Demis Hassabis met South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at Cheong Wa Dae on Monday and signed an MOU with the Ministry of Science and ICT. The campus will be operational this year. Hassabis accepted a request to send at least 10 Google engineers from US headquarters. He presented Lee with a Go board signed […]

The world’s largest EV battery maker priced its Hong Kong listing at HK$263 in May 2025. Its shares touched HK$701 before the placement was announced. The deal builds on a week of shareholder activity: a Sinopec unit sold $770M of CATL stock at HK$708 on 22 April; a Shenzhen block trade of 58 million A-shares […]

The round is led by Headline, with new investors Bullhound Capital, Felix Capital, and Daphni. Valuation is undisclosed. Sereact’s vision language action models already run in BMW, Daimler Truck, and logistics customers. The $110M is more than four times the €25M Series A raised just 15 months ago. Sereact, the Stuttgart-based AI robotics software company, […]

The NDRC’s Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review issued a formal cancellation order on Monday, four months after the deal was announced. Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao have been barred from leaving China since March.  China’s National Development and Reform Commission has formally ordered Meta to unwind its $2 […]

The digital insurer, backed by General Atlantic, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and Accel, plans to file its DRHP confidentially with SEBI in H2 2026. In FY25 it grew revenue 35% to Rs 2,837 crore and cut net losses by 37%. It has raised over $583 million in total funding. Acko, the Bengaluru-based digital-first general […]