Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
E
Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war
As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — …
E
Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world
Backed by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, Vishal Sikka’s new venture brings together veterans from SAP, Infosys, and VianAI.
E
Elon suffers another day short of trillionaire status
Right now he's merely a several-hundred-billionaire, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.
E
I've spent 30 years in recruitment - this is how to get a job
The recruitment agency boss shares his tips on getting noticed in a tougher jobs market.
E
Cerebras stock plunges after earnings as CEO says margin outlook was misunderstood
In its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business, scaring i…
E
AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient
While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers are actually making up a larger share of new hires, according to SignalFire dat…
E
AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals
Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists No…
E
The memory chip crunch is paying off for this U.S. company
Revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion compared with the same period a year ago. The company's profit, meanwhile, rose from $1.88 bi…
E
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude
Anthropic has accused Alibaba of waging the largest distillation campaign yet against a US AI company, telling senators and White …
E
New website names and shames companies that still don’t offer passkeys to users
According to a new site, 24% of the most popular websites in the world don't offer support for passkeys, which are considered the …
E
Micron’s revenue quadrupled as AI memory demand pushes gross margins above 81 percent
Micron Technology posted fiscal third-quarter revenue of nearly $42bn, quadrupling from just over $9bn a year earlier and beating …
E
Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks
The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.
E
Qualcomm lands Meta as first named customer for its Dragonfly data centre chips
Qualcomm has signed Meta as the first named customer for its new Dragonfly C1000 data centre processor, the strongest signal yet t…
E
Here’s why Slate changed the battery in its cheap EV truck
While there was probably a moment when Slate’s leadership had to green-light the switch from one battery type to another, the mome…
E
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says smuggled data centres are a dead end and national security comes first
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told shareholders on Wednesday that if a commercial opportunity conflicts with US national security, the c…
E
Gemini 3.5 Flash can now see and control your screen, and Google wants enterprises to trust it
Google has made computer use a built-in tool inside Gemini 3.5 Flash, the model it launched at I/O 2026 as its fastest agentic AI …
E
Runpod hits $1bn valuation as the AI compute crunch bites
Runpod has raised $100M and reached a $1bn valuation, a tenfold jump in under two years. The cloud startup rents out AI computing …
E
Tissium raises €60M to take its sutureless nerve glue to the US
Tissium has raised €60M to carry the world’s only FDA-cleared sutureless nerve repair system into US operating rooms. The Paris me…
E
Congress wants Big Tech to pay AI’s power bills
Congress is moving to stop households paying for Big Tech’s AI power bills. A House panel votes this week on a package of measures…
E
Deezer launches a remix tool that does not use AI and pays artists for every stream
Deezer has launched Remix Lab, a feature that lets fans remix songs directly inside the app using in-app tools rather than artific…
E
Morgan Stanley doubles its China robot forecast again
Morgan Stanley has doubled its forecast for China humanoid robot shipments again, to 50,000 this year. The bank says the machines …
E
Riviera Partners acquires AI startup recruiter Lateral Labs as the talent war reshapes executive search
Riviera Partners, the Insight Partners-backed executive search firm that has placed technology leaders at companies including Uber…
E
Facebook rolls out an AI companion app for creators
The new app, which is currently being tested with select creators, will have Facebook's recently launched AI creator assistant bui…
E
Deezer says its new feature lets fans remix songs with artist consent
Global music streaming service Deezer is taking a contrarian approach to AI, even as it adds a feature that lets fans remix songs.