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Iwona Majkowska

Iwona Majkowska is a financial markets journalist at TS2.tech, specializing in stocks, artificial intelligence and technology. A graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics, she previously worked in equity research and financial analysis before focusing on market reporting. Her daily coverage helps investors follow major developments across U.S. and global markets.

CME Will Run 24/7, Ending Bitcoin Weekend Gap Trade

CME Will Run 24/7, Ending Bitcoin Weekend Gap Trade

CME Group will start round-the-clock, seven-day trading for its cryptocurrency futures and options on Friday. The shift ends a weekend gap that bitcoin traders have watched for years. CME’s crypto contracts will now trade more like the spot market, which runs without pause. CME gaps are getting more attention from traders now. These gaps show up when spot bitcoin trades while CME futures are closed, leaving a price break between Friday's close and Sunday's open. Futures then have to catch up when trading starts again.
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Mistral AI’s Meteoric Rise: Inside the $14B Open-Source Gambit Challenging OpenAI

Mistral AI’s Meteoric Rise: Inside the $14B Open-Source Gambit Challenging OpenAI

Founded in Paris in spring 2023, Mistral AI burst onto the scene with bold ambition: to challenge the likes of OpenAI and Google by doing things differently. Its three co-founders – Arthur Mensch, Timothée Lacroix and Guillaume Lample – left Big Tech research jobs to build foundation models on their own terms techcrunch.com techcrunch.com. The company’s very name hints at its mission to blow fresh air into AI development techcrunch.com. Mensch and team saw that “proprietary [AI] was becoming the norm” and believed there was an opportunity for an open-source approach techcrunch.com. As Mensch put it at the outset: “Open source is a core part of our DNA.” techcrunch.com This vision resonated strongly with investors. In an astonishing seed funding round just one month after founding, Mistral raised €105 million in June 2023 – the largest seed round in European history techcrunch.com. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round alongside prominent VCs across Europe and the US, plus notable angels like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt techcrunch.com. This seed valued the fledgling startup at about €240 million techcrunch.com, despite having no product yet – a testament to the pedigree of the team and the appetite for an open AI alternative. Lightspeed’s
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Stock Market Today

  • Marvell Technology (MRVL) Rides AI Growth, Margins Still Under Strain
    July 3, 2026, 10:08 AM EDT. Marvell Technology (MRVL) is pushing ahead in AI infrastructure, targeting more than 70% growth in its interconnect segment by fiscal 2027 on the back of network products and optics. The company says it's on track for $1 billion in annualized optics revenues and continues to build out its Golden Cable initiative to speed up AI deployment. But pressure on margins hasn't let up as Marvell's mix shifts further to low-margin custom silicon, with first-quarter non-GAAP gross margin down to 58.9%. Operating margin climbed to 35% as revenue rose, but overall gross margins are expected to hold steady. Shares have soared 188.7% so far this year even as Marvell faces tough rivals like Broadcom and AMD, and its stock trades at a higher forward price-to-sales ratio than most peers, keeping margin concerns in view for some investors.
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