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It uses a nearly 6-foot tall humanoid chassis and tactile five finger hands. As part of his AI-palooza Computex keynote, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang dove into the most relatable form of artificial intelligence: robots. The company announced the new Isaac Gr00t reference design humanoid robot platform that combines a
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The Nvidia-backed AI video firm joins Anthropic and OpenAI in betting on London, citing customers including the BBC, Fremantle and WPP. Runway is making London its European headquarters and has pledged to put more than $200m into the UK’s AI ecosystem by the end of 2028, the company told
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A new class of AI agents is emerging that operates directly across applications, documents, workflows, and decision environments. The appeal is obvious: why maintain layers of business software and human oversight when AI agents can reorder inventory, reroute shipments, and optimize procurement autonomously? In supply chains, that temptation is especially
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As AI (artificial intelligence), advanced manufacturing, and biotechnology continue to evolve, universities and industry leaders are forming major partnerships to accelerate the future of medicine discovery and pharmaceutical production. Across the country, organizations are investing in AI-driven research environments to strengthen innovation and workforce development. As one example, Purdue University
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Box founder Aaron Levie got us talking this week with a social media post suggesting that tech CEOs are “uniquely prone to AI psychosis.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I did our best to unpack Levie’s comment. For one
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And into that post-Challenger disillusioned summer of 1986, Hollywood brought us SpaceCamp. It had all the right ingredients: A stacked cast with a solid leading duo (Kate Capshaw and Tom Skerritt), tons of real NASA location footage, and a big, brassy score by none other than John Williams. The film
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TL;DR SoftBank will invest up to €75B ($87B) for 5 GW of AI data centres in France. The first phase delivers 3.1 GW by 2031 for €45B. SoftBank plans to invest as much as €75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in
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One of the most practical benefits of a smart home is how easy it is to manage when you're away, especially on vacation. With any kind of internet connection you can monitor conditions from afar, make changes and customize alerts so you only get important security updates (or
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The Little Life Got a small home? Perhaps an apartment, or a tiny house? Our Little Life series will help you find the best compact tech that'll help you make the most of your space. If you rent, you need to be careful not to make any permanent
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Learning to play the piano takes years of practice. There is so much struggle and frustration along the way that most people give up before they ever reach their goal. Robots, on the other hand, find it quite easy to learn to play the piano — they do now, anyway, thanks
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TL;DR Foundation sent humanoid robots to Ukraine and has $24M in Pentagon contracts. Eric Trump is its chief strategy adviser. Warren calls it “corruption.” Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, sent two of its Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine earlier this year. The company
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This week at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in Athens — part of the Panathenea festival taking place in the city — I sat down with Niko Bonatsos of Verdict Capital, Andreas Stavropoulos of Threshold Ventures, and Ben Blume of Atomico to ask about the current state of venture investing, the wave of
