Amazon will deploy 1 million robots and release a generated AI model
After 13 years of robots deployed in warehouses, Amazon has reached a new milestone. Tech Behemoth currently has 1 million robots in its warehouse, the company announced Monday. The 1 million robots have recently been delivered to an Amazon fulfillment facility in Japan. The figures will keep Amazon on track and reach another landmark, according […]
When the app moves further away from Instagram, the thread launches its own DM inbox
Instagram threads have rolled out the most requested features of users to date. It’s a feature that sends messages directly to people without switching to another app like Instagram. The company said Direct Messages (DMS) will be rolled out to users globally starting Tuesday, along with a new visual element called Highlighter. The latter emphasizes […]
Note: Raising $16 million to build a human-driven expert model for e-commerce
Startups working on AI-powered e-commerce tools often rely on external data or user signals to build and improve their models. However, companies called utterances take a different approach by having thousands of human experts chat with users while purchasing items and using that knowledge to train models. And by answering questions to the persona that […]
Grammarly gets AI email client superhuman
Grammarly announced on Tuesday its acquisition of superhuman human email clients to build AI for its productivity suite. Neither company provided details regarding the financial terms of the transaction. The Superhuman was founded by Rahul Vohra, Vivek Sodera, and Conrad Irwin. According to data from Venture Data Analytics company Traxcn, the company has raised more […]
David George on the Future to be released in 2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will be coming to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27-29, bringing together over 10,000 startups and VC leaders to chart the next one on Tech. And it will be released on October 27th at the premier industry stage. David George of Andreesen Horowitz takes the microphone for a fireside chat […]
The US Senate removes the controversial “AI Moratrium” from budget bill
The U.S. Senator voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to remove the controversial 10-year ban on states’ ability to regulate AI from the Trump administration’s “big beautiful bill,” Axios reports. The provisions for the settlement bill were introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Many well-known Silicon Valley executives, including Sam Altman of Openai, Palmer Luckey of Anduril, […]
Genesis AI launches from Khosla’s Eclipse with $105 million seed funding to build an AI model for robots
Genesis AI is a startup aimed at building foundational models for running all kinds of robots, and has emerged from stealth with a huge $105 million seed round co-led by Eclipse Ventures and Khosla Ventures. It was founded last December by Zhou Xian (photo above, left). At Robotics at Théophile Gervet, a former research scientist […]
Xai raises $100 billion in debt and equity
Xai, the AI company of Elon Musk, has raised $10 billion in debt and capital, Morgan Stanley confirmed Monday. In an X’s post, Financial Giant said Xai raised $5 billion and another $5 billion in another strategic stock trade. “The combination of debt and equity reduces the overall cost of capital and significantly expands the […]
CloudFlare launches a market where websites can claim AI bots for scraping
CloudFlare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced on Tuesday the launch of a new market that rethinks the relationship between website owners and AI companies. Last year, CloudFlare launched a publisher-friendly tool to deal with the ramping rise of AI crawlers, including a one-click solution that blocks all AI bots […]
Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership […]