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Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, speaks at the ceremonial ribbon cutting prior to tomorrow's opening night for the NHL's newest hockey franchise the Seattle Kraken at the Climate Pledge Arena on October 22, 2021 in Seattle, Washington
In Brief

Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown | TechCrunch

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off...

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AI

Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business | TechCrunch

French AI lab Mistral AI on Tuesday said it has raised €3 billion (about $3.58 billion) at a...

In Brief

SoftBank says it will invest up to €75B to build French data centers | TechCrunch

SoftBank Group announced today that it plans to spend up to €75 billion (around $87 billion) to expand...

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Apps

The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari | TechCrunch

The browser wars have entered a new phase this year: The fight isn’t just over search results anymore...

AI

Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know | TechCrunch

AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how...

Connie Loizos, Editor-in-Chief & GM of TechCrunch, and Kevin Rose, Founder, Digg, speak onstage during day three of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at Moscone Center on October 29, 2025 in San Francisco, California.
Startups

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come  | TechCrunch

The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches...

Google logo is seen at Google stand during 18th European Economic Congress at the International Congress Centre in Katowice, Poland on April 22, 2026.
Security

Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google | TechCrunch

Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation.On Friday, the tech giant...

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AI

Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement | TechCrunch

Some authors hoping to receive their share of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement said they received surprising emails...

Venture

The groupthink boom: what 3 top VCs really think about the AI frenzy | TechCrunch

This week at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in Athens — part of the Panathēnea festival taking place in the...

Media & Entertainment

AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app | TechCrunch

All the big entertainment apps are starting to look the same, and that’s not an accident. For a...