An app that lets anyone control a robot from their phone, no coding required

Georgia Tech researchers have developed COBALT, a smartphone-based platform that allows anyone to remotely control robots from anywhere using simple motion controls and Wi-Fi connectivity.

Microsoft Says It Will Have A Useful Quantum Computer In Three Years

Microsoft releases its second-generation quantum chip. Ultrasound could replace pacemakers. And why you shouldn’t skip breakfast.

Video AI Wars: How Chinese Labs Are Winning The Race OpenAI Abandoned

Five Chinese video AI models to watch: ByteDance’s Seedance, Alibaba’s Wan and Happy Horse, Kuaishou’s Kling, MiniMax’s Hailuo AI and Tencent’s Hunyuan.

Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days

Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Don’t wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this October at San Francisco’s Moscone West.

Innovative AI Creators Are Moving Past AI’s One-Trick Pony Era

AI creative innovators are showing that craft, story, collaboration and taste still rule, breaking from “AI slop”, the use of AI to quickly, and tastelessly, generate outputs with little effort.

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX’s historic IPO.

AI Coding Startup Lovable In Talks To Raise Funding At A $12 Billion Valuation

The less than two-year old startup crossed $400 million in annual recurring revenue earlier this year. The new fundraise would almost double its valuation.

The most interesting startups right now want to get you off your phone

While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.  Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup focused on bringing people together through in-person…

Claude Becomes The Enterprise Favorite As Anthropic Passes OpenAI

For the first time, Anthropic leads OpenAI in U.S. business adoption. The surprise shift reveals what enterprise buyers now value most in AI.

This is your laptop… on AI
This is your laptop… on AI

We’re now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang made that clearer than anyone this week, when he described a completely new way of using our laptops […]