YouTube looks to Bollywood

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Zoom sales: The videoconferencing company raised its annual revenue forecast and reported strong sales, suggesting corporate customers are buying their new suite of products, including artificial intelligence tools.

VC hire: Anne Neuberger, formerly a top US cybersecurity official in the Biden administration, is joining the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a senior adviser.

Apple streaming subscription: The iPhone maker boosted the price of its Apple TV+ streaming service in the US and some international markets 30% to $13 a month.

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AI startup Anthropic is nearing a deal to raise as much as $10 billion, a higher than expected amount and one of the largest megarounds to date for artificial intelligence companies. Bloomberg previously reported that Anthropic was in talks for a $5 billion fundraising round that would value the company at $170 billion.

Must Read

India’s iconic film star Aamir Khan had his pick of the major global streaming services when he deciding where his films would be shown, Sohee Kim reports in today’s Tech In Depth. Instead, Khan chose Google’s YouTube for post-theater releases and as a place to create short video stories, a deal that is part of YouTube’s new strategy to strengthen its content push, Kim writes.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says two somewhat contradictory things can be true: Investors are overexcited about AI and AI is a transformative new technology, Shirin Ghaffary reports in this week’s Q&AI. Altman sat down with Ghaffary and other reporters to the talk about the company’s strategy, including its plans to spend “trillions” on AI infrastructure. 

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