Category: Robotics
Finnish quantum unicorn IQM set to go public
Finnish unicorn IQM plans to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) valuing the company at approximately $1.8 ...
Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the...
Spotify continues to test its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature, now rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K....
Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interest...
AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside rel...
Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM
The company open-sourced an 8 billion parameter LLM, Steerling-8B, trained with a new architecture designed to make its actions ea...
OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push
OpenAI is partnering with four consulting giants in an effort to see more adoption of its OpenAI Frontier AI agent platform.
Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own han...
Trump says Netflix will face ‘consequences’ if it doesn...
Netflix board member Susan Rice had predicted that corporations that “take a knee” to Trump will be “held accountable” when Democr...
Quantonation’s double-sized second fund shows quantum s...
Quantonation Ventures, a venture firm investing in quantum and physics-based startups, has closed its oversubscribed second fund a...
Bill Gurley says that right now, the worst thing you ca...
"The number one thing is to get out of your head this ideal that gets passed around in the self-help world: 'go get a mentor,' and...
Can the creator economy stay afloat in a flood of AI sl...
On the latest episode of Equity, we debated what’s next for the creator economy, and whether there will be any room for the next g...
Apple might take a new approach to announcing its next ...
Apple has invited the tech press to a “special Apple experience” on March 4, but it might unfold a bit differently than the compan...
Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a l...
"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."
Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores avail...
A list of some of the alternative app stores iPhone users in the EU can try today.
The 9,000-pound monster I don’t want to give back
I thought: other than hotels that use SUVs like the Escalade IQL to ferry guests around, what kind of monster chooses a car like t...
6 days left to lock in the lowest TechCrunch Disrupt 20...
Super Early Bird pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ends February 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT. That means you have just 6 days left to se...
China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahe...
China’s brain-computer interface industry is rapidly scaling from research to commercialization, driven by strong policy support, ...
TechCrunch Mobility: Waymo makes its defense
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS a...
Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to mor...
Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot ...
"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."
7 days until ticket prices rise for TechCrunch Disrupt ...
Lowest ticket prices to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 end February 27. Up to $680 off individual passes and up to 30% off group passes. ...
OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian ...
Jesse Van Rootselaar's descriptions of gun violence were flagged by tools that monitor ChatGPT for misuse.
Google VP warns that two types of AI startups may not s...
As generative AI evolves, a Google VP warns that LLM wrappers and AI aggregators face mounting pressure, with shrinking margins an...
Microsoft’s new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosys...
Is Microsoft's gaming division doubling down on AI?
‘Toy Story 5’ takes aim at creepy AI toys: ‘I’m always ...
Addictive, AI-enabled tablets are taking over, and also, Woody is balding in the new Toy Story movie, out June 19.
Ukrainian man jailed for identity theft that helped Nor...
A Ukrainian man has been sentenced for helping North Koreans gain fraudulent employment at dozens of U.S. companies and funnel tha...