IPO market boost from Circle 500% surge, VCs say drought may be ending

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Jeremy Allaire, CEO and co-founder of Circle Internet Group, the issuer of one of the world’s biggest stablecoins, and Circle Internet Group co-founder Sean Neville react as they ring the opening bell, on the day of the company’s IPO, in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2025. NYSE For over three years, venture capital firms […]


The EthCC crypto scene at Cannes shows how far Ethereum has come

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CANNES — Wall Street’s new plumbing is being built on Ethereum and this week its architects took over the same French Riviera villas and red carpet venues that host the Cannes Film Festival in May. The Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, took over the beachside town that was swarming with crypto founders, developers, and some […]


Microsoft layoffs hit 830 workers in home state of Washington

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Axel Springer building in Berlin on Oct. 17, 2023. He received the annual Axel Springer Award. Ben Kriemann | Getty Images Among the thousands of Microsoft employees who lost their jobs in the cutbacks announced this week were 830 staffers in the company’s home state of Washington. Nearly […]


CoreWeave says it’s the first to get Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2, 2024. Ann Wang | Reuters Nvidia’s Blackwell Ultra chips, the company’s next-generation graphics processor for artificial intelligence, have been commercially deployed at CoreWeave, the companies announced on Thursday. CoreWeave has received shipments of Dell-built shipments based around Nvidia’s GB300 NVL72 AI systems, Dell said on […]


U.S. lifts chip software curbs on China amid trade truce

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Synopsys logo is seen displayed on a smartphone with the flag of China in the background. Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images The U.S. government has rescinded its export restrictions on chip-design software to China, semiconductor software companies Synopsys and Cadence announced Thursday.  “Synopsys is working to restore access to the recently restricted products […]


Elon Musk’s X is down for some users

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The X logo appears on a phone, and the xAI logo is displayed on a laptop in Krakow, Poland, on April 1, 2025. (Photo by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk’s social media platform X was hit with an outage on Wednesday, leaving some users unable to load […]


Tesla shares drop on Musk, Trump feud ahead of Q2 deliveries

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Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Jim Lo Scalzo | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla shares have dropped 7% from […]


Elon Musk’s xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity

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Elon Musk announced his new company xAI, which he says has the goal to understand the true nature of the universe. Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty Images XAI, the artificial intelligence startup run by Elon Musk, has raised a combined $10 billion in debt and equity, Morgan Stanley said. Half of that sum was […]


Robinhood gives out tokens of OpenAI and SpaceX. Stock hits record

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CANNES, France — Robinhood stock climbed nearly 13% to an all-time high Monday after the company rolled out tokenized shares of OpenAI and SpaceX to users in Europe as part of a larger crypto rollout. It is the company’s first move to make private equity accessible via blockchain. The announcement, which came Monday during the company’s […]


At 20 years old, Reddit is defending its data and fighting AI with AI

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman stands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after ringing a bell on the floor setting the share price at $47 in its initial public offering (IPO) on March 21, 2024 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images For 20 years, Reddit […]