Conceivable’s automated lab has helped bring 19 babies to life. Is it better at IVF than humans are? In Mexico City’s upscale Polanco neighborhood, a fertility clinic showcases a machine that looks more like a factory line than a medical device. Called AURA, the 17-foot-long, AI-powered robotic system is designed to automate nearly every step involved in creating a human embryo outside the bo...

KEYi Tech, the company behind the Loona companion robot and ClicBot modular robot, is showing off a new take on AI assistants at CES 2026 called DeskMate, which is exclusively for iPhone.Rather than building another standalone robot, the company has gone with a desktop charging hub that turns an attached iPhone into an AI companion, using your device's existing display, camera, and microphone t...

Funding reached its highest level since 2022, with AI nearing 50% of the total. Mega-rounds drove growth. Robotics funding hit record levels. Here's what happened in venture in 2025.Total funding reached $469B in 2025 — the highest level since 2022. A handful of AI startups captured much of the capital through mega-rounds, with the biggest deals cycling back to the same names.1. Venture fundin...

The AI-powered platform helps brands build web storefronts and manage cross-border sales, inventory, and returns, gaining popularity among luxury clothing brands. VC firms DST Global and Iconiq are piling into the London- and New York-based e-commerce startup Swap Commerce. On Wednesday the startup announced it raised a new $100 million round just six months after raising a $40 million Series B...

The magic lies in the voice interface. You speak a word into the app, and it converts your speech into text, then translates that text into Braille, and finally prints it onto a peel-and-stick strip. No Braille keyboard required. No special training needed. Just your voice and a desire to make someone’s daily life a little easier. It’s the kind of intuitive design that makes you wonder why no...

A Two-Speed World: Why 2026 Will Deepen Global Economic Divergence.The global economy is expected to maintain modest growth in 2026, but the underlying reality will be far more uneven. According to Accenture Strategy’s Macro Foresight: 2026 Outlook & Top 10 Macro Trends, the coming year will be defined not by recovery, but by widening divergence—between countries, sectors, companies, and...

Amazon duplicated product listings from small businesses, including Sarah Burzio's stationery business, and made purchases on behalf of customers under anonymous email addresses.Sometime around Christmas, Sarah Burzio noticed that the holiday sales bump for her stationery business included some mysterious new customers: a flurry of orders from anonymous email addresses associated with Amazon.co...

Shoppers find GenAI’s input decisive and say it increases their confidence in their purchase decisions. Brands must optimize this new touchpoint with consumers.Shopping-related GenAI use grew by 35% from February 2025 to November 2025.Shoppers use GenAI across categories—not just special, big-ticket items, such as consumer electronics, but also routine, everyday purchases, like groceries.They...

With AI reaching billions worldwide, LMArena delivers transparent, real-world evaluation of frontier model performance.LMArena, the community platform redefining how the world measures the progress of AI, today announced it has raised $150 million in new funding, achieving a post-money valuation of $1.7 billion, nearly triple the valuation following its seed round in May 2025. Funding was led b...