Category: Robotics

Score, the dating app for people with good credit, is b...

Two years ago, a controversial dating app was launched and quickly shuttered: for people with good-to-excellent credit. Now, the f...

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glass...

The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them v...

Cohere’s $240M year sets stage for IPO

Cohere surpassed $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, highlighting strong enterprise AI demand as the Canadian startu...

Amazon’s Ring cancels partnership with Flock, a network...

This news comes less than a week after Ring's Super Bowl commercial stoked controversy over the company's capacity for mass survei...

Dutch phone giant Odido says millions of customers affe...

The Dutch phone giant Odido is the latest phone and internet company to be hacked in recent months, as governments and financially...

Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, n...

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

A Stanford grad student created an algorithm to help hi...

"Our matches convert to actual dates at about 10x the rate of Tinder," Weng told TechCrunch.

Roku to launch streaming bundles as part of its efforts...

Roku delivered an impressive Q4, posting net income of $80.5 million. The company also outlined plans for streaming bundles.

Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads mocking AI with ads helped p...

The numbers suggest that Anthropic's Super Bowl commercials, combined with Anthropic's recent release of its new Opus 4.6 model, w...

India partners with Alibaba.com for export push despite...

India turns to Alibaba.com's B2B network of 50 million buyers in 200 countries to help businesses scale global exports.

The SEC closed its investigation into Fisker

The financial regulator revealed in a response to a TechCrunch records request that the probe was closed in September 2025.

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...