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Big techEnterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Citrini Research let Anthropic's Claude design scorpion antivenom: 211 proteins tested, 17 binders, then months of waiting on the lab
FundingEnterprise Software🇨🇦Oct 20, 2026
PataBid lands $2M pre-seed to automate construction estimating
Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Stellios exits stealth with $5M to rebuild US high-power energy systems
Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Formidium buys into Luxembourg's €9T fund market with Ci Fund Services deal
Media🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Investors rush to insure against an AI blow-up: CDS trading on Big Tech debt jumps to $9bn a week, with Meta and Nvidia at record spreads
M&A🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Salesforce to buy Braze for $5.66B: a 58% premium, but below Braze's 2021 IPO price
Big techEnterprise Software🇩🇪Oct 20, 2026
H.I.G. WhiteHorse backs €92M European Microsoft cloud platform with debt deal
RoboticsOct 20, 2026
Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars — and it's already profitable
Enterprise Software🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026
US orders civilian federal agencies to rip out DeepSeek, including third-party tools built on its models
Big techHome Living🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Amazon's TorchNeuron lets 85% of AI developers run code on its chips, challenging Nvidia
FundingJobs Recruitment🇳🇱Oct 20, 2026
Dutch HR startup Learned raises €3M to ride EU pay-transparency rules
🇰🇷Oct 20, 2026
Korea's pension fund loses US$152.6B in three and a half months as Samsung and SK hynix slide
M&AEnterprise Software🇬🇧Oct 20, 2026
Altman tells OpenAI staff there are three endgames for AI: an IAEA for AI, a merger of the labs, or one firm that "melts everyone else's GPUs"
FundingEnterprise Software🇦🇪Oct 20, 2026
CapQuest raises $1M pre-seed to help startups track ownership and employee equity
Big techSemiconductors🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
Germany woos Nvidia at Berlin summit, but local startups still lean on foreign capital
FundingEnterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
OpenAI races to raise $30B at $1.4T valuation ahead of Anthropic IPO
IPOsEducation🇰🇷Oct 20, 2026
Korea's biggest 2026 IPO stumbles: Elice falls 30% despite 389x-covered book
Transportation🇩🇰Oct 20, 2026
Lumilab raises pre-seed led by Giant Ventures for AI that runs energy assets
FundingTransportation🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026
Neolix raises $400M Series E, China's biggest robovan round this year
Hosting🇺🇸Oct 20, 2026
HSBC sticks with Reduce on CoreWeave: neoclouds earn ~$12M per MW versus $17-18M for hyperscalers
M&AEnterprise Software🇵🇪Oct 19, 2026
Colca Capital buys Colombia's Giga.uno in Latin America content-management push