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Robomart unveils new delivery robot with $3 flat fee to challenge DoorDash, Uber Eats

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics / Rebecca Szkutak

Robomart, a startup that builds self-driving delivery robots, is unveiling its latest robot with an ambitious goal of using it to make on-demand delivery profitable. The Los Angeles-based company announced its patented Robomart RM5 on Monday. The level-four autonomous vehicle can carry up to 500 pounds and is made up of 10 individual lockers that

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Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5

Artificial Intelligence / Anthony Ha

In Brief Posted: 7:00 AM PDT · August 24, 2025 Image Credits:Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg / Getty Images Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model

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Amazon AGI Labs chief defends his reverse acquihire

Artificial Intelligence / Anthony Ha

In Brief Posted: 1:01 PM PDT · August 23, 2025 Image Credits:Matthias Balk/picture alliance / Getty Images When Amazon hired the founders of AI startup Adept last year, it was one of the first examples of what became known as a reverse acquihire — a deal where a large company hires key startup team members

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OpenAI announces New Delhi office as it expands footprint in India

Artificial Intelligence / Jagmeet Singh

OpenAI has announced plans to open its first office in India, just days after launching a ChatGPT plan tailored for Indian users, as it looks to tap into the country’s rapidly growing AI market. On Friday, the company said it would set up a local team in India and open a corporate office in the

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Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages

Artificial Intelligence, Gadgets / Lauren Forristal

Three parents — Reni Cao, Xiao Zhang, and Susan Rosenthal — were worried about their children’s screen time, so they left their tech jobs to create a product that encourages children to engage with the real world while also helping them learn a new language. Their move has paid off, as the company recently raised

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FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics / Rebecca Szkutak

FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based robotics startup, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially robot brains designed to help everything from humanoids to quadrupeds to self-driving cars adapt to new environments. The company announced the funding Wednesday; the most recent round raised $314

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Y Combinator alum SRE.ai raises $7.2M for DevOps AI agents

Artificial Intelligence, Venture / Dominic-Madori Davis

“It wasn’t one big lightbulb; it was death by a thousand cuts,” Edward Aryee said when asked what led him and his co-founder, Raj Kadiyala, to launch SRE.ai. The company is offering natural language AI agents that can perform complex enterprise DevOps workflows like continuous integration and testing. “Instead of stitching together different low-code tools

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Your next customer is on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 expo floor — will they find you or your competitor?

Artificial Intelligence, Startups / TechCrunch Events

Image Credits:Eric Slomonson, The Photo Group 10:07 AM PDT · August 19, 2025 TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 lands in San Francisco from October 27-29, and the Expo Hall is already packed with early adopters, startup scouts, and enterprise buyers looking to discover what’s next. If you’re not there to show off your product, your competitors will

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AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees

Artificial Intelligence, Startups / Julie Bort

Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A. He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle in San Francisco’s South Park (a favorite VC haunt). While describing the future of the company, he was gesturing so

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Why Paradigm built a spreadsheet with an AI agent in every cell

Artificial Intelligence, Startups / Rebecca Szkutak

Anna Monaco has been building AI agents since before the term “AI agents” was even a thing. After building numerous chatbots, she started looking for other types of interfaces that made sense for AI agents and landed on spreadsheets. “I had this personal pattern, and I noticed that a lot of other people had this

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