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Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed to burst

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a new essay, he calls this approach “pure … Continue reading

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Vibe coding: Hype or new reality? Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Lauri Moore (Bessemer), David Cramer (Sentry), and Zach Lloyd (Warp) join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to debate what founders really need from their first engineering hires — and how AI tooling fits into the equation.

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What’s behind the massive AI data center headlines?

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what’s really going on in these AI infrastructure deals.

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Checkout.com’s new $12B valuation is a glass half-full situation  

Checkout.com is boosting its valuation as part of an employee stock buy-back program, and now says it’s profitable.

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As people look for ways to make new friends, here are the apps promising to help

We’ve compiled a list of friendship apps, from friend discovery platforms like BFF to event-focused ones like Timeleft.

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Everyone’s still throwing billions at AI data centers

From $100 billion OpenAI commitments to $100,000 visa fees, this week showed just how much the tech landscape is shifting. On the latest episode of Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff unpack the AI infrastructure gold rush and tech’s talent … Continue reading

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More executives depart Hyundai’s air taxi startup Supernal

The wider shakeup comes a few weeks since its CEO and CTO left.

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TruSources to show off its on-device identity-checking tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Age-verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.

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Thousands of Indian bank transfer records found spilling online after security lapse

Security researchers found the exposed Indian bank transfer records, and the data was eventually secured. Indian fintech company NuPay took responsibility for the “configuration” error.

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Is the Apple Watch SE 3 a good deal?

The gap between Apple’s standard and budget smart watches has never felt smaller. 

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