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The newest White House tech strategy pushes faster development of emerging technologies for the military, gives defense innovators more room to experiment, and will broaden the federal market for young defense tech startups. But it also doubles down on a particular approach to developing AI—one that favors a handful
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Travis Kalanick certainly has had a love-hate relationship with VCs over his career. As the founder of Uber he was a VC darling, raising what was then an unprecedented roughly $15 billion in venture funding during his tenure. Then, a boardroom battle with key investor Bill Gurley of venture firm
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Last week, I ventured a whopping 15 minutes from my house to see robots do some mind-boggling, jaw-dropping stuff. I visited the Cambridge, Massachusetts, offices of a startup called Generalist AI, where I watched robot arms perform simple chores like stacking cups, putting blocks into bowls, and the like. I
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Save up to $560: The days of breaking your back and sweating through your shirt are about to come to an end with Mammotion robot lawn mowers on sale with up to $560 off. Mammotion is offering two of its robot lawn mowers with deep discounts, with prices starting at
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The lowest prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 end in just a few days, this Friday, August 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Once that window closes, your chance to save up to $300 on your pass, or get an even larger discount on group pricing, will come to an
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Artificial Intelligence, commonly known as AI, is developing faster than ever. In 2026, new AI models are becoming more powerful, useful, and capable of performing complicated tasks. Instead of only answering questions, modern AI can help with programming, research, business tasks, robotics, and many other activities. What Is New in
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Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun revealed little about it, Business Insider reported. Rya Jetha wrote that he named the venture at the end of a keynote in San Francisco. The
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I began using robot vacuum-and-mop combinations over seven years ago to check some chores off my to-do list. It is truly possible to sit back and relax while one of these machines handles all the hard work. These robots significantly evolved from dragging a soggy microfiber pad across your floors
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Robot vacuums are great at keeping your floors clean, but there are a few areas they fall down on the job — stairs being one. Another is chairs and stools. You know the scenario: You have a row of stools at a kitchen table, or chairs tucked under a dining table,
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A chip startup that promises to cut the power AI uses has raised $110mn and crossed a $1bn valuation. Velaura AI, based in Santa Clara, announced the Series A round on Tuesday. The company said in a statement that it builds ultra-low-power silicon and software for data centres and for
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Sandia National Laboratories have taught drones to play a game of tag via reinforcement learning — with a view to improving how autonomous systems can respond to rapid changes in environment during pursuit, evasion, or coordination. "Reinforcement learning is just beginning to
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I step out into in the late afternoon heat, phone in hand and ready to film, as mopeds swarm the sidewalk around me, barely avoiding my outstretched arm. I tap a button in the camera app and a 6mm-thin gimbal-mounted camera swings out of the phone’s back. On the
