Month: September 2026
Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout | TechCrunch
Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. As part of the deal, MediaTek will adopt Nvidia’s...
The US is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them | TechCrunch
In July and August, Washington tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems and imposed steep tariffs on imported...
Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem | TechCrunch
Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture...
Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining | TechCrunch
Nearly every company that’s trying to deploy artificial intelligence runs into the same problem: it’s hard to integrate...
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a ‘brazen campaign’ of intellectual property theft | TechCrunch
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and numerous other music publishers have sued Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and...
‘We’re not doing 30 bets a year’: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z | TechCrunch
It used to be that Vijay Pande was better known in academic circles than investor circles. That changed...
Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU | TechCrunch
Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of...
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips | TechCrunch
Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1...
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI | TechCrunch
Training AI models with other AI models has become a very popular goal for neolabs — and now,...
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets | TechCrunch
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of...
