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Justin Mast’s life was changed by a cyborg plant. A few years ago, Mast was reading through some scientific literature when he stumbled upon research about a houseplant wired to a motorized stand. When the plant wanted more light, electrical signals flowed through the living tissues. A control board sensed the current and wheeled the…
Reliable Robotics has been working for nearly a decade to commercialize autonomous flying technology that can be installed on existing aircraft. Now, with a $115 million funding boost, the Mountain View, California-based startup has a longer runway as it pushes to get its autonomous flight system certified by the Federal Aviation Administration — a critical…
Pankaj Prasoon is Sr Director Finance Tech & Strategy at LinkedIn, leading finance technology and building AI fluency across finance teams. gettyFinance has always known how to hand power to actors it can’t watch in real time. It just never wrote that power down in a form software can follow. At 2:13 a.m., an agent…
Image Credits:Romilly Lockyer / Getty Images 9:55 AM PDT · October 19, 2026 Amazon is funding development of a proposed 960-megawatt nuclear plant in Indiana and would be the first customer to buy its power, the companies announced Monday. Utility company American Electric Power (AEP) would operate the plant. X-energy, which designs small modular nuclear…
Tech earnings ahead this week amid AI jitters; oil slips – what’s moving markets
A familiar Musk word is back, and this time it comes with a hefty deposit and no firm delivery date…
In Brief Posted: 9:30 AM PDT · October 18, 2026 Image Credits:Character.AI After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will have the opportunity to take jobs at Disney. Character.AI’s former CEO Karandeep Anand recently became the entertainment giant’s first CTO, and the startup previously said that Disney had…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! As I wrapped my TechCrunch Disrupt interview with Rivian CEO and founder RJ Scaringe, I…
China proposes export curbs on 12 key solar manufacturing technologies





