Nexus isn’t going all-in on AI, keeping half of its new $700M fund for India startups
Nexus Venture Partners manages $3.2 billion in capital across its funds and has invested in more than 130 companies over the years.
MIT Technology Review’s most popular stories of 2025
It’s been a busy and productive year here at MIT Technology Review. We published magazine issues on power, creativity, innovation, bodies, relationships, and security. We hosted 14 exclusive virtual conversations with our editors and outside experts in our subscriber-only series, Roundtables, and held two events on MIT’s campus. And we published hundreds of articles online,…
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Gemini was Google’s top trending search term in 2025
Gemini wasn’t the only AI chatbot to make the list, as DeepSeek ranked seventh among the year’s trending searches.
New unicorn Brevo raises $583M to challenge CRM giants
Brevo, a customer relationship management company headquartered in Paris, is now a unicorn.
Day One Ventures’ Masha Bucher on why every founder needs to be an influencer
Tech is racing ahead while society struggles to keep up. Masha Bucher, founder and GP of Day One Ventures, built her firm around closing that gap by combining venture capital with hands-on PR to help portfolio companies not just raise money, but actually break through the noise. Day One’s been an early backer of companies like World, Superhuman, and Remote.com, with 12 […]
Amazon hopes to jump start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups
Can Kiro win the hearts of startup founders above the many AI coding tools they already have? Amazon hopes a free year will tempt them.
Could MrBeast IPO? His CEO wants fans to have ‘a chance to be owners of the company’
Would you buy stock in a twenty-seven-year-old named Jimmy?
Roblox banned in Russia, local media says
Russia’s communications agency cited the presence of LGBTQ content on the platform as one of the reasons behind the ban.
Andy Jassy says Amazon’s Nvidia competitor chip is already a multi-billion-dollar business
Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia’s AI chip dominance? Maybe not entirely but Amazon is already making big bucks trying.
Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards, again
The regulatory decision would make it harder for future administrations to implement stricter fuel efficiency standards.
WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use
Though WordPress’s Telex is still an experiment, the vibe coding software has already been used to help build real-world websites.