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French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round. The company has raised €385 million, or $415 million at today’s exchange rate — according to Bloomberg, it values the company at roughly $2 billion. Mistral AI is also opening up its commercial platform today. As a reminder, Mistral AI raised…

For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates. Part 1: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson Part 2: Toyota Research Institute’s Max Bajracharya and Russ Tedrake Part 3: Meta’s Dhruv Batra This time it’s Boston Dynamics CTO, Aaron Saunders. He…

A new lawsuit by the online retail giant tackles a billion-dollar problem in the retail industry…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinThe Game Awards YouTube While technically yes, a number of awards were given out at last nights 2023 Game Awards, including high profile games like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Alan Wake 2 honored, the show itself has descended into a parody of everything it’s often accused of being. For…

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the past few days in tech. AI stole the headlines once again, with tech giants from Google to X (formerly Twitter) heading off against OpenAI for chatbot supremacy. But plenty happened besides. In this edition of WiR, we cover Google faking a…

W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. People moving on to new jobs is not a bad thing — and not only when they have been laid off. That’s why…

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Borrowing has become more expensive, and profits are harder to come by, which means that 2023 has been a savage year in startup land. PitchBook data suggests that around 3,200 startups — representing a total of $27.2 billion in venture…

Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage, the company reported via a post on X on Friday. And Apple is to blame, it seems. Users, including those of us at TechCrunch with access to the app, began…

A hypothetical electric pickup truck from this marque beats Tesla’s Cybertruck in a survey…

Indian startups have raised about $7 billion this year, according to market intelligence platform Tracxn, down from about $25 billion in 2022 and $37 billion in 2021. High-flying venture investors in India managing hundreds of millions of dollars are tempering expectations, making early-stage startup bets that in best-case scenarios they hope will return 3 to…