Why Gold and Bitcoin Are the Go-To Safe Havens in 2025
With central banks stockpiling gold and investors turning to Bitcoin, entrepreneurs must rethink how to preserve value amid rising inflation, trade wars and fiat instability.
Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries
Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…
These Are the Most (and Least) Biased AI Models, According to a New Study
Is AI biased? Here’s how ChatGPT and other models are perceived, based on nearly 200,000 queries.
AI video startup Moonvalley lands $53M, according to filing
Roughly a month after Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based startup developing AI tools for video creation, said it secured $43 million in new funding, the company has raised more, according to a filing with the SEC. The filing, submitted Thursday, reveals that Moonvalley actually landed (so far) around $53 million total from a group of 14 unnamed […]
Even the Strongest Leaders Burn Out — Here’s the Best Way to Shake the Fatigue
Stepping away from work, literally, can sharpen focus, reset your perspective and restore the energy high-stakes leadership demands.
I Crashed, I Learned and I Led — 5 Things Skateboarding Taught Me About Leadership
My years on the halfpipe weren’t just a thrill ride — they also yielded some lessons that have served me well as a business leader
How Rescuing Chihuahuas with Kaley Cuoco Led to Katie Hunt’s Big Success
Katie Hunt, the CEO and co-founder of dog health and wellness company Oh Norman!, explains how she and co-founder Kaley Cuoco’s shared love of rescuing elderly chihuahuas led to the launch of their innovative company.
TechCrunch and VivaTech Partner for the VivaTech Innovation of the Year
TechCrunch is joining forces with VivaTech, Europe’s biggest startup and tech event, to select startups for the prestigious VivaTech Innovation of the Year at VivaTech 2025. This partnership will highlight exceptional creativity, technological ingenuity, and industry-transforming potential among exhibiting startups. The VivaTech Innovation of the Year Award acknowledges and celebrates exhibiting startups at VivaTech 2025 […]
Spotify responds to creator backlash at public podcast play counts
Spotify announced last week that it would roll out public play counts on all podcasts as a way of “helping attract new fans.” But podcasters swiftly responded with criticism of the new feature — mainly, that it would further promote podcasts that already have large audiences while making smaller shows less appealing to new listeners. […]
Why the Smartest Businesses Focus on Giving — Not Taking
Business giving creates a ripple effect of trust, loyalty, good energy and karma that results in long-term sustainable success.
OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT
OpenAI announced on Friday it’s launching a research preview of Codex, the company’s most capable AI coding agent yet. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of the company’s o3 AI reasoning model optimized for software engineering tasks. OpenAI says codex-1 produces “cleaner” code than o3, adheres more precisely to instructions, and will iteratively run […]