Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The climate tech sector is at a crossroads. At Epic Cleantec, a company I cofounded to tackle water scarcity through innovative reuse technology, none of us came from an environmental background. My path to climate tech was anything but linear. But to build these companies, we need more than passion.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

When companies advertise job openings, they often use buzzwords like ambitious and self-reliant to describe their ideal candidate. We also found that recruiters are more likely to use rule-bender terms when hiring for highly innovative, high-growth companies. Consider a company hiring a salesperson. But theres a catch.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

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.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The chip company had been reading the tea leaves and built new features into its GPUs that made them even better suited to real-time inference than before. Even before the appearance of new reasoning models, some of AIs hottest companies produced state-of-the-art new AI systems. But one company is already reaping the rewards.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The businesses in Fast Company s Most Innovative Companies in AR/VR reflect that trend. In January 2024, the company debuted its Xreal Air 2 Ultra line of AR glasses, equipped with the cameras and processing power necessary to provide spatial computing experiences comparable to professional devices from Apple and Meta, all for $699.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This year, the most innovative companies in the education sector are tackling a dizzying array of challenges facing students and schools alikenot to mention parents. This June, Amira merged with 27-year-old digital learning company Istation, whose gamified educational content was being used in more than 1,000 school districts.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

If a job is about more than the title or even the paybut also a chance to find a deeper meaning and sense of purposethe honorees in the inaugural class of most innovative companies in economic development are chasing a similar ideal, just on a larger scale. Ford Motor Co.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

When it comes to the current state of Black women in tech, the vibes are ominous. There's the current war on DEI, with companies like Google and Meta killing their diversity programs. We have a bold vision to launch one million Black girls in tech by 2040.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In the midst of an artificial intelligence boom thats reshaping almost every facet of the business world, companies are competing in an arms race to build the best and brightest models and fully embrace the nascent technology, whether thats as a product or service for customers or as an integralcomponent of their organizations processes.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Innovative agriculture companies must now dedicate significant energy to ensuring future generations of farmers can continue to grow healthy, bountiful crops and feed the planet. The most innovative companies in agriculture for 2025 include forward-thinking businesses and nonprofits with at least one eye firmly on this future.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

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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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

When Intuitive Machines became the first private space company to land on the moon , it was hailed as successful, despite its spacecraft breaking a leg and falling to its side. Additionally, the company has upgraded its dishes on the ground for receiving data. The program has invested $2.6

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Our honorees for the most innovative companies in design for 2025 span the gamut of product, architecture, and UX. No doubt being a young company helps here (On was founded in 2010). This is a long-term bet on core design/manufacturing/performance tech from On, and will be something to watch for years to come.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its recent work includes transforming a department store in Boulder, Colorado, into a biotech hub for the diagnostic solutions company Biodesix (2024) and converting a former probation office in Whittier, California, into the Greater Whittier LGBTQ+ Community Center (2024).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Actthe provision that protects tech platforms from legal liability for content posted by their usershas long been a point of contention among lawmakers. Few beyond the C-suites and legal departments of tech companies still support it.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

After a few years at the company, he spent half a decade freelancing in product development, but eventually found himself pulled back to the beverage industry. Goodwin still formulates flavors much the same way today, despite running a company worth billions of dollars. Theres a sink, and he can put a metal table in there.

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Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

Now, it's a growing fact of life for billions of workers around the world, as companies break up full-time positions into contract work with less stability and protection by labor laws. It's compelling evidence that big tech's endless push toward an AI-powered future will continue to be a one-way street in our current labor environment.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Google.org , the tech giant's philanthropic arm, is investing millions of dollars into getting nonprofits up to speed on generative AI , part of a massive funding effort to empower organizations to adopt the tech, including Google 's own AI offerings.

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Engadget

APRIL 8, 2025

For instance, the company hasn't gone into specifics about the CPU and GPU that are powering the Switch 2, other than to touch on the performance enhancements that they offer over the Switch (NVIDIA separately confirmed that the Switch 2 uses its Deep Learning Super Sampling tech).

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Futurism

MARCH 18, 2025

The live translation tech will be tied to iOS 19, Apple's upcoming update to its operating system used on the iPhone and other mobile devices, which is anticipated to be one of its most dramatic software overhauls in the company's history, according to more Bloomberg reporting. This isn't new tech, exactly.

