Four-week-old AI start-up raises record €105mn in European push
Funding puts value of Paris-based Mistral AI at €240mn as dealmaking frenzy around sector intensifies
Artificial intelligence
Man arrested after students among 3 people killed in Nottingham
Police working with counter-terrorism officers to investigate attacks on Tuesday morning
Terrorism
Bunge/Viterra: workout leaves grain trader in shape to bulk up
Joining forces brings vertical integration and plenty of cost savings
Mergers & Acquisitions
Saudi Arabia spends billions in bid to dominate global games industry
Savvy shells out $8bn on deals in 18 months in rapid push to diversify revenues and acquire soft power
Mergers & Acquisitions
Why ‘harvested by hand’ labels bother me
Supermarket claims about the use of human labour rather than machines give us too little information
Artificial intelligence
Big Four accounting firms urged to pay junior auditors more
Chair of regulator defends tough stance on standards and says firms have resources to raise wages
Financial & markets regulation
Sanjeev Gupta’s Australian steel business tests bond investor interest
InfraBuild asks fund managers whether they would consider yield of about 14%
Mergers & Acquisitions
The bear market case for oil
Also in today’s newsletter, a ‘climate club’ on trade
Renewable energy
JPMorgan cuts ties with Odey Asset Management
Move comes as firm’s subsidiary Brook Asset Management blocks withdrawals from one of its funds
Financial & markets regulation
How did the Bank of England get its migration forecasts so wrong?
(In addition to all the other things it got wrong)
Central banks