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Robotics

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...

Elon Musk
AI

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...

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AI

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...

Dario Amodei
In Brief

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...

Biotech & Health

‘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...

AI

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...

Chip, chips, dollar signs, money
In Brief

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...

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AI

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,...

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AI

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...

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Government & Policy

Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label | TechCrunch

A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday evening that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a...