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SpaceXAI's Grok Bot is in early beta - Here's how to try it

In August, SpaceXAI opened the early public beta of Grok Bot , an agent platform "teammate" that signs into tools like Gmail, LinkedIn and Salesforce and performs actions on your behalf. It can fill out forms for you…

Quote of the day by Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock: 'We're building a new species here' — an audacious vision to replace manual labor with humanoid AI

"We're building a new species here… I think we're building a new species here with onboard intelligence." Intelligence on demand The founder and CEO of Figure AI, a humanoid robotics company, was speaking with Salesforce…

Amazon's best-selling walking shoes are on sale at Amazon — Asics, Nike, Brooks, Hoka, and more from $45

If you're looking for a new pair of fall sneakers , Amazon has some of its best-selling shoes on sale . • Shop more daily deals at Amazon I've rounded up the best walking shoes on sale for men and women below, from…

6 days left to save up to $200 to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Current ticket pricing ends September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, prices go up. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 , getting ahead means more than sitting in on great sessions. It means meeting the people you need to know…

World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

The big players in the space are Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs and Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs — and while both have accumulated a lot of buzz and funding, they also rank pretty low on the trying-to-make-money scale . At their core…

I added Android Auto to an old car for just $4

That is fine; most of the time I use a car with Android Auto built in, so it doesn't matter how much I like using it. But sometimes I have to use a car from the Dark Ages that lacks any sort of Android Auto support. In…

Is there any benefit to keeping your smart TV in standby mode?

You might have noticed that pressing the power button on your TV's remote doesn't fully turn it off. Modern TVs are designed to enter a deep sleep or standby mode rather than shutting down completely. They still sip a…

DBrand knocked it out of the park with its Nintendo Switch 2 Killswitch protective gear, and after testing it, I might just keep it on my console forever

It's undoubtedly costly, but with a nifty dock adapter and premium feel, it manages to earn its price. Pros + Excellent ergonomics + Durable, quality feel + Dock attachment enables seamless switching Cons - Pretty pricey…

Elon Musk’s latest Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio

The Boring Company account shared Musk’s statement and said it “would be excited and honored to build this massive infrastructure project.” Many of The Boring Company’s announced projects — including tunnel systems in…

Insta360 spent $298m on memory chips in six months. GoPro’s shareholders are getting $285m in cash for the entire company.

It is the company’s second self-operated shop outside China, after Tokyo in August. The ribbon-cutting is the least interesting part. Iris Deng interviewed co-founder Max Richter in Shenzhen for the South China Morning…