US stocks closed higher yesterday on the back of chip stocks, which rebounded from Friday's selloff

Korean won rebounded from 2009-lows on an FX defense plan

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It's Kevin Warsh's time to shine

Trade event contracts on Polymarket, the world's largest prediction market

AI boom fuels $6k per hour escort job market in Silicon Valley (NYP)

Chirayu Rana will refile 'sex slave' lawsuit in federal court (NYP)

Jensen Huang says tech selloff is a buying opportunity (BBG)

Private credit boom cools as lending and flows slow sharply (RT)

Corporate Japan faces ratings risk as it ramps up borrowing (BBG)

SpaceX IPO jolts life back into European retail investing (RT)

Partners Group co-founder blamed a short-seller for share slump (BBG)

Apple investors give lukewarm reaction to new Siri and AI platform (BBG)

Google tapped Intel to manufacture 3M TPUs (RT)

Meta launches academy to train workers to build data centers (WSJ)

A judge blocked Trump's $100k H-1B visa application fee (BBG)

Jensen Huang declined Senate testimony on AI, China and exports (CNBC)

Pentagon restores Alibaba and Baidu to Chinese military groups blacklist (FT)

Private jet market defies Iran war gloom as rich flock to Monaco (RT)

NYC plans World Cup watch party for 50k in Central Park (BBG)

Prada unveiled astronaut suits for NASA moon mission (RT)

Italian lender Intesa Sanpaolo made an unsolicited $35B cash-and-stock bid for peer BMPS just hours after rival Banco BPM proposed a $58B merger

Hg-backed PE fund administrator Gen II is exploring a $6B sale

PAI Partners, the long-time PE partner of foods giant Nestle, dropped out of bidding for a 50% stake in its $5.8B water business

French telecoms giant Orange acquired full ​ownership of MasOrange, ‌Spain's largest telecoms operator, after buying ​out JV partner ⁠Lorca in ⁠a $4.9B deal

Food ingredients firm Ingredion agreed to acquire UK peer Tate & Lyle in a $3.6B cash deal at a 60% premium 

Swiss pharma giant Roche struck a deal with Nurix Therapeutics to license a blood-cancer drug for up to $2.3B

Biotech Incyte Pharma will acquire ​Vega ​Therapeutics, the blood disorder-focused subsidiary of Star Therapeutics, in a $2B deal 

Johnson & Johnson will ​acquire cancer biotech Firefly Bio for $1B cash

Carlyle agreed to acquire Korean home appliance rental platform Chungjo Nais for $700M

Databricks is in early talks to raise a Series M at a $170B valuation

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is seeking to raise a $2B round at a $30B valuation

UK physics AI startup PhysicsX raised a $300M round at a $2.4B valuation led by Singapore SWF Temasek

Hiive, an online platform for private market shares, held talks for a secondary share sale at a $780M valuation

PointFive, a cloud and AI cost management platform, raised a $60M Series B led by Accel

Stepful, a training platform for the healthcare workforce, raised a $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT 

EDGE Markets, a financial services company for gaming, crypto, and prediction markets, raised a $29M Series A led by CoinFund

NewOrbit, a UK VLEO satellite manufacturer, raised an $18.5M Series A led by Voyager Ventures 

Folio Photonics, a developer of multilayer optical archival discs, raised an $8M Series A led by Material Impact and The O.H.I.O. Fund  

OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO

Italian app investor Bending Spoons filed for a US IPO seeking a $22B valuation

Indian rapid-commerce firm Zepto filed for a $1B India IPO

Brewery giant Carlsberg is preparing to file for a $700M India IPO of its India unit

Goldman-backed Japanese taxi app Go priced its Japan IPO at the top of a marketed range to raise $550M for a $1.2B market cap

Quantum Space, a spacecraft startup led by ex-NASA chief Jim Bridenstine, will merge with Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. VI at a $1.2B valuation

Amazon raised $10B in the biggest ever Canadian-dollar bond sale

Chinese tech giant Tencent is seeking to raise $4B in a dollar and offshore yuan bond sale

Universal Music Group is seeking to raise $1.2B in a bond sale just days after rejecting a takeover offer from Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square

A Blue Owl private credit fund, which earlier limited redemption requests, raised $500M in an investment grade bond sale

Collapsed auto parts supplier First Brands can try again to seek court approval for a creditor vote on a proposal to raise money through lawsuits against the firm's execs and lenders

Creditors led by American Industrial Partners are negotiating a deal with Audax-backed Innovative Chemical Products Group to swap existing debt for equity in a restructuring

Blackstone is looking to sell over $2B of PE GP stakes via collateralized fund obligations 

Investment firm Future Standard raised $2B for its fifth PE secondaries fund 

West African investment firm ARM-Harith Infrastructure Investments plans to raise $200M for energy and climate infrastructure projects across sub-Saharan Africa

German wealth manager Liqid raised $115M for a third VC FOF

SBF formally applied for a Trump pardon 

Strategy resumes Bitcoin buying after rare sale roils crypto

Bitcoin's $235B crash masks bigger shift in crypto

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