Category: Robotics

AI data labeler Handshake buys Cleanlab, an acquisitio...

The deal’s purpose is primarily to acquire talent, aka an acqui-hire, adding nine key Cleanlab employees to Handshake’s research o...

Jennifer Garner’s Once Upon a Farm resumes IPO plans

The organic kids' snack food company may debut as soon as next week. It has issued a price range for shares, an SEC filing shows.

WhatsApp will now charge AI chatbots to operate in Ital...

WhatsApp plans to charge developers of AI chatbots per message.

Luminar sale approved despite last-minute mystery bid

An unidentified bidder submitted a Hail Mary offer that was "substantially higher" than the winning bid at auction. Founder Austin...

ServiceNow inks another AI partnership, this time with ...

ServiceNow partners with Anthropic just a week after announcing a partnership with OpenAI as the company takes a multi-model appro...

Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025

The company's sales fell for a second year in a row, as Tesla looks to AI and robotics, including a new $2 billion investment in C...

AI security startup Outtake raises $40M from Iconiq, Sa...

Outtake makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to help enterprises detect identity fraud. Its angel investors read like a who's w...

SpaceX is coming to the public markets, and secondaries...

paceX is reportedly lining up four major Wall Street banks for a 2026 IPO that could provide the reset the market needs.  The comp...

Elon Musk teases a new image-labeling system for X… we ...

Elon Musk says X will begin identifying "manipulated media" but doesn't share details.

Tesla to invest $2B in Elon Musk’s xAI

Elon Musk's AI company xAI disclosed earlier this month it had raised $20 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg says a future without smart glasses is ...

Take Zuckerberg's outlook with a grain of salt. After all, he thought we'd all be hanging out in the metaverse by now.

Tesla is killing off the Model S and Model X

The company will stop making the pioneering EVs in the second quarter of 2026, CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday.

Microsoft gained $7.6B from OpenAI last quarter

Microsoft, one of OpenAI's major investors, is benefiting greatly from the AI lab's growth.

Trump energy department loosens rules on nuclear safety

The new rules apply to nuclear reactors built on Department of Energy property, which includes several currently being developed b...

Zuckerberg teases agentic commerce tools and major AI r...

Mark Zuckerberg says 2026 will be "a big year for delivering personal super intelligence."

Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t...

The reported financial losses follow a series of layoffs at the VR unit.

Deezer makes it easier for rival platforms to take a st...

Last year, Deezer introduced an AI detection tool that automatically tags fully AI-generated music for listeners and removes it fr...

Google pitches Gemini to students studying for India’s ...

Google's launch of practice tests for JEE follows its recent move to offer full-length SAT practice tests in Gemini.

Waabi raises $1B and expands into robotaxis with Uber

Waabi has secured a $750 million Series C round to accelerate autonomous trucking, and another roughly $250 million commitment fro...

Snap gets serious about Specs, spins AR glasses into st...

The social media company's smartglasses are set to be released to the public later this year.

Redwood attracts Google for its $425M Series E as AI po...

Google is the latest investor to back Redwood Materials as the battery recycling startup scales a new energy storage venture to po...

Amazon says it is laying off 16,000 employees

This is Amazon's second layoff after the company cut 14,000 corporate jobs in October.

Anthropic, Apple, OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, pra...

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with on...

Samsung teases new privacy feature to hide your Galaxy ...

Samsung said that the upcoming feature will let you protect selected parts of the screen like notification popup area.

The conference where founders scale: TechCrunch Founder...

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 unites 1,100 founders and investors in Boston on June 23 for a day focused on real-world scaling in...