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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/glitched-google-logo.jpg?resize=1200,645″] Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, according to Bloomberg. Per the report, Adler and Pritzel played key roles in the development of Google’s Gemini model. TechCrunch reached out to Google for comment. These departures are part of a concerning trend for Google. Last week, legendary…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/micron-HQ-GettyImages-2147904174.jpg?resize=1200,801″] The AI boom has fueled dozens of new startups and minted a new class of billionaires. It has also produced a serious shortage of memory chips — a critical component for compute-hungry AI models — which some predict could persist through 2027. This era of RAMageddon isn’t just a corporate problem. As…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/instagram-logo-fingerprint.jpg?resize=1200,801″] When it comes to securing accounts against hackers, passkeys are now widely considered the gold standard. And yet they are still not offered by one in four major apps and services on the internet, including Instagram, Netflix, and Spotify. Those stats come from a new website that names and shames companies that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/claude-app-centered-in-ai-apps-GettyImages-2167861906.jpg?resize=1200,801″] The era of tokenmaxxing is over. After the AI industry encouraged companies to max out their AI budgets earlier this year, and some companies even built employee leaderboards to encourage internal AI usage — they are now realizing just how easy it is to spend huge sums of money on AI and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Inspo_Truck_web.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Slate, maker of the stripped-down EV pickup truck, found another way to simplify its product: the battery. When the startup revealed its starting price on Wednesday — $24,950 before destination, taxes, and other fees — it also said it had changed its battery strategy, eliminating the optional 240-mile pack but bumping the standard…