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GMI Cloud has raised $668 million in new financing, combining a $223 million Series B equity round with a $445 million credit facility, as the AI infrastructure company expands GPU capacity across the United States, Taiwan, and the broader Asia-Pacific region. The Series B was led by ARCHIV, a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on AI and robotics, with participation from NVIDIA. Other investors from the Asia-Pacific region included DSC Investment, Trend Micro, KB Investment, Kyobo Life, and KT Corporation.

Arbe Robotics has closed a $15 million underwritten registered direct offering, providing additional capital as the radar technology company scales commercial opportunities in automotive, defense, and counter-drone markets.

Debevoise & Plimpton has added Mary Lavelle as a partner in its Private Fund Transactions and Investment Management Groups in London, strengthening the firm's capabilities across private capital secondary transactions and liquidity solutions.

Circle Internet Group has announced that Jeremy Fox-Geen will step down as Chief Financial Officer after more than five years in the role, beginning a leadership transition after helping guide the stablecoin and blockchain infrastructure company through its public offering and a period of substantial growth.

Polar Capital Technology Trust has appointed Simon Crinage as an independent non-executive director, adding an investment-company veteran with decades of financial services and capital markets experience to its board.

NextBoat has appointed Ross Tannenbaum as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately, as the technology-driven marine marketplace shifts its focus toward profitability, national expansion, and scaling its platform. Tannenbaum succeeds Brian John, who will remain on NextBoat's board of directors to support the transition.

Kandi Technologies Group reported first-half 2026 revenue of $57.1 million, up 57.4% year over year, while net income increased 452.2% to $9.4 million from $1.7 million.

Addex Therapeutics reported its first-half 2026 results while outlining progress across its neurological drug portfolio, including $2.8 million raised through an at-the-market offering and the return of rights to its GABAB positive allosteric modulator program from Indivior.

Moving iMage Technologies reported fiscal 2026 net sales of $17.3 million and narrowed its annual net loss by approximately 69% to $297,000, as higher-margin business and cost discipline offset lower overall project activity.

Palatin Technologies reported $13.2 million in collaboration and license revenue for fiscal 2026, while narrowing its annual net loss and advancing a pipeline of MC4R-targeted treatments for rare and syndromic obesity disorders.

Precision Optics reported record fiscal 2026 revenue of $31.5 million, up approximately 65% from $19.1 million, as expanding medical and aerospace production programs drove significantly higher sales.

NETSOL Technologies reported record fiscal 2026 revenue of $74.4 million, up 12.5%, exceeding its $73 million guidance as profitability, margins, cash generation, and recurring revenue improved.

Inventiva ended the first half of 2026 with €166.1 million in cash and cash equivalents plus €67.8 million in short-term deposits, as the biotechnology company approaches a major Phase 3 readout for lanifibranor in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, or MASH.

Vail Resorts reported fiscal 2026 net income attributable to the company of $147.5 million, down from $280 million, as historically weak snowfall across the western U.S. weighed on visitation and resort performance.

Shein reported $228 million in adjusted net profit for the second quarter of 2026, down 67% year-over-year, as higher freight costs and weaker sales in Europe and the U.S. pressured profitability, according to Reuters. The results were Shein's first as a publicly traded company following its September 1 Hong Kong listing.

Impinj develops RAIN RFID technology that connects everyday physical items to digital systems, enabling enterprises to identify, track, and understand the movement of products and assets in real time. Its platform combines endpoint ICs, labels, readers, software, machine learning, and data infrastructure to help organizations turn item-level information into operational intelligence for AI and automation. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Impinj VP of Product and Solution Marketing Matt Branda to learn more about the evolution of RAIN RFID, the concept of Physical Intelligence, and how real-world item data can support enterprise AI systems. 

Harrison Street Asset Management has agreed to acquire a majority equity stake in Vicinity Energy from Antin Infrastructure Partners in a transaction valuing Vicinity at $2.92 billion.

