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Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO
The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.
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How drone developers are navigating changing regulatory landscapes to help farmers
Hylio offers a range of drones that use digital flowmeters to spray fields at precise dosages. | Source: Hylio Earlier this year, the Federal Communication Commission threw much of the robotics industry into uncertainty when it announced new limits on imports of certain robots…
The Robot Report
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Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year
Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.
TechCrunch — AI
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Robots Are Learning to Feel
Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks. A sense of touch could be the key, but a lack of quality data has held back progress. This is now starting to change as academic labs and startups…
IEEE Spectrum — Robotics
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India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.
TechCrunch — AI
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Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal
Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.
TechCrunch Robotics
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AFD 2026 объединяет углеродный рынок, токенизацию, креативные индустрии и ИИ
10 сентября в МФЦА продолжается IX финансовый форум Astana Finance Days 2026: Delivering Impact. Capital in Action, объединивший инвесторов, представителей финансового и технологического секторов, регуляторов, государственные и квазигосударственные институты, а также…
Kursiv Media Tech
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AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
TechCrunch — AI
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What bricklaying has taught Monumental about robots in construction
Monumental’s Pisa robot, which is in charge of laying bricks and mortar. | Source: Monumental Currently, 92% of contractors have a difficult time filling roles in construction, according to the Association of General Contractors. At the same time, the U.S. is short 4.5 million…
The Robot Report
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AGIBOT to explain how to scale humanoids from the lab to the real world at RoboBusiness
AGIBOT’s semi-humanoid robot working in a pilot at Longcheer Technology’s Nanchang factory. | Source: AGIBOT While generative AI has redefined the digital world, the true frontier lies in the physical realm in translating embodied AI into scalable, commercial reality. For global…
The Robot Report
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Vention opens Physical AI Lab for manufacturing in Montreal
Vention and its partners have invested in space and equipment for its new physical AI lab. Source: Vention To generate high-quality data for training the AI models that operate next-generation robots, you need scale. Vention Inc. today opened its Physical AI Lab in Montreal. The…
The Robot Report
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Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address
Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.
TechCrunch — AI
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Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks
Cymphony gives security teams a single view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman identities, including the systems and sensitive data they can access.
TechCrunch — AI
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Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time
If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the International Space Station, or partner with a handful of start-ups launching spacecraft that spend time in orbit before they return to Earth. But the…
TechCrunch — AI
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Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up
As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous versions of the AI model.
TechCrunch — AI
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Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market
Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.
TechCrunch — AI
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Boston Dynamics veteran launches Dynamic Creatures to bring characters to life with robotics
Dynamic Creatures co-founder and CEO Marc Theermann (left) and co-founder and CTO Farbod Farshidian. | Source: Dynamic Creatures | Source: Dynamic Creatures Boston Dynamics is focused on commercializing robots for industrial work, but it’s always had time for some fun, too.…
The Robot Report
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This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected
Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visited, earlier this year, there’s only one other person there, and little in the way of…
MIT Technology Review — AI (topic feed)
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XDOF, just 3 months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
TechCrunch Robotics
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Calling robotics startups: Apply now to be part of the 2026 Robotics Startup Radar
The robotics industry is rapidly changing and growing. Each year, we see new robotics startups launch into the scene with exciting technology. At The Robot Report, we want to help our readers keep up with this ever-changing landscape. So, we’re bringing back the Robotics Startup…
The Robot Report
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The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
TechCrunch Robotics
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Astana Hub Battle 2026. Открыт приём заявок на главную стартап-битву года - BES.media
Открыт приём заявок на главную стартап-битву года - BES.media.
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Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”
TechCrunch Robotics
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Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.
TechCrunch Robotics
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Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
TechCrunch Robotics
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Is Shipyard Welding the Right First Job for Humanoid Robots?
Humanoids desperately need to stop making YouTube videos and get a job already, and Persona AI is one of the few humanoid companies that seems to be entirely focused on making that happen. Persona AI’s approach has been to carefully select a job that is economically viable for…
IEEE Spectrum — Robotics
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Первый казахстанский «единорог» привлек $400 млн и достиг оценки $5,4 млрд - Kursiv Media
Первый казахстанский «единорог» привлек $400 млн и достиг оценки $5,4 млрд - Kursiv Media.
Kursiv Media Tech
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Enigma raises $71M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume
The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.
TechCrunch Robotics
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Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?
Forget YouTube videos — frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and, soon, brain wave readings.
TechCrunch Robotics
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Глава Astana Hub Мадиев возглавил новую инвесткомпанию с капиталом $170 тыс. - Kursiv Media Казахстан: последние новости Казахстана и мира
Глава Astana Hub Мадиев возглавил новую инвесткомпанию с капиталом $170 тыс.
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