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.
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.
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.
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.
Wall Street’s ‘Private Rooms’ (bloomberg.com)
Wall Street’s infamous dark pools are getting even darker.
Airbus and others call for sovereign fund and higher Europe tech autonomy (cnbc.com)
Your Next Two Zeroes (taylor.town)
You can purchase a nice home for $1M. You can purchase a nice skyscraper for $100M.
Europe stocks secure 10-week winning streak, outperforming U.S. in February (cnbc.com)
Ask HN: Are We in an AI Bubble? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Are We in an AI Bubble?
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.
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.
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.
EU launches initiative to mobilise €200B of investment in AI (europa.eu)
France unveils 109B-euro AI investment (cnbc.com)
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.
Bitcoin is not Good Enough (medium.com)
Bitcoin is Fucked, and so are you if you are betting on it.
SoftBank set to invest $40B in OpenAI at $260B valuation (cnbc.com)
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
Black Swan author warns of future selloffs 2-3 times worse than DeepSeek shock (fortune.com)
Nearly $109M in Yotta (YC S20) customer deposits vanish (cnbc.com)
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.
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.
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.
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.
China starts Big Fund III spending: $47B for ecosystem and fab tools (tomshardware.com)
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.
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.
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.
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.
OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching 'AGI' clause with Microsoft (ft.com)