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Bill Gates on stage at TC Sessions: Climate 2022
In Brief

Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI | TechCrunch

Bill Gates posted a long essay to his Gates Notes site today, showing just how much the Microsoft...

The logo of the Chinese artificial intelligence startup Zhipu AI is displayed on a smartphone with the home page in background.
In Brief

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model | TechCrunch

Over the weekend, the nerds were buzzing with speculation over which AI lab was behind Ox Alpha, the...

An exhibitor demonstrates a Unitree Robotics G1 humanoid robot at the Humanoids Summit in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, May 29, 2026. The summit is scheduled to continue through May 29. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
Robotics

Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era | TechCrunch

Physical AI is one of the hottest sectors in venture investing, with companies raising billions to apply the...

QueryStory co-founders Shapor Naghibzadeh, Dave Glusic, and Stanley Yang.
AI

QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you | TechCrunch

Shapor Naghibzadeh learned the value of a good story in 2009 as a Google SysOps engineer. When hackers...

AI

Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents | TechCrunch

Making AI agents work in practice is a lot harder than many companies expected — but there’s help...

Startups

Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses | TechCrunch

Hearing loss affects an estimated 50 million adults in the United States, but only around 20% of those...

Runable co-founders Saksham and Umesh
AI

Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them | TechCrunch

As artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to build websites and apps, Indian startup Runable is betting...

Ringg Founders- Kali CV, Siddharth Tripathi, Utkarsh Shukla
AI

India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call | TechCrunch

More than 76% of consumers in India prefer talking to businesses over a phone call, according to a...

Robotics

Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say | TechCrunch

Generalist, a robotics startup, is now valued at $3 billion after raising additional capital led by 8VC, according...

Five smoke stacks stand at a construction site in Texas.
AI

OpenAI loses a top data center exec as stream of high-profile departures continues | TechCrunch

OpenAI has lost yet another executive, and the timing of this one stands out in particular given that...