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A sensor that can simultaneously capture depth and image data has long been a holy grail, Ouster CEO Angus Pacala told TechCrunch.

The portfolio he has assembled since 2019 is dotted with technologies that have become more widely interesting to VCs over the last year:

Within hours he'd thrown up a website a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission and by Sunday, 36,000 founding patrons had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.

A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.

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The Xteink X3 is a delightfully tiny, MagSafe-compatible e-ink reader that attaches to the back of your phone like a Pop Socket.

Bad news for Tilly Norwood.

Owner IAC says it's discontinuing its search business.

The Magician's Nephew looks like a big next step in Netflix's thawing relationship with movie theaters.

AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice

It is not that European startups never get attention Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are many more that insiders are tracking.

Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.

At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to be acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, is Replit also bound to sell?

The DTC skin, hair, and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power sources.

The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.

A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the Linux-based operating system.

The company saw a 30% year-on-year jump in the number of people using search every week, CEO Steve Huffman said on Thursday.

Users in India are embracing ChatGPT Images 2.0 for creative, personal visuals from avatars to cinematic portraits.

Cook warned that Apple is facing supply-chain headwinds from RAMageddon that could impact its business.

Subscription billing fintech Skio sold to its competitor Recharge in what was a healthy exit, according to its founder and former CEO.

Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI companys latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The two wildly fast-growing rivals have raised massive sums, pushed into each other's home turf and now have dueling ad campaigns.

Rivian has reworked its loan deal with the Department of Energy and now expects to borrow $4.5 billion to build its new factory in Georgia, down from the original amount of $6.6 billion.

Web hosts are scrambling to fix the bug under active attack by hackers. One company said hackers have been abusing the bug for months.

OpenAI will begin rolling out it cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only o critical cyber defenders at first.

The perpetually struggling EV company made the payments while being investigated by the SEC. That four-year probe was ultimately closed in March.

OpenAI is launching additional opt-in protections for ChatGPT accounts. The new security initiative includes a new partnership with security key provider Yubico.

Distillation is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models.

BioticsAI CEO Robhy Bustami joined Isabelle Johannessen on Build Mode to discuss how the company has navigated a highly regulated space and kept the team motivated while cutting through all the red tape.

Google announced on Thursday that it will begin rolling out Gemini to cars with Google built-in, marking a significant upgrade from the current Google Assistant. The move signals Googles push to bring more advanced, conversational AI into the driving experience. The announcement follows closely behind news from General Motors, which revealed yesterday that Gemini is []

The new hub features dedicated college group chats and personalized feeds designed to help students stay connected with their campus communities, even while theyre away for the summer.

Link lets users connect cards, banks, and subscriptions, then authorize AI agents to spend securely via approval flows.

Salesforce lets its customers lead its product roadmap with the thinking that if one enterprise customer has a problem, the others likely do too.

Netflix is redesigning its mobile app and introducing Clips, a vertical video feed intended to help users discover new content by sharing highlights from original Netflix programming.

As AI-generated artists and tracks flood music streaming platforms, Spotify is rolling out a new Verified by Spotify badge to help listeners more easily identify authentic human artists. To receive the badge, artists must meet certain criteria. Spotify looks for an identifiable artist presence both on and off platform, like concert dates, merch, and linked []

You need infrastructure to build AI a and robots, but apparently you also need AI and robots to build infrastructure.