X-Energy’s failed $1 billion SPAC became a $1 billion IPO. The reactor did not change. The market did.
X-Energy’s failed $1 billion SPAC became a $1 billion IPO. The reactor did not change. The market did.

In short: X-Energy raised $1.02 billion in the largest nuclear IPO on record, pricing at $23 (21% above range) on the Nasdaq, with shares surging 31% on opening to imply a $12 billion market cap. The offering was 15x oversubscribed. The same company fa…

Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.
Google is investing up to $40 billion in a company that is beating Gemini. That is the point.

Summary: Google is investing up to $40 billion in Anthropic ($10B cash now at $350B valuation, $30B conditional on performance targets) plus five gigawatts of compute over five years, bringing its total commitment to ~$43B. The deal arrives as Anthropi…

Verda raises $117 million to expand its GPU cloud platform from the Nordics into the US, UK, and Asia
Verda raises $117 million to expand its GPU cloud platform from the Nordics into the US, UK, and Asia

The Helsinki-based company, formerly DataCrunch, is backed by Lifeline Ventures, byFounders, Tesi, Varma, and a group of Nordic lenders. It is already cash-flow positive, holds Nvidia Preferred Partner status, and plans to hire more than 100 people thi…

SoftBank wants to borrow $10 billion against its OpenAI stake. The spread tells you what the banks think.
SoftBank wants to borrow $10 billion against its OpenAI stake. The spread tells you what the banks think.

Summary: SoftBank is seeking a $10 billion margin loan backed by its OpenAI shares at SOFR + 425 basis points (~7.88%), a two-year term with one-year extension. The loan sits atop a $40 billion bridge loan from March and brings SoftBank’s total OpenAI …

Zapata Quantum raises $15 million after emerging from bankruptcy
Zapata Quantum raises $15 million after emerging from bankruptcy

The oversubscribed financing, led by Triatomic Capital, caps a restructuring that addressed $18.7 million in debt, converted $10 million of that to equity, and preserved 60-plus patents. The company had been days away from liquidation in late 2024. Zap…

Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026
Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026

The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund lost NOK636 billion ($68 billion) in investment returns in the first quarter, driven by the equity slide among large US technology companies. The S&P 500 posted its deepest quarterly decline since 2022. The…

Belfast’s Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure the AI-generated software supply chain
Belfast’s Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure the AI-generated software supply chain

TCV led the Series B one year ago and now doubles down on the Series C. Insight Partners also returns. The thesis: AI coding agents are generating software so fast and at such volume that human code review is no longer sufficient, and enterprise artifa…

Microsoft commits A$25 billion to Australia by 2029
Microsoft commits A$25 billion to Australia by 2029

The investment is Microsoft’s largest-ever in Australia and builds on an A$5 billion commitment from October 2023. It includes expanding Azure AI supercomputing capacity by more than 140%, extending the Microsoft-ASD Cyber-Shield to additional governme…

Bain Capital seeks buyer for stake in Bridge Data Centres at $5 billion valuation
Bain Capital seeks buyer for stake in Bridge Data Centres at $5 billion valuation

Sources tell Reuters that Bain is looking to sell a stake in BDC, Singapore-headquartered, with nine data centres across Malaysia, Thailand, and India, at a $5 billion valuation. Citi and JPMorgan are running the process. ByteDance is the anchor tenant…

Decade Energy raises €22M to build power infrastructure for electric truck depots across Europe
Decade Energy raises €22M to build power infrastructure for electric truck depots across Europe

The round is split between €16M from Eiffel Investment Group for project deployment and €6M led by SET Ventures for product and expansion, alongside existing investors Ananda Impact Ventures and Contrarian Ventures. The company targets 100MW+ of BESS p…