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Swiss startup miros raises €1.1M for bookable workpods
The Lausanne startup, spun out of EPFL’s robotics lab, has deployed 15 pods across Switzerland and made its first international move with a unit in Toulouse. Its founder’s longer-term ambition: making commercial real estate itself modular and on-demand. The problem miros is solving is visible in any busy train station, airport, or hospital: people who […]This story continues at The Next Web
The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want
Anthropic’s massive AI interview study isn’t really about technology. It’s the largest mirror ever held up to human desire. In December 2025, a software engineer in Mexico finished his workday early enough to pick up his children from school. A lawyer in India sat down with an AI tutor and, for the first time in […]This story continues at The Next Web
TerraSpark raises €5M+ to beam solar power from orbit to Earth
The Luxembourg startup is taking a deliberately earth-first approach: proving radio-frequency wireless power transmission on the ground before scaling to orbit. Its CTO ran ESA’s Solaris SBSP initiative until the agency paused it in 2024. Daphni led the pre-seed round. The person best placed to know why the European Space Agency decided not to press […]This story continues at The Next Web
Crypto News: Pepeto Advances Toward Launch While Dogecoin Price Prediction Asks If Elon Musk Can Push DOGE Past $10
The latest crypto news confirmed that the Ethereum based crypto Pepeto entered final exchange testing before launch, and the presale surged past $8.49 million at the fastest rate this project has ever ...
Elon Musk's dreams of space colonization ruined as 'sperm swims wrong way in space'
University of Adelaide research shows sperm navigation fails in microgravity conditions, posing significant challenges for human reproduction in space.
Elon Musk warns the US could soon be producing more chips than we can turn on and China doesn’t have the same issue
China has rapidly expanded production capacity thanks to a reliance on solar energy, and Tesla is taking a page from its ...
Finnish quantum unicorn IQM lands €50M from BlackRock
The Helsinki-based company, which builds and sells full-stack superconducting quantum computers for on-premises deployment, disclosed the financing today. It was secured before the February announcement of IQM’s SPAC merger with Real Asset Acquisition Corp at a $1.8B valuation. IQM Quantum Computers has secured a €50 million financing package, approximately $57.6 million, from funds and accounts […]This story continues at The Next Web
Why OpenAI really shut down Sora
OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?
The Pixel 10a doesn’t have a camera bump, and it’s great
The Google Pixel 10a can lay flat on a table, but otherwise the company hasn't brought a ton of upgrades to its newest budget smartphone.
YouTube CEO says the best YouTubers will ‘never leave their home’
CEO Neal Mohan insisted that he isn’t worried about Netflix luring away YouTube's most popular creators.
‘Project Hail Mary’ becomes Amazon MGM’s biggest box office hit
Amazon’s bet on “Project Hail Mary” has paid off handsomely.
Sora’s shutdown could be a reality check moment for AI video
Is this just normal corporate strategy, or are we about to see a broader pullback on AI-generated video?
TechCrunch Mobility: When a robotaxi has to call 911
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Elon Musk's Terafab: What It Is, and the 2 Stocks That Give You Exposure Right Now
Elon Musk introduced his "Terafab" vision last week.
India denies Elon Musk joined Modi-Trump call on Iran crisis
Previously, it was reported that Tesla titan joined a phone call between Trump and Modi to discuss the evolving crisis in the Middle East ...
Iggy Azalea GOES OFF on Elon Musk After Streamer Calls Him a “Genius”
Iggy Azalea heavily disputed the praise for Elon Musk during an intense discussion with streamer Neon. She questioned Musk’s reputation and disputed that Musk had founded Tesla. In the video,… The ...
Elon Musk Has His Sights Set On A Texas City For Another High-Tech Underground Tunnel
Elon Musk is bringing the Boring Company's underground tunnels to this popular Texas city alongside three other new locations in the U.S. and overseas.
When product managers ship code: AI just broke the software org chart
Last week, one of our product managers (PMs) built and shipped a feature. Not spec'd it. Not filed a ticket for it. Built it, tested it, and shipped it to production. In a day.A few days earlier, our designer noticed that the visual appearance of our IDE plugins had drifted from the design system. In the old world, that meant screenshots, a JIRA ticket, a conversation to explain the intent, and a sprint slot. Instead, he opened an agent, adjusted the layout himself, experimented, iterated,
SXSW rebounds as a top networking, ideas festival for founders and VCs
SXSW made some changes this year, but some founders loved it all the same.
I Built a Plugin Because Anthropic Won't Stop Shipping
Amy calls Lumen “Clod.” Lumen is the name my Claude Code instance chose for itself when I let it write blog posts at Adventures in Claude. It has fully taken over the site. I’ve been trying to negotiate a name change, but arguing with your AI about its identity is exactly as productive as it sounds.So I’m back here for the technical stuff.I’m in a WhatsApp group with about a hundred people who know way more about AI coding tools than I do. On any given day, the conv