ESMA and regulators in France, Germany and Greece are examining how Binance still serves EU users without the MiCA license it needed by July 1. The inquiry tests whether a narrow exemption can hold an exchange's European business while it waits for authorization.
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Amazon is exploring moving about $8 billion of installed Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips into a mostly debt-funded vehicle that would lease them back. Amazon has already bought that hardware, so the deal would first hand it back cash for spending already done.
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Bill Gross told investors to own no bonds except one-year Treasury bills at 4.55%, citing about $84 trillion of credit and federal debt at 100% of GDP. Holding only bills gives up the gain longer bonds would make in a slowdown, and Gross himself expects the debt to bring one.
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Australia's tobacco excise take has more than halved from its A$16bn peak in 2020 as illicit product took about 55% of the market. With the Treasury forecasting about A$2bn by 2030, the government's case for keeping prices high now rests on health results alone.
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Zilch has invited banks to pitch for a float as early as 2027, against a $2 billion private valuation of about 14 times revenue. The listing would test what public buyers will pay for a 2021 fintech price attached to a lender still reporting losses.
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Nu Holdings, the reported bidder behind an £8 billion to £10 billion Monzo valuation, said in a Sept. 30 filing that it is not pursuing a deal. Monzo's board now has to find that price among investors buying stakes of up to 15%.
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Tencent signed a five-year lease worth about $7bn for 100,000 GPUs in Oracle's Southeast Asian data centers, the Financial Times reported. About 30 percent is due upfront, so chips that US export controls keep out of China still come with a purchase-sized cash bill.
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ElevenLabs' $300 million employee tender, led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price, values the London voice AI firm at $22 billion, double its February price. The company raises no new cash, so the doubled price comes from roughly 1.4% of its stock changing hands.
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Tencent has reportedly agreed to pay Oracle about $7 billion over five years to rent 100,000 AI chips in Southeast Asia, with roughly 30% paid immediately. Oracle is burning cash, so the deal would give it money up front, and Tencent would get chips that never enter China.
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Prediction-market odds of a US diesel export ban by October 31 fell to 9.5% from 20% in a day, with diesel at nearly $6.50 a gallon, close to a record. Republicans want relief a month before the midterms, yet traders now price a ban before the contract settles as a long shot.
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ESMA and French, German and Greek regulators are examining Binance's use of MiCA's reverse-solicitation exemption after it missed the July 1 licence deadline. Whether that deadline binds now depends on proving who initiated each customer relationship.
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Anthropic's IPO prospectus, seen by Reuters, shows $7.33B of 2025 compute spending against $4.59B of revenue and $518B in forward infrastructure obligations. For teams building on Claude, today's prices and capacity terms rest on a cost base the company still runs at an operating loss.
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The EUR2.1m pre-seed is roughly 0.16% of what 360 Capital and PranaVentures manage between them - a check sized to option a research method, before Bynario has a finished security platform to bet on.
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Goldman Sachs says half of S&P 500 members sit 16% or more below their 52-week highs while the index is about 1% off its record. The gap points to a few heavily weighted AI stocks carrying the index as Treasury and European bond yields keep climbing.
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The Financial Times reports the preparedness team was disbanded last month, its work split by area into existing teams. Deployment risk models that assumed a vendor-side gate now need rebuilding.
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Enterprises buy the cheapest model that clears their bar. On Ramp's July billing data, that leaves Anthropic's flagship with about an eighth of its maker's platform spend.
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Sources told the Financial Times that Anthony Levandowski is leading robotaxi work at Travis Kalanick's Atoms, which Uber funded with $100m. Atoms says it is an industrial software company, then leaves Uber a way in.
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AI skill is now something UBS graduate candidates have to evidence rather than mention. The interesting problem belongs to whoever scores it, because responsible judgment and tool enthusiasm look identical for the first ten minutes.
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The Financial Times says the suggestion came from investors: $1.2 trillion, 41% above the round OpenAI closed in March and 1,200 times the annualized advertising revenue it disclosed last month. The talks are early.
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The group calling itself iamnotavillain wants 6,000 Monero within 24 hours and Revolut says no demand has reached it. The data went out through a government email account the bank was obliged to answer.
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Product · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 20, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · September 19, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Leadership · September 18, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Build · September 17, 2026 · 1 publisher
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