TechCrunch Daily Crunch Spotify tests new tool to stop AI slop
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Mar 26, 2026 Amazon picks up a startup building kid-size humanoid robots and plans real-world integrations. Meta rolls out a small business initiative to spur entrepreneurship and AI adoption. Spotify pilots a tool to let artists approve releases and block AI-generated misattributions. A startup roundup highlights fresh funding for Glimpse and ultra-thin solar cells for spacecraft.
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Amazon Keeps Buying Robotics Startups
- Amazon acquired Fauna Robotics, which makes a 59-pound bipedal home robot called Sprout and will bring Fauna's team into Amazon's NYC operations.
- The buy follows Amazon's recent River acquisition and signals continued investment in consumer and delivery robotics.
Meta Pushes AI For Small Business Growth
- Meta launched Meta Small Business to support entrepreneurship and accelerate AI adoption, led by Dina Powell-McCormick and Naomi Gleit.
- Mark Zuckerberg framed the move as helping people broadly share prosperity created by superintelligence.
Spotify Lets Artists Preapprove Releases
- Spotify is beta testing an artist profile protection feature to let artists approve or decline releases before they appear on their pages.
- The feature targets artists hit by repeated misattributions and AI-generated tracks, and approved releases are the only ones that count toward stats and recommendations.