Category: Robotics

What you should know about the owners of US TikTok

​ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, recently established a separate American entity to run the app’s U.S. operations. Thi...

India’s Shadowfax slips on listing, as client concentra...

Shadowfax shares fell about 9% on theirdebut, valuing the logistics firm near its last private valuation.

Google Photos brings its prompt-based editing feature t...

Users can describe their edits in natural language to modify an image.

Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint ...

Flora's node-based design tool is being used by companies like Pentagram and Lionsgate.

China’s Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi ...

The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens.

Luminar receives a larger $33 million bid for its lidar...

A new leading bidder has appeared in the Luminar bankruptcy case: Redmond, Washington-based MicroVision, which beat out Quantum Co...

Uber launches an ‘AV Labs’ division to gather driving d...

Uber is not developing its own robotaxis again; instead it plans to collect and offer data. It's a bet that more volume will help ...

‘Among the worst we’ve seen’: report slams xAI’s Grok o...

“We assess a lot of AI chatbots at Common Sense Media, and they all have risks, but Grok is among the worst we’ve seen,” Robbie To...

Northwood Space secures a $100M Series B and a $50M Spa...

This is the El Segundo, California-based startup's second raise in less than a year.

Tech workers call for CEOs to speak up against ICE afte...

More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs...

Saudi satirist hacked with Pegasus spyware wins damages...

The London High Court awarded the London-based satirist and human rights activist Ghanem Al-Masarir more than £3 million, after fi...

VC firm 2150 raises €210M fund to solve cities’ climate...

Europe-based venture fund 2150 raised the money to invest in climate tech startups that help solve cities' carbon footprint.

TikTok attributes recent glitches to a power outage at ...

The timing of these outages lines up with the long-awaited creation of a separate U.S. TikTok entity last week.

Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including S...

Claude users will now be able to call up interactive apps inside the chatbot interface, with Cowork integration coming soon.

Obvious Ventures lands fund five with a 360-degree view...

The 12-year-old firm raised $360,360,360 for its fifth fund. And there's a reason for that number.

TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after ...

Skylight, co-founded by CEO Tori White and CTO Reed Harmeyer, offers a built-in video editor; user profiles; support for likes, co...

AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervo...

Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powe...

Rad Power Bikes reaches deal to sell itself for $13.2M

A company called Life Electric Vehicle Holdings has emerged as the top bidder for Rad Power's assets. It's not clear what the comp...

Social network UpScrolled sees surge in downloads follo...

UpScrolled is a social network that pledges to remain impartial to political agendas. It blends familiar features from Instagram a...

Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown 

From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportati...

YouTubers sue Snap for alleged copyright infringement i...

The YouTubers claim Snap, like others, used AI datasets meant for research and academic use to train its AI models.

Vinod Khosla publicly disavows Keith Rabois’ comments o...

Unwavering Trump loyalist and VC Keith Rabois caused his colleague and his firm's founder to distance themselves from his comment...

Some international attendees are skipping 2026 GDC due ...

Many members of the international games industry are skipping the 2026 Game Developers Conference because of the growing ICE prese...

Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebo...

In the coming months, Meta is going to explore a premium experience on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that gives users access t...

AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation two months...

Ricursive joins Recursive and Unconventional AI in raising massive funds at multi-billion valuations out of the gate.