Category: Robotics
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 ...
Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool
Nothing's new on-device dictation tool supports over 100 languages.
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC...
Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipin...
Tim Cook is stepping down. What happens to Apple now?
Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus. Ternus may be inher...
Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android ...
Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone. The c...
Nuclear startup X-energy raises $1B in data center-driv...
Amazon-backed X-energy was able to raise around 20% more money in its IPO as demand for nuclear power surges.
Marked-up Mac minis flood eBay amid shortages driven by...
Apple’s sold-out Mac mini is spawning marked-up eBay listings as demand surges for the compact desktop, now favored for running lo...
Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and co...
Google plans up to $40B investment in Anthropic as AI rivals race to secure massive compute capacity, following the limited releas...
X launches stand-alone XChat app on iOS
X's new app promises private chats, disappearing messages, audio and video calls, and more.
ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more cont...
ComfyUI, whose tools give creators more control over AI image, video, and audio generation, just raised $30 million.
X-energy stock pops 27% on first day of trading followi...
Investors flocked to nuclear power startup X-energy in its first day of public trading on the Nasdaq.
Meta’s loss is Thinking Machines’ gain
Meta has been poaching talent from Thinking Machines Lab. But it's a two-way street.
Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build...
Series, a social networking app that's grown popular on college campuses, announced a $5.1 million pre-seed round from some big na...
Cohere acquires, merges with Germany-based startup to c...
Cohere, the Canada-based AI company that makes AI tools for businesses in regulated industries, announced Friday it would merge wi...
Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate fina...
The IRS has used Palantir's software since at least 2018, The Intercept reports.
Steve Ballmer blasts founder he backed who pleaded guil...
Steve Ballmer wrote a fiery letter in the sentencing of disgraced founder Joseph Sanberg documenting all the harm that's befalling...
Lachy Groom to back India startup Pronto at a $200M val...
This round, should it occur, would double the house-help startup's valuation in a matter of weeks.
OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT’s eroti...
It's only the latest of several side projects that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.
Google Translate’s real-time headphone translations fea...
The real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, so it’s easier to follow ...
16 of the most interesting startups from YC W26 Demo Da...
From redirecting doomscrolling to training humanoid robots, these 16 startups stood out as the most interesting ones from an overf...
Netflix confirms it’s raising prices again
The standard plan without ads now costs $19.99 per month, a $2 increase from the previous $17.99 subscription fee, while the premi...
