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"We're not doing 30 bets a year": Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z | TechCrunch
Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI tr
At TechBBQ, Europe's AI conversations kept coming back to: Who's actually in control? | TechCrunch
Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a "brazen campaign" of intellectual property theft | TechCrunch
This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.
Baby goats with rabies at North Carolina mobile petting zoo prompt calls across multiple counties to contact health officials | CNN
Several baby goats at a mobile petting zoo in North Carolina were infected with rabies, and authorities are asking anyone who had contact with the animals to reach out to health officials about potential exposure to the rare but deadly virus.
El-Sayed apologizes to Jewish Democrats as he seeks to bridge party divides | CNN Politics
Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democratic Senate nominee, is scrambling this weekend to try to win over skeptical Jewish Democrats — meeting individually and with groups of Jewish party leaders and apologizing for controversial past remarks as he tries to unite a fractured party before November.
8 officials suspended after probe into Pakistan hospital fire that killed 14 newborns | CNN
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday ordered the suspension of eight officials and directed that criminal proceedings be initiated against those found responsible for a fire that killed 14 newborns at an Islamabad hospital, his office said.