Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science
Periodic Labs came out of stealth on Tuesday with a war chest of $300 million as a seed round, backed by a tech industry’s who’s…
Category: Ai/Robotics
OpenAI is launching the Sora app, its own TikTok competitor, alongside the Sora 2 model
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced the release of Sora 2, an audio and video generator to succeed last year’s Sora. Along with the model, the company…
AI note-taking app Granola adds a repeatable prompts feature
Chatbot platforms like ChatGPT and Poe have allowed users to create repeated prompts in the form of GPTs and apps. Lately, browsers like Dia and…
Globant invests in InOrbit Series A to advance robot orchestration
Space Intelligence is ‘the central nervous system’ for enterprise robot operations. Source: InOrbit Robot orchestration software promises to effectively coordinate robots, human workers, and AI…
Hance will demo its kilobyte-size AI audio-processing software at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Imagine you’re a Formula One driver hurtling down a race track at 200 miles per hour when your engineer comes on the radio and says ……
How Replit went from $2.8M to $150M ARR by pivoting away from professional developers
This week on StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief Connie Loizos and StrictlyVC’s Alex Gove spoke with with Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, fresh off…
PayPal’s Honey to integrate with ChatGPT and other AIs for shopping assistance
After teaming up with Google on agentic commerce this month, payments giant PayPal announced Tuesday it’s adding new features to its PayPal Honey browser extension. The features will provide…
Amazon unveils new Echo devices, powered by its Al, Alexa+
At its annual hardware event, Amazon introduced a new lineup of Echo devices, built specifically for its AI assistant, Alexa+, which has already rolled out…
Ring cameras can now recognize faces and help to find lost pets
At an event on Tuesday, Amazon unveiled a range of new AI-powered features for its latest Ring cameras and doorbells. The features will enable Ring…
Character.AI in the spotlight with Karandeep Anand at Disrupt 2025
AI has captured global attention — and not without controversy. This October at San Francisco’s Moscone West, Karandeep Anand, CEO of Character.AI, takes the AI…