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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/xpeng-robot-Getty.jpg?resize=1200,848″] The hype around humanoid robots isn’t particularly new. Thank Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his Optimus robot, as well as the myriad videos of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot, for that. Behind that hype, though, there is real progress. The physical capabilities of robots continue to improve, and researchers now believe that the AI…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/P1110099.jpg?resize=1200,901″] I am nothing if not a huge movie buff. I watch way too many of them, and I’m always on the hunt for a new format in which to experience them. So when XREAL, the smart glasses company, sent me an a01 — one of its newer models, which it released in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Chip-chips-dollar-signs-money.png?resize=1200,960″] Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to buy Nvidia’s AI chips that it will lease to Microsoft, Bloomberg reports.  The terms of the deal, which Bloomberg says was arranged by JP Morgan Chase, signal that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-2233066222.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Earlier this week, Meta agreed to pay $18 billion and make sweeping changes to how minors access its social networks to settle a lawsuit brought by 29 states. But the eye-popping settlement figure wasn’t what caught the attention of the Equity podcast team. Instead, it was what Meta did next. The social…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2287646148.jpg?resize=1200,901″] Training AI models with other AI models has become a very popular goal for neolabs — and now, a researcher in Anthropic’s fellows program has given us an early look at what it might look like in practice. On Friday, Anthropic published a new paper titled “Automated Researchers Can Reliably Mitigate Alignment…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/brave-browser.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Chrome alternative Brave just added a good reason to make the switch to its browser: email aliases. The feature, announced this week, allows Brave’s users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses. To use the feature, you first need to create an…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1849294862.jpg?w=1024″] Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks. Now best known as the target for a team of reward-hacking OpenAI agents, Hugging Face is at the center of the ecosystem of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2178323206.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Sweden is perhaps one of the world’s hottest tech hubs right now. It has long been home to Spotify and Klarna, but this latest wave of companies — from legal AI startup Legora to vibe-coding tool company Lovable — has left everyone wondering what’s going on in one of the world’s happiest…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/flock-camera-sf-surveillance-2157492329.jpg?resize=1200,794″] The growing backlash against surveillance companies like Flock may have reached a tipping point. A new survey has found that more Americans oppose these surveillance cameras than support them. According to a new YouGov survey of 20,000 people across the U.S. that was shared exclusively with The Washington Post, 46% of respondents…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-1849294862.jpg?w=1024″] Loading the player… Earlier this week, Meta agreed to pay $18 billion and make sweeping changes to how minors access its social networks to settle a lawsuit brought by 29 states. But the eye-popping settlement figure wasn’t what caught the attention of the Equity podcast team. Instead, it was what Meta did…