Scott Kirsner

Angle is raising a first round of funding for Familiar Machines & Magic, a Boston-area company that will develop a new kind of home robot focused on health and wellness.

Angle is raising a first round of funding for Familiar Machines & Magic, a Boston-area company that will develop a new kind of home robot focused on health and wellness.

Musk has warned for years about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Then again, he stands to make a lot of money off it.

“The Sound we Travel at," a series of 11 grass-covered, wave-like mounds of earth, can be found in Kendall Square — though there's no sign installed to tell you what you're looking at.

A group of coffee experts rated each java on a scale of 0-10, with zero being “how dare you serve this to me” and ten being “best coffee I’ve ever had.”

Skky Partners, which plans to invest in up-and-coming consumer brands, has maintained a very low profile, given that its cofounder has more than 350 million followers on Instagram.

A day-long event filled with MIT speakers, including Sally Kornbluth and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, touched on AI sustainability and US-China competition.

HubSpot cofounder Dharmesh Shah is betting that artificial intelligence advances will go far beyond the basic question-and-answer functions of ChatGPT or DeepSeek.

Local companies are developing technologies that they hope could replace a painful poke with something that feels more like having Velcro against your skin for a few minutes.

In his last column, Scott Kirsner looks back on a quarter-century of reporting on Boston startups, funding, and tech leaders — and considers what the changing times mean for the future.