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View this email online in your browser  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 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 Disrupt 2026: Where deals and ideas ignite Oct 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, 10,000 founders, investors, and operators gather for high-signal insights, curated connections, and real momentum. Register Now! Morning Must-Reads 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 Google Cloud surpasses $20B, but says growth was capacity-constrained: Google Cloud topped $20B in quarterly revenue for the first time, fueled by surging demand for AI. But capacity constraints mean it could have grown even faster. Read More Microsoft says it has over 20M paid Copilot users, and they really are using it: Despite the lingering perception that no one really uses Copilot, Microsoft said on Wednesday that the number of users and engagement is growing. 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 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 Last but Not Least Google gains 25M subscriptions in Q1, driven by YouTube and Google One: Google added 25M paid subscriptions in Q1, reaching 350M total, as YouTube and Google One grow. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107