🇺🇸 💰 Amazon makes its largest external investment ever in the AI company Anthropic, investing $2.75 billion. Anthropic, seen as a leader in generative AI, has now received a total of $4 billion from Amazon.
🇪🇺 🛴 The merger between e-scooter companies Tier and Dott is complete, creating Europe’s largest operator with an estimated revenue of over 250 million euros and over 125 million annual trips.
🇸🇪 👩🏾🏫 Spotify launches a new product in the form of online courses, initially rolling out in the UK.
🌏 🍫 Chocolate prices may significantly increase as cocoa hits a new record price of $9,622 per ton, surging 40.2% in just a month and 129% since the turn of the year.
🇺🇸 👨🏻⚖️ Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX, is sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in the collapse of the cryptocurrency trading platform.
🌏 👵🏻 The world faces a pension crisis, warns BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink, due to an aging population with insufficient savings, with one in six people globally to be over 65 by 2050.