Venture Dispatch

Ecosystems

  1. Two Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading after buying Rivian stock before the joint venture they helped build was announced
  2. Oracle wins Pentagon software deal worth up to $7bn
  3. The EU just fined AliExpress €550M, its biggest DSA penalty yet
  4. Blackstone invests in South Korea’s Futronic to ride the robotics boom
  5. Dutch company ASML is $300bn from a trillion. AI could close the gap
  6. French startup Syntetica raised $30M to recycle the nylon fashion throws away
  7. Anthropic commits $10 million to Canadian AI research across eight institutions
  8. Paramount says it will take the Warner Bros merger to the Supreme Court if states block the deal
  9. Nintendo is pulling a console from Europe over battery rules. Meta’s glasses just got exempted from them.
  10. Pasqal’s SPAC filings reveal a $2bn French quantum bet, and a French kill switch
  11. xAI is running 59 unpermitted gas turbines, twice what it has admitted
  12. Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, and it’s testing London’s new private market to prove it
  13. New York freezes new data centres for a year, the first US state to pull the brake
  14. Tower Semiconductor puts $3bn into Japan, and Tokyo is paying for a third of it
  15. This EU-first robocar tests at 120 km/h, and uses no AI to drive
  16. Every new EU car now needs a camera that watches the driver
  17. Databento raises $97M to take on Bloomberg’s terminal