Uber founder Travis Kalanick launches robotics company Atoms

The Uber founder re-emerges with Atoms, a stealth robotics venture that quietly employed thousands before going public, and a philosophy about ‘gainfully employed robots’ that sounds a lot like Ub [...]

Elon Musk is tearing xAI down to build it back up. Again.

The AI company he founded three years ago has lost six co-founders, is slashing staff, and trails badly in coding benchmarks. Musk’s remedy: rebuild from scratch, for the second time. In March 2023, [...]

Google’s biggest Maps update in a decade puts Gemini in the passenger seat

Ask Maps lets users query the world in natural language. Immersive Navigation rebuilds directions in 3D. Together, they mark the most significant overhaul of Google Maps since Street View. The questio [...]

Spotify lets you edit your own algorithm with new Taste Profile feature

The feature, announced at SXSW by co-CEO Gustav Söderström, lets Premium listeners see and shape the data model powering their recommendations, starting with a beta rollout in New Zealand For a deca [...]

Rise of model context protocol in the agentic era

We have all heard about model context protocol (MCP) in the context of artificial intelligence. In this article, we will dive into what MCP is and why it is becoming more important by the day. When AP [...]

Ball x Pit on mobile, Piece by Piece x2 and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. A bunch of intriguing games arrived this week, including a mobile port of one of the most absorbing things I’ve played [...]

Recap: Europe’s top 10 funding rounds this week (9 -15 March)

From a record-breaking AI seed in Paris to Croatian drones and Lithuanian food tech, Europe’s startup ecosystem had a busy week. The week of 9-15 March was, by any measure, an exceptional one for Eu [...]

Demis Hassabis says Google DeepMind had to return to its startup roots after the Brain merger

In short: Demis Hassabis, speaking on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings in early April 2026, described how Google DeepMind has accelerated its pace over the past two to three years by merging Goo [...]

Anthropic signs biggest compute deal yet with Google and Broadcom as revenue run rate hits $30bn

In short: Anthropic has agreed to access approximately 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU compute capacity via Broadcom from 2027, its largest infrastructure commitment to date — while sim [...]