Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips | TechCrunch
If Amazon Web Services has its way, the cloud giant is going to push even deeper into Nvidia’s market, in what might be one of the biggest challenges to Nvidia’s…
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From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield's alumni now? | TechCrunch
…Due to intense demand, we’ve pushed the Startup Battlefield 2026 application deadline to June 8, and you can get your application in right here. In the meantime, we wanted to show…
Why VivaTech 2026 is the place to see Europe’s AI strategy take shape | TechCrunch
…In recent years, Silicon Valley has pushed aggressively toward scale, speed, and market dominance. Europe, on the other hand, is providing a counterbalance: a vision for artificial intelligence centered on industrial competitiveness…
WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India's CRED founder Kunal Shah and invests $900M in startup | TechCrunch
…India is WhatsApp’s largest market, with more than 500 million users accounting for a significant share of the app’s global base of over 3 billion people. The country has also…
Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music | TechCrunch
…represents a notable shift in the relationship between UMG and TikTok. For years, UMG has pushed platforms, streaming services, and AI companies to implement stricter content moderation policies. Tensions between UMG and…
Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India's AI-fueled data center boom | TechCrunch
…making it one of the largest foreign institutional investors in the market. The investment builds on CPP Investments’ broader push into digital infrastructure. The pension fund said it has invested in the…
Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation | TechCrunch
…The CMA had first designated Google as having “strategic market status” last October, laying the groundwork for future regulations. In January , it pushed Google to give website publishers a choice as to…
DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation | TechCrunch
…Mixhalo’s acquisition can push DeepL into the live event space with the same suite. “For us, Mixhalo will work as a solution and also a marketing use case. The platform will…
Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of 'dual-pricing' valuation tricks | TechCrunch
…user behavior for market research, lead investor Redpoint backed the company at a $450 million valuation despite an announced $1 billion headline price. Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire pushed back on Foody’s…
Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business | TechCrunch
…Other technologies have been vying for a piece of the data center market, including long-duration energy storage, geothermal, and nuclear. Big batteries received a boost from Google, which has included $1…