TechCrunch Mobility: ‘Physical AI’ enters the hype machine
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.”
Tech
Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows
Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh…
Tech
How YC-backed Bucket Robotics survived its first CES
Now, the startup is turning its attention to building the business, fundraising and striking commercial deals.
Tech
Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT
Confer is designed to look and feel like ChatGPT or Claude, but your conversations can't be used for training or advertising.
Tech
Why Silicon Valley is really talking about fleeing California (it’s not the 5%)
As highlighted Friday in the New York Post, the proposed wealth tax would hit founders on their voting shares rather than the actual equity they…
Tech
Supreme Court unlikely to overturn Trump tariffs, his ‘signature economic policy’: Bessent
Bessent's comments come one day after Trump said he would impose new tariffs on some European goods until a deal is struck for the U.S.…
Finance
Trump wants nations to pay $1 billion for permanent Board of Peace seats
The Trump administration wants nations to pay $1 billion to remain on his Gaza peace board, reports show.
Finance
Trump says 8 European nations face tariffs rising to 25% if Greenland isn't sold to the U.S.
Trump recently hinted that he may pursue a tariff strategy on Greenland similar to the one he used to force foreign countries to change their…
Finance
Bozoma Saint John says she's successful in her career because she ignored this piece of advice: 'It really shrank me'
Bozoma Saint John says ignoring this well-intentioned but misguided career advice led her to be successful.
Finance
Mark Cuban's money helped build Indiana University's football team—he shares 'how championship teams and organizations are built'
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban is one of the wealthiest donors to an Indiana University football program that's vying for the national championship.
Finance
Stop calling it 'The AI bubble': It's actually multiple bubbles, each with a different expiration date
It’s the question on everyone’s minds and lips: Are we in an AI bubble?It's the wrong question. The real question is: Which AI bubble are…
Ai
Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)
Every year, NeurIPS produces hundreds of impressive papers, and a handful that subtly reset how practitioners think about scaling, evaluation and system design. In 2025,…
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Black Forest Labs launches open source Flux.2 [klein] to generate AI images in less than a second
The German AI startup Black Forest Labs (BFL), founded by former Stability AI engineers, is continuing to build out its suite of open source AI…
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How Google’s 'internal RL' could unlock long-horizon AI agents
Researchers at Google have developed a technique that makes it easier for AI models to learn complex reasoning tasks that usually cause LLMs to hallucinate…
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Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers…
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