Category: Robotics
AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for ...
Bad news for Tilly Norwood.
Elon Musk testifies that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI mod...
"Distillation" is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models.
OpenAI announces new advanced security for ChatGPT acco...
OpenAI is launching additional opt-in protections for ChatGPT accounts. The new security initiative includes a new partnership wit...
EV startup Faraday Future paid $7.5M to company tied to...
The perpetually struggling EV company made the payments while being investigated by the SEC. That four-year probe was ultimately c...
After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI res...
OpenAI will begin rolling out its cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only "to critical cyber defenders" at first.
Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used b...
Web hosts are scrambling to fix the bug under active attack by hackers. One company said hackers have been abusing the bug for mon...
Rivian downsizes DOE loan to $4.5B for Georgia factory
Rivian has reworked its loan deal with the Department of Energy and now expects to borrow $4.5 billion to build its new factory in...
Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its ba...
The two wildly fast-growing rivals have raised massive sums, pushed into each other's home turf, and now have dueling ad campaigns...
Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs
Apple said it will be supply-constrained on Mac mini, Studio, and Neo in the next quarter, too.
Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round cou...
Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to s...
Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105M cash, only raise...
Subscription billing fintech Skio sold to its competitor Recharge in what was a healthy exit, according to its founder and former ...
As Tim Cook steps down, Apple hit record sales — but a ...
Cook warned that Apple is facing supply-chain headwinds from RAMageddon that could impact its business.
ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India, but not a big win...
Users in India are embracing ChatGPT Images 2.0 for creative, personal visuals — from avatars to cinematic portraits.
People are finally using Reddit’s search
The company saw a 30% year-on-year jump in the number of people using search every week, CEO Steve Huffman said on Thursday.
Musk v. Altman is just getting started
Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getti...
Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack
A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu a...
Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS to ...
The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute wit...
Coatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, poss...
Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power sources.
Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI a...
Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.
Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without givi...
The DTC skin, hair, and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.
Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple...
At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginnin...
Bob Iger rejoins Thrive Capital as advisor after Disney...
The former Disney CEO hold a stake in Thrive and has previously held the role of the venture partner at the firm.
Porsche is adding an all-electric Cayenne coupe to its ...
Porsche will start selling the Cayenne Coupe Electric in late summer.
In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for ...
Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon's homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chi...
DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ wi...
DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost ...
