Indie Game Awards Retracts Expedition 33 Prizes Over AI Use
📋 Key Facts ✓ Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards last week. ✓ The awards were retracted due to...
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📋 Key Facts ✓ Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 won Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards last week. ✓ The awards were retracted due to...
Venture partners such as Pantera, Hash3 and Variant look back on a year of regulatory shifts and uneven markets, outlining crypto’s biggest winners and losers in 2025....
📋 Key Facts ✓ Resolve AI, founded by ex-Splunk executives, achieves $1 billion valuation ✓ Series A funding round values the startup at...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Coinbase is buying The Clearing Company. ✓ The acquisition expands into prediction markets. ✓ It ...
iStock; Rebecca Zisser/BI New social, professional networking, and dating startups are coming onto the scene. VCs and angel investors are funding some of these promising startups. Here are the pitch d...
Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP Former SpaceX employees have launched startups with over $3 billion in venture funding. The SpaceX Mafia is backed by top venture firms like Andreessen Horowitz and ...
ShopMy founders Harry Rein, Tiffany Lopinsky, and Chris Tinsley. Courtesy of ShopMy AI and social commerce are fueling millions of dollars in investments in the creator economy. Startups from generati...
I spend an embarrassing amount of time watching prices move, partly out of professional duty and partly because I hate paying full price. This week’s crop finally rewarded the obsession. There are a f...
📋 Key Facts ✓ ByteDance plans 50% more global spending on incentives like bonuses and raises in 2026 for top performers. ✓ Bonuses incr...
Dub, a fintech startup that lets people copy influencers' stock trades, raised a $30 million Series A round in 2025. Dub The creator economy has captivated notable VCs' attention and checks. Some crea...
Top AI researchers, such as Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun, are building world models, which they say have more potential than large language models. Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Top AI researchers like ...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Erebor raised $350 million in funding. ✓ The company achieved a $4.35 billion valuation. ✓ Palmer...
Netshort's micro dramas revolve around soapy themes. NetShort TikTok is jumping into buzzy micro dramas and has introduced a section featuring them in its app. Short-drama apps typically use a freemiu...
Aurora Bryant pivoted from working as a trial attorney to working in legal AI solutions. Courtesy of Aurora Bryant Aurora Bryant's childhood dream was to become a lawyer. She went on to work for the D...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Upshift, Clearstar, and Flare have jointly launched earnXRP ✓ earnXRP is a new product allowing users to earn yield denom...
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI Daters are using AI to slide into the DMs and craft Hinge profiles. Three singles told Business Insider that they had used ChatGPT for pick-up lines, dating app bios, an...
📋 Key Facts ✓ GuliKit developed TMR Electromagnet Joystick Modules with Asus for the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X. ✓ The modules match stoc...
📋 Key Facts ✓ White elephant gifts stem from a legend of the King of Siam gifting burdensome animals to courtiers. ✓ Secret Santa gifts...
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov. Manuel Blondeau/AOP.Press/Corbis/Getty Images Pavel Durov, the founder and owner of Telegram, is worth $17 billion. The messaging platform has 1 billion users and...