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Pomegra's April 2026 weekly insights video on the accelerating AI arms race - model launches, hyperscaler capex, sovereign AI initiatives, and what each shift means for portfolios and the broader market.

Warp Sciences, founded by ex-OpenAI product chief Kevin Weil, emerged from stealth with $215M led by Lightspeed. It is building an AI- and robotics-driven US chemistry lab for drug research, work now often outsourced to China.

Moscow has agreed in principle to restart trilateral Ukraine peace talks with Washington and Kyiv on or after November 10, with Abu Dhabi the proposed venue.

This video outlines the systemic economic consequences of a potential U.S.-Iran conflict in the Strait of Hormuz. While military strikes might achieve tactical goals like damaging nuclear facilities, they ignore the broader global contagion a conflict would cause - from supply chain freeze and oil prices soaring to $130–$180 per barrel, to the paralysis of the IMEC corridor, the vulnerability of U.S. AI compute infrastructure offshored to Gulf states, and the risk of a leaderless Iranian insurgency targeting energy and digital assets.

DeepSeek is reportedly raising about $15B at roughly a $75B pre-money valuation. The round isn't closed, and CATL, Tencent, Meituan and Geely are among the reported investors.

The Treasury would cover six tech fields, with a $50,000 screening threshold, as US-China tech tensions grow.

Every economy - no matter how complex it looks - is powered by three simple forces working in a loop. A short walkthrough of Ray Dalio's three fundamental drivers - productivity, transactions, and credit - and how their interplay explains everything from everyday spending to booms, busts, and the policy levers governments pull during a recession.

Beyond Vision, a Portuguese drone maker, raised €28M+ to scale production and expand globally.

An economy is the system a society uses to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services. Learn its meaning, components, and the 3 questions it answers.

Oxford quantum spinout QuantrolOx raised €12M.

Indurex raised €7M to protect critical infrastructure from cyber threats.

Arke Telekom raised €1M from ACT Venture Partners to advance drone communications.

French-American startup Reduck raised $3M for web-automation technology.

Karta AI raised a $3M seed led by PeerCapital and Cedar Hill Capital.

Where does money actually come from, and how does credit turn into debt? A short walkthrough of how money, credit, and debt move through an economy - the three jobs money does, how credit creates purchasing power before savings exist, why every credit transaction creates a matching debt, and the line between sustainable borrowing and a debt spiral.

Iranian state TV says seven tankers were hit in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, the most in a day since the war began, as Brent crude rose to near $112 a barrel.

Austin enterprise-AI firm RapidCanvas raised a $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures.

UK startup Scarlet raised a $50M Series B for AI-driven medical-device regulatory certification.

Israeli cybersecurity startup Mave raised $34M total, including a $28M Series A led by Red Dot Capital, for an agentic security-operations platform.

US sodium-ion battery maker Peak Energy closed a $108M Series B led by GM Ventures to start production at a 4 GWh California factory and enter the data-center market.

Berlin-linked AI startup Firstwork raised a $15M Series A led by Earlybird to automate onboarding of frontline workers with AI agents.

Why do economies repeat the same boom-and-bust pattern roughly every 5–8 years? A short walkthrough of the short-term debt cycle - how expanding credit drives spending and confidence to a peak, why rising rates and tighter lending turn the tide, and how the contraction and trough finally clear the way for the next recovery.