Hacker News with Generative AI: Investment

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 7 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 9 days ago | 144 comments

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

EU, Artificial Intelligence, Investment, Europe

34 points by N19PEDL2 10 days ago | 3 comments

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

France, Artificial Intelligence, Government Funding, Investment, Europe

44 points by tolarianwiz 11 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 11 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 13 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 14 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 15 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 19 days ago | 2 comments

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

FinTech, Startups, Customer Deposits, Investment

36 points by segasaturn 22 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 25 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 30 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 31 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 39 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 44 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 60 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 67 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 73 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 73 days ago | 1 comments

OpenAI seeks to unlock investment by ditching 'AGI' clause with Microsoft (ft.com)

OpenAI, Microsoft, Investment, Artificial Intelligence, Business

5 points by jmsflknr 77 days ago | 2 comments

Show HN: Investment monitoring tool for data nerds and privacy buffs (mycapitally.com)
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Finance, Investment, Privacy, Tools

14 points by panrafal 86 days ago | 2 comments

Prejudice and China (gavekal.com)
At an investment conference in Kuala Lumpur recently, I caught up with an old friend and Gavekal client. Over coffee between sessions, we talked about one of the most visible changes of the last few years in Asia: the Chinese cars that have so quickly appeared on roads across the continent.

China, Economics, Investment, Asia

13 points by thunderbong 108 days ago | 8 comments

Wall Street Investors Enter Single Family Rentals (arpitrage.substack.com)
As housing affordability becomes a key political issue, the one rare area of apparent consensus is that large-scale institutional investors are to blame.

Real Estate, Finance, Investment, Politics

35 points by mooreds 109 days ago | 49 comments

Tech giants set to pay through the nose for nuclear power thats still years away (theregister.com)
Nuclear power contracts signed by hyperscalers show they're desperate for reliable "clean and green" energy sources to feed their ever-expanding datacenter footprints, however, investment bank Jefferies warns that these tech giants are likely to end up paying over the odds to get it.

Nuclear Power, Data Centers, Renewable Energy, Technology Industry, Investment

5 points by rntn 126 days ago | 0 comments

Mullenweg has gone 'nuclear' against tech investing giant Silver Lake (cnbc.com)

Business, Technology, Investment, Lawsuits

23 points by emrah 134 days ago | 27 comments

Toyota to invest $500M in flying taxi startup Joby (ft.com)

Toyota, Startups, Transportation, Investment, Flying Cars

4 points by JumpCrisscross 142 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Overpay mortgage or invest? I built a calculator to help you decide (showloan.info)
showloan.info - modern mortgage and cash loan calculator 2024. Loan repayment schedule, installment calculator, and loan overpayment calculator. Overpay or invest?

Finance, Personal Finance, Investment, Mortgage

9 points by mrbeangrow 143 days ago | 4 comments

If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? (2018) (technologyreview.com)
The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment.

Wealth, Success, Luck, Economics, Investment

61 points by jmsflknr 147 days ago | 73 comments

Investors pile into OpenAI's $6B funding round in unprecedented bet (ft.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Funding, OpenAI, Investment

3 points by belter 154 days ago | 0 comments

Jerry Neumann: Resignation Letter (reactionwheel.net)
I am no longer investing in new companies.

Resignation, Business, Personal, Investment

121 points by vedang 164 days ago | 59 comments