Reuters

Starboard presses Riot Platforms to speed up AI data center push

Feb 18 (Reuters) - Activist investor Starboard Value on Wednesday pressed Riot Platforms (RIOT.O), opens new tab to speed up AI data center deals, saying the bitcoin miner is well-positioned to ...
Seeking Alpha

Riot Platforms stock climbs after Starboard Value letter urges more deals

Riot Platforms (RIOT) stock gained 4.5% in Wednesday premarket trading after hedge fund and investor Starboard Value urged the bitcoin mining and infrastructure company to complete deals while demand ...
CoinDesk

Bitcoin miner Riot stock jumps nearly 9% as activist Starboard urges AI data center expansion

Shares of Riot Platforms (RIOT) rose nearly 9% Wednesday after activist investor Starboard Value LP released a letter pressing the company to accelerate its transition from bitcoin mining to AI ...
Morningstar

Starboard Delivers Letter to Riot Platforms

Believes Riot Is Well Positioned to Execute High-Quality AI/HPC Deals for Its 1.7 GW of Fully Available Power Believes Riot’s Corsicana and Rockdale Sites Are Two of the Premier Sites for AI/HPC ...
CoinTelegraph

Riot Platforms’ AI/HPC push could net up to $21B, says activist holder

Starboard Value said that “time is of the essence,” stressing urgency in Riot getting “more material deals completed” related to AI and HPC. Activist investor Starboard Value is urging Bitcoin miner ...
New York Post

Another week, another riot at the police commission

In George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, public employees must participate in a daily ritual called the Two Minutes Hate. Participants gather in a room and scream at images of their ...
collider

‘Riot Women’ Sets the Stage for a Game-Changing Season 1 Finale in New Sneak Peek [Exclusive]

Britta DeVore is a Senior Author for Collider who has been known to dabble with Reality News as well. When she isn't sitting behind her laptop bringing readers her hot takes on upcoming projects or ...
Polygon

Riot Games' 2XKO layoffs confirm its struggle to move into new genres

Riot Games has cut the development team of its free-to-play fighting game 2XKO by half, laying off around 80 staff, according to a report by Game Developer. In an official statement, executive ...
The Escapist

Riot layoffs come with a tough lesson: 2XKO is a fighting game, and won’t grow beyond that

Riot Games has just announced it’s laying off 80 employees, all from the 2XKO team. It’s never good to hear about layoffs in the gaming industry, but it’s also very, very unsurprising. And this round ...
Engadget

Riot Games is laying off half of the 2XKO development team

Another day, another wave of gaming layoffs. Today it's Riot Games with the announcement that it's cutting jobs on its pair-based fighting game 2XKO. For context, a representative from Riot confirmed ...
GameSpot

2XKO Developers Laid Off By Riot Games Less Than A Month After Console Release

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Riot Games has confirmed that it is laying off 80 2XKO developers fewer than three weeks after the fighting game's console launch. For the time being, ...