The Innovation of the Year Award celebrates the boldest and most visionary startups exhibiting at VivaTech 2025. Open to all exhibiting companies, the award honors those pushing boundaries and redefining industries. Startups were scored on Innovation & Creativity, Market Disruption, and Scalability. From hundreds of applicants, 30 made the short list. The top five will…
The DeFi Education Fund and Uniswap Foundation have urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to view decentralized autonomous organizations as disparate groups of individuals rather than coordinated entities. DAO Ecosystem Needs Clarity The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should treat decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) with decentralized control over network governance “as nothing…
U.S. stocks rose Thursday, with the S&P 500 up 0.4%, after Nvidia’s strong first-quarter earnings lifted sentiment. However, gains were tempered by renewed uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s tariff policy following conflicting court decisions. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite also climbed 0.39%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 127 points, or 0.3%, despite a 3.4%…
Federal lawmakers in the Senate are poised to take up the One Big Beautiful Bill Act next week, but a new poll suggests that one of its controversial provisions is clearly unpopular with voters on both sides of the aisle. That measure would ban states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade. Proponents say that…
Key Takeaways Banco Santander SA is exploring entering the stablecoin market and offering retail crypto services through its digital banking unit Openbank. Santander’s plans include considering euro and dollar denominated stablecoins, with potential launches dependent on obtaining regulatory approvals. Share this article Banco Santander SA, which has recently surpassed UBS to become continental Europe’s largest…
A widely followed crypto analyst says that one Ethereum (ETH)-based altcoin looks ready to skyrocket in the coming months while updating his outlook on Bitcoin (BTC) and Sui (SUI). In a new strategy session, crypto trader Michaël van de Poppe tells his 789,600 followers on the social media platform X that it appears as if…
I’ve covered Google’s AI Overviews since its messy rollout last year, when screenshots of absurdly wrong answers started popping up at the top of search results and going viral on social media. Still, when I first saw images of AI Overviews confidently saying that it’s still 2024 in Reddit posts today, I thought they might…
Cantor Fitzgerald, a major global financial services firm, has executed its first trades this month within its newly launched $2 billion bitcoin financing business, Chairman Brandon Lutnick explained at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas. Cantor Fitzgerald Chairman Details Firm’s Growing Bitcoin Initiatives During his fireside chat session with Paolo Ardoino the CEO of…
There’s a new sheriff in town—or at least that’s how Vice President JD Vance framed it from the main stage at Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas. In a packed ballroom at The Venetian, the Republican VP laid out the clearest message yet from the Trump administration: the days of what he called “regulatory harassment” are…
Black Forest Labs, the AI startup whose models once powered the image generation features of X’s Grok chatbot, on Thursday released a new suite of image-generating models — some of which can both create and edit pics. The most capable of the models in the new family, called Flux.1 Kontext, can be prompted with text…
