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Reliable Robotics, a Mountain View, California startup building autonomous flight systems for existing aircraft, raised $115 million as an extension of its Series D. The round comprises $90 million in equity led by Nimble Partners and $25 million in debt from Silicon Valley Bank. It brings the Series D to $275 million, lifts the valuation…
Eka Robotics, founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, closed a $150 million Series A at a $1.45 billion post-money valuation, led by a16z and F-Prime. The company has built a robotic manipulation system pairing a force-sensitive gripper with a vision-force-action model, trained throug…
Spotify launched paid podcast memberships on Tuesday, letting creators monetize their biggest fans beyond paywalled bonus episodes. Creators choose the perks, such as bonus audio or video, fewer ads or early access. The feature was previewed at Spotify's Investor Day in May and is rolling out to 34 markets, including the U.S. The launch i…
Yelp has added a Check for Me feature to its app. An AI voice agent calls a restaurant on the user's behalf to check wait times and texts the result back, based on the party size and phone number the user enters. Yelp is also updating its Yelp AI assistant with an OpenTable booking integration, memory of preferences, 30 days of chat histo…
Otter.ai, an AI meeting note-taking vendor, announced a $320 million raise from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF), a non-dilutive vehicle that earns returns on marketing spend results. Otter plans to use the capital for enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion and product innovation. The company passed …
Estonia-based Blackwall, which sells web traffic security tools to hosting, managed service and cloud providers, announced a $100 million Series C at a $2.2 billion valuation, four times its 2025 valuation. The round was led by AVP, with Dawn Capital, MMC Ventures and Tera Ventures participating. Blackwall uses a channel model: providers …
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at The People's AI Assembly, hosted by the AI Now Institute, that the federal government has abdicated its role in regulating AI. He urged New Yorkers to resist the idea that AI adoption is inevitable. He pointed to his September order banning AI use in elementary and middle schools. He also pointed…
Flipkart, the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce company, is internally testing a food-delivery service called "Eat-in by Minutes" in Bengaluru. The trial has grown from a few hundred employees to more than 8,000, and Flipkart has deployed a dedicated rider fleet through its logistics arm Ekart. The service draws on restaurants listed via ON…
Bloomberg reports, as relayed by TechCrunch, that Anthropic and AI infrastructure provider Nscale are close to announcing a second $45 billion compute deal, a little over a month after their first deal of the same size. Sources cautioned that talks are ongoing and the details could change. If completed, it would be the latest of many larg…
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Hugging Face chief policy officer Irene Solaiman said AI model evaluations remain an immature science with limited reproducibility and no meaningful way to compare tests against each other. She argued that open weights are central to reproducing results and that qualifications for effective third-party evaluators ne…
Microsoft announced new enterprise security features on 19 October 2026 to monitor and control AI agents, treating them as potential insider threats. The centerpiece is Guardian Agents, part of Project Perception, which Microsoft introduced in June as its answer to AI-driven hacking and vulnerability-scanning systems such as Anthropic's M…
This TechCrunch Mobility newsletter is industry and business news with no cybersecurity incident, vulnerability or threat activity. The main story covers an interview with Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, who describes a shift toward becoming a "tech supplier" by licensing its electric architecture, software, AI models and autonomy stack. Rivian i…
Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, and Disney has agreed to make employment offers to at least 60 of its employees, the majority of the workforce, at an estimated $60 million in annual compensation. A legal filing spotted by Bloomberg says the "vast majority" of those offered jobs accepted. Disney had previously agreed t…
Meta updated its commercial terms of use to state it could "use any content from a business account's domains, web pages, or URLs" to provide, develop, improve, research, train and maintain its products and services. Legal experts quoted by Nieman Lab read this as a "remarkable provision" that could let Meta scrape any publisher with a Me…
Amazon is funding development of a proposed 960-megawatt nuclear plant near Terre Haute, Indiana, and would be the first customer for its power, according to an announcement on Monday. American Electric Power (AEP) would operate the plant, and X-energy would supply 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors. The site is a demolished coal plant. The…
A growing number of developers and consumers are using AI coding agents, chiefly Claude Code, to remove sponsored ads, tracking features and preinstalled bloatware from smart TVs. Two GitHub projects, dumbtv (Muzzammil Yasin Sabuwala) and cleanyourtv (Gathin T.), package this approach. Cleanyourtv reportedly spread to a few thousand users…
Apple tightened its App Store developer guidelines over the weekend to ban apps that use AI to create offensive content. The update also targets apps that pass review as ordinary apps and later turn into nudify apps or surface those features prominently (a bait-and-switch tactic). Apps hosting user-generated content must filter objectiona…
Nvidia has released new open-weight AI models for always-on agents and edge computing. The Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a 120-billion-parameter model for enterprise agents. Nvidia says it matches the accuracy of the larger Nemotron 3 Ultra on instruction-following and tool-use tasks. Two lightweight Bolt models, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B and …
Elon Musk said he will give one of his SpaceX shares to "every kid in America" in 2027. At the current $146 share price, the gift would be worth more than $10 billion, roughly 1% of his reported $1 trillion net worth. The mechanism is unclear, though Musk said he wants to give the shares "directly to the public" and called this the "first…
Laplace Intelligence, an Ann Arbor-based startup spun out of the University of Michigan, is building automated red-teaming for physical AI such as robots and autonomous vehicles. It is competing in Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt. The product pairs a high-fidelity, real-world-grounded simulation with AI agents that probe for…
