Hacker News with Generative AI: Investment

China Halts Panama Port Sale to BlackRock (gcaptain.com)
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison, led by tycoon Li Ka-shing, will not sign a deal next week to sell its two strategic ports at the Panama Canal to a BlackRock-led group, the South China Morning Post reported on Friday.

China, Panama Canal, Acquisitions, Investment, Finance

16 points by walterbell 3 days ago | 0 comments

The Carbon Bankroll 2.0 [pdf] (2024) (squarespace.com)

Finance, Climate Change, Reports, Investment

4 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 0 comments

Private Equity Is Coming for America's $12T in Retirement Savings (bloomberg.com)
Less than a week before President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, more than 30 money managers gathered on Zoom to strategize about how to pull America’s retirement savers into investments far beyond stocks and bonds.

Private Equity, Retirement Savings, Finance, Economics, Investment

87 points by mooreds 3 days ago | 103 comments

OpenAI Close to Finalizing Its $40B SoftBank-Led Funding (bloomberg.com)
OpenAI is close to finalizing a $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank Group Corp. — with investors including Magnetar Capital, Coatue Management, Founders Fund and Altimeter Capital Management in talks to participate, according to people familiar with the matter.

OpenAI, Funding, Investment, Venture Capital, Technology

17 points by saeedjabbar 7 days ago | 16 comments

Elon Musk's SpaceX Allows Investment from China (propublica.org)
As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is certainly a policy of obfuscation,” an expert said.

SpaceX, China, Investment, National Security, Business

62 points by danso 7 days ago | 9 comments

Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’ (bloomberg.com)
Wall Street’s infamous dark pools are getting even darker.

Finance, Wall Street, Investment, Dark Pools

182 points by SirLJ 16 days ago | 201 comments

Airbus and others call for sovereign fund and higher Europe tech autonomy (cnbc.com)

Airbus, Europe, Technology, Investment, Autonomy

3 points by belter 17 days ago | 1 comments

Your Next Two Zeroes (taylor.town)
You can purchase a nice home for $1M. You can purchase a nice skyscraper for $100M.

Real Estate, Finance, Investment

49 points by surprisetalk 32 days ago | 10 comments

Europe stocks secure 10-week winning streak, outperforming U.S. in February (cnbc.com)

Europe, Stocks, Financial Markets, Investment, Performance

14 points by sundaybsunday 33 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Are We in an AI Bubble? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Are We in an AI Bubble?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Investment, Business

10 points by babyent 34 days ago | 13 comments

Show HN: Paste a Zillow URL and get a property analysis (trymasterkey.com)
A comprehensive evaluation of this property's features, market position, and investment potential.

Real Estate, Tools, Analysis, Investment

23 points by giulioco 36 days ago | 22 comments

New Bitcoin ETF Promises 100% Downside Protection Against Price Volatility (coindesk.com)
A new bitcoin-focused exchange-traded fund issued by global investment management firm Calamos hit the market on Wednesday.

Bitcoin, Finance, ETFs, Cryptocurrency, Investment

3 points by PaulHoule 48 days ago | 2 comments

EU to mobilize 200B Euros to invest in AI (euronews.com)
Europe will mobilise €200bn euro for investment in artificial intelligence, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced at the AI Action Summit in Paris today.

Artificial Intelligence, Europe, Investment, Technology

49 points by FinnLobsien 50 days ago | 146 comments

EU launches initiative to mobilise €200B of investment in AI (europa.eu)

EU, Artificial Intelligence, Investment, Europe

34 points by N19PEDL2 51 days ago | 3 comments

France unveils 109B-euro AI investment (cnbc.com)

France, Artificial Intelligence, Government Funding, Investment, Europe

44 points by tolarianwiz 51 days ago | 16 comments

France's answer to US' Stargate: $112B AI investment package (techcrunch.com)
Late Sunday local time the French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced a total of €109 billion in private investments in the AI ecosystem — or around $112 billion at current exchange rates.

