Toyota contracts seven Agility humanoid robots for Canadian factory TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 20 February 2026 at 00:29 The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger.
Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturingΒ TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 19 February 2026 at 17:00 βI think we're the only quote-unquote manufacturing company out there that has H200 clusters in a data center on site."
SpaceX vets raise $50M Series A for data center links TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 17 February 2026 at 21:00 Mesh aims to mass-produce optical transceivers for AI data centers.
Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha. TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 13 February 2026 at 02:10 "I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space."
Why the economics of orbital AI are so brutal TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 11 February 2026 at 22:15 A 1 GW orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4 billion β almost three times its ground-bound equivalent.
Anthropic closes in on $20B round TechCrunch By:Tim Fernholz 9 February 2026 at 21:37 The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute have made them eager to raise as quickly as possible.