Bloomberg : Analysis: Taiwanese car display chip maker Himax, which makes driver integrated circuits for Ferrari, VW, and others, nets its founders a $1B combined net worth — Biing-seng Wu has spent most of his career developing tiny chips that tell pixels on flat-screen displays how and when t

Jordan Fitzgerald / Bloomberg : Electric bike rental company Lime is seeking to raise up to $180.9M in its US IPO, offering 6.7M shares at $24 to $26 each, giving it an up to $1.7B valuation — Lime, the electric bike and scooter rental firm backed by Uber Technologies Inc., and it shareholders

Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times : Bain says it is using AI coding tools to recreate pieces of target companies' software, making hundreds of rough prototypes in recent years as due diligence — Private equity groups swiftly recreate software products to gauge their competitive advantages — Pr

Stephen Nellis / Reuters : Netherlands-based Nearfield Instruments, which makes atomic force microscopes to measure chip features, raised $380M led by Fidelity at a $1.6B valuation — Nearfield Instruments, a Netherlands-based firm whose machines help measure the features on advanced semiconduc

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg : Getty signs a licensing deal with OpenAI, letting its image library appear in ChatGPT's search and discovery features; GETY jumps 150%+ pre-market — Shares of Getty Images Holdings Inc. jumped about 200% in premarket trading on Monday after the photography repository

Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal : SK Hynix passes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company, closing up 5.6% for a ~$1.4T market cap; South Korea's Kospi index is up 117% YTD — The South Korean memory-chip maker's market capitalization hit $1.362 trillion — Memory-chip maker

Vivian Salama / The Atlantic : A look at JD Vance's “AI doctrine”, which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs — The vice president is making a case that is part Silicon Valley, part MAGA. — In early 2025, j. d.

Wall Street Journal : Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a few AI labs “doing all of the learning for the world”, as Microsoft moves to provide low-cost models and tools — In interview, Microsoft's CEO offers a blistering critique of AI power balance and calls for earning society's

Американский гигант оборонных технологий Anduril, основанный Палмером Лакки, по сообщениям, изучает возможность создания значительного присутствия в Израиле. Источники указывают, что компания, оцениваемая примерно в 61 миллиард долларов, активно ищет местного управляющего для руководства своими

Bloomberg : SoftBank says it is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments and has completed only two new deals over the past two years — SoftBank Group Corp. is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments, underscoring how sharply the

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