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Ross Stores spiked 6% after delivering a quintessential beat-and-raise quarter, as it blew past Wall Street's expectations. Earnings got a boost from tariff refunds. The post Ross Stores Trounces Earnings, Set To Retake Buy Point

Fierce Healthcare Fundraising Tracker '26: MaxQ Medical lands $31.5M; Happy Health buoyed by $75M round

Unitree builds AI-powered robots that rival Tesla's Optimus units. Unitree raised more than $900 million with its IPO. The post Chinese Robot Developer Unitree Soars 460% On Blockbuster IPO

Crusoe IPO looms after last funding round valued the AI data center developer at $10 billion. Reports suggest firm's valuation may triple. The post Is This The Next CoreWeave Or Nebius Group? A Crusoe IPO Looms

NVIDIA Leads $500 Billion Private Equity Investment in AI Infrastructure and Power Solutions

Ode is a San Francisco-based enterprise AI transformation company. The post PE-backed Ode with Anthropic acquires AI services firm Casper Studios

Carlyle, Francisco Partners, New Mountain and Serent are among the PE firms investing in revenue cycle management platforms. The post PE backs specialty-focused healthcare RCM services: 8 deals

AI a catalyst for UK take-private flurry; Ridgeview signs latest deal with car dealership software biz Pinewood

Pinewood.AI acquisition recommended for approval

Opinion: Nvidia’s $500B private equity AI funding deal isn’t a good sign

Meet Petra, the AI that runs a PE firm

Private Equity Is Deploying an Army of AI Wonks to Embed in the Firms They Back

There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has ...

Tesla indicated it won't add more Model Y cars to its robotaxi service, instead opting to wait until the Cybercab's public release to grow its fleet, according to JPMorgan. The post Tesla 'Intentionally' Not Adding EVs To Robotaxi Fleet; Se...

What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.

Some AI stocks carry heavy debt. Shares of WhiteFiber plummeted 25% Wednesday after the company made a $270 million offering of convertible debt. The post These AI Companies Pile Up Massive Debt

Private equity’s AI gold rush comes at a cost

Cloud is (still) king: Private equity investments in the AI data center era

‘SaaSpocalypse’ Risk From AI Reaches Beyond Private Equity

Private equity calls the AI de-rating overdone

Coforge launches private equity-focused unit to drive AI-led value creation

Nvidia's Wall Street AI Financing Loop Enriches Only Private Equity

Private equity's insurtech appetite has shifted from cloud to AI

Navatar Introduces Governed AI Framework for Private Equity

Navatar Introduces Governed AI Framework for Private Equity and M&A, Combining Salesforce CRM, Agentforce and Claude

Garcia’s Take: Private Equity Leaders Dig Into AI