Biotech Nephrogen combines AI and gene therapy to reverse kidney disease — check it out at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

When Demetri Maxim was seven years old, his mother’s kidneys stopped working. She was put on dialysis, which meant that she had to go to the hospital four times a week to have her blood filtered by a machine since her own kidneys could no longer function independently. Two years later, Maxim’s mother received a … Read more

How Preshent Is Building the Intelligent OS for Regenerative Infrastructure with AI and Blockchain

Most renewable energy projects die in the paperwork. Federal tax credit applications, tribal sovereignty protocols, interconnection agreements, supplier certifications—the bureaucratic maze kills momentum before the first panel gets installed or turbine spins. Preshent built an operating system that uses AI to automate compliance checks and blockchain to track funding from commitment to deployment. The initial … Read more

‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

After last week’s major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took Signal along with it, Elon Musk was quick to criticize the encrypted messaging app’s reliance on big tech. But Signal president Meredith Whittaker argues that the company didn’t have any other choice but to use AWS or another major cloud provider. “The problem here is … Read more

The Future of Web3 Marketing: Education, Trust, and Sustainability

Welcome back to Fixing Web3 Marketing: From Hype to Sustainable Growth – a series exploring the biggest challenges Web3 companies face when promoting their products. On our last blog post, we discussed some marketing channels that actually drive results, how to get your project noticed, and how to attract the right audience to your brand. Today, in what is … Read more