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TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And during Disrupt Week, that conversation doesn’t stop when the doors to Moscone West close. Our Side Events program brings founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders together across San Francisco for everything from intimate roundtables
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On Tuesday, OpenAI’s annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers and chants. “Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit,” said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spelled out “PEOPLE OVER PROFIT.” More than a dozen organizations came
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Bill Gates says AI crossed two danger thresholds early this year: it can now help a bioterrorist, and it can power a crippling cyberattack. He made the case on The Ezra Klein Show, in an interview published by The New York Times on Tuesday. “We crossed the cyber threshold and
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There are plenty of little desktop robots that can wave, make noises, and show cute animations, but JBR-001 is built to do a lot more. Powered by an Arduino UNO Q, the open source robot combines three servos, a camera, distance sensing, sound, and an animated display into a small
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A humanoid robot that costs under $4,000 sounds too good to be true. But that’s the price that Flourish Robots, a humanoid robot startup, has announced for its ready-to-ship Flourish 1 unit. At $3,555, the Flourish 1 home robot would be the cheapest humanoid robot I’ve
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Cameron Faulkner is an editor covering deals and gaming hardware. He joined in 2018, and after a two-year stint at Polygon, he rejoined The Verge in May 2025. It’s not even October yet and Amazon is already offering some Prime Big Deal Day discounts on its own hardware, along
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AMD is making one of its biggest strategic moves yet to challenge NVIDIA’s dominance in the artificial intelligence landscape. In an all-stock deal valued at approximately $8.2 billion, AMD announced a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs, an AI startup founded by renowned Stanford professor Dr. Fei-Fei Li,
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Forward-looking: China isn't the only superpower investigating how humanoid robots will be deployed as part of its armed forces. The US Army has just named five companies as winners of the xTechHumanoid
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* Evri is testing out a two-legged delivery robot in Barnsley * The robot can avoid obstacles and get up stairs * Evri says the delivery bot is designed to support couriers, not replace them We've seen robot delivery schemes before, but none quite like this: British delivery company Evri has
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AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the AI model startup led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2bn. AMD announced the deal on Monday. Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, reporting to CEO Lisa Su. AMD expects the deal
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Going rogue. Breaking containment. Misalignment. P(doom). As the industry booms, an entirely new vernacular has emerged in the debates over how consequential artificial intelligence really is. Within that new parlance, two phrases have become focal points: stochastic parrots and existential risk. And at the center of those is one
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Traditionally, Dyson has been a one-robovac-at-a-time kind of brand. At its most recent launch event, though, we were treated to three new bots at once. And the one I'm most interested in is the R1, which sits right at the bottom of the lineup. The R1 is the
