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This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn’t promising a robot in your home anytime soon Connie Loizos 11:05 PM PDT · July 5, 2026 The humanoid robotics market is awash in money right now. Last week, AI2 Robotics, a Shenzhen-based startup that makes wheeled humanoid robots...

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk Anthony Ha 10:43 AM PDT · July 5, 2026 These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon...

5 desk gadgets that can make your workday better Aisha Malik 8:00 AM PDT · July 5, 2026 We spend dozens of hours at our desks each week (if not more), so it’s worth creating a workspace that’s productive and enjoyable. The right desk gadgets can help you reduce clutter, stay focused, and add a...

What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that’s now public Anna Heim 6:33 AM PDT · July 5, 2026 Bending Spoons , the Milan-based tech conglomerate that made headlines for acquiring the likes of AOL and Vimeo, went public on the Nasdaq this week with a pop , briefly reaching a...

Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are Dominic-Madori Davis 5:47 AM PDT · July 5, 2026 With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed...

Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage Anthony Ha 11:00 AM PDT · July 4, 2026 As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, AI startup Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves. Disney and Universal...

New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI Anthony Ha 1:55 PM PDT · July 4, 2026 Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks : What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google...

China’s Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s programming tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to multiple reports . Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as foreign entities owned by those companies, from using its models. The company has reportedly...

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor Anna Heim 8:51 AM PDT · July 4, 2026 Following the Trump directive that led Anthropic to pull its latest AI models offline and growing calls for sovereign tech that reduces reliance on the U.S. , Mistral AI has been caught in a...

The Dune keypad device can be your meeting controller and more Ivan Mehta 11:28 AM PDT · July 3, 2026 My biggest pet peeve with meeting apps is that each one has a different shortcut for muting your mic or turning off your webcam. It’s hard to remember which keys do what when you’re mid-meeting...

The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari Lauren Forristal 11:43 AM PDT · July 3, 2026 The browser wars have entered a new phase this year: The fight isn’t just over search results anymore — it’s over which company’s AI gets to act on your...

The only AI glossary you’ll need this year Natasha Lomas Romain Dillet Kyle Wiggers Lucas Ropek 2:20 PM PDT · July 3, 2026 Artificial intelligence is rewriting the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Sit in on any product meeting, pitch, or...

Chevy built an all-American EV truck — why is nobody buying it? Tim De Chant 9:30 AM PDT · July 3, 2026 Although I grew up shifting my dad’s Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck from the passenger seat, I’m not exactly Chevy’s target market. I favor hatchbacks over cargo beds. But after tooling around...

Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware Zack Whittaker 10:05 PM PDT · July 2, 2026 Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving on an investigatory committee probing abuses...

Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung Lucas Ropek 11:31 AM PDT · July 2, 2026 Back in April, Reuters reported that Anthropic was toying with the idea of producing its own AI chips as a means of responding to chip shortages. Now, it would appear that the company is getting...

A warning sign about AI’s real cost, courtesy of Google and Amazon Tim De Chant 12:14 PM PDT · July 2, 2026 It’s no secret that AI is a hog, consuming energy and water like no digital technology before it. Now we know just how much Big Tech’s pursuit of AI is costing the environment. Both...

Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become Julie Bort 1:11 PM PDT · July 2, 2026 I can’t tell the exact tipping point from realistic excitement over a new technology, to hype, to aww-come-on — but I’m pretty sure when a sandwich shop with Danny DeVito as its public face talks...

Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket Sarah Perez 11:44 AM PDT · July 2, 2026 Meta is getting into gaming with the launch of a new app called Pocket , which allows people to generate small, interactive apps and games using AI prompts. The software, a result of Meta’s acquisition of...

Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment Russell Brandom 6:53 AM PDT · July 2, 2026 On Thursday, Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier Company, focused on delivering successful enterprise AI deployments with Microsoft’s...

Tesla delivered more than 480,000 vehicles in the second quarter of this year, an increase of more than 120,000 from the first quarter, in a sign that the company is still able to attract new buyers for its EVs despite a downturn in the U.S. market. The company said Thursday that it built...