News archive — October 2026
Wellness Beauty🇬🇧Oct 30, 2026
Luxury leather maker buys collapsed haulier Telford Transport for £320,000
Investors🇰🇷Oct 30, 2026
Shinhan launches $350M renewable funds, including Korea's first for resident profit-sharing
FundingHealth🇺🇸Oct 30, 2026
Stablecoin treasury firm SDEV raises $45.9M via ATM after $50.4M SKY-driven quarter
FundingRobotics🇰🇷Oct 29, 2026
Korea's NanoForge AI raises $10.9M seed to automate materials discovery
Big techSemiconductors🇺🇸Oct 29, 2026
Nvidia weighs guaranteeing billions of Nscale debt for its $45B Anthropic data centre
Fintech🇺🇸Oct 29, 2026
North Korea blamed for Binance's ~$6.3B hack, the largest crypto theft on record, which started with a fake job interview and a poisoned pyenv
FundingSecurity🇺🇸Oct 29, 2026
T3 Defense raises $10M in second tranche of convertible preferred sale
M&A🇺🇸Oct 29, 2026
Legal AI startup Crosby bids for Weil Gotshal's data and brand as the 95-year-old law firm winds down
Wellness Beauty🇺🇸Oct 29, 2026
Skincare brand GoPure lands debt facility backing its Amazon and TikTok inventory
Enterprise Software🇺🇸Oct 29, 2026
Claudes built democracies, GPTs formed hives: what YC learned running AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
Big tech🇺🇸Oct 29, 2026
Reddit CEO: Google's AI Mode 'does not drive traffic' as referrals drop 1M a week
Big tech🇺🇸Oct 29, 2026
Alphabet loses ~$500B in market value as AI spending soars and Search slips below half of revenue
FundingFintechAzerbaijanOct 29, 2026
Azerbaijan's ABB Bank returns with $8.82M bond sale months after last raise
M&AEnterprise Software🇨🇦Oct 29, 2026
Coveo buys YC-backed Anglera to feed product data to AI shopping assistants
Energy🇺🇸Oct 29, 2026
DOE approves Radiant's Kaleidos microreactor for full-power testing at Idaho National Laboratory
FundingFood🇺🇸Oct 29, 2026
Columbus waffle maker Superb Bakehouse lands $140K from Ohio State network
Funding🇿🇦Oct 29, 2026
African Frontier Capital lands $125M to fund African e-mobility and solar through debt