Hinge released Convo Starters – a new feature offering daters personalized tips for starting a conversation inspired by the Prompt answers and photos on someone’s profile. Many people feel intimidated about what to say in a first message, so Convo Starters gives daters ideas to express their genuine interest from the start. Sending a first message can feel like a lot of pressure, but it’s a...

Chai Discovery, the AI company that predicts and reprograms the interactions between biochemical molecules, today announced its $130 million Series B financing round co-led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst. This round of financing values the company at $1.3 billion.The news comes on the heels of Chai’s most recent announcement1, where the company showed their latest models can now design mole...

The Business of Fashion crunched the numbers, polled readers and spoke with leading sneaker authorities to identify the shoes that defined the market this year – and pointed the way to what’s coming next.The “Sneaker of the Year” debate was unusually messy in 2025 because no single shoe satisfied every constituency at once — resale purists, everyday readers, and industry insiders all prior...

Many experts consider fusion the holy grail of energy that could deliver enormous power in the distant future. President Trump’s media company is betting it is imminent.Trump Media & Technology’s planned merger with fusion company TAE Technologies would bring fusion investing—usually the realm of high-risk-tolerant venture investors—to the public markets for the first time. It is a gamb...

Even in the best of times, luxury fashion is a tricky business. The contradiction at the heart of the largely European industry—its goods command high prices because they’re putatively rare or special, but they’re produced at industrial scale and sold in every corner of the globe—is always threatening to collapse in on itself. That’s true even if two decades of boom times have made the who...

Swedish furniture company IKEA has launched a children's furniture and decor collection at a Miami art week installation, informed by play studies the company conducted following the Covid-19 pandemic.IKEA created the temporary IKEA Open House Miami installation in a vacant retail space on Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, to launch its Grejsimojs children's collection, which consists of 33 objects de...

Holiday travel intent is at its highest in recent years, but more high-income Americans plan to make cuts that could be felt across travel supplier categories.Travel continues to hold a treasured place in holiday plans, but many Americans are holding their wallets a little closer this year. Our 2025 Deloitte Holiday Travel Survey finds that financial concerns appear to lie at the root of severa...

Apple is reportedly exploring a new method for unlocking its devices by leveraging users’ unique heartbeats.According to a report from AppleInsider, the company has filed and been granted a patent for technology that could allow users to unlock their iPhones simply by holding them, using their cardiovascular signatures.The patent, filed in August 2022, describes a system in which devices such...

Investment values company at $9 billion as investor interest in cybersecurity startups grows.Cyera uses AI to protect companies from new security vulnerabilities. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty ImagesBlackstone is leading a $400 million investment in data-security firm Cyera that values the New York-based company at $9 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Cyera is among a crop of...