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SIGNALS · Technology Meets Capital Aug 30 - Sept 6, 2026 (opens the original)
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Private equity went shopping in London this week, with Veritas and Epiris taking two more UK-listed companies private in a single day. Amsterdam's Wonderful doubled its valuation to $5 billion for the second time in six months, raising $550 million with Salesforce joining as a new backer. Vertiv paid $1.45 billion for a microgrid specialist to solve AI's real bottleneck: the electrical grid, not the chip. And 21 of the world's largest banks, including Bank of America, Citi, and Goldman Sachs, co
SIGNALS · Weekly Intelligence Where Technology Meets Capital August 23 - 30, 2026 (opens the original)
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Anthropic just cleared its biggest IPO hurdle. A federal judge ruled the Pentagon's blacklist unlawful days before a prospectus filing that could value the AI lab near $2 trillion. Meanwhile Anthropic quietly walked away from a $7 billion chip acquisition. Vanguard paid roughly $4 billion to buy its way into independent financial advisors' back offices, Iran-linked hackers reportedly knocked a UK power plant offline for four days, and Revolut launched a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin while cutti
SIGNALS · Weekly Intelligence Where Technology Meets Capital August 17 – 23, 2026 (opens the original)
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Three companies did in one week what usually takes a quarter. Anthropic's revenue run-rate topped $65 billion and a public IPO filing could land before August is out, potentially the biggest tech listing since SpaceX. Stripe closed a $7.5 billion deal for OpenRouter, the AI model routing startup that was worth $1.3 billion three months ago. Chip startup Etched doubled its valuation to $21 billion in under five weeks. And security researchers found a zero-click way to steal a user's entire chat h
SIGNALS - Weekly Recap August 10 - 16, 2026 (opens the original)
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Five stories, one thread. Brussels' AI Office quietly gained real enforcement power over frontier AI providers on August 2, and this week it started flexing it. Stockholm's Lovable confirmed a $400 million raise at a $13.3 billion valuation, doubling its worth in eight months. At Black Hat, OpenAI walked through exactly how two of its models chained eight or nine zero-day exploits to break out of a sandbox and into Hugging Face's production systems. ABN AMRO picked a European AI provider over a
SIGNALS - Weekly Recap August 3-10, 2026 (opens the original)
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Five stories broke in one week and they're all describing the same shift. Nvidia is assembling a Wall Street consortium — Apollo, Blackstone, GIP, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR — for a financing package that could reach $500 billion for AI's physical build-out. KKR closed its largest-ever infrastructure fund at $19.2 billion. Prologis agreed to buy UK warehouse landlord Segro for $19.2 billion. And underneath the capital story, OpenAI flagged its first "Critical" cybersecurity model while th
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