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It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it actually comes from a lab in Maryland. In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a material stronger than steel. It seemed like yet another headline-grabbing discovery that wouldn’t make it out of the lab. “All these people came to him,” said Alex Lau, CEO of InventWood, “He’s like, OK, this is amazing, but I’m a university professor. I don’t know quite what to do about it.” Rather than give up, Hu spent the next few years refining…

ROMAIN COSTASECA / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images Next Technology reported in a regulatory filing last week that it held 5,833 bitcoin, 5,000 of which it bought since the end of last year. Next Technology Holding shares took off for a second straight session Monday after the software services provider and bitcoin buyer reported its holdings of the cryptocurrency jumped. The company added 5,000 bitcoin to its portfolio since the end of last year, giving it 5,833. Next Technology said it plans to continue acquiring bitcoin, which it sees as likely to increase in value and serve to…

Google’s openly available Gemma collection of AI models has reached a milestone: over 150 million downloads. Omar Sanseviero, a developer relations engineer at Google DeepMind, announced the figure on X over the weekend, also revealing that developers have created more than 70,000 variants of Gemma on the AI dev platform Hugging Face. Gemma just passed 150 million downloads and over 70k variants on Hugging Face🚀🚀🚀What would you like to see in the next Gemma versions?— Omar Sanseviero (@osanseviero) May 11, 2025 Google launched Gemma in February 2024, aiming to compete with other “open” model families like Meta’s Llama. The latest…

Chicago, IL – May 12, 2025 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks and ETFs featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. ETFs recently featured in the blog include: First Trust SkyBridge Crypto Industry & Digital Economy ETF CRPT, The Spear Alpha ETF SPRX, VanEck Vectors Digital Transformation ETF DAPP, TrueShares Technology, AI and Deep Learning ETF LRNZ and Strive U.S. Semiconductor ETF SHOC. Wall Street staged a solid comeback after a sharp decline in early April triggered by President Trump’s “Liberation Day”…

General Motors has turned to Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry, to oversee its entire product line of gas-powered and electric vehicles, in a newly created job that will touch nearly every department at the U.S. automaker. The new VP of global product and chief product officer position will cover the entire lifecycle of GM’s portfolio and include hardware, software, services, and user experience. Anderson, who will report to GM President Mark Reuss, starts in the new position June 2. He will based in the company’s Mountain View Tech Center in California. Anderson made headlines last week…

GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP via Getty Images Eric Trump participates in a session during the Token 2049 crypto conference in Dubai on May 1, 2025. American Bitcoin, the bitcoin mining company co-founded by Eric Trump, will go public through a merger with another mining firm, Gryphon Digital Mining. The new company will be named American Bitcoin and is expected to trade on the Nasdaq. Trump partnered with bitcoin miner Hut 8 to form American Bitcoin earlier this year. Eric Trump-backed bitcoin miner American Bitcoin announced that it would become a publicly-traded company through a merger with another Bitcoin miner, Gryphon…

OpenAI’s ambitious Stargate data center project is facing delays thanks to tariff-related economic uncertainty, reports Bloomberg. Growing market volatility and cheaper AI services have made banks, private equity investors, and asset managers wary of investing in Stargate, an OpenAI-led project that aims to raise up to $500 million for AI infrastructure in the U.S. and overseas. SoftBank, which in January said it would contribute significant capital to Stargate, has yet to develop a financing template or begin detailed discussions with potential backers, according to Bloomberg. Tariffs could greatly increase the cost of data center buildouts. Per an analysis by TD…

People walk past an advertisement feature Donald Trump with Bitcoin in Hong Kong. May James | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesShares of KindlyMD skyrocketed 600% Monday after the healthcare company announced a merger with Nakamoto Holdings, a bitcoin investment company founded by David Bailey, a key cryptocurrency advisor to President Donald Trump.The newly formed company has secured $200 million in convertible debt and $510 million in fresh capital through a private investment in public equity (PIPE) deal, offering shares at $1.12 each.The raise drew support from more than 200 investors, including Actai Ventures, Arrington Capital, BSQ Capital Partners, Kingsway, Van Eck, and…

Retail traders in South Korea are piling into XRP and dogecoin (DOGE) in a sign of returning risk-on sentiment among speculative traders. Trading volumes of the two tokens on local exchanges crossed bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) in the past 24 hours. The surge comes amid renewed risk-on sentiment across crypto and equity markets as U.S.-China trade tensions ease and macro indicators point to possible rate cuts later this year, some traders say. Both XRP and DOGE have climbed more than 15% over the past week, outpacing bitcoin’s 10% move, while ETH has soared nearly 40%, marking its biggest weekly…

The bitcoin mining company backed by President Donald Trump’s sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., is set to go public on the Nasdaq through an all-stock merger with Gryphon Digital Mining.The combined company, American Bitcoin, will trade under the ticker symbol “ABTC,” with the transaction expected to close as early as the third quarter of 2025.Existing stockholders of American Bitcoin, including the president’s two eldest sons, will own about 98% of the new entity.It is the latest high-profile move from the Trump family’s growing crypto empire, which already includes the controversial $TRUMP meme coin that is offering a private…