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Apple hikes some MacBook and iPad prices, blaming rising chip costs
Apple said it had "never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly".
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Brussels held talks with Washington over Anthropic access after Fable 5 ban
Brussels opened talks with Washington over Anthropic after a US export-control order cut Europe off from the company’s two most ca…
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Chamath Palihapitiya: Meta “fumbled” its shot at AI
On The Axios Show, Chamath Palihapitiya said Meta “fumbled” its lead in AI, dismissed the jobs apocalypse, and finally called his …
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Cannes insights: What a two-time major champion knows about marketing that CMOs don’t
For one week every June, the advertising industry decamps to the French Riviera to take its own temperature. The Cannes Lions Inte…
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2 days left to save up to $190: Join 1,000+ founders and investors at TechCrunch Founder Summit
2 days left to lock in your spot at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 and save up to $190 before Early Bird rates expire on June 26 a…
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Trump admin proposes axing brake pedal requirement for AVs in a boost for Tesla
The Department of Transportation wants to remove the brake pedal requirement for vehicles "designed to be driven exclusively by au…
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Adobe acquires image and video enhancement tool maker Topaz Labs
Adobe said that it will integrate Topaz Labs' tools across its apps.
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Apple raises Mac prices as AI memory crunch hits consumers
Apple is passing the cost of a global memory chip shortage driven by AI data centres directly to consumers, signalling that the in…
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TensorX and Solstice line up $1bn to finance Europe’s sovereign AI buildout
The partnership will fund EU AI hardware and data centres, and launch aiUSX, a yield asset that puts companies’ idle AI cash to wo…
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Upwind launches AI Sensor for Endpoints as security teams grapple with AI’s expanding reach
When cloud computing transformed enterprise IT, security vendors followed the workloads. Visibility into cloud infrastructure beca…
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Kremlin demands an explanation from Apple after VK apps vanish from the App Store
On Thursday, a clutch of apps belonging to the Russian tech group VK disappeared from Apple’s App Store, and by the afternoon the …
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Brussels moves to put AWS and Azure under its toughest tech rules
The European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that it takes the preliminary view that their cloud arms, Amazon Web Services an…
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Anthropic hires Orange’s AI chief as its European build-out accelerates
Steve Jarrett, Orange’s chief AI officer since 2019, will join the Claude maker in Paris in late August to adapt its products for …
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A Michigan township killed a $2.4 billion Chinese battery plant, and now the company might bankrupt it
Less than three years ago, residents of Green Charter Township, a rural community of roughly 3,000 people in central Michigan, pac…
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The EU signs up to Pax Silica, the US-led chip pact France called colonisation
Brussels is joining a Washington-led effort to secure AI chip supply chains, a fortnight after unveiling a tech-sovereignty agenda…
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China wants its green power wired straight into the data centre
In the desert outside Zhongwei, in the northwestern region of Ningxia, four dedicated power lines now run from a field of solar pa…
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Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment
Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.
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Cellebrite tech used in Russia despite firm's exit pledge
A Russian court document proves government hackers used Cellebrite software to crack an activist's phone months after the company …
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Alan valued at €5.5bn as Prosus leads €480m raise
The French digital insurer's latest funding round signals strong investor confidence in applying artificial intelligence to Europe…
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N26 hits profitability following leadership shakeup
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TD Bank staff tracking plan highlights EU privacy shield
Toronto-Dominion Bank's abandoned plan to harvest employee keystrokes for AI training has exposed a legal vacuum in Canada that Eu…
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Oracle cuts 500 jobs in Romania as AI shift bites
Oracle is laying off roughly 500 staff in Romania, exposing how Europe's outsourced tech services sector faces a structural threat…
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IBM sub-1nm chip breakthrough hinges on ASML High-NA tools
IBM has demonstrated a sub-1nm transistor architecture, a five-year-out research milestone that signals the semiconductor industry…
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South Korean chip shares rally after Micron’s upbeat earnings
South Korean chip stocks rallied on Thursday after Micron Technology reported a record quarter and an upbeat outlook, reviving opt…