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Generative AI takes robots a step closer to general purpose

Most coverage of humanoid robotics has understandably focused on hardware design. Given the frequency with which their developers toss around

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This Week in AI: Apple won’t say how the sausage gets made

Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, Apple stole the spotlight. At the company’s

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Helen Toner worries ‘not super functional’ Congress will flub AI policy

Helen Toner, a former OpenAI board member and the director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology,

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YouTube creators can now test multiple video thumbnails

YouTube announced this week the rollout of “Thumbnail Test & Compare,” a new tool for creators to see which thumbnail

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Waymo issues second recall after robotaxi hit telephone pole

Waymo has voluntarily issued a software recall to all 672 of its Jaguar I-Pace robotaxis after one of them collided

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Insight Partners backs Canary Technologies’ mission to elevate hotel guest experiences

The hospitality industry is back, baby. And with it comes a chance for technology startups to not only help hotels

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Restate raises $7M for its lightweight workflows-as-code platform

When one of the co-creators of the popular open-source stream-processing framework Apache Flink launches a new startup, it’s worth paying

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Civic Renewables is rolling up residential solar installers to improve quality and grow the market

For an industry that’s about 20 years old, residential solar is still pretty tumultuous. Some of that can be blamed

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Fisker’s troubled Ocean SUV gets its first recall

Fisker is issuing the first recall for its all-electric Ocean SUV because of problems with the warning lights, according to

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Fabless AI chip makers Rebellions and Sapeon to merge as competition heats up in global AI hardware industry

South Korea’s fabless AI chip industry saw a slew of fundraising events over the last couple of years as demand