The 20 best college towns across the US, ranked

Tech Insider : Business, Environment, Technology
Madison, Wisconsin
Madison, Wisconsin, was ranked as one of the best college towns in the US.

Sandra Foyt/Shutterstock

Apple will allow third-party app stores and payment processing in Brazil

Engadget : Technology

Brazilian regulators have reached a settlement with Apple after a yearslong investigation into the company's App Store fee practices as well as its policies against third-party app stores.

NATO is looking to Ukraine for ways to kill drones without wasting expensive missiles

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
A US Army soldier launches an AS3 Surveyor interceptor drone during a live-fire demonstration at the Deba training grounds in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland, on November 18, 2025.
NATO has identified interceptor drones as a promising new tool for air defense.

Artur Widak/Anadolu via Getty Images

12 executives, researchers, others who left OpenAI in 2025 — mostly to Meta Superintelligence Lab

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman
OpenAI lost at least 11 scientists and executives in 2025, including more than half a dozen researchers to Meta in the summer.

REUTERS/Shelby Tauber/Pool

Some elite AI researchers say language is limiting. Here's the new kind of model they are building instead.

Tech Insider : Business, Environment, Technology
robotic hand holding globe
Top AI researchers, such as Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun, are building world models, which they say have more potential than large language models.

Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI

I left my dream job as a trial attorney and pivoted into AI at age 40. It showed me the power of leaving my comfort zone.

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Aurora Bryant
Aurora Bryant pivoted from working as a trial attorney to working in legal AI solutions.

Courtesy of Aurora Bryant

Our favorite sentences of 2025

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Sports
Gen Z may be the most rejected generation in human history.

BI

There's nothing like a perfect sentence to take the reader by the scruff of their neck and shake them awake. On Business Insider's Discourse team this year, we wrote thousands of sentences to illuminate the urgent and the fascinating in business and tech.

Nvidia strikes $20 billion deal to acquire Groq assets

Mashable : Technology
AI sign displayed on a screen and Nvidia logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 23, 2025.

Groq, an AI chip startup, entered into an agreement with

Using AI to avoid getting your car towed

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Parking enforcement in action
Parking enforcement in action

IMAGO/Joa Souza via Reuters Connect

Here's what big bank CEOs have said about AI's impact on head count

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Technology
Wall Street CEOs Jamie Dimon, Jane Fraser, and David Solomon.
Wall Street CEOs Jamie Dimon, Jane Fraser, and David Solomon.

AP

Subscribe to Technology