Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) have discussed acquiring Unity Software, the game software provider. According to Sina Finance, citing people familiar with the matter, Silver Lake, which already holds about 8% of Unity, and PIF approached the company in recent weeks. The investor consortium discussed a valuation of about $25 billion before Unity’s latest earnings report lifted its market capitalization to about $21.5 billion.

e.l.f. Beauty CEO Tarang Amin said the company delivered its 31st consecutive quarter of net-sales growth, with sales up 51% and adjusted EBITDA up 86%, according to Bloomberg. Amin attributed growth across the portfolio to value, product innovation and marketing, and said every brand grew. He spoke with Romaine Bostick on “The Close.”

Brazil approved its first list of critical and strategic minerals under a new national policy, Bloomberg reported. The policy aims to attract investment and expand domestic processing of resources increasingly sought by Western countries to reduce reliance on China.

T-Mobile US Inc. customers can add free phone-plan benefits, including Apple TV streaming subscriptions and Xbox Game Pass access, instead of traditional perks such as international roaming, according to Bloomberg.

According to ChainCatcher, Anthropic launched Personal Finance for Claude on Thursday as a beta for paid Claude Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers in the United States. Users can connect bank and credit card accounts through Plaid, which handles the login process; Claude receives financial data without access to account passwords. The read-only feature can summarize spending, flag recurring or unusual charges, explain interest costs, and create charts or bill calendars. Anthropic said Claude cannot move, manage or invest users’ money, and the feature has no ads or sponsored recommendations. After the launch, crypto investor Anthony Pompliano accused Anthropic employees of seeking information about his personal finance AI startup, Silvia. He said employees had contacted Silvia engineers since April under the pretext of asking about the company’s growth and computing needs, but were actually probing how its product was built and why it was popular. Pompliano also described a steak dinner allegedly attended by Anthropic representatives and said his team was told CEO Dario Amodei paid for it. He said Silvia’s engineers declined to share sensitive information and that someone at Anthropic warned his team days before the launch that a new product was coming. Pompliano said Silvia’s use of its own models and hardware makes its computing costs about 97% lower than those of frontier AI models. OpenAI introduced a similar bank-account connection feature for ChatGPT in May, also using Plaid for read-only access. Anthropic said it is exploring partnerships with licensed professionals and regulated financial institutions. The beta is currently limited to paid subscribers on the three Claude plans in the United States.

Investors pitched Disney, a US entertainment conglomerate, and Canadian gold miner G Mining at the annual Sohn Conference in Queenstown, New Zealand, Bloomberg reported.

Tiger Global Management and Whale Rock Capital Management were among stock-picking hedge funds pummeled last month as concerns over AI investments roiled markets, Bloomberg reported.

U.S. stock index futures continued to weaken in early trading, pointing to a subdued Asian market open after the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index closed down 12%. According to Sina Finance, Samsung shares fell 12% in premarket trading on NextTrade, while SK Hynix shares dropped 15%. WTI crude prices were steady, U.S. Treasury futures edged higher, and gold and Bitcoin prices changed little.

By integrating the technological and resource advantages of both parties in the fields of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and industrial applications, we will promote cutting-edge technology research, product innovation and industrial cooperation.

China Resources Longdi Smart Network Security and GCSA jointly established the AI ​​and Network Security Research Center, focusing on AI-based anti-fraud and threat detection.

Revolut's $115 billion valuation is supported by payments, subscriptions, and cross-border distribution, while Nubank earns real profits through consumer credit and local market penetration. Stablecoins are bringing these two paths together.

Jinse Finance launches the "Jinse Web3.0 Daily," providing you with the latest and fastest news on AI, DeFi, DAO, NFT, and the metaverse.

GCSA disclosed its ecosystem product matrix: 380 million users, 91.3% success rate in evaluations, and its security capabilities are moving towards comprehensive joint defense.

Of Circle's $865 million in revenue in the third quarter, $182 million came from pre-sale revenue of ARC tokens; excluding this, the reserve interest income from its main business is still shrinking year-on-year.

Blockchain has found product-market fit in prediction markets, perpetual contracts, and stablecoins, but the value is all taken by the platforms that control the users; the chain itself is just a conduit.

The CFTC has approved perpetual contracts for a single stock for the first time, and Wall Street is beginning to learn from the crypto market. The boundaries between US stock market TradeFi and Crypto are disappearing.

Binance suspended withdrawals for about 56 hours, and trading volume shifted to platforms such as OKX, but funds did not migrate on a large scale simultaneously.