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Korea Herald
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Aespa announces Japan tour
Aespa set fans abuzz with the announcementduring its fan meetup in Yokohama, Japan, that it will tour the country from October. The group held the meet-and-greet, its first in Japan, over the weekend, and shared the news that it will tour four cities in the nation, holding 10 shows. The four members are set to go live in Fukuoka on Oct. 4-5 before visiting Tokyo twice as well as Nagoya and Osaka. All concerts will be held at arenas, including Yoyogi Stadium in Tokyo and IG Arena in Nagoya, which will open this summer. Aespa officially debuted in Japan in July last year with single 'Hot Mess' and its second gig at Tokyo Dome the following month drew approximately 94,000 people. Meanwhile, the quartet is expected to bring out a new album in June, about eight months after the fifth EP 'Whiplash,' its fifth back-to-back million-seller fronted by smash hit 'Supernova.'
Korea Herald
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
aespa scores best song trophy at Music Awards Japan 2025
Aespa picked up the best song Asia trophy at Music Awards Japan 2025 for 'Supernova,' according to SM Entertainment on Friday. At the awards ceremony held in Kyoto on Thursday and livestreamed via NHK, the quartet's smash hit won the vote. 'Supernova' was a prerelease and one of two focus tracks from the girl group's first full album 'Armageddon,' which topped iTunes top albums charts in 25 regions. The single swept across music charts at home and stayed at No. 1 of Melon's Top 100 for 15 weeks straight. It was named among the "50 Best Songs of 2024" by NME and "25 Best K-Pop Songs of 2024" by Billboard magazine. Meanwhile, the four bandmates will greet fans in Japan this weekend at their first fan meetup in the country, 'To My World,' slated for Yokohama.
CNBC
16-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Cerebras CEO says chipmaker's 'aspiration' is to hold IPO in 2025
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman said his hope is to take his company public in 2025 now that the chipmaker has obtained clearance from the U.S. government to sell shares to an entity in the United Arab Emirates. "That's our aspiration," Feldman told reporters on Thursday at the company's Supernova conference in San Francisco, after being asked if an IPO was likely this year. Cerebras, which makes processors for artificial intelligence workloads, filed to go public in September but hasn't provided an update on the expected size or timing of an offering. In March, the company said it had obtained clearance from a U.S. committee to sell shares to Group 42, a Microsoft-backed AI company based in the UAE. That clearance came from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, and marked a key step for Cerebras in its effort to go public. Cerebras competes with Nvidia, whose graphics processing units (GPUs) are the industry's choice for training and running AI models. More than 85% of Cerebras' revenue in the first half of 2024 came from Group 42. The tech IPO market broadly has been in a drought since early 2022, when rising inflation and higher interest rates pushed investors out of risky assets. Cerebras appeared poised to be the first notable pure-play AI IPO after its filing, but then the came the delay. CoreWeave, which provides AI infrastructure, debuted in March and has seen its market value jump about 65% since its IPO. The IPO market is showing signs of life, with trading app eToro hitting the Nasdaq this week and digital health provider Hinge Health scheduled to go out next week. The Middle East is becoming a more critical market for AI development. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia this week along with other tech leaders and President Donald Trump for the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum. Nvidia said at the event that it will sell more than 18,000 of its latest AI chips to Saudi company Humain. Group 42 is also reportedly on tap to purchase 100,000 GPUs a year as part of a bigger agreement between the U.S. and UAE. Feldman said at the roundtable with reporters that it's "important to be among the big dogs" and said, regarding the latest announcements, "You've got half the story. I can't share the other half." In addition to Microsoft, Cerebras sells to Meta and IBM. Feldman said last year that the company would have another "hyperscaler" within the first half of 2025. "We're close with another," he said on Thursday. "I think they haven't been the quickest to respond." Earlier in the day, Cerebras announced the ability to run an open-source model from Alibaba on its chips at what it says is a lower price than what OpenAI's GPT-4.1 model charges, and at a higher speed.
Gizmodo
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Godzilla x Kong is Going Supernova, What Could It Mean?