France, Artificial Intelligence, Investment, Government Initiatives, Technology

6 points by Baguette5242 52 days ago | 1 comments

Bitcoin is not Good Enough (medium.com)
Bitcoin is Fucked, and so are you if you are betting on it.

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Investment

5 points by AymanJabr 53 days ago | 3 comments

SoftBank set to invest $40B in OpenAI at $260B valuation (cnbc.com)

Investment, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, SoftBank

4 points by rntn 54 days ago | 0 comments

An Anonymous Investor Is Spending Millions to Make Underwater Homes (theguardian.com)
An innovative mission on the Welsh border, funded by an anonymous private investor, has begun work to create a ‘permanent human settlement’ under the sea

Real Estate, Underwater Construction, Innovation, Investment

63 points by embit 56 days ago | 33 comments

Black Swan author warns of future selloffs 2-3 times worse than DeepSeek shock (fortune.com)

Finance, Predictions, Market Analysis, Investment, Economics

5 points by this_weekend 59 days ago | 2 comments

Nearly $109M in Yotta (YC S20) customer deposits vanish (cnbc.com)

FinTech, Startups, Customer Deposits, Investment

36 points by segasaturn 62 days ago | 5 comments

Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024) (foundationcapital.com)
When OpenAI raised $6.6B earlier this month—the second-largest private funding round in history, topped only by its own $10B raise from Microsoft last January—it wasn’t just setting records. It was making an argument about where AI will create value and who stands to capture it.

Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Valuation, Investment

139 points by pcurve 65 days ago | 132 comments

I Won't Invest (2019) (davidjarvis.com)
Between the pre-seed and seed rounds for Griffin we pitched nearly 200 different investors. These are some of their reasons for saying no.

Venture Capital, Startups, Investment, Fundraising

18 points by dustingetz 71 days ago | 9 comments

Trump to announce private sector AI infrastructure investment (cbsnews.com)
President Trump is set to announce billions of dollars in private sector investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States, CBS News has learned.

Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Technology, Infrastructure, Investment

16 points by nycdatasci 71 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Finding good value property (landvalue.au)
Did you know? Astute property buyers compare the sales guide of a property with the land value. The unimproved land value without buildings is assessed by the government. This is often significantly lower than the sales guide. We help you find properties currently on the market which have good investment opportunity.

Real Estate, Investment, Australia

10 points by timothyxyang 80 days ago | 2 comments

China starts Big Fund III spending: $47B for ecosystem and fab tools (tomshardware.com)

China, Semiconductor Industry, Investment, Technology, Funding

4 points by rbanffy 84 days ago | 0 comments

The True Cost of PMI: Why you should pay down your low-interest mortgage (andrewbridges.org)
Finance experts often warn against paying down a low-interest mortgage early. The reasoning behind this advice is simple: you can often get a better return by investing your money than by using it to pay down a low-interest loan.

Finance, Mortgages, Investment

18 points by andrewbridges 100 days ago | 17 comments

Trump to announce $100B SoftBank investment in the US (abcnews.go.com)
President-elect Donald Trump will join SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at his Florida home on Monday to announce that the Japanese company is planning to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects over the next four years.

Politics, Business, Investment, Japan

6 points by bloomingkales 107 days ago | 4 comments

SpaceX Share Sale Values Company at About $350B (bloomberg.com)
SpaceX and its investors have agreed to purchase as much as $1.25 billion of insider shares in a transaction valuing Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite maker at about $350 billion, according to an internal email seen by Bloomberg.

SpaceX, Private Equity, Valuation, Investment, Elon Musk

10 points by mfiguiere 113 days ago | 0 comments

Cruise's robotaxi service will likely shut down as GM pulls its funding (theverge.com)
General Motors said it would no longer fund its Cruise robotaxi service as it seeks to focus its spending on autonomous vehicle development specifically for personally owned vehicles.

Autonomous Vehicles, Transportation, Business, Investment

5 points by psawaya 113 days ago | 1 comments