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How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems
Sweden is perhaps one of the world’s hottest tech hubs right now. It has long been home to Spotify and Klarna, but this...
ARIA Bans Fully AI-Generated Songs From Australian Music Charts
Australia’s biggest music chart is drawing a line between musicians who use AI and AI that makes the music for...
He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool...
Since early 2023, photographer Jingna Zhang and a small crew of volunteers have worked tirelessly to maintain an image-sharing social media and portfolio...
AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10
Mark your calendars: on Thursday night, September 10, StrictlyVC — TechCrunch’s boutique evening series — is heading to New York’s West Village (the...
iPhone 17 Leads Global Sales as Apple, Samsung Take Top 10
Apple sold more iPhones even as the global smartphone market moved sharply in the opposite direction.
The iPhone 17 was the world’s...
A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic
A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from designating Anthropic a national security risk over a dispute about the use of...
Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers, and scale it more rapidly than...
Bill Gates Says Some Jobs Should Be Off-Limits to AI
Bill Gates has spent decades betting on technology to change the world. Now, he argues that AI should not be allowed...