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Rivian spin-out Mind Robotics raises $500M for industrial AI-powered robots
Mind Robotics, an industrial robotics lab spun out of the electric vehicle maker Rivian, hasraised$500 million in a Series A funding round co-led by venture firms Accel and Andreessen Horowitz. The financing, announced Wednesday, follows a $115 million seed round that was led by Eclipse in late 2025, bringing Mind Robotics’ total fundraising to $615 million in the few months since its founding. This round brings the startup’s valuation to around $2 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, whichfirst reported the news. Mind Robotics was created by Rivian CEO and founder RJ Scaringe. It was spun out of Rivian in November 2025, with Scaringe serving as chairman. The general idea is that Scaringe wants to use data from Rivian’s electric vehicle factory to train industrial robots to be more dexterous and adaptable, as well as a venue to prove out those robots’ usefulness. The company “was founded to address a structural gap with current industrial automation solutions,” according to a press release announcing the Series A round. “Existing industrial robotics can perform repeatable, dimensionally stable tasks, but a large share of factory value-add work requires human-like dexterity, adaptation, and physical reasoning that classical robotics cannot address. Mind Robotics is building the AI foundation — models, hardware, and deployment infrastructure — to close that gap.” Scaringe told The Wall Street Journal that Mind Robotics will have a large number of robots deployed by the end of this year. In the months since Mind Robotics was announced, he has spoken a few times about how the startup intends to focus on more traditional factory robot designs, instead of the much-hyped humanoid robots that have garnered so much attention over the last year, likethose built by Tesla. “Doing cartwheels does not create value in manufacturing,” Scaringe told The Wall Street Journal. Beyond the training data and a place to deploy the robots, there are other ways Rivian and Mind Robotics might collaborate moving forward. In December, Rivian announced it had been developing its own custom silicon meant to help power the autonomous vehicle software that will go on its cars. In an interview with TechCrunch at the event, Scaringe said “it doesn’t take a lot of imagination” to think that Rivian might sell those custom chips to Mind Robotics. “It’s a robotics processor, so it could work really well for that,” he said. Mind Robotics is the second company Rivian spun out in 2025. Thefirst was Also, an electric mobility company that is starting with ahigh-end modular e-bike, as well as small electric cargo vehicles for Amazon. That startup was also backed by Eclipse, and has sinceraisedanother $200 million from Greenoaks Capital, with its valuation currently sitting around $1 billion.
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WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net
WordPress’s publishing software can now run entirely in the web browser, the organization behind the open source publishing softwareannouncedon Wednesday. Through a new service calledmy.WordPress.net, the WordPress software lets users set up a site and begin publishing without signing up, setting up a hosting plan, or registering a domain. Instead, the new solution leverages the same technology that powers WordPress demos and makes it available as a permanent, personal publishing platform. There is a big caveat to running WordPress this way: The sites set up on my.WordPress.net are private by default and not accessible from the public internet. “They aren’t optimized for traffic, discovery, or presentation, and they don’t need to be,” ablog postintroducing the new service explains. “Instead, WordPress becomes a personal environment where ideas can exist before they are ready to be shared, or where they may never be shared at all.” The sites created through this service are bound to your web browser, with their data saved in the browser’s storage. That means you can’t access the site from another device. But you can move your site to a dedicated WordPress host if you ever want to make it public. This positions WordPress as a personal workspace for activities like private writing, journaling, drafting, research, and learning, or building tools for personal use. For the latter, my.WordPress.net comes equipped with an App Catalog offering a variety of tools built with WordPress plug-ins, including a Personal CRM, Personal RSS Reader, a bookmarking tool, an AI Workspace, and more. The post notes that my.WordPress.net is powered byWordPress Playground, the open source project that lets you install WordPress on any device with one click and that integrates withOpenAIandCLI appsto create new tools. As a result, you can use an AI assistant to modify my.WordPress.net, to do things like tweak a plug-in or build a new one. You can also ask the assistant about data stored in WordPress, which it remembers, allowing WordPress to become a personal knowledge base accessed by AI. The service will take longer to launch the first time you use it, the post cautions, and recommends that backups should be saved regularly. Its storage starts at roughly 100MB, which makes it better for smaller, personal apps and use cases. If at any time you want to delete your current work, you can click a button to reset the site. Or you can set up new, temporary instances that reset themselves when the browser is refreshed. The launch of the service follows the formation ofa WordPress AI teamlast year, focused on launching new AI products for the developer community. The commercial hosting platform WordPress.com also launchedan AI website builderlast year that lets you design a site using an AI chatbot-style interface.
