TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has signed a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to form majority American-owned joint venture to keep the social app operating in the U.S. The deal ends a six-year long political saga that started in 2020 when President Donald Trump tried to ban the app over national security concerns during his first term. … Read more
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The following is a guest post by Nischal Shetty, co-founder and President at Shardeum. On 2nd January 2026, an anonymous trader on crypto prediction platform Polymarket put down roughly $30,000 on a contract that Nicolás Maduro would be out of power by 31 January 2026. Within hours of a U.S. special forces raid that resulted … Read more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is planning to visit India in mid-February, his first visit to the country in nearly a year, TechCrunch has learned. The visit comes as New Delhi prepares to host a major AI summit expected to draw top executives from Meta, Google, and Anthropic. India is hosting its first major AI event … Read more
Araya Doheny/Getty Images HGTV just kicked off “Cheap A$$ Beach Houses,” a series featuring affordable beachfront properties. Plenty of reality TV fans have already heard the show’s narrator, even if they don’t realize it at first. Matthew Hoffman provided the voiceovers for the first three seasons of … Read more
The RG G01 won’t be the first controller with a built-in screen. Companies like Turtle Beach already offer them. While a display adds to the cost, it lets gamers adjust settings, program macros that automatically trigger a series of button presses, and remap controls, without having to leave a game and connect to a mobile … Read more
For fall, creative director Kim Bekker decided to keep things simple. “We really wanted to make a study of simplicity and look at straightforward archetypes,” she explained during a preview at Isabel Marant showroom in Paris. Bekker began, logically enough, by listening to her instinct as well as to colleagues on the shop floor near … Read more
There aren’t many tech companies that can claim Sony’s level of influence in how we live our lives. From the Walkman to the PlayStation to the Trinitron, Sony has been making excellent gadgets in multiple categories for decades, which makes this week’s news just a little sad. Sony’s new joint venture with TCL isn’t the … Read more
The crypto industry’s capital headline for 2025 looks like a comeback story: $50.6 billion across 1,409 transactions, up sharply from 2024’s totals. However, the composition tells a different story. According to the annual Crypto Fundraising Report, 43.7% of that capital came from just 21 mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Traditional venture capital and private investment accounted … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Aerospace & Defence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. David Lockwood, the head of Babcock International and architect of a turnaround that transformed the defence contractor into one of the UK’s best stock market performers, will retire at the end of this year. … Read more