Two crypto billionaires sit behind both the Trump family token and Iran’s sanctions-evasion engine
Two crypto billionaires sit behind both the Trump family token and Iran’s sanctions-evasion engine

Reuters traced $2.3bn in Iranian exchange Nobitex’s flows since 2023 to Tron and BNB Chain, the blockchains established by World Liberty Financial’s two most prominent early backers. No party at WLF has been accused of knowing about it. A Reuters inves…

Shein buys Everlane at $100M, and the radical-transparency brand becomes a fast-fashion asset
Shein buys Everlane at $100M, and the radical-transparency brand becomes a fast-fashion asset

L Catterton has sold its majority stake at a steep discount to the DTC era’s peak valuation. Common stockholders get nothing. The Everlane board signed on Saturday. Shein, the Chinese-founded ultra-fast-fashion giant, is acquiring Everlane, the San Fra…

Exadel buys London consultancy Tangent to bolt experience design onto its AI engineering line
Exadel buys London consultancy Tangent to bolt experience design onto its AI engineering line

The Tampa-based, Sun Capital-owned software services firm is folding the SAP- and IWG-trusted UK digital agency into its Digital Experiences practice. Deal terms were not disclosed. Exadel, the Tampa-based software-development and consulting firm, has …

Apple’s India App Store case gets a procedural compromise from the Delhi bench
Apple’s India App Store case gets a procedural compromise from the Delhi bench

An order posted on Saturday tells Apple to hand over financial information to India’s competition regulator. It also tells the regulator not to issue a final ruling before 15 July.  The Delhi High Court told Apple over the weekend to ‘fully cooperate’ …

Federal judge holds back on Anthropic’s $1.5bn author settlement
Federal judge holds back on Anthropic’s $1.5bn author settlement

A federal judge in San Francisco wanted more detail on lawyers’ fees and lead-plaintiff payments before signing off on what would be the largest copyright settlement in US history. A federal judge in San Francisco declined on Thursday to give final app…

Iceotope raises $26m as AI rack densities push past what air cooling can do
Iceotope raises $26m as AI rack densities push past what air cooling can do

Barclays Climate Ventures and Two Seas Capital led the British precision-liquid-cooling company’s Series B, with existing backers ABC Impact, Northern Gritstone, Edinv, and British Patient Capital all returning Iceotope, the British precision-liquid-co…

Figma’s numbers say AI is a tailwind. Its stock price says the market isn’t sure.
Figma’s numbers say AI is a tailwind. Its stock price says the market isn’t sure.

  For ten months, Figma has been a case study in how quickly Wall Street can fall out of love. The company went public on 31 July 2025 at $33 a share, soared past $140 on its debut, and has spent most of 2026 in freefall,  battered by Google’s free Sti…

Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock
Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has taken a roughly $100 million stake in Shopify, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter. The investment is notable less for its size, $100 million is a rounding error in a firm that raised …

Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.
Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.

  Alex Karp has spent the past fortnight telling anyone who will listen that Palantir Technologies is indispensable. Retail investors and the German military have arrived at the opposite conclusion, and their timing is almost perfectly synchronised. In…

OpenAI is preparing to sue Apple over a partnership that was supposed to be the next Google search deal
OpenAI is preparing to sue Apple over a partnership that was supposed to be the next Google search deal

  OpenAI’s partnership with Apple, announced to considerable fanfare in June 2024, is fracturing. The AI company’s lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on options that could include sending Apple a formal notice alleging breach of co…