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Ping An and Alphabet-backed health insurer Oscar priced an upsized offering above its range to raise $1.44bn. The offering is part of the broader health space, which has seen many exits in the past years.

Q&A with Wanja Humanes, investment manager, Swisscom Ventures

AI chip developer Horizon Robotics raised a round backed by several automotive manufacturers, taking its overall funding to $900m in the past two months.

The wifi technology provider, backed by a host of corporates, has completed a series E round valuing it at $1.35bn.

Spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX reached a $74bn valuation, a more than sixfold increase on the $12bn it fetched when Google led a $1bn round in 2015.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Q&A with Itamar Sivan, the co-founder of Israel-based quantum computer orchestration technology developer Quantum Machines.

Nature’s laws of physics are difficult to replicate through an arrangement of binary computer switches, no matter how many of the switches we have access to.

Cloud servers can be thought of humanity’s first truly global infrastructure given they act as the bedrock for executing artificial intelligence (AI), or so went the argument in a November edition of The Economist.

DeepMind Technologies’ achievement of applying machine learning to predict 3D protein structures has certainly got the scientific world excited, with some experts hailing a massive step forward for medical research.

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