Xiaomi in the present day launched a slew of devices forward of the Cell World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona together with a camera-focused flagship smartphone, an AirTag clone, Xiaomi Watch 5 smartwatch, and an extremely slim energy financial institution. The China-based firm has partnered with digital camera maker Leica to co-brand its Xiaomi 17 Extremely smartphone. As a part of the partnership, it’s utilizing Leica lenses and creating filters within the type of the German digital camera firm. The cellphone has a 50-megapixel foremost sensor with an F/1.67 aperture and a 1-inch sensor. However the principle attraction is the 200-megapixel…
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China’s humanoid robots grabbed global attention with kung fu flips on the nation’s televised Spring Competition Gala, whereas Chinese language cellphone maker Honor is ready to unveil its first humanoid robot at MWC in Spain. Robotics was flagged as a precedence underneath the nation’s “Made in China 2025” plan, albeit initially targeted on manufacturing facility automation, relatively than humanoids. Now, fast advances in multimodal AI are accelerating so-called embodied AI — autonomous machines working in the actual world — a push officers say might assist offset labor shortages and drive productiveness positive factors. At this early stage of humanoid robotic…
Weeks after stepping down as CEO from meals supply service Zomato and its dad or mum Everlasting, Indian entrepreneur Deepinder Goyal is again with a $54 million increase for wearable startup Temple, a part of what the 43-year-old earlier described as a shift towards “higher-risk exploration and experimentation.” On Friday, Goyal said in a publish on X that Temple had raised funds in a friends-and-family spherical from founder mates and early Zomato backers, at a post-money valuation of about $190 million. Greater than 30 workers participated on the similar valuation, he mentioned. Goyal is main the funding spherical, adopted by…
In the present day is it! When the clock hits 11:59 p.m. PT, the bottom ticket charges of the yr for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 go up. No extensions. No second probabilities. The identical entry will value extra tomorrow. If you’re planning to attend, that is your closing window to lock in as much as $680 off your move or as much as 30% off group passes. After tonight, this yr’s greatest financial savings disappear. Register now. Disrupt: Your launchpad within the tech ecosystem If you’re elevating capital, hiring prime expertise, launching your startup, or searching on your subsequent portfolio firm, lacking Disrupt from October 13–15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West isn’t simply inconvenient. It’s a missed alternative to…
This week it was reported that U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company is in dire form, after a yr of cuts, layoffs, and furloughs beneath the Trump administration. Now the company has changed its high performing chief, a CISA spokesperson tells TechCrunch. The transfer to exchange Madhu Gottumukkala because the performing director of CISA, an company beneath the Division of Homeland Safety that oversees cybersecurity and technical safety throughout the federal authorities, comes after a tumultuous yr serving because the company’s high boss. Gottumukkala struggled to guide the company throughout his tenure as performing director and induced safety complications, together…
Anthropic has reached a stalemate with the US Division of Warfare over the army’s request for unrestricted entry to the AI firm’s expertise. However because the Pentagon’s Friday afternoon deadline for Anthropic’s compliance approaches, greater than 300 Google workers and over 60 OpenAI workers have signed an open letter urging the leaders of their firms to help Anthropic and refuse this unilateral use. Particularly, Anthropic stood in opposition to the usage of AI for home mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry. The open letter’s signatories search to encourage their employers to “put apart their variations and stand collectively” to uphold the…
A brand new set of principal sequence Pokémon video games is coming to the Nintendo Change 2 in 2027, marking the tenth installment within the sequence. In a livestream celebrating the discharge of the primary Pokémon video games precisely 30 years in the past, the corporate unveiled Pokémon Winds and Pokémon Waves, open-world video games set throughout an enormous ocean of islands. The three new starter Pokémon have been introduced as effectively: Browt, a Grass kind “bean chick” that appears like an Offended Chook; Pombon, a Pomeranian-inspired Fireplace kind who better not evolve into a bipedal man; and Gecqua, a…
Beginning this week, Perplexity subscribers could have a brand new agentic device at their disposal. Perplexity Pc, within the firm’s phrases, “unifies each present AI functionality right into a single system.” Extra particularly, Perplexity says it’s a pc consumer agent that may execute advanced workflows independently utilizing 19 totally different AI fashions, even creating subagents to deal with particular issues. The device is accessible now, solely on the corporate’s highest subscription tier, the $200/month Perplexity Max. It runs completely within the cloud, which could spare it among the safety considerations of different agentic instruments like OpenClaw. TechCrunch hasn’t executed a hands-on…
Apple and Netflix have entered a partnership to co-broadcast the System 1 Canadian Grand Prix, introduced Thursday by Apple’s senior vice chairman of providers, Eddy Cue. For the primary time, F1 followers within the U.S. will be capable to watch the dwell race concurrently on each Apple TV and Netflix. Netflix subscribers will be capable to stream the total race weekend — together with apply, qualifying, and the Grand Prix itself on Might 24 — dwell on the platform. Past dwell race protection, the partnership consists of cross-promotion of Netflix’s hit collection, “Drive to Survive.” For the primary time, the…
ChatGPT has reached 900 million weekly energetic customers, OpenAI announced Friday, placing the AI chatbot inside hanging distance of 1 billion. OpenAI additionally shared that it now has 50 million paying subscribers. “Subscriber momentum accelerated meaningfully to begin the 12 months, with January and February on observe to be the most important months for brand spanking new subscribers in our historical past,” the corporate wrote in a weblog publish. “Individuals use ChatGPT to study, write, plan, and construct. As utilization scales, the product improves in methods individuals really feel instantly: quicker responses, increased reliability, stronger security, and extra constant efficiency.”…