Tuesday, January 7, 2025

X hires former WSJ editor and bureau chief to lead news group

X, formerly Twitter, wants to make its platform a home to the future and news and journalism. On that front, the company has now hired John Stoll, a former editor and Detroit bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal to lead its news group and partnership team at X. The hiring news was announced on […]

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CES 2025 Day 1: Honda, BMW, X’s victory lap, and the first show floor gadget reveals

CES 2025 is officially underway in Las Vegas. Monday’s press day saw keynotes from Samsung, Nvidia, Toyota, and Sony, among others, while Tuesday was all about the exciting new gadgets on the show floor. TechCrunch reporters are on the ground giving you the latest reveals at the conference.  Below, you’ll find a list of the […]

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This pool cleaning company made a robot turtle to track water quality

Beatbot makes robotic pool cleaners. In fact, the company is showing off a new one with a docking station this week at CES 2025. What really caught our eye on the show floor, however, is RoboTurtle, because, well, it’s a robot that looks like a turtle. The turtle, sadly, seems to very much be in […]

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Just Eat Takeaway completes Grubhub sale to Wonder for a modest $650M

After looking for a buyer for more than two years, Just Eat Takeaway.com has finally closed the menu on Grubhub. On Tuesday, the Dutch food delivery giant said it completed the sale of the U.S. business to Wonder, the food startup founded and led by e-commerce veteran Marc Lore. The deal has an enterprise value […]

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Microsoft to pump $3 billion into cloud and AI push in India

Microsoft plans to invest an additional $3 billion to scale its cloud and AI business in India, the software giant’s chief executive said Tuesday. This is a developing story. More to follow…

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Monday, January 6, 2025

Apple to label notification summaries to indicate use of AI

Apple said on Monday it would release an update to better indicate that its notification summaries are generated by artificial intelligence. “A software update in the coming weeks will further clarify when the text being displayed is summarization provided by Apple Intelligence. We encourage users to report a concern if they view an unexpected notification […]

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CES 2025 Press Day: Everything Nvidia, Sony, Toyota, Samsung announced, and more

CES 2025, the annual consumer tech conference held in Las Vegas, is here. TechCrunch reporters are on the ground giving you the latest announcements and reveals from the show. Today is Press Day, which features keynotes from the biggest players, including Samsung, Nvidia, Toyota, Sony, and more. Below, you’ll find a list of the biggest […]

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Nvidia’s Project Digits is a ‘personal AI supercomputer’

At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” that provides access to the company’s Grace Blackwell hardware platform in a compact form factor. “[Project Digits] runs the entire Nvidia AI stack — all of Nvidia software runs on this,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said onstage during a press conference […]

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Nvidia is helping humanoid robots learn through Apple Vision Pro instruction

Robotics have been a foundational element of Nvidia’s stratospheric growth in recent years. When the chip maker announced GR00T in March of last year, it was heralded as a watershed moment from humanoid robotics. Most of the category’s biggest names were available from launch, including, 1X Technologies, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Fourier […]

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Nvidia releases its own brand of world models

Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally.  At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, the company announced that it is making openly available a family of world models that can predict and generate “physics-aware” videos. Nvidia is calling this family Cosmos […]

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Nvidia details Mega, a fleet manager for warehouse robots

Nvidia continues its expansion into robotics software with Mega an Omniverse Blueprint designed specifically for robotic fleet management at scale. The offering, announced at CES Monday, specifically targets warehouses, a space that saw massive robotics adoption during the pandemic. Even so, most still lack significant automation. Companies like Locus Robotics have made significant headway in […]

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Toyota’s next-generation cars will be built with Nvidia supercomputers and operating system

Toyota announced at CES 2025 that its next-generation vehicles will have automated driving capabilities powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS. TechCrunch has reached out to Toyota to learn more about the automaker’s plans to deploy vehicles with autonomous capabilities.  DriveOS is the operating system for Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle platform […]

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Nvidia unveils $2,000 RTX 5090 GPU

As anticipated, Nvidia Monday kicked off its CES 2025 keynote by unveiling the new RTX Blackwell family of GPUs. The centerpiece of the line is the RTX 5090. The card bears a striking resemblance to its predecessor, but now sports, 92 billion transistors, 4,000 AT TOPS, 380 ray-tracing TFLOPS, and 1.8 TB/s bandwidth. The 5090 […]

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Sony-Honda’s Afeela EV will start at $89,900

Sony has been trickling out details of the Afeela brand it launched with Honda, ever since it unveiled the EV in 2023. But it’s held back one big detail — until today. Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida announced Monday at CES 2025 that the four-door Afeela EV would have a starting price of $89,900. The Sony-Honda […]

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