The Brutalist Report

TechCrunch

• Robotics investments are gaining speed after post-pandemic slowdown [625d]
• Hebbia raises nearly $100M Series B for AI-powered document search led by Andreessen Horowitz [625d]
• Agility’s humanoid robots are going to handle your Spanx [625d]
• MagicSchool thinks AI in the classroom is inevitable, so it’s aiming to help teachers and students use it properly [625d]
• Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to ‘create God’ [625d]
• Andrew Ng plans to raise $120M for next AI Fund [625d]
• VW taps Rivian in $5B EV deal and the fight over Fisker’s assets [625d]
• FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days [625d]
• As battery startups fail, Sila snaps up $375M in new funding [625d]
• Startups scramble to assess fallout from Evolve Bank data breach [625d]
• Meta starts testing user-created AI chatbots on Instagram [625d]
• TechCrunch Minute: Reddit is taking a stand against AI crawlers [625d]
• Rondo Energy funding shows a new way across the climate startup ‘valley of death’ [625d]
• Amazon consolidates Amazon Clinic into the One Medical brand [625d]
• Meta fixes bug that seemed to reset users’ political content settings on Instagram and Threads [625d]
• YouTube Premium upgrade adds smart downloads and picture-in-picture mode for Shorts [625d]
• TechCrunch Disrupt joins forces with Google Cloud for Startup Battlefield 200 [625d]
• Character.AI now allows users to talk with AI avatars over calls [625d]
• TikTok to challenge Amazon Prime Day with its own sales event in July [625d]
• Reliance Jio kicks off Indian telecom price hike [625d]
• SoftBank forms AI healthcare JV in Japan with Tempus [625d]
• As Spain gets its latest VC fund, Southern Europe appears to be on a roll [625d]
• ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot [625d]
• Illumex is using GenAI to ease pain of getting good data into LLMs [625d]
• Directo turns a TikTok travel hack into a deal-finding Chrome extension [625d]
• Axelera lands new funds as the AI chip market heats up [625d]
• Orby is building AI agents for the enterprise [625d]