Goldman Sachs has announced plans to launch a Voting Instruction Program that will allow individual shareholders to establish standing instructions directing their shares to be voted in line with recommendations from the Goldman Sachs Board of Directors.

OpenAI is seeking to raise at least $30 billion in a new funding round at a valuation of approximately $1.4 trillion, excluding the new capital, according to Bloomberg. The fundraising discussions are still at an early stage, and the final terms could change. Investor demand is reportedly driving the proposed financing as OpenAI continues to raise large amounts of capital to support the computing infrastructure, research, product development, and broader operations required to compete in artificial intelligence.

Paramount Skydance has attracted more than $109 billion of investor orders for its investment-grade bond offering to help finance the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, representing approximately 3.6 times the amount expected to be sold after banks shifted part of the financing into loans, according to Bloomberg.

J.P. Morgan Payments is expanding its collaboration with Thunes to provide faster cross-border payments to bank accounts and mobile wallets across more than 100 payment corridors through its Xpedite Remit solutions suite.

Lumivero provides AI-powered research and decision software, and its NVivo platform has been a mainstay of qualitative data analysis for more than 30 years. With the launch of NVivo AI Cloud, powered by AURA, the Lumivero AI-powered Unified Research Assistant, the company is bringing AI agents into qualitative research while requiring researcher approval and source traceability for every AI action. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Lumivero Chief Transformation Officer Tessa Barron to learn more about the company’s approach to AI-assisted qualitative research, research integrity, and the future of NVivo.

Oculeus provides software solutions for telecommunications service providers, network operators, and other providers of voice and messaging services. Its product portfolio includes solutions for interconnect wholesale management, retail voice management, and telecommunications fraud protection. The company’s AI-driven solutions use technologies designed to help service providers build and maintain efficient and highly automated network and business operations. Oculeus has served customers worldwide since 2004 as a technology partner and strategic vendor. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Oculeus Founder and CEO Arnd Baranowski to learn more about the company’s origins, its telecommunications management platforms, AI-powered fraud prevention, and its work on securing global communications. 

Tote AI has launched HQ Genie AI, a new AI agent designed specifically for convenience store operations, giving retailers a natural-language interface for querying live operational data and automating recurring tasks across their stores.

Pocket Entertainment is building an entertainment ecosystem that connects storytelling, creation, production, distribution, localization, and audience engagement. The company operates Pocket FM, its flagship serialized audio drama platform, and has expanded into short-form visual entertainment through Pocket Saga while developing AI tools such as Sherpa that helps creators develop ideas and build characters, worlds, story arcs and episodes. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pocket Entertainment Co-Founder and CEO Rohan Nayak to learn more about the company’s origins, its evolution beyond audio entertainment, and how AI could enable individual creators to build global entertainment franchises. 

Mesabi Metallics has announced an $18 billion investment to create a fully integrated U.S. steel company, linking its iron ore mine in Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range to a new steelmaking complex planned for Iowa.

Metris Energy, an AI-native platform for managing energy assets at scale, has raised a $5 million Seed round to expand its technology across additional energy categories and European markets while building out its AI agent capabilities. The round was led by PT1 Ventures, Octopus Ventures, AENU, and Blackfinch Ventures, with participation from Plug and Play and Love Ventures. The financing brings Metris' total funding to $7.5 million.

Irish Residential Properties REIT has received a possible all-cash takeover proposal from Baring International Investment Limited at €1.386 per share, representing an implied equity value of approximately €727 million based on I-RES's 524.4 million shares outstanding. The latest approach is Barings' fifth proposal for the company. 

Carnegie Mellon University has received a $3 billion gift from Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin, including $1 billion for the university's Pittsburgh campus and $2 billion to establish Carnegie Mellon University Miami.

OuterSignal has raised $22 million in Series A funding to expand its agentic customer intelligence platform, which helps consumer brands understand individual customers and use that information to personalize marketing, advertising, merchandising, and customer engagement. The round was co-led by Long Journey Ventures and Abstract Ventures.