AI mania tanks CoreWeave’s Core Scientific acquisition — it buys Python notebook Marimo

Core Scientific shareholders on Thursday voted down an all-stock acquisition offer from partner and competitor CoreWeave that was valued at the time at $9 billion. They did so following a vote-no recommendation from their largest shareholder, Sina Toussi of Two Seas Capital, a firm that focuses on post-bankruptcy companies. Core Scientific emerged from its bankruptcy in January 2024. Core Scientific, which began as a crypto miner and still is one, shares that early history with AI data center provider ...