Bloomberg:
Thoma Bravo agrees to acquire a stake in Chicago-based capital markets industry SaaS provider Trading Technologies, sources say in a deal valued at over $1B  —  Buyout firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to acquire a stake in Tradi…

Meanwhile, Ukraine reports Russian air strikes on the southern cities of Kherson and Mykolaiv.

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Matt Deitke, a 24-year-old AI prodigy, initially rejected a $125 million offer from Meta. Mark Zuckerberg intervened, doubling the offer to $250 million. Deitke’s work at AI2 on Molmo, a multimodal chatbot, earned him recognition. He also co-founded Ve…

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
The Marin Community Foundation sold 13.4M+ Figma shares for $440M+ in the IPO; source: the foundation had received the shares from Figma co-founder Evan Wallace  —  As Figma went public this week to much fan…

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Saturday that its team at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) heard explosions and saw smoke coming from a nearby location.

The overnight eruption of the Krasheninnikov Volcano in Kamchatka, its first in 600 years, may be connected to the huge earthquake that rocked Russia’s Far East last week, Russia’s RIA state news agency and scientists reported on Sunday.

Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Foxconn partners with Taiwan-based Teco for AI servers and other AI data center hardware, taking a 10% stake, while Teco gets a less than 1% stake in Foxconn  —  Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. formed a strategic …