Mina Fahmi

TechCrunch covers StrictlyVC Palo Alto’s final 2025 event, highlighting a speaker lineup of deep-tech builders and investors, and detailing Mistral’s Open-Weight AI push and related enterprise-drive developments.

TechCrunch warns of rising impersonation phishing using fake TechCrunch outreach and provides verification steps plus a list of bogus domains.

Pew’s report shows X still leads the small-social-app segment in the U.S. with 21% usage, despite competition from Threads, Bluesky, and others, while overall platform leaders remain YouTube and Facebook; it also highlights regulatory/legal developments in autonomous-vehicle tech and funding activity across tech startups that could affect investment risk and opportunity.