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Replit snags $9B valuation 6 months after hitting $3B
Vibe-coding sensation Replit has hit another funding milestone. The companyannouncedWednesday that it raised a $400 million Series D at a $9 billion valuation, led by previous investor Georgian Partners. Other participating investors include G Squared, Prysm Capital, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, Accenture Ventures, Okta Ventures, and Databricks Ventures. Founder and CEO Amjad Masad also saidin a post on Xthat backers include angel investors Shaquille O’Neal and Jared Leto. This followsthe $3 billion valuation the startup hit in September, when it raised a $250 million round. At that time, Replit said it was on track for $150 million in annualized revenue. Replit did not release updated, current ARR figures, but the company toldForbesit hopes to hit annual recurring revenue of $1 billion by the end of the year. While Replit’s recent rise has been meteoric,Masad previously told TechCrunchthat it took nine years of grinding — and a controversial decision to pivot from serving professional developers towards non-programs — to find its groove.
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YouTube’s Likeness Detection Tool Expanded to Government Officials and Journalists
YouTube began rolling out its Likeness Detection tool to creators on the platform in October 2025. The tool was designed to monitor videos on the platform that mimic the likeness of face or voice of a user without consent. The feature was part of the Google-owned video streaming giant's initiative to protect users from the harmful usage of artificial intelligence (AI). On Tuesday, the company announced that the tool will now be expanded to civic leaders and journalists. They will have to first enrol themselves, and once done, they can begin requesting the removal of their deepfakes on the platform.
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Canva’s New AI-Powered Magic Layers Feature Turns Images Into Editable Designs
Canva, on Wednesday, announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool for users. Dubbed Magic Layers, it can convert any flat or static image and AI-generated outputs into a layered, editable design. This means users can take any image and then manipulate its elements individually to create a different design. The Sydney-based visual communication platform stated that the tool was developed using an in-house foundation model. Currently, it is available in public beta in select regions, but it is expected to be expanded to more countries soon.
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Perplexity Ordered to Stop Deploying Shopping AI Agents on Amazon: Report
Amazon, on Monday, reportedly won a court order blocking Perplexity from deploying its artificial intelligence (AI) shopping agents on its e-commerce platform. The decision was said to be given by a California federal judge, who found that the Seattle-based tech giant had strong evidence of unauthorised access by Perplexity's bots. With this, Amazon has received preliminary injunctive relief, which will take effect in seven days. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the AI browser maker reportedly filed an appeal. Notably, in November 2025, Amazon objected to Perplexity's Comet browser using agents to automate shopping on its website.
