Pickle Robot adds Tesla veteran as first CFO TechCrunch By: Rebecca Szkutak 18 December 2025 at 15:01 Jeff Evanson recently joined Pickle Robot as the company's first CFO as the startup has allegedly expanded its partnership with UPS.
Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $330M at a $6.6B valuation TechCrunch By: Rebecca Szkutak 18 December 2025 at 09:26 Lovable has seen its valuation more than triple just five months after the company's last funding round in July.
Skana Robotics helps fleets of underwater robots communicate with each other TechCrunch By: Rebecca Szkutak 17 December 2025 at 09:05 Skana Robotics built a decision-making algorithm that helps unmanned vessels react and adapt to data from other vessels.
Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models TechCrunch By: Rebecca Szkutak 15 December 2025 at 17:00 Nvidia acquired SchedMD, the lead developer of Slurm, and launched the Nemotron 3 family of open source AI models.
1X struck a deal to send its ‘home’ humanoids to factories and warehouses TechCrunch By: Rebecca Szkutak 11 December 2025 at 17:03 Despite launching as a humanoid robot designed to help consumers around the house, 1X's Neo robots are heading to industrial use cases.
Interest in Spoor’s bird-monitoring AI software is soaring TechCrunch By: Rebecca Szkutak 11 December 2025 at 08:00 Spoor's computer vision software can help wind farms, and other industries, track bird populations and migration patterns.
Nvidia is reportedly testing tracking software as chip-smuggling rumors swirl TechCrunch By: Rebecca Szkutak 10 December 2025 at 17:06 A new software option could make it possible to see the approximate location of some of Nvidia's AI chips.
Cashew Research is going after the $90B market research industry with AI TechCrunch By: Rebecca Szkutak 9 December 2025 at 17:20 Cashew Research uses AI to automate the market research process while still collecting real-world data from humans.
Anthropic and Accenture sign multi-year AI strategic partnership TechCrunch By: Rebecca Szkutak 9 December 2025 at 10:02 The two companies are launching the Accenture Anthropic Business Group to bring Anthropic's AI to Accenture's employees.
Department of Commerce approves Nvidia H200 chip exports to China TechCrunch By: Rebecca Szkutak 8 December 2025 at 16:40 This news comes as a bill was introduced in Congress last week to prevent these exact kinds of chip exports.