Brennan Whitfield

New York City boasts thousands of software companies and is one of the country’s and world’s largest tech hubs, just behind Silicon Valley. As the most populated city in the United States, this brings a heap of tech talent into the area, establishing NYC as a global center for fintech, AI, cybersecurity and enterprise software innovation.

In 2024, the Internet Archive, a massively popular digital library nonprofit, removed more than 500,000 books from its Open Library catalog after losing its appeal for being sued by four U.S. publishers. The publishers argued that the Internet Archive’s lending policy used during the pandemic, in which it loaned multiple e-book copies of a single book at once, infringed on copyright law.