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Canopii looks to succeed where past indoor farms have not
David Ashton grew up outside of Sacramento, California, and went to college in San Luis Obispo during the historic drought of the late 2000s. He spent years driving the 300-mile stretch between Sacramento and San Luis Obispo, enthralled by the never-ending lettuce farms, acres of leafy green plants against a bleak, dry background. The fact that these lush, green crops were grown in drought conditions to be shipped to other parts of the country stuck with Ashton and later became the inspiration for his robotic farming startupCanopii, which looks to shrink produce supply chains. Portland, Oregon-based Canopii builds robotic greenhouses that can autonomously run the whole crop-growing process from seeding to harvest without human intervention. These greenhouses can produce up to 40,000 pounds of produce a year while requiring only one spigot of water and taking up the same space as a basketball court. The farms are manufactured by GK Designs and are currently designed to grow herbs and specialty greens like baby bok choy and gai lan, a Chinese broccoli. Ashton told TechCrunch that he started really sowing the seeds for Canopii after the Portland-based agtech company he was set to work at filed for bankruptcy while he was driving up the coast to move there. He worked on the plans at night while his wife was in medical school. After three years, he applied for a $250,000 grant with the National Science Foundation to build a prototype of his vision. After that was successful, he applied for a $1 million-dollar grant to build a full-scale prototype. “Now, five years later, we have hit a major milestone [for] the farm,” Ashton said. “We have an autonomous farm that grows everything from seed to harvest without any human intervention, and we did so with a very small team and very little capital, which I think is very different from what the rest of the industry had experienced.” The company has raised approximately $3.6 million thus far, with $2.3 million largely from grants, and the rest from strategics. Ashton is aware of what many investors and VCs think about the indoor farming category. The once hot sector saw companies likeBowery FarmingandPlentyraise hundreds of millions of dollars before going bankrupt and before seeing strong success. He argues their product is fundamentally different than vertical farms and that the company’s decision to move intentionally slow, and without venture capital, has allowed them to avoid many of the same hurdles. “The capital stack has to be diversified beyond VC,” Ashtons aid. “We’re five now, and we’re still just iterating on one farm, which has allowed us to learn so much. I think if we got VC right away, and we try to scale after year one or two, that’s not possible with food infrastructure.” The company has gotten inbound interest from schools, restaurants, casinos, and more. Now that the company has hit its automation milestone, it looks to build out its first commercial farm in downtown Portland. Down the line, Canopii plans to franchise these farms in the future — and yes, raise venture capital, once it’s ready. “We can mass produce it like a car,” Ashton said. “I think a big achievement on this farm is that the whole thing runs off of 100 AMPs and 240 volts. That’s house power. You can literally put this in a backyard. And that speaks to the level of resource management that we’ve achieved in this farm.”
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Amazon expands a program that lets customers shop from other retailers’ sites
Amazon is expanding access to a program calledShop Directthat lets U.S. customers discover and buy products not sold in its own online store. The retail giant on Wednesday said it will now support third-party product feeds, which merchants use to provide information about their inventory, pricing, and catalog to other partners. With this information, Amazon can direct shoppers to a merchant’s website via its search results or its AI shopping assistant, Rufus, and even let customers use AI to make a purchase. The company hasadded supportfor third-party product feeds from Feedonomics, Salsify, and CEDCommerce, which provide Amazon access to merchants’ inventory and product information in real time. More feed providers will be supported in time, and an Amazon merchant portal with a merchant-direct feed is said to be coming soon. InFebruary 2025, Amazon began beta testing a new shopping feature that would link to a retailer’s website when its own search results didn’t include the product the customer was seeking. Customers would see the product information on Amazon, but could click through to the retailer’s site to learn more, check pricing, and view delivery options. Customers would be notified that they were leaving Amazon’s website so they wouldn’t be confused into thinking they were buying from the company itself. The program was being offered to a range of brands and wasn’t limited to partners using Buy with Prime — a way to offer checkout using a customer’s saved payment information on Amazon. While the move to be included on Amazon could certainly boost a brand’s exposure and potential sales, it could also give Amazon insights into which brands, products and price points are most appealing to customers. The company could use this information to improve its own business by providing data on competing products, tracking trends, identifying potential Buy with Prime partners and more. It could also help Amazon solidify itself as the starting point for product search. The company says it now supportsBuy for Me, which has Amazon use an AI agent to complete purchases, on third-party merchant sites as well. TheAI bothandles the entire purchase process on the customer’s behalf, and the customer simply has to confirm their order details on the checkout page, including their delivery address, taxes, shipping fees, and payment method. Amazon’s AI then completes the checkout from the merchant’s website using the required information. Customers can track these orders in the same “Your Orders” tab where they track their Amazon purchases, or in a special “Buy for Me Orders” tab. Shop Direct is live for U.S. customers on Amazon.com, in the Amazon mobile app, and in Amazon’s Rufus AI assistant.
