Category: Robotics
Meta to reportedly lay off 10% of Reality Labs staff
The publication noted that Reality Labs had roughly 15,000 employees, and the job cuts could impact over 1,000 people.
VoiceRun nabs $5.5M to build a voice agent factory
VoiceRun, a startup that creates voice agents, raised $5.5 million in a round led by Flybridge.
Tesla will only offer subscriptions for Full Self-Drivi...
It's a huge change to Tesla's approach with FSD, and it could impact Musk's $1T pay package and the company's myriad legal trouble...
YouTube now has a way for parents to block kids from wa...
Parents will be able to toggle the Shorts time limit on connected children's accounts.
US cargo tech company publicly exposed its shipping sys...
Shipping tech company Bluspark left internal plaintext passwords, including those of executives, exposed to the internet, at a tim...
AI security firm, depthfirst, announces $40 million Ser...
The company used an AI-native platform to help companies fight threats.
Gemini’s new beta feature provides proactive responses ...
Personal Intelligence is off by default, as users have the option to choose if and when they want to connect their Google apps to ...
Robotics software maker Skild AI hits $14B valuation
Skild AI, which is building general-purpose robotic software, just raised a $1.4 billion funding round led by SoftBank.
Bill Gates-backed Type One Energy raises $87M ahead of ...
Type One Energy has raised more than $160 million from investors to date. The new funding will help the company further refine its...
Bandcamp takes a stand against AI music, banning it fro...
"We want musicians to keep making music, and for fans to have confidence that the music they find on Bandcamp was created by human...
Google’s Trends Explore page gets new Gemini capabiliti...
The Trends Explore page for users to analyze search interest just got a major upgrade. It now uses Gemini to identify and compare ...
Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public
Digg, a reboot of an earlier social news site, is now relaunching as a Reddit competitor focused on communities.
Blackstone, General Atlantic-backed Liftoff Mobile file...
The company offers a platform that helps mobile app developers market their wares and has an army of bankers working on its IPO.
AI models are starting to crack high-level math problem...
Since the release of GPT 5.2, AI tools have become inescapable in high-level mathematics.
OpenAI buys tiny health records startup Torch for, repo...
AI health records startup Torch will be using its tech for OpenAI's new ChatGPT Health, according to co-founder Ilya Abyzov.
More than 100 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 — h...
Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year.
Meta-backed Hupo finds growth after pivot to AI sales c...
Hupo’s approach to sales coaching is less about replacing human judgment and more about helping people in the moments that really ...
Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs ...
AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing ...
Brazil orders Meta to suspend policy banning third-part...
Brazil's competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to put on hold its policy that bars third-party AI companies from using its bus...
Superorganism raises $25M to back biodiversity startups
Superorganism backs companies across three categories: tech that slows or reverses extinction, startups that operate at the inters...
Slackbot is an AI agent now
Salesforce unveils Slackbot, a new AI agent that allows users to complete tasks across multiple enterprise applications from Slack...
Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation and buys a YC ...
Deepgram is raising its Series C round at a $1.3 billion valuation.
Apple launches ‘Creator Studio’ bundle of apps for $12....
The bundle includes access to Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro on Mac and iPad, as well as Motion, Compressor, and Mai...
ElevenLabs CEO says the voice AI startup crossed $330M ...
The company said it took only five months to go from $200 million to $330 million in annual recurring revenue.
India reportedly tells quick-commerce firms to drop 10-...
India's labor ministry is pushing the country's booming quick-commerce sector to prioritize the wellness and safety of its gig wor...
