Every year, TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield pitch contest draws thousands of applicants. We whittle those applications down to the top 200 contenders, and of them, the top 20 compete on the big stage ...

Anthropic on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Vercept, an AI startup with deep roots to some of the biggest names in Seattle’s tech scene. The acquisition marks the latest after Anthropic ...

Software firm Horizon Quantum claimed it is the first private company to deploy a commercial quantum computer in Singapore. The deployment also makes it the first quantum software company to deploy ...

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