How Did AI Hit $400B Yet Trigger Layoffs? 📈🤖💼

November 24, 2025

TL;DR

• Wealthy raised fresh capital for AI advisory
• New $60M fund targets construction-tech innovation
• Public markets flash mixed signals on AI trade
• Investors reassess AI bubble, capex and ROI

HEADLINES

Wealthy lands Series B for AI wealth platform 💰🔗

Boman Group launches $60M construction tech investment fund 🏗️🔗

Caixin Global dissects AI boom’s jobless growth paradox 📉🔗

Straits Times questions what is next for AI trade 📊🔗

Economic Times weighs AI momentum and valuation risks 🧐🔗

Google develops AI agent for automated travel bookings ✈️🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

Bertelsmann India Investments invested Rs130 crore in Wealthy 🤝🔗

Boman Group launched $60M fund for construction innovation startups 🏦🔗

Microsoft and Nvidia plan up to $15B into Anthropic ⚙️🔗

Magnificent Seven drive over $400B in 2025 AI investment 🏛️🔗

RAISES

Wealthy raised Rs130 crore Series B led by Bertelsmann India 📈🔗

Metaguest.AI secured final tranche of up to $1M debt facility 🏨🔗

Dream Bowl 2026 Meme Coin distribution by Datavault AI sets November 24 ex-date 🪙🔗

RAISING

Metaguest.AI is closing remaining secured facility to scale hospitality AI 🏨🔗

Boman Group Fund is seeking construction-tech deals using automation and AI 🏗️🔗

Anthropic expects multi-billion funding tied to Azure workloads 🤖🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Seqoon unveiled Sai Arabic conversational AI for enterprises 🗣️🔗

Google announced AI agent prototype for travel bookings ✈️🔗

Zenika Singapore repositioned leadership to accelerate AI engineering offerings 👨‍💻🔗

JR Academy launched 2026 Horizon program on Australia’s AI future 🇦🇺🔗

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Sai Arabic-first enterprise conversational AI assistant 🌐🔗

Wealthy Platform AI workflows for mutual fund distributors 📊🔗

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METRICS

U.S. AI industrial investment now 34 percent of private capex 📊🔗

Magnificent Seven per-employee profit up 95 percent yearly 📈🔗

AWS cloud revenues jumped 20 percent year-on-year ☁️🔗

Nvidia customers plan $440B AI capex over 12 months 💽🔗

Chip index down 11 percent in November alone 📉🔗

BENCHMARKS

Caixin analysis shows Nasdaq up 140 percent since 2023 📘🔗

Orient Securities estimates AI capex central to recent GDP growth 📊🔗

Beijing Shunwei Consulting pegs per-employee revenue at $1.53M 📑🔗

Economic Times notes rising AI-themed mutual fund exposure 📙🔗

INFRA & COSTS

Microsoft–Anthropic deal targets 1 gigawatt of AI compute ⚡🔗

Nvidia’s clients eye $440B data center capex surge 🏗️🔗

CoreWeave stock plunges 46 percent amid AI infra concerns 🖥️🔗

Oracle shares fall 24 percent on AI spend worries 💾🔗

VALUATIONS

Amazon nears $2.5T market cap on AI boom 🏷️🔗

Meta Platforms down 21 percent since earnings on capex fears 📉🔗

Microsoft slides 13 percent amid questions on AI ROI 💹🔗

Nvidia swings from plus 5 percent to minus 3.2 percent 🎢🔗

POLICY

India Standing Committee mulls AI content labelling for creators ⚖️🔗

South Korea AI Talent Plan raises doubts over execution flip-flops 📜🔗

NASA AI Lecture Series highlights autonomous LLM agents for research 🛰️🔗

World Patients Alliance trains NGOs on ethical AI advocacy practices 🏥🔗

SOVEREIGN

Humain CEO advances Saudi–Korea collaboration on national AI projects 🤝🔗

Australia 2026 Horizon convenes policymakers on national AI strategy 🇦🇺🔗

Saudi DGA Cloud Pioneers boosts public sector cloud and AI readiness ☁️🔗

OFA Group EGM addresses digital infrastructure and tokenization strategies 🏛️🔗

SECTORS

Wealth Management deployed AI onboarding and advisory workflows 💹🔗

Construction and Housing backed AI-enabled modular and 3D printing tech 🏗️🔗

Healthcare Advocacy deployed AI tools for patient engagement 🏥🔗

Real Estate explored AI for property analysis and underwriting 🏠🔗

Retail scaled AI in-store analytics and personalization 🛍️🔗

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