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Journalist at TechCrunch covering technology and startups, and co-host of the TechCrunch Equity podcast.
Amazon said it will stop using nondisclosure agreements in data center negotiations with local governments, following Microsoft's lead. The pledge arrives as a recent spate of moratoriums spreads, and TechCrunch's Equity panel split on whether those pauses will slow construction.
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AI chiefs signed Trump's Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, a pact he calls "morally binding" and TechCrunch calls "deeply non-binding." For teams that buy or build AI, it creates no duty and no protection they can plan around.
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Meta made Muse the centerpiece of Connect, aiming the agent at consumers while OpenAI and Anthropic chase coding and enterprise work. The one hands-on report describes a one-off win. A daily habit would run on sensitive data given to an ad company.
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Dario Amodei's proposal to slow frontier development won fast support from rival labs. The parts described so far seat outside evaluators inside the labs and ask the companies to coordinate with one another.
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Flock now logs 20 billion plate reads a month while dozens of cities move to switch off their cameras, and the renewal question now comes down to a settings screen, not a Fox News interview.
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Two partners, two portfolio companies that grew into rivals, and an antitrust statute almost never pointed at VCs. The cost of that theory falls on any firm making several bets in one category.
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