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Meta didn’t buy Moltbook for bots — it bought into the agentic web
When news broke Tuesday morning thatMeta bought Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, it may have left some people scratching their heads. What on earth would Meta — an ad-supported company — want with a social network where the users are bots? Bots, after all, are not the target audience of brand marketers and advertisers. Meta isn’t saying much. Its only official comment was a brief statement that the Moltbook team was joiningMeta Superintelligence Labs, which would open up “new ways for AI agents to work with people and businesses.” Reading between the lines, this was an acqui-hire. A network built for bots isn’t exactly a natural home for brand advertising — even if Moltbook was never entirelynon-human. What Meta really wanted was the talent behind it — people who are having fun brainstorming and experimenting with AI agent ecosystems. And that, counterintuitively, could be a boon for its advertising business. As Meta CEO Mark Zuckerbergsaid last year, he believes in a future where “every business will soon have a business AI, just like they have an email address, social media account, and website.” On an agentic web, one where AI systems act independently on users’ behalf, AI agents could interact with each other, doing things like buying ads, making bookings, and responding to customers. AI is alsobeing usedto generate ad creative and tailor its output based on who’s viewing it. AI systems could also manage product pricing or generate personalized offers. On the consumer side, agents could be used tofindthe best prices and deals, manage bookings, andshopfor products. Insomelimitedcases,agentscan already check out and pay on consumers’ behalf. (Agentic commerceis still in its early days, and these systems don’t always work as well as advertised. But the market has been moving fast, and improvements seem likely soon enough.) As Facebook once built the “friend graph” — a network defined by social connections between people, where every individual is a node — an agentic web could benefit from an “agent graph,” a system that maps out how various agents are connected and what actions they can take on each other’s behalf. For an agentic web where businesses’ agents and consumers’ agents can work together, though, the agents first need to be able to find each other, connect, and coordinate their activities. As Facebook once built the “friend graph” — a network defined by social connections between people, where every individual is a node — an agentic web could benefit from an “agent graph,” a system that maps out how various agents are connected and what actions they can take on each other’s behalf. This could span areas like travel, online shopping, media and research, productivity tools, and more. This, too, could be where advertising slots in. Today, humans view and click on ads when they see something of interest, but on an agentic web where agents are shopping on users’ behalf, ads might look quite different. Instead of influencing a human to buy a product, a business’s agent may need to negotiate directly with a consumer’s agent to make the sale. Maybe the consumer wants to buy that shirt or that lipstick, but only in a certain color and at a certain price. Maybe the systems become so complex that these considerations go beyond product and price — perhaps the consumer prefers to support small businesses, or shops only with eco-friendly companies. Maybe the consumer only buys items when they’re on sale or purchases generic versions if the ingredients are the same. And so on. In that case, it’s not just a matter of connecting the AI agents but also ranking products by whichever one best fits that individual customer’s needs. If Meta could capitalize on that market — AI at the orchestration layer, meaning the system decides which agents talk to each other and in what order — it could potentially expand its ads business into entirely new territory. This all depends on whether or not consumers actually embrace the agentic web, or ever trust AI enough to let it act on their behalf. But the very existence ofOpenClaw, the personal AI assistant that populated Moltbook with content, suggests that at least some people are already leaning into autonomous AI agents. Of course, there’s another possible reason Meta bought Moltbook. The companylost the acqui-hireof OpenClaw’s creator, Peter Steinberger, to rival OpenAI, so it went after Moltbook, the platform Steinberger’s tool helped build, instead. Petty? Maybe. But it kept Meta’sSuperintelligence Labsin the news.
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Wipro Signs Multi-Year Deal with US-Based TruStage to Modernise Retirement Services
Designit, Wipro’s experience innovation company, will help redesign TruStage’s technology stack and customer delivery model.
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Cyient, Prospecta to Build Unified Data Platform for Asset-Intensive Industries
The alliance aims to create a trusted master data foundation to power AI, analytics, and digital twins.
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Microsoft Warns Pentagon Move Against Anthropic Could Disrupt Military Systems
Without court intervention, Microsoft said tech providers working with the Pentagon would be forced to immediately reconfigure products and contractual arrangements that currently depend on Anthropic’s technology.
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