Chinese VC firms rush to raise funds after 3-year drought

Managers capitalise on investors’ desire to ‘hedge’ against US market bets

Media Trends Executive: Ad Economics Report Q2 2026

Generative AI is forecast to become the fastest ad format to $100 billion as OpenAI courts marketers at Cannes Lions.

Buyers are circling ad tech again

Luma Partners says discussions are picking up as buyers chase data, connected TV and AI tools.

Massive US tungsten discovery could run into Nasa roadblock

Miner may have found America’s largest deposit of crucial defence metal but space agency hinders development

Situational Awareness Got the Future Right but Misread the Past

Leopold Aschenbrenner thought AI-related stocks would go one way; they went the other. The mistake was funding the trades with debt

Humbling times for markets

Investors finally show signs of growing weary of the painfully obvious nonsense

Sorry you were late. Here’s my invoice

Being late is a waste of time and money — but I have a solution

Beating Berlin’s Sunday blues

Germany’s weekly retail shutdown is bad for the country’s economy and the atmosphere of its cities

The end of ‘The Magnificent 7’: the problem with stock nicknames

A cynic would say such monikers are made up by professionals looking to hype markets — I think ‘The Mag 7’ is much more dangerous than that

US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market

New York Fed sells euros to buy yen following recent speculation that Tokyo intervened to support Japan’s currency

Citadel's swoop on Situational Awareness helped stem a $3tn AI rout

Investors say the hedge fund deal reassured jittery traders in tech stocks

Leopold Aschenbrenner vows to ‘fight another day’ after fund plunges 67% in July

Manager of AI hedge fund Situational Awareness tells investors he will learn from ‘very expensive scars’