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TechCrunch Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

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TechCrunch At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?

Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans ca...

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TechCrunch ‘We’re not doing 30 bets a year’: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks abou...

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TechCrunch Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps

Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.

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TechCrunch The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy

The Theragun Sense, which retails for $299, is a wellness-focused massage gun that’s designed for everyday aches, muscle tension,...

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TechCabal A Lagos car crash almost killed him. A €900 visa saved his dream of seeing the world.

A near-death experience in Lagos pushed Adewale Adekomaiya to leave Nigeria and travel across seven European countries with his wi...

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TechCrunch Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cyc...

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TechCrunch Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine

Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're...

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TechCrunch Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses?

Are XREAL's smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment?

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TechCrunch Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of...

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TechCrunch An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one...

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TechCrunch Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases

The feature, announced this week, allows Brave's users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share t...

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TechCrunch Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.

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TechCrunch How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems

Sophia Bendz, general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in the Swedish tech ecosystem.

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TechCabal Lessons from Copenhagen for Africa’s founders and investors

The TechBBQ event in Copenhagen, Denmark, set the stage for important conversations in the country's tech ecosystem. Africa can le...

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TechCrunch More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey

The backlash against license plate readers comes amid a wave of police abuses of surveillance cameras.

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TechCrunch Friend-focused photo-sharing app Retro snags $21M

Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in Series A fundin...

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TechCrunch Apple TV is raising its subscription prices again

Now, Apple TV subscriptions will cost $14.99 per month, up from its previous price of $12.99 per month.

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TechCrunch a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’

The firm, known for its focus on software, is going to start throwing more money at the hardware behind AI.

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

A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, handing the AI company a victory a...

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

Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role.

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TechCabal Nigeria picks French, Israeli firms to build new communications satellites

French aerospace company Thales Alenia Space and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) have been selected to build Nigeria’s next comm...

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TechCabal She learned finance on Wall Street. Now she is changing how Africa gets funded.

Grace Legodi is using her Wall Street experience to help fund early-stage businesses building Southern Africa’s green economy.

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TechCrunch As electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo space

Launched by Belgian startup Any, LUV1 is a modular electric motorcycle with 120 liters of cargo space that can be used to carry ba...

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