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Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Private equity myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.CVC is weighing a €9bn deal to take Nexi private after a share price collapse at the Milan-listed payments group, a move that would stoke political sensitivities over control of Italy’s financial infrastructure.The private equity group is considering a fresh bid, according to people familiar with the matter, having twice before explored a takeover of Nexi, whose shares have fallen about 65 per cent over the past four years. Nexi, whose largest shareholder is buyout group Hellman & Friedman, has been hit…
Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., attends the ribbon-cutting ceremony opening the firm’s new headquarters at 270 Park Avenue, in New York City, U.S., Oct. 21, 2025. Eduardo Munoz | ReutersJPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Tuesday warned that rising government debt levels could trigger a crisis in the bond market, urging policymakers to act before markets force their hand.Dimon’s statement was in response to a question about whether he was worried about rising levels of government debt “around the world and in your country.” “The way it’s going now, there will be some…
EU rules reining in Big Tech will now target cloud services and AI, regulators say Source link
University of Oregon chemist Christopher Hendon loves his coffee—so much so that studying all the factors that go into creating the perfect cuppa constitutes a significant area of research for him. His latest project: discovering a novel means of measuring the flavor profile of coffee simply by sending an electrical current through a sample beverage. The results appear in a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications. We’ve been following Hendon’s work for several years now. For instance, in 2020, Hendon’s lab helped devise a mathematical model for brewing the perfect cup of espresso, over and over, while minimizing…
In a leaked audio recording of Sir Christian’s meeting with sixth-form students, he can be heard saying: “Special relationship is a phrase I try not to utter because it’s quite nostalgic, it’s quite backwards-looking, and it has a lot of sort of baggage about it.” Source link
European airlines will fail if the price of jet fuel remains elevated over the summer, the CEO of budget airline Ryanair warned.Speaking to CNBC on Thursday, CEO Michael O’Leary said that his airline was protected because it had hedged 80% of its fuel but predicted “real failures” for other airlines if the price of jet fuel did not fall.The price has surged since the critical Strait of Hormuz was blockaded after the war in the Middle East began on Feb. 28.”Pricing has mushroomed since March. Jet A-1 was about $80 a barrel in March. It’s now $150,” O’Leary told CNBC’s…
When Meta agreed to acquire Manus, a Singapore-based artificial intelligence startup with Chinese roots for roughly $2 billion last December, many saw the transaction as just another routine deal in today’s global technology economy: capital crossing borders, startups relocating to friendlier jurisdictions, and major platform companies acquiring talent and intellectual property in the race to build the next generation of AI systems. But for those who have been following U.S.-China strategic competition, particularly in the fiercely contested technology sector, the announcement should have raised yellow flags, if not red ones. What initially looked like a straightforward acquisition quickly became something far more…
Blaize stock tumbles on short seller fraud allegations Source link
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, Feb. 19, 2026.Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOpenAI has fallen short of its own revenue and user growth estimates, raising questions about whether the AI company can meet its massive data center spending plans, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.Finance Chief Sarah Friar has expressed concerns over the company’s ability to fund future compute agreements if the revenue slowdown continues, the outlet reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. According to the report, Friar is working with other executives to clamp down on costs…
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore,) speaks during a press conference addressing a new policy that demands recipients of foreign military aid to follow international humanitarian law at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 9, 2024.Nathan Howard | ReutersCongress’ independent watchdog plans to open an investigation into the Department of Justice’s handling of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.Merkley announced the opening of the probe on Tuesday, a little over a month after he and Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., requested the Government Accountability…