Karen Hao on the making of a $90B AI empire
Karen Hao, the bestselling author of “Empire of AI,” has watched OpenAI go from a nonprofit “laughingstock” to a $90 billion powerhouse chasing artificial general…
Category: Ai/Robotics
How robotics is transforming healthcare, inside and outside the operating room
OTSAW recently secured a maintenance agreement with a private hospital in Singapore for its automated guided vehicle. | Source: OTSAW Hospitals are under increasing pressure…
These 20- and 22-year-olds raised $5M from YC, General Catalyst to study online behavior using vision AI
Amogh Chaturvedi is running on little sleep but plenty of conviction at 6 a.m. He’s groggy, apologetic for rescheduling, and still reeling from a recent…
Warp brings new diff-tracking tools to the AI coding arms race
The AI coding tool Warp has a plan for making coding agents more comprehensible — and it looks an awful lot like pair programming. Today,…
Ujjwal Kumar steps down as president of Teradyne Robotics
Former president of Teradyne Robotics Ujjwal Kumar (left) and his successor Jean-Pierre Hathout (right). Ujjwal Kumar announced on LinkedIn yesterday that it was his last…
3 Days Left to Lock In Your Exhibitor Spot at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Time is running out to showcase your startup in front of the most influential eyes in tech. In just 3 days, the exhibitor table deadline…
Disrupt 2025 finalizes Builders Stage agenda with top scaling voices
Startups don’t build themselves, and the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — taking place October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West — is where…
PayPal and Venmo are giving out Comet invites and free Perplexity Pro subscriptions
Invites to Perplexity’s new AI-powered web browser, Comet, are one of the web’s hottest commodities these days. The new product was made available first to…
UBTECH secures $1B in financing for Middle East humanoid production
UBTECH plans to expand development, production, and deployment of industrial humanoids. Source: UBTECH Robotics Humanoid robotics developer UBTECH Robotics Corp. has reportedly secured a credit…
Xpanner releases X1 autonomy retrofit kit to bring physical AI to construction
Xpanner’s X1 deployed on a pile driver in Texas. | Source: Xpanner Xpanner last week unveiled its flagship X1 Kit, a physical AI-based retrofit system…