14 May 2026
Rivian Founder’s Startup Raises $400M
Mind Robotics, a side project of Rivian Automotive Founder RJ Scaringe, has reached total investment of more than $1 billion with its latest $400 million backing led by Kleiner Perkins.
@OCBizJournal, Emily Santiago-Molina
2026
14 May 2026
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic’s AI coding tool daily.
Tom Warren
2026
14 May 2026
SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket will do something completely new on Flight 12 — take a good look at itself
SpaceX conducts a full-duration static fire test with the upper stage of the Starship V3 vehicle that will conduct the Flight 12 test. The vehicle is made of stainless steel; the black comes from its heat shield, a set of 40,000 closely set hexagonal tiles. (Image credit: SpaceX)
Mike Wall
2026
14 May 2026
CREW Raises $25M of Funding to Scale Wastewater Treatment Optimization Technology as Climate Solution
Water-tech company closes round across equity and non-dilutive capital sources to deploy patented technology at more wastewater utilities, reducing costs and delivering verified carbon dioxide removal.
CREW Carbon
2026
14 May 2026
Meet Amazon's $50,000 Robot - Inside Big Tech's Humanoid Takeover
ShowsBusinessTechnologyWhere to WatchMeet Sprout, the $50K robot Amazon just acquired. It walks, talks and dances. And it's just the beginning of Big Tech's push to put humanoids in your home.May 14, 2026,...
News Desk
2026
14 May 2026
Mind Robotics Raises $400M To Expand AI Industrial Robotics Platform
Mind Robotics Raises Major Funding To Accelerate Industrial Robotics Growth
@Ventureburn
2026
14 May 2026
AI Promised the Audemars Piguet x Swatch Wristwatch. China Will Deliver It
For a week now, Instagram’s watch fans have been losing their minds over what looked like leaked product images. Vivid plastic Audemars Piguet Royal Oak wristwatches in bright colors: navy and orange, pink, yellow, and green. Captions guessed about prices and launch queues. Comment sections argued over colors. None of it was real. Every image was AI-generated.
@wired, Jeremy White
2026
14 May 2026
Physical AI moves closer to factory floors as companies test humanoid robots
British technology company Humanoid will deploy humanoid robots at factories operated by German industrial supplier Schaeffler, Reuters reported.
@ai_technews, Muhammad Zulhusni
2026
14 May 2026
Cashier-less supermarkets, AI robots, new-energy vehicles: Social media posts show US journalists covering Trump’s China visit struck by remarkable changes in …
Cashier-less supermarkets, AI robots, new-energy vehicles: Social media posts show US journalists covering Trump’s China visit struck by remarkable changes in the country
@globaltimesnews
2026
