Why Norstella, Makersite, Satelytics, and Chainalysis are among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in data science for 2025. In the midst of an artificial intelligence boom that’s 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 that’s as a product or service for customers or as an integral component of their organizations’ processes. This has raised the

Fast Company’s 2025 list of the most innovative companies in social media includes Duolingo, Bluesky, the Boston Celtics, Yelp, and more. This past year has been one of revivals. Low-rise jeans are back in style, digital cameras are the new favorite way to filter photos, and several cellphone companies even pushed us to buy flip phones again. The trend has been true for social media, too. Partiful, a revamped e-vite platform, quickly became the go-to way to organize special events. Polyamory-

AFTER NEARLY A DECADE spent as an elite hacker for the U.S. military, Kyle Hanslovan noticed a discrepancy: While Fortune 500 companies hired dedicated teams to protect them from cybercrimes, smaller businesses typically lacked that expertise—even as they increasingly faced the same threats. “Nobody was trying to protect these businesses,” Hanslovan says. He cofounded Huntress in 2015 as a platform that partners with in-house IT departments and outsourced teams known as managed service providers

Temu and Shein, two Chinese fast-fashion giants, are determined to increase their dominance in the U.S. market, challenging Amazon’s efforts to capture a share of the budget-friendly e-commerce space.

Intel’s (INTC) next chief executive isn’t formally due for work until Tuesday, but there’s already talk of an artificial intelligence-strategy revamp under Lip-Bu Tan.