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Silicon Valley used to take a backseat to Washington, D.C. But now, the people disrupting technology have taken the wheel at the highest echelons of government. And that’s thanks, in large part, to the Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE. Much reporting on DOGE has focused on its staffers’ ties to Musk, the billionaire bestie of President Donald Trump. However, there’s another major nexus: the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors who have joined its clarion call of slashing government spending. TechCrunch has compiled a comprehensive list of the founders and VCs who have worked with DOGE, identified through a combination of personal…

Amidst the general slump in the crypto market, memecoins have rallied significantly over the last week. Both Dogecoin and Shiba Inu have surged over 18% over the last seven days. As per Kraken’s price feeds, DOGE and SHIB were trading at $0.202 and $0.0000152 at press time. While the former recently surpassed Cardano (ADA) to become the 8th largest cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of $30 billion, the latter is the 17th largest cryptocurrency with a market cap of $9 billion. While the monthly price charts of both the meme coins nearly mirror each other, Intellectia AI — an artificial…

In an increasing number of industries, eDiscovery of regulation and compliance documents can make trading (across state borders in the US, for example) less complex. In an industry like pharmaceutical, and its often complex supply chains, companies have to be aware of the mass of changing rules and regulations emanating from different legislatures at local and federal levels. It’s no surprise, therefore, that it’s in regulated supply chain compliance that AI can be hugely beneficial. Given that AIs excel at reading and parsing documentation and images, service providers like Lighthouse AI use the technology in its different forms to comb…

As the year of the AI agent takes shape, a new trend is emerging: startups offering the picks and shovels that help employers build a workforce of bots. Manny Medina, best known as the founder and former CEO of the $4.4 billion valued sales automation company Outreach, just launched one such startup called Paid, he told TechCrunch exclusively.Paid doesn’t make AI agents. It offers a platform that makes sure they get paid, profitably. Paid announced Monday that it raised €10 million (about $11 million) in a pre-seed investment from European powerhouse EQT Ventures, Sequoia, and GTMFund. Medina came up with the…

Mt. Gox, the Japanese crypto exchange that went bankrupt in 2014 after a massive hack, has made its third major Bitcoin transaction this month, shifting over $1 billion in Bitcoin. On March 25, the exchange transferred 11,501 BTC to two different wallets. Of these, 893 BTC, worth approximately $78 million, went to the Mt. Gox cold wallet “1Jbez,” while 10,608 BTC, valued at about $929 million, was sent to another wallet, the Mt. Gox change wallet “1DcoA.” This follows two other major Bitcoin transfers by Mt. Gox earlier this month—one on March 6 when it moved 12,000 BTC worth over…

Gold could hit $3,500 per ounce within the next two years with central banks and China’s insurance industry driving demand, according to Bank of America. Gold has gained 14% this year to break $3,000 per ounce for the first time as geopolitical tensions and President Donald Trump’s trade war pushes some investors into safe-haven assets. Bank of America now sees gold averaging $3,063 per ounce this year and $3,350 in 2026. “Uncertainty around Trump Administration trade policies could continue to push the [U.S. dollar] USD lower, further supporting gold prices near-term,” commodity analysts led by Michael Widmer told clients in…

When Kat Abughazaleh got laid off from her job as an extremism researcher and video producer at Media Matters last year, Elon Musk personally chimed in on X to celebrate her misfortune. “Karma is real,” Musk said. But as Abughazaleh said in a video on Monday announcing her campaign for Congress, she’s not afraid of standing up to Musk, especially as his influence on the federal government escalates. Instead, the 26-year-old has her eye on Illinois’ Ninth District. The current representative, the 80-year-old Democrat Jan Schakowsky, was first elected to Congress before Abughazaleh was even born. “I have ideas that…

Given that it’s a currency outside the command of any government or central bank, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is inherently an outsider’s challenge to the traditional financial system. And Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), formerly known as MicroStrategy, is all-in. It calls itself “the world’s first and largest Bitcoin Treasury Company” and says it has “adopted Bitcoin as our primary treasury reserve asset. … we strategically accumulate Bitcoin and advocate for its role as digital capital.” Strategy’s extremely ambitious investment approach, which calls for using equity and debt financing as well as cash to buy a lot of Bitcoin, leaves investors with an…

Discord announced on Tuesday that it rebuilt its Overlay feature from the ground up. The new Overlay makes streaming games on Discord more user-friendly on the streamer’s end. In its legacy form, players could toggle the Overlay display to use Discord while playing games, but this would bring up the entire Discord client in the center of the screen, blocking the stream and making for a clunky user experience. In the new version of Overlay, users can add specific Discord widgets that will appear around the screen for easy access, making it possible to see messages and adjust sound and…

Bitcoin’s (BTC) recovery looks to have run out of steam with an emergence of a double top bearish reversal pattern on the short duration price charts. BTC peaked near $87,400 last week, with prices pulling back to around $84,000 on Friday and staging a recovery to above $87,000 before stalling again. This sequence of two prominent peaks at roughly the same level, separated by a trough, hints at a classic double top formation. This bearish pattern often signals the end of an uptrend. The double top pattern typically requires confirmation through a decisive drop below the “neckline,” the support level…