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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TC-All-Stage-2025-roundtable.jpg?resize=1200,800″] With just 2 days left, now is the time to lock in your spot at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 and save up to $190 before Early Bird rates expire on June 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Founders rarely scale alone. The fastest path to growth comes from learning from those who have already done it, connecting with peers…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Cybercab_80.jpeg?resize=1200,924″] The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has proposed new changes to federal vehicle regulations that would allow companies to skip including brake pedals in “vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems.” The proposal, if adopted, would remove a major regulatory barrier for companies like Tesla and Zoox, which are developing…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2162453288.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Adobe on Thursday said it is acquiring Topaz Labs, which offers AI models for video and image enhancement, and that it will make it a part of its creative business. Topaz Labs, which won an Emmy last year for its production tech, has existed for more than two decades, making tools for…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GettyImages-844105434.jpg?w=1024″] Amazon on Thursday said it would invest an additional $13 billion to expand its AI and cloud footprint in India through 2030. The fresh investment, announced after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy met India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, will fund the expansion of Amazon Web Services’ data center capacity in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/cellebrite-ufed.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Russian authorities hacked into the phone of a prominent political opponent while he was in custody, using technology made by forensics firm Cellebrite — even after the company had said it cut ties with Putin’s government agencies, according to a new report that raises fresh questions about whether Western tech companies can…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ASML-GettyImages-2258043611.jpg?w=1024″] Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma visited Washington this week to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and members of Congress to oppose the MATCH Act, a bill that would bar Chinese chipmakers from accessing Western semiconductor equipment, and one that would hit ASML especially hard. ASML, based in the Netherlands, is Europe’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/vishal-sikka-indiaai-summit.jpg?resize=1200,800″] For decades, IT services firms made billions of dollars by allowing companies to outsource tech tasks like customizing, integrating, and maintaining enterprise software. Vishal Sikka, former CEO of Infosys, one of the largest such firms in India, is now betting that AI can do much of that work instead. His new startup,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/elon-nasdaq-spacex-ipo.jpg?resize=1200,801″] In a world marred with oppression and strife, one injustice rises above all else: Elon Musk is not currently a trillionaire. When SpaceX went public earlier this month, Musk became the world’s first trillionaire. He declared in a victory lap-slash-speech that he aspires to take all of us to the moon, Mars,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/GettyImages-1251294592.jpg?w=1024″] Shares of Cerebras Systems dropped almost 20% on Wednesday, even after the company delivered better-than-expected first-quarter earnings on Tuesday. That’s because in its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business, guiding for a full-year margin of 38% to 41%, compared with…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GettyImages-1250956868.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Whether AI is already replacing jobs is the subject of fierce debate. Tech layoffs hit their highest single month total in years in May, and AI was the most-cited reason, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Software engineering, in theory, is the professional field most vulnerable to automation, given the rapid adoption…