MIT’s soft robotic system is designed to pack groceries
RoboGrocery combines computer vision with a soft robotic gripper to bag a wide range of different items. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights rese...
RoboGrocery combines computer vision with a soft robotic gripper to bag a wide range of different items. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights rese...
This is by no means a complete list, just a few of the most obvious tricks that AI can supercharge. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
Identity.vc writes checks that range from €250,000 to €1.5 million into companies from the pre-seed to Series A stages. © 2024 TechCrunch. ...
Two separate studies investigated how well Google's Gemini models and others make sense out of an enormous amount of data. © 2024 TechC...
Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturda...
There’s something of a trend around legacy software firms and their soaring valuations: Companies founded in dinosaur times are on a tear, e...
VCs Jonathon Triest and Brett deMarrais see their ability to read people and create longstanding relationships with founders as the primary ...
Hebbia, a startup using generative AI to search large documents and return answers, has raised a nearly $100 million series B led by Andrees...
Digit’s first job will be moving totes around a Connecticut Spanx factory — which is most definitely not a euphemism. © 2024 TechCrunch. Al...
Reddit is taking a stand against AI companies — or at least asking them to pay up. Earlier this week, Reddit announced that it’s changing it...
Sierra Space said that despite the slip, its first Dream Chaser spaceplane is still on track for its maiden mission before the end of the ye...
At this early stage, Persona’s pitch doesn’t stray far from the various humanoid firms with which it’s set to compete. © 2024 TechCrunch. A...
VW Group said Tuesday it will invest $1 billion into EV startup Rivian as part of a broad software development deal that could expand to as ...
Amazon Web Services is excited to announce the launch of the AWS Neuron Monitor container , an innovative tool designed to enhance the monit...
Fearless Fund’s co-founder and COO Ayana Parsons has announced that she was stepping down. The firm is being sued by a politically conservat...
Reddit says the update shouldn't affect the majority of users or good faith actors, like researchers and organizations, such as the Inte...
The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen ...
This post is a continuation of Creating Natural Conversations with Amazon Lex QnAIntent and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base . In summary, we e...
Telegram's founder Pavel Durov says his company only employs around 30 engineers. Security experts say that raises serious questions abo...
Major investor Prosus has written off the worth of its 9.6% stake in edtech firm Byju’s to zero, signaling a loss of confidence in the once-...
Vinod Khosla is more popular than ever right now. The Sun Microsystems co-founder turned prominent investor — first at Kleiner Perkins and, ...
After a few months of testing during the general elections, Meta is making its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India. H...
We’re at a transitional moment in streaming — user growth is slowing and major players are looking to consolidate, but the long-promised dre...
18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language p...
Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturda...
Really, X should have learned its lesson by now. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://...
OmniAI is a set of tools that transform unstructured enterprise data into a something that data analytics apps and AI can understand. © 202...
A hacker is advertising customer data allegedly stolen from the Australia-based live events and ticketing company TEG on a well-known hackin...
The e-fuels startup is working on producing fuel for aviation and maritime shipping using carbon dioxide and other waste carbon streams. © ...
U.S. officials imposed the “first of its kind” ban arguing that Kaspersky threatens U.S. national security because of its links to Russia. ...
Paris has quickly established itself as a major European center for AI startups, and now another big deal is in the works. © 2024 TechCrunc...
Like it or hate it, artificial intelligence – especially generative AI – is the technology story of 2024. OpenAI, with its rollouts of viral...
C12 is announcing that it recently raised an €18 million funding round ($19.4 million at today’s exchange rate). Originally founded in 2020 ...
Like many highly valued startups, SpaceX sometimes allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized ou...
Two years ago, an employee at Fisker Inc. told me that the most pressing concern inside the EV startup was not whether its Ocean SUV would g...
The agency was investigating the company over potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Act. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights ...
Apple's changes may affect apps that today have an estimated $393 million in revenue and have been downloaded roughly 58 million times o...
