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DeepSeek Nears $7B Funding in Historic AI Deal

DeepSeek is close to securing $7 billion in funding, marking a significant milestone in the AI startup scene and signaling strong investor confidence.

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DeepSeek is reportedly close to closing a $7 billion funding round, highlighting booming investor interest in AI startups amid rising valuations.

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finance
Korea, Taiwan Stock Rallies Fail to Wow Foreign Investors
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Cash is flowing into Japanese equities.

Stoltenberg Sees Norway’s Tax System Driving Slow Retreat From Oil and Gas
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Economy’s growing concentration on the oil and gas industry has sparked concerns

Hedge Fund Targets Ferrari Owners in Private Credit Exotics Boom
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Private credit’s getting into the luxury car business.

SpaceX Kicks Off AI IPOs Set to Rewrite the Rules of Wall Street
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: The AI era is set to enrich Wall Street in a way different from previous technology booms.

Putin’s Next Ombudsman Wants Less Jail Time for Businessmen
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Russia’s next business ombudsman wants to see fewer entrepreneurs winding up in jail or pre-trial detention, arguing that imprisonment remains overused in cases of economic crimes despite years of legal reforms.

Spain Earmarks Up to €800M for Massive EU Data Center Project
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Spain is confident it’ll be awarded a massive artificial intelligence data center project by the EU and plans to invest as much as €800 million ($929 million) in it.

Bahrain Taps Dollar Bond Market Hours After Iran Missile Attack
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Bahrain is marketing a dollar bond hours after fending off Iranian missile attacks, in a key test of investor appetite for Middle East debt.

Forget Tariffs, Rally Is All AI-Led Growth
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: US stocks struggled to build on record gains amid ceasefire tensions between the US and Iran. Growing strains on the ceasefire between the US and Iran sent oil prices higher for a third straight day. Meanwhile US President Donald Trump is proposing new tariffs of at least 10% on…

First Oil Supertanker Moors at Kharg Island in Almost a Month
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: The first oil supertanker in almost a month has been spotted moored at Iran’s main crude-export facility in the northern Persian Gulf, highlighting the largely effective nature of an American blockade on Tehran’s shipping.

AI Music Startup Suno Raises Capital at $5.4 Billion Valuation
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Suno Inc., a startup that enables people to make music using artificial intelligence, has raised $400 million at a valuation of $5.4 billion.

East Africa Braces for Abiy Return in Ethiopia
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Bound for another term, Ethiopia’s prime minister has a long list of tensions to deal with.

DeepSeek Close to Sealing $7 Billion Funding in Historic AI Deal
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: DeepSeek is close to finalizing a deal to raise about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) from investors including Tencent Holdings Ltd. and its own founder in one of China’s largest startup financings, a milestone for a domestic AI industry seeking capital to take on marquee US…

Trio of EU States Break Ranks to Push Further Banking Reforms
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: France, Italy and Spain are proposing a package of reforms that would ease the way for banks doing cross-border business in Europe, according to documents seen by Bloomberg News.

Uber Targets Doubling Its Fleet of Electric Motorcycles in Kenya
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Uber Technologies Inc plans to double its fleet of electric motorcycles in Kenya by the end of the year, as the company races toward becoming a zero-emissions mobility platform globally by 2040.

Broadcom’s $280 Billion, Four-Day Bonanza to Get Earnings Check
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026tech

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Broadcom Inc. shares have been on a tear, adding more than $280 billion in market value in just the last four sessions. But with earnings arriving after the bell, investors will have a chance to assess whether the rally has gone too far.

Lee’s Party on Track for Landslide in South Korea Local Election
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s party is on track for a resounding victory in key local elections that is likely to pile pressure on opposition conservatives as they struggle to reinvent their party after the debacle of their former leader’s martial law decree.

UK’s Ovo Energy to Make Payment for Failing Vulnerable Users
Source: BloombergJune 3, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: UK energy supplier Ovo Energy Ltd. is set to pay £10.4 million ($14 million) after an investigation by the nation’s watchdog found its actions had put customers at risk.

