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Sources: data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars from private equity firms, including Brookfield and KKR, at a $50B+ valuation

Sources: software-specialist PE firm Hg agrees to acquire Rightsline, whose software helps Disney, the BBC, WBD, and others manage IP licensing, for $500M

Acquisition of rights and royalties management company for $500mn comes after plunge in software stocks.

How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity

Deals hit record highs, unloved companies turn sexy and PE finds a new gold mine.  Up until this week, NextEra Energy …

How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity

Deals hit record highs, unloved companies turn sexy and PE finds a new gold mine.  Up until this week, NextEra Energy …

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable

On Wall Street, the announcements sounded like the next phase of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom: frontier model companies …

Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to let their portfolio companies access its models, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms

Sources: OpenAI has pledged up to $1.5B to a new joint venture with PE firms to help deploy AI across their portfolio companies, starting with $500M in equity

Sources: Anthropic plans to invest $200M in a venture with PE firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies, and is in talks to raise $1B for the effort

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including TPG and Advent to form a JV that would distribute its enterprise tools to their portfolio companies