timef 12/25/2025
- Nvidia acquires AI chip challenger Groq for $20B, report says techcrunch.com2025-12-25 06:03:16
With Groq on its side, Nvidia is poised to become even more dominant in chip manufacturing.
- The year data centers went from backend to center stage techcrunch.com2025-12-25 04:16:41
Data centers are no longer the boring tech issue they once were.
- The European startup market’s data doesn’t match its energy — yet techcrunch.com2025-12-25 02:00:00
Europe's startup market hasn't produced meaningful numbers but there is reason to believe the data will start to change.
- Waymo explains why its robotaxis got stuck during the SF blackout techcrunch.com2025-12-25 00:55:54
The company also said its robotaxis navigated more than 7,000 dark stoplights successfully on Saturday.
- Waymo is testing Gemini as an in-car AI assistant in its robotaxis techcrunch.com2025-12-25 00:27:55
Waymo is testing a Gemini-powered in-car AI assistant, per findings from a 1,200-line system prompt. The assistant can answer general knowledge questions, control certain in-cabin features, and more.
- The 9 top biotech startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield techcrunch.com2025-12-25 00:00:00
Here is the full list of the biotech and pharma Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on what made us select them for the competition.
- Can AI fix the operating room? This startup thinks so techcrunch.com2025-12-24 12:48:00
There’s plenty of hype around AI and robots in healthcare, but the problem that’s actually costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of OR time is lost every single day, not because of the surgeries themselves, but because of everything in between from manual scheduling and coordination chaos to guesswork about room […]
