South Korea has launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative yet, as the nation’s major tech players like LG and SK Telecom develop their own LLMs.
Read more Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a new essay, he calls this approach “pure fantasy thinking.”
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Bitcoin struggles to recover and rally despite favorable macroeconomic trends that have sent stock prices higher. What will it take to overcome $110,000?
XRP consolidated near $2.75 with bearish pressure looming. Onchain data and liquidity compression suggest a possible dip before a price rebound.
Moody’s warns “cryptoization” is undermining monetary policy and bank deposits in emerging markets amid uneven regulatory oversight.
Lauri Moore (Bessemer), David Cramer (Sentry), and Zach Lloyd (Warp) join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to debate what founders really need from their first engineering hires — and how AI tooling fits into the equation.
Read more This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break down what’s really going on in these AI infrastructure deals.
Read more Checkout.com is boosting its valuation as part of an employee stock buy-back program, and now says it’s profitable.
Read more The rumored buyers of EA include investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
Read more Fifteen years after “The Social Network,” director Aaron Sorkin is making a sequel film about Facebook called “The Social Reckoning.”
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