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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...

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AI

Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India | TechCrunch

Meta’s India and Southeast Asia vice president, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media giant to join OpenAI,...

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AI

Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026  | TechCrunch

AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers, and...

Google logo is seen at Google stand during 18th European Economic Congress at the International Congress Centre in Katowice, Poland on April 22, 2026.
In Brief

Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google | TechCrunch

The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking...