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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GettyImages-2148577076-e1728469833661.jpg?resize=1200,676″] John Jumper, who shared a recent Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Friday that he’s making the leap to Anthropic after “nearly 9 years” at Google DeepMind. In a post on X, Jumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis “took a real chance letting me lead the AlphaFold team just six months after…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Apple-services-hero_big-1.jpg.large_2x.jpg?w=1200″] While Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence announcements dominated the WWDC spotlight earlier this month, the tech giant also packed iOS 27 with a number of upgrades across its everyday apps and services, including smarter bill splitting in Apple Wallet, new ways to share locations in Find My, and improved Apple…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/donald-trump-open-mouth.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Last Friday, citing unspecified national security concerns, the White House ordered Anthropic to restrict the export of its powerful AI models Fable and Mythos to anyone outside of the United States, as well as foreign nationals inside the country. Shortly after, the AI giant hastily pulled the plug on both models, which…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Japan-Go-.png?resize=1200,785″] Go’s IPO — Japan’s biggest so far this year — has done more than provide a much-needed boost to the country’s languishing listing season. It has also supplied the taxi-hailing app with the capital required to address an existential issue: Japan’s shortage of drivers. Go, which went public Tuesday, plans to use…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/spacexipo-nasdaq.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Despite the fact that AI increasingly dominates our economy (it’s a hot IPO summer and we’re all just along for the ride), most Americans are not particularly optimistic about the technology’s long-term impact on the country, a new study from Pew Research reveals. In fact, although a whole lot of Americans increasingly…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Google-Home-Speaker-Berry.jpeg?resize=1200,899″] After years of incremental updates, Google is betting that its Gemini AI can reinvent its smart speaker. On Wednesday, the company introduced its first audio device built specifically for Gemini with the $99.99 Google Home Speaker. The new Google Home device is the first stand-alone smart speaker from the tech giant since…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1468360413.jpg?resize=1200,857″] As global investors race to fund the infrastructure underpinning the artificial-intelligence boom, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s CPP Investments has committed up to ₹70 billion (about $741 million) to Indian data center operator CtrlS, betting on India’s growing role in the global buildout of cloud and AI infrastructure. Under the partnership announced…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ask-pinterest.jpg?resize=1200,922″] Pinterest on Wednesday announced a new experimental app called “Ask Pinterest” that will allow the company to explore a more conversational approach to shopping and product discovery that could eventually find its way to the main Pinterest app. It also introduced other AI initiatives, including Pinterest Model Context Protocol (MCP), designed for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/GettyImages-477672484.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Apple’s plan to change a privacy feature that lets paying customers hide their real email addresses when creating online accounts could make it easier for apps and websites to block anonymous sign-ups. Apple’s Hide My Email is an iCloud+ feature that generates anonymous email addresses under the @icloud.com domain, which then forward…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/GettyImages-1244294229.jpg?resize=1200,675″] SpaceX briefly passed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, and nearly eclipsed Microsoft, before the company’s shares pared back those gains before the market closed Tuesday. The newly public company’s stock had already climbed 20% on Monday — its first full day of trading. Tuesday’s news that SpaceX…