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Bain Capital: company leaders misunderstand AI implementation

IMF warns: AI company debt burden is more dangerous than stock overvaluation

Startups·Bloomberg Tech

OCBC to Raise Annual Tech and AI Spending to 771 Million Dollars

Singapore-based bank OCBC plans to increase its annual technology budget, including artificial intelligence, to over 1 billion Singapore dol

01MGX from Abu Dhabi Raised $49 Billion for One of AI's Largest Funds EverJul 17, 2026·2 min 02China Telecom becomes shareholder in AI content-security startup Zhongke RuijianJul 17, 2026·2 min 03Abu Dhabi's MGX raises $49 billion for one of the world's largest AI-focused fundsJul 17, 2026·2 min 04Lerer Hippeau: venture market enters second generation of AI startupsJul 17, 2026·2 min 05Google and RWE invested 411 million euros in nuclear fusion startup Proxima FusionJul 17, 2026·1 min

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Startups·Bloomberg Tech

Record AI Infrastructure Investments Rescue European Investment Bankers From IPO Slump

Record spending on data centers and power grids for AI is triggering a wave of secondary offerings by European public companies, offsetting

01Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok: Weak Margins of S&P 493 Pose Risk to Big Tech ValuationsJul 17, 2026·1 min 02German fund Vsquared Ventures opens London office against Atomico and BaldertonJul 17, 2026·2 min 03Visa Names AI Investment and Online Competition as Keys to Global Economic Growth in 2026Jul 17, 2026·2 min

Visa, Mastercard and 140 Other Companies Launch Open USD Stablecoin Against Circle and Tether

A consortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched the dollar stabl

Bending Spoons Raises $1.68 Billion in IPO on Nasdaq Above Announced Range

Milan-based software group Bending Spoons, owner of Vimeo, WeTransfer and Evernote, priced shares at $29 each and raised $1.68 billion ahead

Startup Base44 Launched Base1 — Own AI Model for Vibe-Code Application Development

Israeli startup Base44 presented Base1 — its first own AI model for vibe-coding platform, abandoning third-party developer models.

Lime, Backed by Uber, Completes IPO at $25 Per Share and Raises $174 Million

Fi Startup Launches Fi Ultra Collar With Starlink Satellite Connection for Dogs

AI Startup Rilla Spends $1.7 Million Annually on Employee Housing for 72-Hour Work Weeks

London Startup Fleek Raised $25 Million for AI in the Secondhand Market

Skello Raised €200M from Bridgepoint, Increasing Founders' Ownership Stake

Cursor Launches CFO Council: 88% of Companies Deployed AI, But Only 39% See EBIT Growth

Spanish startup Sherpa.ai raised $18 million for AI without access to raw data

Microsoft launches AI business Frontier Company with 6000 engineers for enterprise implementations

Ashton Kutcher leaves Sound Ventures for new AI fund with Morgan Beller

According to TechCrunch, actor and investor Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures to launch an AI infrastructure and energy fund with Mor

Startups·36Kr (36氪)

Investments in embodied AI in China exceeded 65 billion yuan in 2025, writes 36Kr

36Kr citing the Waves ranking: in 2025, embodied AI in China attracted more than 65.6 billion yuan, and the share of hard tech in venture in