The Tally inventory robot, part of Simbe&s Store Intelligence platform, at a DeCicco - Sons grocery store. Source: Simbe
Simbe Robotics Inc. today announced a strategic partnership with DeCicco - Sons, a family-owned grocery chain in New York state. The partners will bring Simbe&s Store Intelligence platform to DeCicco&s...
Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe-coding startup Superblocks, believes the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas is hiding in almost plain sight: the system prompts used by existing unicorn AI startups.
System prompts are the lengthy prompts — over 5,000 to 6,000 words — that AI startups use to instruct the foundational models from companies...
Founders Fund has led another, enormous round for defense tech startup Anduril with a $1 billion investment as part of a new $2.5 billion raise, the largest check the firm has ever written. Existing investors also piled in, an Anduril spokesperson tells A Technology NewsRoom.
Anduril has now doubled its valuation to $30.5 billion with this Series...
Kepler said its booth became a high-traffic destination at ICRA 2025. Credit: Kepler Robotics
During last month&s IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025 in Atlanta, Kepler Robotics Co. introduced its latest humanoid robot, the K2 &Bumblebee.& The Shanghai, China-based company said the live...
Narrowing down the 30 most visionary startups of the year to just five finalists was no easy feat. VivaTech’s Innovation of the Year attracted an extraordinary pool of applicants — startups tackling massive global challenges with bold, technically sophisticated, and scalable solutions. From redefining human-machine interaction to revolutionizing he...
We're in the final stretch. Exhibitor tables for A Technology NewsRoom All Stage, occurring July 15 in Boston, are almost entirely offered out-- and less than 48 hours stay before booking officially closes.TC All Stage is constructed for creators This isn't simply another start-up event-- it's where brands connect straight with financiers, customers, and pr ...
Functions of the samos PRO MOTION safety controller. Source: Wieland Electric
Wieland Electric Inc. this week announced that its samos PRO MOTION Controller was named the Gold winner in the Control Systems category of the Plant Engineering 2025 Product of the Year awards program. Plant Engineering is a sibling site to The Robot Report...
Early-stage AI startups are imbuing new life into San Francisco’s Northern Waterfront, after years of “for lease” signs dotting the post-pandemic landscape. According to the San Francisco Business Times, five AI-focused companies — four backed by Y Combinator — recently leased 23,900 square feet at the Waterfront Plaza complex. This is part of a ci...
When Monik Pamecha co-founded AI voice startup Toma in early 2024, he hadn’t anticipated spending the summer months sweating in Bible Belt car dealerships. He and co-founder Anthony Krivonos were still focused on banking and healthcare customers when the dealers came knocking.
“They just called us up and said ‘we are drowning in phone calls,’” Pame...
We are passionate about the impact robotics can have on the world. That&s why for 14 years, the RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards have honored the most innovative robotics companies, technologies, and applications from around the world.
This year we brought back three major awards: Robot of the Year, Application of the Year, and Startup of the...
If you’ve been following Anthropic, you’ll know it’s been a busy year for the AI startup. Back in March, the company announced that it raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion valuation in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Since then, it’s launched a blog for its Claude models and, according to Bloomberg reporting, partnered with A...
Today's the day!A Technology NewsRoom Sessions: AIis lighting up UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall at 8 a.m. PT on the dot. The stage is set, the speakers are ready, and the AI community is gathering for one powerful day of insight, development, and momentum.Local to Berkeley and enthusiastic about AI? There's still time to join us-- grab a pass and imm ...
Nucleus Genomics, a hereditary testing start-up founded by 25-year-old Kian Sadeghi, initially launched in 2021 with the goal of determining a patient's risk for specific diseases. It's been courting controversy for years with products that declare to tell people how their genetics correlate to a host of intricate problems, including their IQ. On ...
PalmPay, an African digital bank fintech, is in talks to raise between $50 million and $100 million in a Series B round, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
It’s unclear what valuation it hopes to get, but its last round, in 2021, ranked it among the continent’s most valuable startups, estimated just shy of unicorn status.
Whale Dynamic specializes in providing last-mile deliveries in urban and rural environments. | Source: Whale Dynamic
Whale Dynamic, a developer of autonomous delivery vehicles, last week partnered with Noodoe, an electric vehicle charging and energy management software provider. The companies said they plan to create an &end-to-end...
Welcome to Startups Weekly-- your weekly wrap-up of everything you can't miss from the world of start-ups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Register here.From obtaining stealth start-ups to bigger ones, and from funding Series A to Series G rounds, buyers and investors produced a hectic news cycle.Most intriguing startup stories from the weekImage ...
“One of the biggest vulnerabilities in companies is actually humans,” CrowdStrike co-founder and former CTO Dmitri Alperovitch told A Technology NewsRoom in this week’s episode of Equity. “The more you automate, the more opportunities there are for people to find vulnerabilities in your system.”
With the $50 billion Chinese AI market potentially...
