MarketCatalystThe AI customer-support startup, last valued at $4.5 billion, is exploring an acquisition and has held early talks with ServiceNow, according to Business Insider. Here is what was reported, who else is in the space, and why ServiceNow is in the frame.
A selloff in Korean chip stocks spilled into crypto derivatives on October 13, liquidating $803 million in leveraged positions across 10 exchanges. Bitcoin briefly fell below $81,000, and tokenized SanDisk contracts saw more liquidations than XRP.
China's central bank approved Visa's Beijing subsidiary to start preparing a domestic card clearing business, moving it closer to a market UnionPay dominates. Commercial operations still need a license, and Visa has one year to get ready.
Intel has begun customer sampling of its D-series inference GPUs, formerly Crescent Island, with a long list of server makers lined up. There is still no pricing, volume or revenue guidance, and Nvidia, AMD and Arm-based rivals are all targeting the same data center budgets.
Intel shared new specs for its Intel GPU D-series, formerly code-named Crescent Island, and new Xeon-based rack designs at the OCP Global Summit. The stock fell about 3% with chips on Monday. Here is what Intel said and what is still missing.
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, its most advanced AI models yet. Wonder Full scored 56 on the Artificial Analysis index, just behind Claude Opus 5.5 at 58, according to the New York Times.