AI & Robotics

Warehouse automation giant Symbotic is buying autonomous forklift maker Fox Robotics to diversify beyond its core system and reduce its heavy dependence on Walmart, which accounts for the vast majority of its revenue.

Robert Playter, who guided Boston Dynamics from a research lab into a commercial robotics powerhouse under Hyundai's ownership, will leave the company on February 27. CFO Amanda McMaster takes over as interim CEO.

The Austin-based startup extended its Series A to over $935 million, attracting John Deere and Qatar Investment Authority as it prepares to unveil a new version of its Apollo humanoid robot.

ADR and Intel partner on underground edge AI deployments, bringing inference capabilities to locations where traditional data centers cannot operate.

Railway secures $100M in funding to challenge AWS with a developer-first, AI-native cloud platform designed for the age of agentic applications.

Australian Droid + Robot partners with Intel to run real-time 3D scans and gas detection on rugged robots deep inside mines where connectivity is zero.

Block's open-source coding agent Goose offers a compelling free alternative to Claude Code, winning over developers with extensibility and transparency.

Cloud startup Railway closes a $100M Series B to scale its developer-friendly platform, now handling 10 million monthly deployments for 2 million users.

Block's open-source AI agent Goose matches Claude Code's core capabilities while running locally with no subscription fees or rate limits.

AI customer interview startup Listen Labs raises $69M Series A after a guerrilla billboard campaign turned the company into a Silicon Valley sensation.

Listen Labs secures Series B funding led by Ribbit Capital after a cryptic San Francisco billboard attracted thousands and fueled 15x revenue growth.

Salesforce launches an autonomous AI agent for Slack, escalating its competition with Microsoft and Google in the enterprise AI workspace market.

Salesforce transforms Slackbot from a notification tool into a full AI agent powered by Anthropic's Claude, directly challenging Microsoft and Google.

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that manages files and automates workflows without requiring any coding knowledge.

Anthropic launches Cowork, extending Claude Code's agentic capabilities to non-technical users through a folder-based desktop interface on macOS.

Nous Research releases NousCoder-14B, an open-source coding model that benchmarks competitively against proprietary tools like Claude Code.

Nous Research releases a 14-billion-parameter coding model trained with reinforcement learning in just four days, publishing the entire training stack.

The architect behind Claude Code shares the development philosophy and daily workflow powering Anthropic's breakout coding tool.

Anthropic engineer Boris Cherny shares the parallel-agent workflow behind Claude Code, igniting a firestorm among developers racing to adopt it.

Exactly half of the people who founded Elon Musk's artificial intelligence venture xAI have now departed the company, after co-founder Tony Wu announced his resignation late Monday night in a brief pos