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Bumble is in advanced talks to go private in a deal worth about $1 billion, Reuters reported on Monday, October 12, 2026. Ithaca Holdings is the prospective buyer. The talks come as Bumble tries to win back users with AI. Neither company has confirmed a deal. Both declined to comment. Still, Bumble shares surged roughly 50% to $3.80 that Monday, their biggest one-day percentage gain on record. A $1 billion price tag for a $14 billion debut Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble went public in 2021 at a valuation of about $14 billion. Five years later, the proposed price tells a very different story. Paolo Pescatore, an analyst for PP Foresight, said the potential agreement is proof of Bumble’s difficulties, adding that: Going private looks less like a strategic masterstroke and more like an admission that Bumble’s current strategy is failing. The numbers a buyer would inherit Bumble’s Q2 results indicate the reasons for the investors’ concerns. Its revenue declined by 15.2% year-over-year to $210.5 million. The number of paying users also dropped by 16.4% to 3.2 million. Bumble reported a net loss of $127.9 million of which $169.3 million were impairment charges, even though the adjusted EBITDA represented $72.9 million. The slide started earlier. In 2025, the company registered a near 10% drop in revenue that amounted to approximately $966 million, while its paying user base declined by more than 11% to approximately 3.7 million. Bumble Revenue and Paying Users Decline in 2025 and Q2 2026 Industry fatigue, or a Bumble problem Bumble’s competitor, Match Group, appears to be doing better as revenue fell only 1% to $853 million in the second quarter. Meanwhile, net income increased by 36% to $171 million. Tinder also showed signs of improvement. Daily active users dropped by only 4% year-on-year, which was the smallest decline in the last 10 quarters. Hinge’s revenue has increased by 22%. Match aims to bring Hinge’s annual revenue to $1 billion by 2027. Dating-app fatigue remains a challenge. But Match’s results suggest Bumble’s issues range beyond just the users getting bored with swiping. Bumble vs Match Group Q2 2026: Revenue, Profit and User Trends Can AI pull users back, or push them away Bumble hopes its AI-led Bumble 2.0 can change that. The redesign brings richer, chapter-style profiles and the possibility of swipe-free dating. Its March unveiling helped send shares up more than 40%. Wolfe Herd had earlier floated AI dating concierges, as Cryptopolitan reported. Whether users want that help is less clear. A peer-reviewed study suggests confidence in algorithms can encourage AI dating adoption. Yet an SSRN working paper reported 54% fewer usage minutes and 62% fewer app openings among the AI adopters studied. Those findings do not represent all daters. At the same time, less expensive AI will make companion chatbots more attractive than dating apps. However, the use of these chatbots raises privacy and security issues, as noted by the Congressional Research Service. The opportunity remains substantial: Grand View Research estimates a $10.7 billion global dating-app market in 2026, reaching $17.9 billion by 2033. The challenge is converting AI features into users who stay, pay, and trust the platform Micah Abiodun | usagoldmines.com
October 13, 2026

Will Smith Finally Stars in THE MATRIX, Thanks to His ‘Beautiful Scars’ Music Video With Big Sean Tai Gooden | usagoldmines.com

A couple of weeks ago, Will Smith got the internet buzzin’ when he posted a video suggesting that he could be in a new The Matrix project. We eventually learned that his tease was for “Beautiful Scars, a new song and music video with Big Sean. While many people were upset at being “fooled,” I thought it was a good way to grab people’s attention. And a collaboration between the two makes sense considering both of them lean into inspirational rap music. (Big Sean even wrote a book about success and it is pretty great.) Now, the music video for “Beautiful Scars” by Will Smith and Big Sean is here and it pays homage to the original The Matrix film. 

Despite Big Sean’s last name literally being Anderson, he absolutely does not take on the Neo role in this video. It starts with Big Sean and Will Smith sitting across from each other like Neo and Morpheus did in the infamous “red pill or blue pill” scene. Sean gives Will a chance to either take the blue pill and everything in his life will remain the same or take the red one and go back to fix his biggest career mistake.

He takes the red pill, of course, and then we get to experience a taste of what it would’ve been like if Will Smith took the role as Neo in The Matrix. Part of it looks like he’s filming while other parts are literal scenes from the film, like the “bullet time” stunt and the fighting simulation. Check out some cool still images from Will Smith and Big Sean’s Matrix-themed video.

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The visuals are a great homage to The Matrix but don’t forget to tune into the lyrics. Everyone needs a boost these days and what better way to get it than from Will Smith? In the meantime, we will look forward to him linking up with Michael B. Jordan for I Am Legend 2.

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