Category: Robotics

OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model

The model is known for its overly sycophantic nature and its role in several lawsuits involving users' unhealthy relationships to ...

OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot’s ‘adult mode’ r...

The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination.

With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk ...

According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing...

Samsung to hold its Galaxy S26 event on February 25

Samsung is going to launch the S26 lineup just before Mobile World Congress (MWC).

Complyance raises $20M to help companies manage risk an...

Complyance raised a $20 million Series A led by GV for its AI-native compliance platform.

Humanoid robot startup Apptronik has now raised $935M a...

Apptronik has raised another $520 million in a Series A extension to existing and new investors like Google and Mercedes-Benz.

Meridian raises $17 million to remake the agentic sprea...

A new company called Meridian.AI has emerged from stealth with an IDE-based approach to agentic financial modeling.

Integrate raises $17M to move defense project managemen...

The round was led by FPV Ventures co-founder and managing partner Wesley Chan.

TikTok launches an opt-in Local Feed in the US leveragi...

TikTok's new Local Feed will show you nearby shopping, dining, events, news, and more.

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Amazon Pharmacy to expand same-day delivery to nearly 4...

The expansion will cover customers in newly served states such as Idaho and Massachusetts.

Former Founders Fund VC Sam Blond launches AI sales sta...

The startup, Monaco, has come out of stealth as an AI-native all-in-one CRM plus more system backed by names like the Collison bro...

Upside Robotics is reducing fertilizer use and waste in...

Upside Robotics builds autonomous solar-powered robots that can help farmers reduce their fertilizer use by 70%.

Twilio co-founder’s fusion power startup raises $450M f...

Inertia Enterprises will use the Series A investment to build one of the world's most powerful lasers, a key part of its power pla...

Senior engineers, including co-founders, exit xAI amid ...

At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculati...

UpScrolled’s social network is struggling to moderate h...

UpScrolled, a social network that surged in the wake of the U.S. TikTok deal, has seen an uptick in harmful content, including use...

How AI changes the math for startups, according to a Mi...

Amanda Silver is a corporate vice president at Microsoft’s CoreAI division, where she works on tools for deploying apps and agenti...

Threads’ new ‘Dear Algo’ AI feature lets you personaliz...

The platform's new feature lets users tell Threads what they temporarily want to see more or less of in their feed.

Google releases the first beta of Android 17, adopts a ...

Google is changing how developers get access to new APIs and features of the latest version.

Why the economics of orbital AI are so brutal

A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent.

DOJ says Trenchant boss sold exploits to Russian broker...

The former boss of the L3Harris-owned hacking and surveillance tools maker Trenchant faces nine years in prison for selling severa...

San Francisco’s pro-billionaire march draws dozens

A march supporting California’s billionaires didn’t exactly draw a huge crowd on Saturday.

TechCrunch Mobility: Is $16B enough to build a profitab...

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Okay, I’m slightly less mad about that ‘Magnificent Amb...

But this is still a bad idea.

Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Su...

The purchase rewrites the domain record books -- not that the crypto industry has ever been accused of restraint when it comes to ...