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After a year of regulatory change and uneven market performance, crypto investors are reassessing where value accrued in 2025. In a recent podcast, Pantera Capital partner Mason Nystrom, Hash3 co-founder Hootie Rashidifard and Variant partner Alana Levin identified incumbents, such as Robinhood, alongside stablecoin companies and prediction markets as this year’s top performers.According to Nystrom, incumbents benefited from acting once the regulatory environment became clearer. He pointed to Robinhood, which he said had taken a cautious stance toward crypto in recent years before moving more aggressively in 2025, adding that incumbents “have done an excellent job getting ahead of where the…

Nvidia has struck a non-exclusive licensing agreement with AI chip competitor Groq. As part of the deal, Nvidia will hire Groq founder Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra, and other employees. CNBC reported that Nvidia is acquiring assets from Groq for $20 billion; Nvidia told TechCrunch that this is not an acquisition of the company and did not comment on the scope of the deal. But if CNBC’s numbers are accurate, this purchase is expected to be Nvidia’s largest ever, and with Groq on its side, Nvidia is poised to become even more dominant in chip manufacturing. As tech companies compete…

A woman shot dead in her daughter’s Harlem apartment had been staying there since separating with her longtime boyfriend about two months ago, the slain woman’s family said Wednesday. Basilisa Negron was shot three times in the bathroom of her oldest daughter’s home on W. 141st St. near Malcolm X. Blvd. at about 1 p.m. Tuesday, cops said. Negron’s brother hadn’t seen the victim for about a year, but the victim planned to visit him in Pennsylvania soon, a joyful reunion that will now never take place. “She was gonna come to my house after Christmas,” her brother, Jay Romero,…

A mother-daughter duo was busted for running a Brooklyn prostitution ring out of several massage parlors that exploited women desperate for cash, authorities said Wednesday. Taya Benayun, 59, and Vladilina Benaun, 37, of Brighton Beach, were charged with sex trafficking, labor trafficking and promoting prostitution after they forced a woman to engage in sexual conduct for money and promoted the prostitution of another woman, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. “These defendants allegedly coerced and abused a vulnerable woman during a difficult time in her life, while running multiple illicit massage parlors in numerous locations in Brooklyn,” Gonzalez said. “I…

There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of the internet, server farms have rarely been a point of interest for folks outside of the tech industry, let alone an issue of particularly captivating political resonance. Well, as of 2025, it would appear those days are officially over. Over the past 12 months, data centers have inspired protests in dozens of states, as regional activists have sought to combat America’s ever-increasing compute buildup. Data Center Watch, an organization tracking anti-data center activism, writes that there…

When little Dhruvan Gopi was taken by his parents to a New Jersey urgent care center, they never imagined he was suffering acute liver failure at just 7 weeks old. The shocking discovery set off a race to keep him alive long enough to receive a seldom-performed risky organ transplant at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital. Over the next few days, he was rushed between hospitals in New Jersey and New York, his blood stopped clotting, his parents were warned he might not survive the night, and a large team of specialists converged around his crib. The doctors didn’t yet even…

This post contains spoilers for Solo Leveling. There’s a lot of hype around Solo Leveling Season 3, and rightly so. It is the sequel to one of the best anime seasons of all time. Solo Leveling fans will testify that season 2 of the anime was fantastic and much better than the first. Aside from being packed with action, it raised the curtain on some mysteries in the story. Related Solo Leveling’s Sung Jinwoo Has Already Been Surpassed By 1 Manhwa Protagonist Jinwoo from Solo Leveling is the most popular Manhwa character at the moment. He might have some competition,…

In 2021, a non-fungible token (NFT) by digital artist Beeple was sold for a staggering $69.3 million at a Christie’s auction. Roughly a year later, blockchain entrepreneur Deepak Thapliyal bought a CryptoPunk NFT for $23.7 million in one of the most expensive digital art pieces ever sold.But those were the glory days of NFTs, when digital collectibles routinely commanded eight-figure prices and mainstream institutions rushed to legitimize the market.In 2025, the market has changed, with NFT trading volumes down sharply from their 2021 peaks and buyers placing greater emphasis on utility, community and long-term relevance rather than headline-grabbing prices. Source:…

The excitement for the European startup market was hard to ignore at the annual Slush conference in Helsinki last month. But the actual data on the state of the region’s venture market shows a different reality. The upshot: The European market has not recovered from the global venture capital reset that occurred in 2022 and 2023. But there is evidence it is on the cusp of a turnaround, including Klarna’s recent exit and the region’s homegrown AI startups garnering attention from local investors and beyond. Investors poured €43.7 billion ($52.3 billion) into European startups in 2025 across 7,743 deals through…

There’s plenty of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem that’s actually costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of OR time is lost every single day, not because of the surgeries themselves, but because of everything in between from manual scheduling and coordination chaos to guesswork about room turnover.   Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we’re bringing you a conversation that TechCrunch AI Editor Russell Brandom had with Conor McGinn, co-founder and CEO of Akara, the startup that recently landed a spot on Time’s Best Inventions of 2025 and is building what’s essentially air traffic control for hospitals using thermal sensors and…