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Technology

Manhattan

87 articles stable

Google’s $1B-plus Hudson Square campus plan made Manhattan a tech real-estate story, while recent coverage has shifted toward AI, autonomous-vehicle testing and crypto-linked cases.

Who they are

Manhattan appears in the coverage as New York City’s central venue for technology companies’ offices, product launches, regulatory tests, court cases and industry-facing events. Its stories connect global platforms including Google, Amazon, Uber, Waymo, TikTok and Meta to the city’s commercial, legal and policy infrastructure.

The recent arc

The latest coverage is dispersed across several technology currents rather than concentrated in a single corporate expansion. In 2025, the prominent stories include New York City granting Waymo a permit to test up to eight autonomous vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn, AI companies including Anthropic and OpenAI recruiting quant researchers from Wall Street, TikTok executives reassuring advertisers at a Manhattan event, and Anthropic’s West Village Claude promotion. Fortell’s December 2025 profile adds AI hearing devices aimed at affluent NYC customers to that mix.

The most concentrated recent period was late 2023, when Manhattan featured prominently as the setting for the FTX prosecution: Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on seven fraud and money-laundering counts in November after a judge had revoked his bail in August. That court-centered phase followed earlier coverage in which Manhattan was a locus for major platform expansion and convenience experiments, from Google’s Hudson Square campus investment to Amazon’s one-hour delivery and Starbucks Pickup with Amazon Go.

The tension

Coverage repeatedly circles the friction between technology companies’ desire to use Manhattan as a high-visibility market and the constraints imposed by dense-city governance and scrutiny. Waymo’s limited permit and New York City’s restrictions on Uber and Lyft cruising show mobility deployment being tightly managed, while the FTX proceedings, Coinbase litigation and a crypto kidnapping case cast Manhattan and NYC as places where digital-finance activity can become a legal-enforcement story.

Why it matters

If this trajectory holds, Manhattan’s importance will rest less on any one company’s headquarters footprint and more on its ability to concentrate AI talent, affluent customers, advertisers, finance and regulators in one market. That can make the borough a valuable proving ground for AI products and autonomous services, but the same visibility means permits, court actions and public reception may materially shape whether those efforts scale beyond New York.

Manhattan has appeared in 87 articles since 2014-12. Coverage peaked in 2023Q4 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside New York City, Amazon, Google, New York.

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Coverage Timeline

2025-12-04
Wired 4 related

A profile of AI hearing aid startup Fortell, which has raised $150M so far and is targeting affluent clients in NYC with a $6,800 device that uses a custom chip

AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product. X: @recurrented , @mikeisaac , @franklinleonard , @stevenlevy , and @mooreh...

2025-10-09
Adweek 3 related

Anthropic's weeklong anti-AI slop pop-up in NYC's West Village, part of its “Keep Thinking” Claude push, drew 5,000+ people and 10M+ social media impressions

available while supplies last.) [image] @signulll : anthropic has ppl lining up for a... hat & coffee right now. the only other time i've seen lines like this for a tech company was apple. absolutely ...

2025-08-22
CNBC 7 related

NYC grants Waymo its first permit, which extends through late September, to test up to eight of its autonomous vehicles in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn

Waymo is getting one step closer to rides in New York City.  —  The Alphabet autonomous vehicle subsidiary received its first permit …

2025-08-10
Bloomberg 1 related

AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits

At a rooftop bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side, roughly 150 quant researchers met with employees at the artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic …

2025-05-25
New York Times 31 related

Crypto investor John Woeltz from Kentucky was charged in NYC for allegedly kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist for three weeks to gain crypto passwords

The investor, 37-year-old John Woeltz, and another man abused their victim for three weeks in a Manhattan townhouse as they tried …

2025-05-07
New York Times 5 related

At a Manhattan event, TikTok executives tried to reassure ad clients, saying that “we are absolutely confident” in TikTok and “in the future of this platform”

The company's executives tried to reassure potential advertisers about the app's future …

2025-01-25
Reuters 31 related

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is planning to invest $60B to $65B in capex in 2025, will end the year with 1.3M+ GPUs, and plans to grow its AI teams “significantly”

Market: WE LOVE AI, DO AI THING  —  META: Sure thing, ploughing $40bn into capex this year  —  Market: wait not like that  —  First time we've seen a negative market reaction to the reality of AI unit...

2024-03-27
Reuters 19 related

A US judge rules an SEC lawsuit against Coinbase can proceed, but dismisses one claim over Coinbase Wallet, a partial win for Coinbase in a lengthy court battle

A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday said the U.S. securities regulator's lawsuit against Coinbase (COIN.O) can move forward …

2023-12-30
New York Times 21 related

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen says he mistakenly used bogus legal citations from Google Bard in a motion seeking an early end to court supervision

“The revelation could have serious implications for the Manhattan criminal case against #Trump, in which #MichaelCohen is expected to serve as the star witness.  The former president's lawyers have lo...

2023-11-04
TechCrunch 93 related

A jury finds Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts of fraud and money laundering in the FTX trial; the judge sets SBF's sentencing for March 28, 2024

and what comes next Qadir AK / Coinpedia Fintech News : DOJ Cracks Down: Binance and Tether Face Terrorism Financing Charges PC Gamer : ‘The king of crypto’ found guilty of fraud, now faces decades in...

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TEXXR tracks 35 tech news articles mentioning Manhattan, dating back to February 2015. The biggest stories include In a major real-estate expansion in New York City, Google says it will invest $1B+ in a... and In a major real-estate expansion in New York City, Google says it will invest $1B+ in a.... Frequently covered alongside Amazon, Google, Apple, and Starbucks.

Key Moments

2025Q1safety +100pts; consumer -50pts; research +100pts
2025Q2enterprise +100pts; safety -100pts; developer +100pts

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