December 25, 2025

AI Wrapped: The 14 AI terms you couldn’t avoid in 2025

If the past 12 months have taught us anything, it’s that the AI hype train is showing no signs of slowing. It’s hard to believe that at the beginning of the year, DeepSeek had yet to turn the entire industry on its head, Meta was better known for trying (and failing) to make the metaverse…

Augmental lets you control a computer (and sex toys) with your tongue

May 2, 2023

Worldwide, about one in six people live with a disability. Whether through injury or illness, disability can manifest itself as an impediment to mobility. There have been fantastic advancements in communication and operational technologies, but there’s always room for improvement, and Augmental, an MIT Media Lab spinoff, thinks that it might be on to something […]

Augmental lets you control a computer (and sex toys) with your tongue by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Viam’s robot prototyping software hits general availability

May 2, 2023

When I visited Viam’s Manhattan offices late last year, I was struck by two things. First, there’s a killer view of Lincoln Center. As the weather is getting warmer and they’re starting to do those all-ages outdoor movie screenings, you can probably just hang out up there and watch the whole thing from the other […]

Viam’s robot prototyping software hits general availability by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Vote for the breakout sessions you want at Disrupt 2023

May 2, 2023

In early 2022, you may remember, we called for experts to submit applications to present breakout sessions and roundtable discussions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, taking place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. After spending dozens of late nights poring over thousands of applications and consuming frightening levels of caffeine, it’s time to reveal the Audience […]

Vote for the breakout sessions you want at Disrupt 2023 by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Kodiak Robotics is adding an electric, autonomous semi truck to its fleet next year

May 2, 2023

Self-driving trucking company Kodiak Robotics plans to introduce an electric autonomous Class 8 truck to its fleet in 2024. The news comes as California, one of the states Kodiak hopes to do business in, recently voted to ban the sale of new diesel heavy duty trucks by 2036 and will require that all trucks be […]

Kodiak Robotics is adding an electric, autonomous semi truck to its fleet next year by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

New Relic launches Grok, it’s AI observability assistant

May 2, 2023

We’re currently deep in the cycle of every enterprise-adjacent company integrating a large language model into its services. Today, New Relic is throwing its hat in the ring with Grok, which it calls the “world’s first generative AI assistant for observability” (and I’m sure it won’t be the last). Unsurprisingly, the idea here is to […]

New Relic launches Grok, it’s AI observability assistant by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: Geoffrey Hinton’s AI fears, and decoding our thoughts

May 2, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Geoffrey Hinton tells us why he’s now scared of the tech he helped build Geoffrey Hinton is a pioneer of deep learning who helped develop some of the most important techniques at the…