Physicl raises $10M to make the digital world real enough for robots TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 6 November 2026 at 14:00 Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
OpenAI released a new cybersecurity model. Is that enough? TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 5 November 2026 at 20:06 OpenAI's newest cybersecurity model comes out as AI labs face scrutiny of their work to protect digital infrastructure.
A YC startup is putting $1M behind 5 unsolved materials science problems for AI TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 5 November 2026 at 14:00 While frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in the life sciences, they have yet to truly plumb the complex physics in advanced materials.
Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying? TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 5 November 2026 at 13:00 Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
Orbital Matter 3D-printed the first rigid beam in the vacuum of space TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 3 November 2026 at 21:57 An in-space construction first could be an enabler for the space data centers of the future.
Omen AI adds liquid know-how in $16 million Aquatic Labs acquisition TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 2 November 2026 at 16:00 Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal.
Googleβs first data center satellite is online and writing poetry TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 30 October 2026 at 18:00 The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.
Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 28 October 2026 at 20:19 The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.