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  • TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China’s dominance

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/baidu-apollo-getty.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Today is Juneteenth, a U.S. federal holiday marking the end of slavery in the United States.  About 10…

  • When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/anthropic-claude-fable.jpg?resize=1200,798″] Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotify Anthropic recently took its two newest AI models offline due to an export control order from the Trump administration, prompting broad debates about AI policy and digital sovereignty. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Sean O’Kane, Rebecca Bellan, and I discussed what actually prompted the administration’s…

  • Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/tim-cook-iphone-GettyImages-2234563479.jpg?w=1024″] Siri’s AI overhaul may have been the headline announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, but Apple’s broader AI strategy is taking shape through a series of smaller features embedded across its software. Rather than asking consumers to adopt the new AI-powered version of Siri to get all the benefits…

  • Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/meredith-whittaker-1.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Asked about the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, “These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.” Whittaker made those comments in a broader interview with Bloomberg about policy, privacy, and Signal. She acknowledged that she uses AI…

  • In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GettyImages-1278815846.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Anyone who’s Googled themselves recently knows that it doesn’t quite hit the way it used to. Sure, there’s everything going on with Google search itself, but there’s also an inescapable feeling that web search isn’t the canonical source of information that it used to be, with just as many people learning about…

  • Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Screenshot-2026-06-20-at-5.40.30-PM.png?resize=1200,650″] Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in Los Angeles, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for a conversation that kept circling back to a question that doesn’t usually come up at a venture event: How do you know if a fish is stressed…

  • Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

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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…

  • Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about

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    [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…

  • From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone

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    [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…

  • Go eyes robotaxis and acquisitions after Japan’s biggest IPO of 2026 — here’s why it matters

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    [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…