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March 22, 2025, 9:55 AM

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Dan Primack / Axios:
StubHub files for an IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE, and reports a $2.8M loss on $1.77B in revenue in 2024, vs. a $405M profit on $1.37B in revenue in 2023  —  Ticket resale marketplace StubHub on Friday filed for an IPO, saying that it plans to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
Bloomberg:
A profile of StubHub CEO Eric Baker, who, according to the company's S-1, holds 5.2% of Class A shares but controls over 90% of the votes through Class B shares  —  This time it isn't concert tickets Eric Baker is selling.  It's shares of StubHub Holdings Inc., the company he co-founded and has owned on and off for a quarter century.
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Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review:
OpenAI, in partnership with MIT, releases its first study on how ChatGPT use affects emotional well-being, including differences in how men and women respond  —  OpenAI says over 400 million people use ChatGPT every week.  But how does interacting with it affect us?  Does it make us more or less lonely?
Paul Liu / The Keyword:
Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal  —  Google ran an experiment to understand the value of European news content.  The data shows people visited Google …
Bloomberg:
A profile of Jed McCaleb, the billionaire who was behind Mt. Gox and XRP, as his aerospace startup Vast looks to build a private space station with SpaceX  —  Crafting and launching a space station that can keep humans alive comfortably in orbit is no easy feat.  —  Jed McCaleb made a fortune in cryptocurrency.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
A profile of Lisa Su, as AMD vies for a bigger chunk of the AI market; CTO Mark Papermaster says AMD had $5B in AI chip sales in 2024, up from $100M in 2023  —  When Lisa Su became CEO of Advanced Micro Devices in late 2014, the company was in dire straits and on the brink of potential bankruptcy.
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