Almost a full year after it was teased, we recently learned the third Godzilla x Kong movie is subtitled Supernova, and it's coming March 2027. As fans wonder what'll bring the two Titans together once more, some think the title could be mean the MonsterVerse is introducing interstellar threats. After all, both Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire took the characters underground to the Hollow Earth, so the next place left to go, in theory, would be up into the stars. One of the first candidates that comes to mind is SpaceGodzilla. Like the name implies, it's an evil clone of the King of the Monsters who first appeared in 1994's Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla. Created by Godzilla's genetic material merging with a crystalline organism in space, then absorbed by a black hole and subsequently spat out by a white hole, the cosmic-themed variant attacked Godzilla and Little Godzilla using its power to create and control crystals. The monster was subsequently defeated by Godzilla's red heat ray attack, and since then, it's mostly appeared in non-movie media more than the films themselves. On screen, it last showed up as a toy in 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars, but its most recent overall appearance was in the 2021 gacha game Godzilla Battle Line and anniversary toys for the franchise's 40th birthday. Suffice to say, it's not an A-tier baddie, but the potential Godzilla x Kong connection comes from the name of its special attack, Corona Beam—or Void Invader, the retitled name bestowed upon it from a 2020 Magic: The Gathering expansion. The Beam has been likened to the cosmic explosion, and the Supernova logo seems to support this theory. Alternatively, there's Gigan, first introduced in 1972's Godzilla vs. Gigan. This monster is an alien converted into a cyborg by the Nebulans, aliens looking to use it to decimate Earth and prepare the planet for their eventual subjugation. Godzilla and Anguirus defeated Gigan, who came back in 1973's Godzilla vs. Megalon as a support monster to that film's titular villain, then in 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars, where he was awakened by the alien Xiliens and upgraded to help destroy the Earth. It lost in both returning appearances, and in Final Wars' case, it decapitated itself with its own weapon before a flaming Mothra finished it off for good. Unlike SpaceGodzilla, it's had a more consistent multimedia appearance: along with being playable in GigaBash, it's shown up in the Godzilla vs. Megalon web video from 2023 and the short anime series Chibi Godzilla Raids Again. If Supernova's actually introducing another Godzilla-related enemy, it'd continue a trend first established with MechaGodzilla in vs. Kong. Despite the King's mechanical nemesis being that film's final baddie, both it and New Empire have largely focused on Kong to flesh out his corner of the world, and Godzilla's been more of a special guest star stomping around during the first and last acts. Now that Kong has an ape tribe, a surrogate son, and a new weapon to his name, he's well established enough to cede ground over to Godzilla, whose last substantial mythology and character development was back in 2019's King of the Monsters. If these two are a package deal now, the MonsterVerse writers will have to give them both material to work with, and any fans watching would tell you it's only fair Godzilla get the spotlight now. Whichever evil monster ends up being the primary baddie, we'll be there for Godzilla x Kong: Supernova on March 26, 2027, and we'll have more news on it as information comes out.
The Hindu
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
‘Godzilla x Kong' sequel titled ‘Supernova', production begins
The titans are back—Godzilla x Kong is officially getting a sequel, and it now has a name: Godzilla x Kong: Supernova. Warner Bros. and Legendary confirmed the title Friday and released a teaser to mark the beginning of production. The sixth film in the MonsterVerse franchise is scheduled to hit theaters on March 26, 2027. Supernova will be directed by Grant Sputore, known for the sci-fi thriller I Am Mother, and is based on a screenplay by David Callaham and Michael Lloyd Green. Plot details remain tightly guarded, but the film is expected to feature a new wave of human characters as Godzilla and Kong team up — or face off — against a cataclysmic threat with world-ending consequences. Returning to the cast is Dan Stevens, reprising his role as Trapper, the eccentric monster dentist introduced in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. He'll be joined by Kaitlyn Dever, Jack O'Connell, Matthew Modine, Delroy Lindo, Alycia Debnam-Carey, and Sam Neill. Mary Parent and Thomas Tull return as producers. The previous film, The New Empire, directed by Adam Wingard, earned over $570 million worldwide. The franchise began with 2014's Godzilla and has since grown into a multi-film saga filled with evolving lore. In addition to the films, the MonsterVerse also extends to the small screen with Apple TV+'s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, which has been renewed for a second season. The show stars Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, and both Wyatt and Kurt Russell as different versions of the same character, Lee Shaw.
