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Prysmian To Acquire Atkore For $3.8 Billion To Expand North American Electrical Solutions Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Prysmian has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Atkore for $95 per share in cash, giving the electrical infrastructure company an implied enterprise value of approximately $3.8 billion, or €3.3 billion.

Integer To Be Acquired By KKR For $5.7 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Integer Holdings has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by KKR in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.7 billion.

Avantus Secures $1.05 Billion Corporate Credit Facility Led By SMBC, ING, HSBC, KKR And Truist

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Avantus has closed an upsized $1.05 billion corporate credit facility to support the development and construction of its utility-scale solar and energy storage portfolio across California and the Desert Southwest.

Senior: Aerospace Profit Jumps 42% As Margin Expands 270 Basis Points

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Senior plc’s Aerospace division delivered substantial earnings growth during the first half of 2026 as rising commercial aircraft production, stronger defense demand, improved pricing, and operational efficiencies expanded profitability.

PostNL: AI Agents And Parcel Lockers Support Expanded €180 Million Cost-Savings Plan

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

PostNL expanded its cost-reduction program to as much as €180 million as the Dutch delivery company increases its use of artificial intelligence, automates support functions, and builds a larger network of parcel lockers.

Shell To Sell 0.5 GW European Onshore Renewables Portfolio To TotalEnergies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Shell has entered into an agreement to sell a portfolio of European onshore renewable energy assets to TotalEnergies. The portfolio includes operational and development-stage projects across Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom.

BP Completes Sale Of Gelsenkirchen Refinery To Klesch Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

BP has completed the sale of its Gelsenkirchen refinery and related businesses in Germany to Klesch Group. The transaction supports BP’s effort to simplify its portfolio, strengthen its balance sheet and direct capital toward assets and markets where it believes it can generate stronger returns.

Alibaba Introduces 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Qwen3.8-Max AI Model With 1 Million-Token Context Window

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Alibaba’s Qwen team has officially released Qwen3.8-Max, describing it as the largest and most capable model in the Qwen family to date. Built on the architectural foundation of Qwen3.5, the flagship model contains 2.4 trillion total parameters, with approximately 95 billion parameters activated during inference. It supports a context window of up to 1 million tokens, enabling it to work with large collections of documents, extensive software repositories, long videos and complex tasks that require sustained reasoning across many steps.

Corvias Completes 1,215 Renovations In $210 Million Military Housing Modernization Program

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Corvias has completed more than half of Project Homestead, a $210 million military housing modernization initiative covering homes at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Fort Meade in Maryland and Fort Rucker in Alabama.

Octapharma To Build $1.5 Billion Critical Care Manufacturing Facility In South Carolina

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Octapharma plans to invest $1.5 billion in its first U.S.-based manufacturing and production facility, creating approximately 1,500 full-time jobs in Rock Hill, South Carolina.