The company’s sensor uses sonar and echos to give robots more information about their surrounding environment.

Rodatherm Energy emerged from stealth with $38 million in Series A funding. It plans to build a closed-loop geothermal power plant that uses refrigerants to move heat to the surface.

Carl Pei’s Nothing is raising $200 million in a Series C round from Tiger Global at a $1.3 billion valuation.

Amazon is hosting its Prime Big Deals Day sales event in October again.

The entrepreneur has launched Supercal, a free scheduling platform that’s designed to make booking meetings more efficient and simple.

Y Combinator-alum Rulebase is betting that the next wave of automation in financial services will be the unglamorous tasks.

OpenAI’s rise isn’t just a business story — it’s an ideological one. On Equity, Karen Hao, author of Empire AI, explores how the cult of AGI has fueled a billion-dollar race, justified massive spending on compute and data, and blurred the line between mission and profit.

At least one website claims to allow users to chat with God.

TechCrunch spoke to experienced coders about their time using AI-generated code about what they see as the future of vibe coding.

Like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Bret Taylor thinks we’re in an AI bubble — but he doesn’t sound too worried about it.