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Meta starts testing user-created AI chatbots on Instagram

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that the company will begin to surface AI characters made by creators through

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Robotics investments are gaining speed after post-pandemic slowdown

New numbers out of Crunchbase this week see robotics investments once again trending in a positive direction. The previous two

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Agility’s humanoid robots are going to handle your Spanx

Up to now, the humanoid robotics industry has been all promises and pilots. While important in the eventual deployment of

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Andrew Ng plans to raise $120M for next AI Fund

AI bigshot Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, a startup incubator that backs small teams of experts looking to solve key problems

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Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to ‘create God’

Riffing on what he sees ahead for the future of AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview published

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VW taps Rivian in $5B EV deal and the fight over Fisker’s assets

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Rondo Energy funding shows a new way across the climate startup ‘valley of death’

Outside of AI, few startups have drawn venture investments like climate tech. And like AI, companies in the sector need large

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Google Cloud Partners With TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

TechCrunch is joining forces with Google Cloud as its lead partner for Startup Battlefield 200. This event will highlight and

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TikTok to challenge Amazon Prime Day with its own sales event in July

TikTok is gearing up to challenge Amazon’s Prime Day event in the July. The social network announced on Thursday that

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As Spain gets its latest VC fund, Southern Europe appears to be on a roll

While startup valuations have plummeted since the bull run of 2021-2022, a factor that’s hit the European startup ecosystem particularly