April 30, 2026

TechCrunch Top 3

On the stand, Elon Musk can't escape his own tweets: Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI. Read More

Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India: PhonePe and Google Pay command 80% of India's UPI instant payments network. Rivals are set to meet with regulators to lobby for restrictions. Read More

Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B: The maker of Claude has received multiple pre-emptive offers at valuations in the $850 billion to $900 billion range, according to sources familiar with the matter. Read More

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Morning Must-Reads

Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversations a week: Meta said over 8 billion advertisers have used at least one of its gen AI tools Read More

Instagram cracks down on content aggregators: The update targets content aggregators that don't post original content and instead simply re-upload others' posts. Read More

Satya Nadella says he's ready to 'exploit' the new OpenAI deal: Microsoft gets to offer OpenAI's tech to its cloud customers and doesn't have to pay for it. "We fully plan to exploit it," Nadella said. Read More

SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO: You need infrastructure to build AI a and robots, but apparently you also need AI and robots to build infrastructure. Read More

Netflix wants you to watch 'Clips,' its TikTok-like vertical video feed: Netflix is redesigning its mobile app and introducing Clips, a vertical video feed intended to help users discover new content by sharing highlights from original Netflix programming. Read More

Last but Not Least

Meta is still burning money on AR/VR: Meta is losing billions on Reality Labs each quarter, and its AI expenditures are only going to increase its spending. Read More

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