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Wade Davis just took the keys at Clear Channel. Mubadala wrote the check. SoftBank hunting up to $100B in the Gulf for AI, IRH doubles down on Zambia copper, ADIA under US grocery real estate, Mubadala in NeuroGen and Italian towers.
Kroger is cutting 3,000 corporate jobs and Albertsons is leaving weak markets. Two weeks earlier, an Abu Dhabi Investment Authority unit backed the purchase of the shopping centers under their stores, through a firm founded by Brixmor's lead independent director.
Abu Dhabi’s IRH bids for Kenmare with its Mopani dispute still open, and Gulf funds turn toward Asia.
Since April, Emirates NBD has hired debt collectors, cut hiring by more than half, and lost corporate credit staff to FAB.
A 2017 refinery sale to Russian state-linked buyers, one of them partly owned by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, reset Essar's finances. A $770 million U.S. government loan completed the funding for its Minnesota mine. This piece follows the money and the people between those two points.
IREN borrowed against Nvidia chips twice in 2026: $3.65 billion at 6% in June, with Microsoft on the contract, and $2.4 billion at 9% in August from Blue Owl, with no hyperscaler. Macquarie alumni run the borrower, and Blackstone and Goldman alumni staff the lender.
Oracle added $700 million to its restructuring plan, and the layoff notices followed days later. Its recent hires tell a different story: data center construction, power, reliability and infrastructure finance, with talent pulled from AWS, Microsoft and Apple.
KKR bought Atlantic Aviation for $4.5 billion in 2021. It is now valued near $10 billion, with its tracked workforce barely changed. The hiring is happening at NetJets and Flexjet, in maintenance, engineering and operations, as fleets fly more hours through the same airports.
The Pentagon signed 7-year interceptor component deals with Lockheed and General Dynamics. Lockheed started building for this months ago: engineering intake jumped from March to June, landing in Grand Prairie, Camden, Orlando and Huntsville. GD shows a much smaller build.
Jet fuel has nearly doubled this year. United is cutting management layers while protecting procurement and fleet, Delta is protecting revenue and loyalty, and American is building product and data. Three workforces, three bets on the fuel shock.
Lucid cut about 10% of its workforce while still staffing its Saudi factory. Ceer grew 20% on hires from Stellantis, Gestamp and Hyundai. From Formula E classrooms to the Lucid board, PIF is importing an automotive industry through people, and it says so itself.
Sharon AI grew its workforce 175% in six months, hiring from Microsoft, AWS and Macquarie. Then it closed a $1.6 billion financing and hiring went flat. All five covering analysts rate it Buy. Here is what its staffing says about its $1.32 billion contract book.
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