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Genetic testing company 23andMe declares bankruptcy

Ars Technica

On Sunday, the genetic testing and heritage company 23andMe announced that it had entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy and was asking a court to arrange its sale. The company has been losing money for years, and a conflict between its board and CEO about future directions led to the entire board resigning back in September.

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2025 Sponsorship Opportunities for Tech Companies That Serve the Nonprofit Sector

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good offers unique sponsorship opportunities for tech companies that serve the nonprofit sector and 2025 is now open for booking!

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How ‘The Matrix’ helped build—and break—beleaguered production company Village Roadhouse

Fast Company Tech

The name Village Roadshow might not ring a bell with every moviegoer, but the companys logo almost certainly will. But last week, following a years-long decline in box office performance, the company filed for bankruptcy. The companys hitmaking era continued all the way through to 2019s billion-plus grossing Joker.

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The 10 most innovative computing companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

The heated race to develop and deploy new large language models and AI products has seen innovation surgeand revenue soarat companies supporting AI infrastructure. And in October, the company opened its first global quantum data center outside the U.S., in Ehningen, Germany.

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Alphabet’s Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company

Engadget

Alphabet is letting its laser-based internet company Taara fly and be free, according to reporting by Financial Times. Googles parent company is spinning off the service from X, its moonshot incubator system (not to be confused with X the social network.) The tech works by firing beams of light to and from various terminals.

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Mauro Porcini, PepsiCo’s first chief design officer, is leaving the company

Fast Company Tech

After nearly 13 years leading PepsiCo design, its first chief design officer Mauro Porciniis departing the company. And he spent the next decade investing in more internal talentsuccessfully arguing that the approach would actually save the company money while offering stronger creative autonomy. Porcinis next move is still unknown.

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The most innovative companies in applied AI for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Contextual AI lets organizations put a companys proprietary intelligence into a secure data store, then lets them build AI apps that can call on that data. In June 2024, the company transformed its existing enterprise AI assistant and search engine into a platform called Work AI platform. billion valuation.