Video world models, which predict future frames conditioned on actions, hold immense promise for artificial intelligence, enabling agents to plan and reason in dynamic environments. Recent advancements, particularly with video diffusion models, have shown impressive capabilities in generating realistic future sequences. However, a significant...
Time is running out. The gates to Startup Battlefield 200 at A Technology NewsRoom Disrupt 2025 are about to close. In just 3 days, your window to enter the most iconic live startup competition will slam shut. Over 10,000 tech titans, top-tier VCs, and media powerhouses will be watching. This is your chance to rise, roar, and rewrite your...
Airtime, the video startup from Evernote’s founder Phil Libin, has laid off dozens of employees, A Technology NewsRoom has learned, and Airtime confirmed.
According to the company, 25 people were let go from the 58-person team — a change Airtime described as “bigger than usual.”
While Airtime characterizes the departures as part of its typical...
This is it. The gates to Startup Battlefield 200 at A Technology NewsRoom Disrupt 2025 close tonight. If you want a shot at the most electrifying startup pitch competition in tech, your application needs to be in before the deadline hits.
You’ve got vision. Traction. A product that’s making noise. Now’s the time to show up on the biggest stage in st...
This is it. Only two tables remain to exhibit at A Technology NewsRoom All Stage, happening July 15 in Boston — and the booking window officially closes today at 11:59 p.m. PT. If you’ve been waiting to make your move, now’s the time to book your table.
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XRobotics thinks it has cracked the code on getting pizza restaurants to adopt robotics.
The San Francisco-based robotics company built a countertop robot called xPizza Cube, which is roughly the size of a stackable washing machine and uses machine learning to apply sauce, cheese, and pepperoni to pizza dough. The machines, which lease for $1,300 a...
Anysphere, the maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, has raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported. The round was led by returning investor Thrive Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, and DST Global.
The massive round is Anysphere’s third fundraise in less than a year. The 3-year-old startup secured i...
Out of all the books I read for my official education, one bit, from one slim paperback, has actually lodged the inmost into my brain. ... Out of all the books I read for my formal education, one bit, from one slim paperback, has lodged the inmost into my brain.William Blundell's The Art and Craft of Feature Writing provides a selective list of what readers like. It starts with a definitive No. 1: Dogs, followed by other adorable animals and well-behaved small children. People, Blundell writes, are your second-best alternative, offering they are doing or stating something interesting.I have stopped working to supply Ars Technica readers with a pet dog story during nearly three years here. Today, I mean to repair that. This is a story about a dog, but also a rare optimistic take on a common smart item, one that helped out a great girl.Note: The images in this post are not of the previously mentioned canine, so regarding protect their owner's personal privacy. The Humane Rescue Alliance of Washington, DC, provided images of adoptable pets with some resemblance to that dog.My wife and I were sitting with our pet on our front porch on a recent weekend early morning. We were consuming coffee, reading, and delighting in DC's small window for temperate spring weather condition. I went inside for a moment; when I returned, my dog was within, however my spouse was not. Confused, I broke open the door to watch out. A pet dog, not my own, stuck its nose into the door space, excited to sniff me out. There's a pet dog here? my other half stated, partially to herself. She just added on the patio. I have no concept where she came from. Rexi, an almost 3-year-old combined breed, is being cultivated and prepared for adoption at the Humane Rescue Alliance. The author's other half thinks Rexi looks one of the most like their unforeseen dog visitor. Rexi, an almost 3-year-old mixed breed, is being fostered and prepared for adoption at the Humane Rescue Alliance. The author's wife thinks Rexi looks the most like their unforeseen canine visitor. Credit: Humane Rescue Alliance I protected my dog inside, then went out to satisfy this fast-moving but friendly trespasser. She had a collar, but no leash, and looked well-groomed, healthy, and lightly frenzied. The collar had a silicone band on it, holding one of Apple's AirTags beneath. I pulled out the AirTag, tapped it versus my phone, and absolutely nothing happened.While my spouse posted on our area's numerous social outlets (Facebook, Nextdoor, and a WhatsApp group for immediate neighbors), I went into the garage and grabbed a CR2032 battery. That's not something everyone has, however I have a few AirTags, together with a bit of a home automation practice. After some pushing, twisting, and changing, the AirTag beeped and went back to service.
While the online feud between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump seemed to drive traffic to Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter), it could also create issues for the platform’s parent company xAI.
Musk merged X and xAI earlier this year, with Bloomberg reporting this week that he was looking to raise $5 billion in debt (as well as a...
The fight between HR tech startups has heated up another notch this week as Rippling on Thursday filed an 84-page amended complaint in its lawsuit against Deel.
The complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising four other competitors, in addition to Rippling.
The revised complaint doesn’t name all of the four other alleged v...
, Cooper ruled that CREW is entitled to limited discovery into the question of whether DOGE is wielding authority sufficient to bring it within the purview of FOIA. ....