Kate Park

Articles by Kate Park

The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them - TechCrunch

Business September 1, 2026

In July and August, Washington tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems and imposed steep tariffs on imported drones and their components, both moves citing national-security cοΏ½...

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining - TechCrunch

Business August 31, 2026

Nearly every company that’s trying to deploy artificial intelligence runs into the same problem: it’s hard to integrate the tech into everyday operations. Industrial heavyweight Caterpillar has sp...

Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, Tencent - TechCrunch

Business July 7, 2026

Meta and Snap rolled out new smart glasses last month, the latest sign that the industry is racing to put a camera and an AI assistant onto users faces. As the fast-growing market heats up, upstarts οΏ½...

China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead - TechCrunch

Business February 24, 2026

While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s β€œpioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), Chinas BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new wave of startups is ra...

A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs | TechCrunch

Crypto December 14, 2025

The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 οΏ½...

Korea’s Coupang says data breach exposed nearly 34M customers’ personal information - TechCrunch

Business December 2, 2025

South Korean e-commerce platform Coupang over the weekend said nearly 34 million Korean customers’ personal information had been leaked in a data breach that had been ongoing for more than five mont...