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Ars Technica

APRIL 1, 2025

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he's keeping an eye on 23andMe's bankruptcy proceeding and the company's planned sale because of privacy concerns related to genetic testing data. 23andMe's recent bankruptcy announcement set off a wave of concern about the fate of genetic data for its 15 million customers.

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Engadget

APRIL 1, 2025

"These cases are shining a light on the unscrupulous behaviour exhibited by global tech companies which seemingly exploit copyright-protected material, safe in the knowledge that they will not be held to account," the Society of Authors' letter stated. In February, over 1,000 musicians released an album called Is This What We Want?

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Futurism

MARCH 13, 2025

For most of us, getting revenge on a company that screwed us over will only ever be a bitter daydream. But when one company messed with the wrong man, he decided to make good on that fantasy, turning it into costly reality.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2025

By Amy Rose , Co-CEO, and Brian Greenwald , Co-CEO, at Benevolent Tech – a strategic services firm of nonprofit superfans dedicated to helping for-purpose organizations thrive. This is certainly due to the global, social, and political climate, however its also due to trends that are transforming the tech industry itself.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

HMD is leaning into tech versatility with a new pair of earbuds that double as a charging bank for your phone. The company also took the wraps off of a few unique smartphone models, including the HMD Fusion X1, which is a budget device that's built specifically for teenagers. These weren’t the only launches from HMD at MWC 2025.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

The move places the e-commerce giant in more direct competition with artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, which are also developing AI “agents.” For instance, the company demonstrated Nova Act searching for apartments within biking distance of a specific train station.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

[I]t will accelerate our rate of innovation faster than what we could achieve as a stand-alone company.” ” It also marks the close of a fast-paced, five-year chapter for the company. And as hybrid work has continued, so has the companys expansion. The company has been on Googles radar for some time.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 18, 2025

Google today announced a $32 billion deal to buy Wiz, an Israeli cloud security company that would become part of Google's cloud division if the merger is completed. Google is also awaiting a verdict in a separate ad-tech monopoly case brought by the US government. Read full article Comments

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A group of investors led by Elon Musk made a bid to buy out the leading artificial intelligence company, OpenAI. However, since ChatGPT exploded on the tech scene, Altman has sought to turn OpenAI into a for-profit company. Musk's purchase price for the company was well beyond what the social media platform was worth.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Managers were already tasked with addressing low morale and absorbing additional work as companies have been hit with layoffs in recent yearsbut now a number of employers are more pointedly culling their ranks, too. The Deloitte report noted that 40% of bosses surveyed said their mental health suffered after they took on managerial duties.

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Engadget

APRIL 11, 2025

That part of the company, which employs over 25,000 people, houses its Pixel phones and smartwatches, Nest devices, the Android and ChromeOS platforms and Chrome browser. In January, he told employees that the buyouts were available "for those struggling to meet the demands of their role or those unhappy with the company's hybrid work setup."

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Engadget

MARCH 25, 2025

However, the company is also adept at building budget models, blending features and tech to give users a solid value for a lot less money. The company is also using AI Noise Reduction this time around to improve call quality. First, Sony says it improved ANC performance by employing dual mics on each earbud on the C710N.

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Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Updates to a beloved gadget can frequently result in outrage, from obligatory complaints around bugs to selective aversions to change from Luddites and tech enthusiasts. We've also seen companies update products that caused features to be behind a paywall or removed entirely.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 12, 2025

Robotics firm iRobot, originator of the robotic vacuum Roomba facing stiff competition from lower-priced competitors, told investors Tuesday that there was "substantial doubt" about the company's survival "as a going concern" in the next year or so. billion bid to buy the struggling but prominent firm.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

Waymo, the autonomous driving tech company behind the human-less ride shares taking over America's major cities, is celebrating Autism Acceptance Month with everyone's favorite wholesome show: Netflix 's Love On The Spectrum.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 3, 2025

The breakthrough rocked confidence in Silicon Valleys AI leadership, leading Wall Street investors to wipe billions of dollars of value from US Big Tech stocks. Through distillation, companies take a large language modeldubbed a teacher modelwhich generates the next likely word in a sentence.

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