Intel's new AI chip skips the costly memory Nvidia relies on
Source: TheStreetJune 3, 2026business

Excerpt from TheStreet: Scarcity has a way of making people forget there was ever another option. When one ingredient becomes the thing everyone needs at once, the price stops behaving like a price and starts behaving like a ransom. We have watched this happen with oil, with shipping containers, with…

BEA warns Americans on key inflation, consumer spending
Source: TheStreetJune 3, 2026business

Excerpt from TheStreet: The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its April 2026 Personal Income and Outlays report on May 28, 2026, showing prices climbing faster on an annual basis, disposable income contracting, and the personal saving rate falling for a fourth straight month to a multi-year low. The…

Walmart's $700 electric bike that goes 20 MPH is on sale for $396
Source: TheStreetJune 2, 2026business

Excerpt from TheStreet: "Excellent quality at an amazing price."

US, Iran Exchange Military Strikes to Put Fresh Strains on Ceasefire
Source: BloombergJune 2, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: The US and Iran clashed again overnight, with Kuwait and Bahrain caught in the crossfire of one the most serious flare-ups since a ceasefire went into effect in early April.

Trump Begins Rebuilding His Tariff Wall Citing Forced Labor
Source: BloombergJune 2, 2026politics

Excerpt from Bloomberg: The US is proposing new tariffs of at least 10% on imports from 60 trading partners in President Donald Trump’s biggest move to rebuild his protectionist wall since his earlier levies were struck down by the Supreme Court.

Why air purifiers are becoming a household essential
Source: TheStreetJune 2, 2026business

Excerpt from TheStreet: Prepare your home for allergy and wildfire season.

The new student loan 'RAP' plan is here: See if you win or lose
Source: TheStreetJune 2, 2026business

Excerpt from TheStreet: The federal student loan system is undergoing one of its biggest changes in years. Beginning July 1, 2026, the new Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP) becomes the primary option for new borrowers, while borrowers currently enrolled in the SAVE plan will need to choose a new…

Walmart makes a move to challenge Lowe's and Home Depot
Source: TheStreetJune 2, 2026business

Excerpt from TheStreet: Hiring a professional to work on small home repairs can get expensive fast. A 2025 Angi’s State of Home Spending Pulse report revealed that of the homeowners interviewed, 71% said they have postponed at least one home project this year, while 58% said they delayed projects…

Gold Slips as Uncertainty Clouds Negotiations to End US-Iran War
Source: BloombergJune 2, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: Gold declined as renewed clashes in the Middle East cast doubt over negotiations between the US and Iran to end the war that’s upended energy flows and heightened inflation concerns.

US Stocks Stall as Middle East Flare-Ups Lift Oil: Markets Wrap
Source: BloombergJune 2, 2026finance

Excerpt from Bloomberg: US stocks struggled to build on record gains as growing strains on the ceasefire between the US and Iran sent oil prices higher for a third straight day.

chopratejas/headroom
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 60-95% fewer tokens, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

microsoft/markitdown
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

affaan-m/ECC
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.

D4Vinci/Scrapling
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: 🕷️ An adaptive Web Scraping framework that handles everything from a single request to a full-scale crawl!

nesquena/hermes-webui
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Hermes WebUI: The best way to use Hermes Agent from the web or from your phone!

reconurge/flowsint
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: A modern platform for visual, flexible, and extensible graph-based investigations. For cybersecurity analysts and investigators.

OpenBMB/VoxCPM
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: VoxCPM2: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation, Creative Voice Design, and True-to-Life Cloning

stefan-jansen/machine-learning-for-trading
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Code for Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading, 2nd edition.

jamwithai/production-agentic-rag-course
Source: GitHubdeveloper
supermemoryai/supermemory
Source: GitHubdeveloper

Excerpt from GitHub: Memory engine and app that is extremely fast, scalable. The Memory API for the AI era.

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