Karen Moscow

Shares gained as much as 10.5% in their biggest rally since April, as the surprise success of the new Pokemon game helped offset those worries about rising memory costs.

Physical copies of Pokemon Pocopia have sold out at several major retailers in the US, with Amazon even raising its price to around $80.

Last year, Synopsys closed a $35 billion acquisition of engineering software firm Ansys.

Now, the focus turns from integration to execution.

We spoke with CEO Sassine Ghazi about how AI is transforming chip design and manufacturing.

Take a listen.

Saseem, what conclusions did you reach in recent weeks after the sell-off in software names about the long-term definitive impact that AI will have on EDA?

You're one of the biggest EDA names, right?

But you're not the only one.

Synopsys CEO, Sassine Ghazi there.

Let's turn our attention to Google now.

And it's aiming to battle AI slot videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids.

By backing companies, it sees it actually creating high-quality AI content.

This includes a very small but focused $1 million strategic investment in an AI animation studio, Animage.

Let's get more with Alexandra Levine, who covers social media for Bloomberg.

Look, $1 million is but nothing to Google, but it's saying something about what content it wants to back.

for children who are using both YouTube and YouTube Kids.

And so this is really a swing to try to take that on.

Alex, for the Bloomberg Tech audience, what is AI slop?

AI slop is what we are now often calling spammy, clickbaity, repetitive, low quality, slimy looking content that you see not only on YouTube, but also on pretty much every major social media platform at this point.