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Robotics investments are gaining speed after post-pandemic slowdown [626d]
Hebbia raises nearly $100M Series B for AI-powered document search led by Andreessen Horowitz [626d]
Agility’s humanoid robots are going to handle your Spanx [626d]
MagicSchool thinks AI in the classroom is inevitable, so it’s aiming to help teachers and students use it properly [626d]
Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to ‘create God’ [627d]
Andrew Ng plans to raise $120M for next AI Fund [627d]
VW taps Rivian in $5B EV deal and the fight over Fisker’s assets [627d]
FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days [627d]
As battery startups fail, Sila snaps up $375M in new funding [627d]
Startups scramble to assess fallout from Evolve Bank data breach [627d]
Meta starts testing user-created AI chatbots on Instagram [627d]
TechCrunch Minute: Reddit is taking a stand against AI crawlers [627d]
Rondo Energy funding shows a new way across the climate startup ‘valley of death’ [627d]
Amazon consolidates Amazon Clinic into the One Medical brand [627d]
Meta fixes bug that seemed to reset users’ political content settings on Instagram and Threads [627d]
YouTube Premium upgrade adds smart downloads and picture-in-picture mode for Shorts [627d]
TechCrunch Disrupt joins forces with Google Cloud for Startup Battlefield 200 [627d]
Character.AI now allows users to talk with AI avatars over calls [627d]
TikTok to challenge Amazon Prime Day with its own sales event in July [627d]
Reliance Jio kicks off Indian telecom price hike [627d]
SoftBank forms AI healthcare JV in Japan with Tempus [627d]
As Spain gets its latest VC fund, Southern Europe appears to be on a roll [627d]
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot [627d]
Illumex is using GenAI to ease pain of getting good data into LLMs [627d]
Directo turns a TikTok travel hack into a deal-finding Chrome extension [627d]
Axelera lands new funds as the AI chip market heats up [627d]
Orby is building AI agents for the enterprise [627d]
PortSwigger, the company behind the Burp Suite of security testing tools, swallows $112M [627d]
Amazon hit with fresh class action-style suit in UK — $3.4BN in competition damages sought for 200,000+ sellers [627d]
Odaseva raises $54M to secure Salesforce users [627d]
Austin-based Ironspring Ventures raised $100m to invest in industrial revolution [627d]
Bluesky lets you curate accounts and feeds to follow with its “Starter Pack” feature [627d]
Dust grabs another $16 million for its enterprise AI assistants connected to internal data [627d]
Google Translate adds support for 110 languages, representing 614 million speakers [627d]
Synthflow picks up $7.4M for no code voice assistance for SMEs [627d]