At the Augmented World Expo on Tuesday, Snap teased an early version of its real-time, on-device image diffusion model that can generate viv...
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hype...
Apple announced at last week's WWDC 2024 that users would be able to access loans through third-party app Affirm through Apple Pay. © 2...
Astroscale’s space junk observation satellite has moved within striking distance to a discarded rocket upper stage that’s been floating arou...
Proton, the Swiss company behind a suite of privacy-focused apps such as ProtonMail, is following in the footsteps of Signal and Mozilla by ...
Tinybird is not so tiny anymore. The enterprise data startup TechCrunch first covered three years ago has been growing at a rapid pace and r...
Oyo, the Indian budget-hotel chain startup, is finalizing a fresh fundraise of about $100 million to $125 million that slashes its valuation...
The Clicks keyboard case has arrived, and it’s delightful, if not entirely practical for everyday use — at least, not without weeks of pract...
YouTube continues its efforts to circumvent ad blockers. Earlier this week, ad blocker SponsorBlock posted that the Google-owned video servi...
Care/of, a company offering personalized subscription vitamin packs, says it will be canceling all subscriptions as of Monday, June 17 and w...
Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturda...
Satellite imagery startup Albedo is preparing for its up close and personal debut. Albedo’s first satellite will take to orbit next spring a...
The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen ...
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje’s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inb...
StepStone raised the largest fund dedicated to investing in venture secondaries ever, the firm announced last week. This fundraise doesn’t j...
Tesla shareholders are suing CEO Elon Musk and members of the automaker’s board of directors over Musk’s decision to start xAI, which they s...
The most critical systems of our modern world rely on GPS, from aviation and road networks to emergency and disaster response, from precisio...
Some of the new Apple Intelligence features that Apple debuted at WWDC 2024 don’t even feel like AI, they just feel like smarter tools. © ...
Jordan Meyer and Mathew Dryhurst founded Spawning AI to create tools that help artists exert more control over how their works are used onli...
General Motors is investing $850 million into Cruise as the autonomous vehicle subsidiary slowly makes its way back to testing in Phoenix, D...
Siri is now more natural, more relevant and more personal — and it has new look. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use o...
“We were motivated to fundraise because we think the ’24 vintage is going to be a good one,” founder Craig Shapiro said. © 2024 TechCrunch....
The merger has yet to close due to extended due diligence amid ongoing restructuring and macroeconomic headwinds across multiple countries. ...
While funding for Italian startups has been growing, the country still ranks eighth in Europe by VC investment, according to Dealroom. Newly...
William A. Anders, the astronaut behind perhaps the single most iconic photo of our planet, has died at the age of 90. On Friday morning, An...
Dogs are the most popular pet in the U.S.: 65.1 million households have one, according to the American Pet Products Association. But while c...
Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturda...
If death and taxes are inevitable, why are companies so prepared for taxes, but not for death? “I lost both of my parents in college, and it...
It turns out the space industry has a lot of ideas on how to improve NASA’s $11 billion, 15-year plan to collect and return samples from Mar...
The keynote will be focused on Apple's software offerings and the developers that power them, including the latest versions of iOS, iPad...
When Bowery Capital general partner Loren Straub started talking to a startup from the latest Y Combinator accelerator batch a few months ag...
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje’s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Anna will be covering for him this...
Apple's annual list of what it considers the best and most innovative software available on its platform is turning its attention to the...
In a research note, HSBC estimates that the Indian edtech giant Byju's, once valued at $22 billion, is now worth nothing. © 2024 TechCr...
Welcome to Elon Musk’s X. The social network formerly known as Twitter where the rules are made up and the check marks don’t matter. Or do t...
Bridgy Fed is one of the efforts aimed at connecting the fediverse with the web, Bluesky and, perhaps later, other networks like Nostr. © 2...
Phishing is the process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading ...