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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/gettyimages-507054668.jpg?resize=1200,801″] In July and August, Washington tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems and imposed steep tariffs on imported drones and their components, with both moves citing national-security concerns. The drone tariffs take effect in September, with additional component tariffs following in 2027. These moves are part of a broader U.S. effort to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/George-Arison.jpg?resize=800,1200″] When George Arison took over Grindr in 2022, he inherited a company that had been bounced from Chinese ownership to a forced divestiture to a private-equity rescue — a business that was printing money but also had no real product or business strategy. Four years, a SPAC listing, and a controversial return-to-office…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/LIUX-BIG-Factory-001.png?resize=1200,800″] Cars in European cities are smaller than ever. But as Europe’s appetite for microcars has grown, the cute Italian ‘yoghurt pots’ have largely given way to small Chinese EVs. Even Smart, the the iconic ultracompact car brand, has moved manufacturing to China. Spanish startup Liux thinks it can compete in a crowded…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Elon-Musk.jpg?w=1024″] Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture turbine part himself. On Saturday, Musk confirmed what a secret foundry SpaceX has been building in Bastrop, Texas, is for — an apparent response to a story that was already closing in on the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/waymo-jaguar-ipace.jpg?resize=1200,633″] Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Proponents of autonomous vehicle technology have long argued that robotaxis and other…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Dario-Amodei-Anthropic-1.jpg?w=1024″] Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging the AI lab conducted a “brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works.” The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/TechBBQ.jpg?resize=1200,800″] At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, the conversation among investors, founders, and operators from across Europe wasn’t just about what to build with AI, but who should control it. No matter where you were during the annual Nordic conference, from onstage to cocktail hours and after-parties, the chatter kept coming back to how Europe…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Vijay-Pande.png?resize=1200,800″] It used to be that Vijay Pande was better known in academic circles than investor circles. That changed pretty abruptly a dozen years ago, when Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz — who’d spent their firm’s first five years explicitly avoiding healthcare and life sciences — decided the category was worth betting on…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/shutterstock_movie_director.jpg?resize=1200,717″] Hollywood’s finest — the people accustomed to massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets — are now betting on something much smaller: microdramas. Microdramas are short, scripted series designed to be watched on phones. Episodes typically run just a few minutes, and often feature soap opera-style plots, dramatic twists, and cliffhangers designed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/theragun-sense.png?resize=1200,788″] As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or stretching just a little too far can cause aches and pains. I’ve always been somewhat skeptical of massage guns, mostly because I’ve tried a few off-brand ones…