Delivery robot startup Robot.com bets its next act on wheeled humanoids for kitchens and warehouses
Delivery robot startup Robot.com bets its next act on wheeled humanoids for kitchens and warehouses

Robot.com, the San Francisco startup formerly known as Kiwibot, is expanding from campus delivery robots into workplace humanoids. The company told Business Insider it will launch R-noid, a humanoid on wheels designed to package orders, load and unload…

A Tesla on Autopilot plowed into a Texas home. The woman inside didn’t survive.
A Tesla on Autopilot plowed into a Texas home. The woman inside didn’t survive.

A 76-year-old Texas woman died on Friday after a Tesla Model 3 driver told police he was using the car’s Autopilot feature when he lost control and crashed into her family’s home at high speed. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that Michael …

Bending Spoons prices IPO at up to $1.62 billion, targeting $19 billion Nasdaq valuation
Bending Spoons prices IPO at up to $1.62 billion, targeting $19 billion Nasdaq valuation

Bending Spoons, the Italian software company that acquires and restructures digital businesses, is seeking to raise as much as $1.62 billion in its US initial public offering, Reuters reported on Monday. The company plans to market 58 million shares at…

Google invests $75 million in A24 as DeepMind launches AI filmmaking research partnership
Google invests $75 million in A24 as DeepMind launches AI filmmaking research partnership

Google is investing roughly $75 million in A24, the independent studio behind recent hits including Backrooms and Obsession, as part of a new AI research partnership between the studio and Google DeepMind. The deal, first reported by the Wall Street Jo…

Nearly 7,000 fake Amazon domains registered ahead of Prime Day 2026, researchers warn
Nearly 7,000 fake Amazon domains registered ahead of Prime Day 2026, researchers warn

Cybersecurity researchers have identified nearly 7,000 fraudulent Amazon-themed domains registered in the six months leading up to Prime Day 2026, which begins on 23 June. Check Point Research tracked 6,843 new domains created between December 2025 and…

The AI memory crisis just hit DDR2, a standard from 2003, with 60% price hikes
The AI memory crisis just hit DDR2, a standard from 2003, with 60% price hikes

The AI-driven memory shortage has now reached the oldest DRAM standard still in production. DDR2 contract prices rose 55 to 60 percent in the second quarter of 2026, according to Taiwanese market intelligence firm TrendForce, with a further 35 to 40 pe…

A Kazakh fund-of-funds just made its first public venture bet on Central Asia’s startup boom
A Kazakh fund-of-funds just made its first public venture bet on Central Asia’s startup boom

Kazakhstan’s Alem Capital Management has anchored a regional venture capital fund backing technology startups across Central Asia and the Caucasus, marking the fund-of-funds manager’s first publicly disclosed investment in the region’s startup ecosyste…

Robinhood is raising $2 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds to buy back stock
Robinhood is raising $2 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds to buy back stock

Robinhood Markets is raising two billion dollars through a sale of convertible senior notes due October 2029, joining a surge of zero-coupon convertible issuance from technology companies betting that investors will accept no interest in exchange for e…

Instagram is coming for your living room with episodic series and live TV on Samsung
Instagram is coming for your living room with episodic series and live TV on Samsung

Instagram for TV is expanding to Samsung smart TVs across the United States, making the app available on the majority of connected TV devices in the country. Meta announced Monday that the expansion comes alongside several new features, including inter…

Lucid Motors cuts 18% of workforce as new CEO dismantles second production shift
Lucid Motors cuts 18% of workforce as new CEO dismantles second production shift

Lucid Motors is cutting 18 percent of its workforce, roughly 1,500 employees, just four months after the EV maker laid off 12 percent of its staff. The company said Monday that it has also eliminated the second production shift at its factory in Casa G…