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Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt following a catastrophic AI event (Maria Curi/Axios)

Maria Curi / Axios : Sources: top execs at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others are gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt follo...

1 November 2025

Vodafone agrees to acquire Skaylink, a German company specializing in managing cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure and AWS, for €175M from PE firm Waterland (Yamini Kalia/Reuters)

Yamini Kalia / Reuters:
Vodafone agrees to acquire Skaylink, a German company specializing in managing cloud deployments on Microsoft Azure and AWS, for €175M from PE firm Waterland  —  Britain's Vodafone (VOD.L) on Thursday said it will acquire German cloud and digital transformation firm Skaylink for 175 million euros …

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Vista Equity Partners buys a majority stake in Nexthink, which uses AI to let businesses track employees' device and app performance, valuing Nexthink at $3B (Paula Doenecke/Bloomberg)

Paula Doenecke / Bloomberg:
Vista Equity Partners buys a majority stake in Nexthink, which uses AI to let businesses track employees' device and app performance, valuing Nexthink at $3B  —  Vista Equity Partners snapped up a majority stake in Nexthink SA, valuing the Swiss-American software company at $3 billion, the firm said in a statement.

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NEC to buy US-listed CSG, a SaaS provider of customer care and billing services for telcos and other companies, for ~$2.9B in a deal expected to close in 2026 (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)

Mayumi Negishi / Bloomberg:
NEC to buy US-listed CSG, a SaaS provider of customer care and billing services for telcos and other companies, for ~$2.9B in a deal expected to close in 2026  —  Japan's NEC Corp. is buying CSG Systems International Inc., a US supplier of customer care and billing services for telecom companies …

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Mumbai-based Snapmint, a BNPL partner to brands that lets consumers pay in monthly instalments via India's UPI, raised a $125M Series B led by General Atlantic (Shashank Pathak/Entrackr)

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Mumbai-based Snapmint, a BNPL partner to brands that lets consumers pay in monthly instalments via India's UPI, raised a $125M Series B led by General Atlantic  —  Buy now pay later startup Snapmint has raised $125 million in its Series B funding led by General Atlantic …

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Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, letting them keep the debt off their balance sheets (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

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Tech companies, including Meta and xAI, are using SPVs to raise tens of billions for AI data centers, letting them keep the debt off their balance sheets  —  Just this month, Meta Platforms Inc. has secured about $60 billion in capital to build data centers, part of its spending to get ahead in the artificial intelligence race.

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