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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…

Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience, was charged with defrauding investors on Wednesday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Founded in 2018, Nate raised over $50 million from investors like Coatue and Forerunner Ventures, most recently raising a $38 million Series A in 2021 led by Renegade Partners. Nate said its app’s users could buy from any e-commerce site with a single click, thanks to AI. In reality, however, Nate relied heavily on hundreds of human contractors in a call center in…

Photo: Marco Bello (Getty Images) Michael Saylor’s bluster about never selling your Bitcoin lost a little oomph this week, as the company he co-founded clarified that, actually, there are some circumstances in which it might need to unload some of its stockpile. “A significant decrease in the market value of our bitcoin holdings could adversely affect our ability to satisfy our financial obligations,” Strategy (MSTR) (formerly MicroStrategy) noted in a regulatory filing on April 7. Those obligations include the interest it owes on $8.21 billion in loans; principal repayments on those loans, which start next year; leases on office space;…