Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Filing: GameStop acquires 4,710 bitcoin for its corporate treasury, but does not disclose the total purchase amount, after announcing a bitcoin plan in March (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Filing: GameStop acquires 4,710 bitcoin for its corporate treasury, but does not disclose the total purchase amount, after announcing a bitcoin plan in March  —  - The video game retailer announced a 4,710 bitcoin purchase on May 28.  — GameStop previously announced plans to adopt Bitcoin …



ASML's stock is down ~25% in the past year from a record ~€1,000 in July 2024, cutting $130B+ from its market cap, amid China export rules and US tariffs (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
ASML's stock is down ~25% in the past year from a record ~€1,000 in July 2024, cutting $130B+ from its market cap, amid China export rules and US tariffs  —  More than $130 billion of value has been wiped off of ASML in under a year amid restrictions on exports to China and U.S. tariff uncertainty



Memo: Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff, set to become Tinder CEO in July, lays out a new vision for the app, including speeding up product changes and using AI (Chip Cutter/Wall Street Journal)

Chip Cutter / Wall Street Journal:
Memo: Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff, set to become Tinder CEO in July, lays out a new vision for the app, including speeding up product changes and using AI  —  Spencer Rascoff is rethinking Match Group's biggest app as younger online daters grow tired of swiping



Getty Images CEO Craig Peters says Getty is spending "millions and millions" on its Stability AI lawsuit in the UK and the US, accusing it of copying 12M images (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Getty Images CEO Craig Peters says Getty is spending “millions and millions” on its Stability AI lawsuit in the UK and the US, accusing it of copying 12M images  —  Peters told CNBC in an interview that both Stability AI — the U.K.-based startup best known for its text …



Sunday, May 25, 2025

London-based Converge, which uses sensors and AI to optimize the use of concrete in construction projects, raised a $22M Series A led by Dutch bank ABN Amro (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)

Katie Fehrenbacher / Axios:
London-based Converge, which uses sensors and AI to optimize the use of concrete in construction projects, raised a $22M Series A led by Dutch bank ABN Amro  —  Converge, a concrete sensor and AI startup, has closed $22 million in the second tranche of a Series A round, the company tells Axios.



Sarvam AI's 24B-parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on Hugging Face, raising concerns about AI efforts in India (Mohit Pandey/Analytics India Magazine)

Mohit Pandey / Analytics India Magazine:
Sarvam AI's 24B-parameter LLM for Indian languages Sarvam-M receives only 334 downloads in two days on Hugging Face, raising concerns about AI efforts in India  —  Much of Sarvam's criticism comes from comparing it to OpenAI or DeepSeek, while the problem the company is trying to solve is fundamentally different.



Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raises doubts about Elon Musk's goal of making it a reliable source of information in high-stakes areas like medicine (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Will Oremus / Washington Post:
Grok's tendency to repeat debunked claims raises doubts about Elon Musk's goal of making it a reliable source of information in high-stakes areas like medicine  —  Grok has proved popular with X users.  But a string of bizarre blunders has threatened to turn it into a punchline.



Some VCs, such as Khosla Ventures, are considering acquiring mature businesses, like call center operators, and optimizing them with AI to serve more customers (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Some VCs, such as Khosla Ventures, are considering acquiring mature businesses, like call center operators, and optimizing them with AI to serve more customers  —  Venture capitalists have always focused on investing in companies that leverage technology to either disrupt established industries …



Saturday, May 24, 2025

Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a new AI chip priced between $6,500 and $8,000, well below the $10,000-$12,000 the H20 sold for, after US export curbs (Reuters)

Reuters:
Sources: Nvidia plans to launch a new AI chip priced between $6,500 and $8,000, well below the $10,000-$12,000 the H20 sold for, after US export curbs  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) will launch a new artificial intelligence chipset for China at a significantly lower price than its recently restricted H20 model …



X appears to be in the midst of a significant outage globally, after a fire reportedly broke out in an Oregon data center owned by X on Thursday (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Wes Davis / The Verge:
X appears to be in the midst of a significant outage globally, after a fire reportedly broke out in an Oregon data center owned by X on Thursday  —  Feeds aren't loading on X following a reported data center fire earlier in the week. … Elon Musk's X appears to be in the midst of a significant outage.



The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail in partnership with Shein, has struggled to gain traction after launching in February (Rest of World)

Rest of World:
The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail in partnership with Shein, has struggled to gain traction after launching in February  —  Early data shows the partnership is off to a slow start, as Reliance's retail machine struggles to cement its place in a market dominated by Amazon and Walmart.



Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands (The Information)

The Information : Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researc...