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How Bridge Entertainment Labs’ Steven Olikara Is Building Community Across America’s Deepest Divides
Steven OlikaraChelsea Lauren / Shutterstock for Hollywood Climate SummitThere is an industry that profits every time you come to hate your neighbor a little more. Steven Olikara calls it the “division industrial complex” — “a collection of algorithms, polarized media, and hyper-partisan political operatives that make money on making us hate each other all the…
Salman Shahid, CEO at Noah Technology. gettyArtificial intelligence is no longer a test case in digital marketing. It is becoming a structural requirement. Yet across organizations, a similar pattern is emerging where AI pilots succeed, but enterprise adoption stalls. Teams experiment with AI-driven content, automate segments of paid media or utilize predictive models in isolation.…
Road sign on a German autobahn.gettyAs Europe searches for its next wave of energy transition and industry 4.0 solutions, technology startups driving the continent’s fourth industrial revolution or “4IR” are increasingly heading to a particular part of Germany in their droves – the Munich-Dresden corridor. An aggregation of Deutscher Startup-Verband and registry origination data from…
Three months ago, Goldman Sachs was warning clients that the U.S. economy had a one-in-four chance of tipping into recession. The bank just cut that number by 10 percentage points, and the reason has nothing to do with anything the Federal Reserve did. Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius …
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Image Credits:Wayve 7:04 PM PDT · June 30, 2026 Wayve, a U.K.-based self-driving tech startup, is allowing its employees to sell a portion of their vested equity. The $85 million tender offer — essentially a structured opportunity for employees to sell shares back to investors — is being led by the company’s existing and new…
Apple iPhone 17Getty ImagesJune 30 update: this post, first released on June 29, was updated to reflect Apple’s confirmation that this update was issued early as a response to hackers. Apple’s latest iPhone software has just been released, almost a month after iOS 26.5.1, which was exclusively for iPhone 17 series handsets and iPhone Air.…
Image Credits:Kimberly White / Getty Images 4:00 PM PDT · June 30, 2026 What if one pitch changed everything? The last time TechCrunch brought Startup Battlefield to Sydney, two little-known startups stepped onto the stage. What happened next led to more than $85 million raised. If you want your shot, applications close in just a…





