announced it will spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into a standalone entity, reversing its long-held belief; and Comcast announced a tax-free spin-off of…
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Startup M&A & Market Trends, Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker, and more.
Startup M&A & Market Trends this week: The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker for the week ending June 24, 2026, reports nearly 3,000 U.S; and U.S.
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Media & Entertainment Deals, David McIninch appointed General, and more.
Media & Entertainment Deals this week: BMI has appointed David McIninch as General Manager of Soundmouse, the AI-driven cue sheet platform it acquired from; and Hagens Berman, a law firm with a history of massive class-action victories…
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AI & Tech Funding Rounds, Exclusive XCures Lands 46M Series B Clean Up, and more.
AI & Tech Funding Rounds this week: XCures, a healthcare data infrastructure startup, raised a $46M Series B led by Innovius Capital at a $127M; and Patronus AI, a startup founded by former Meta AI researchers, has raised a $50 million…
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Tech industry challenges and, UK warns it could take action over crown, and more.
Tech industry challenges and regulation this week: UK signalling regulatory divergence risk; potential friction point for offshore finance hubs; and Ineos’s structural resilience hinges on geopolitical stability; Gulf tensions introduce…
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Corporate and financial deals, How Real Madrid s boss hopes lure gal, and more.
Corporate and financial deals this week: Valuation target signals aggressive capital structuring intent; watch for debt covenants; and Adviser securing a $400m mandate suggests structural weakness or opportunity within the Big Four’s…
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Venture capital and fund moves, Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund part 2B, and more.
Venture capital and fund moves this week: Benchmark Capital, a storied venture firm known for its disciplined small-fund strategy, has raised $2 billion; and Ross Fubini, the venture investor who wrote Anduril’s first check, warns that…
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Major Corporate Investments &, SoftBank says it will invest up 75B build, and more.
Major Corporate Investments & Financial Moves this week: SoftBank Group has committed up to €75 billion to develop up to 5 gigawatts of data center capacity in France, with; and Direct tech integration into PE fundraising suggests a…