AI Agents
Oakley Is Buying Graphwise, With £20m Just One Investor's Slice
A majority stake bought from four existing shareholders, at an undisclosed price — reported almost everywhere as an investment round.
Aug 19, 2026
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Finance AI
A $12bn Vehicle Is Buying Accounting Firms and Installing OpenAI. OpenAI Owns Part of It.
Thrive Holdings raised over $2bn from SoftBank, D1 and Altimeter. The circularity is the story: OpenAI's investor spun out a buyer that OpenAI then invested in.
Aug 13, 2026
Manufacturing AI
Blackstone Takes a Controlling Stake in Korea's Futronic, a Bet on the Robot Supply Chain
The private-equity giant is buying control of a South Korean maker of precision actuators — the physical bottleneck in scaling humanoid and industrial robots — in a deal valuing the company near $700 million.
Jul 20, 2026
