Large companies drive $3.2T deal-making frenzy as AI economy reshapes M&A landscape

In Q2, Europe posted its strongest quarter in four years for venture funding, Crunchbase data shows. All told, Europe-based startups raised $24 billion in the just-ended quarter, up around a third quarter over quarter and two-thirds higher than the $14.4 billion raised in Q2 2025.

Bernstein says platforms are bringing exchange, clearing and brokerage infrastructure in-house, setting up potential deals while increasing antitrust and regulatory risks.

Companies in dealmaking blitz as they seek to build the energy infrastructure for data centres

AI is here, and we must help workers adapt: That’s the response of a new non-profit organization to the ongoing debate about whether AI will destroy jobs and cause catastrophe or take the economy to new heights. Launched Thursday, Raise Us is a nonpartisan national organization that says it will partner with state governors, employers, workers, and training organizations to help the US workforce make a successful transition to an AI economy. It says it will design and pilot new corporate incentives to retrain and redeploy workers, develop new approaches to support people through job transitions, and create new training models tied to changing employer demand. It has already raised more than $500 million and hopes to bring that up to $1 billion in multi-year commitments from philanthropists and industry sources. Anchor partners include Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation, and more than two dozen other organizations including Cisco, IBM, ADP, AMD, and Deloitte have al

The former U.S. commerce secretary’s Raise Us initiative brings together governors, employers, and tech leaders to rethink job training before AI displacement accelerates.

The surge in US M&A deal value highlights increased market concentration, posing potential risks and opportunities for financial innovation. The post US M&A deal value reaches record $1.89 trillion, nearly triples since Q2 2023 appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

How decentralized infrastructure is emerging as the missing layer of the AI economy. Billions are pouring into GPUs, data centers, and massive cloud infrastructure. Global AI infrastructure spending hit a whopping $318 billion in 2025. The result is that AI models are growing exponentially more powerful, and rightfully so as

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