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This year, the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) — a D.C.-based group and McDonald’s shareholder known for asking companies like Microsoft and Amazon to adopt Bitcoin — asked McDonald’s to consider adding Bitcoin to its treasury during its 2025 annual shareholders’ meeting, set for next month. “McDonald’s seems to have long ago understood what many other corporations have yet to: that a company’s value, especially during inflationary times, is measured not only by how profitable its primary business is, but also by how wisely it invests its assets and protects its profits from debasement,” the NCPPR said. The NCPPR added that…

AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of new code at the company is generated by AI, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed ambitions to widely deploy AI coding models within the social media giant. Yet even some of the best models today struggle to resolve software bugs that wouldn’t trip up experienced devs. A new study from Microsoft Research, Microsoft’s R&D division, reveals that models, including Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s o3-mini, fail to debug many…

Former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has announced that Bitcoin may soar to a new all-time high of $1 million, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency matures as an asset class and attracts new entrants. “We have many more decades to build this industry,” Zhao said while speaking at an event in Lahore, Pakistan with Pakistan Crypto Council CEO Bilal bin Saqib. “We’ll definitely hit $1 million.” “I don’t know if it’s next month, or this year, or next year, or however long — but eventually, we will,” Zhao added. “I think we’ve got enough momentum. This technology is just starting.”…

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, but few aside from Meta’s Threads have achieved the speed of growth Bluesky has reached. As of February 2025, Bluesky has surpassed 30 million users. Its growth stems from several policy changes at X, including a heavily criticized change to the block feature…

In recent years, focus on career and delayed marriage age is driving some women to consider preserving their fertility through egg freezing. But the steep cost of the procedure, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000 per attempt, means many women can’t afford it during their most fertile years: 20s and early 30s. Cofertility, a startup founded by former Uber executive Lauren Makler and health tech angel investor Halle Tecco, offers women no-cost egg freezing in exchange for donating half the retrieved eggs to those unable to conceive. The three-year-old startup just raised a $7.25 million Series A round led by Next…

President Donald Trump has finalized the cancellation of a proposed rule that would have obliged decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms to submit user transaction records to the IRS. The rule, which was first proposed under the Biden administration, was set to go into effect in 2027. The goal of the rule was to regulate DeFi platforms as brokerages, including requiring them to report crypto sales and taxpayer information to the tax agency. On April 10, Trump approved a joint resolution cancelling the rule, a process that has not resulted in any crypto-focused bill becoming law thus far. One of the supporters…

In a recent appearance on Possible, a podcast co-hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said the search giant plans to eventually combine its Gemini AI models with its Veo video-generating models to improve the former’s understanding of the physical world. “We’ve always built Gemini, our foundation model, to be multimodal from the beginning,” Hassabis said, “And the reason we did that [is because] we have a vision for this idea of a universal digital assistant, an assistant that […] actually helps you in the real world.” The AI industry is moving gradually toward “omni” models, if…

Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market are struggling to hold onto recent gains after a rollercoaster week for financial markets, marked by President Trump’s on-again, off-again trade policy. After tumbling to a low of $74,000 on Monday, Bitcoin reached above $82,000 on Friday, recouping 11% of its value within the span of a few days after Trump backed off a significant portion of his aggressive XRP rose 20% to $1.99 after falling to $1.66 on Monday, and Solana rose 23% to $120 after falling to $97. The industry’s market cap has rebounded as well, growing to $2.59 trillion…

Tech company Yahoo has removed several pages and other sections from its corporate website in recent months relating to its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, TechCrunch has learned.  A section of Yahoo’s website that was previously dedicated to DEI no longer loads and instead redirects to the company’s executive leadership page. A previous version of Yahoo’s leadership page from late 2024 touted language mentioning diversity and inclusion but does not appear on Yahoo’s current website. Yahoo’s 2022 diversity report no longer loads and returns a “page not found” error. While open positions on Yahoo’s career website still advertise a…

Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) is one of the most popular meme coins today with a market cap of $24 billion. And that’s after a sharp 50% drop year to date. Is now the time to load up on Dogecoin? There’s one number I track regularly to gauge how attractive Dogecoin is for aggressive long-term investors looking for maximum growth. As a meme coin, Dogecoin’s price movements can vary wildly on a short-term basis, often with little obvious reason behind its price movements. Its volatility has correlated very closely with other major cryptocurrencies like Ethereum and Bitcoin, with some relationship with traditional…