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  "id": 12670,
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/travis-kalanicks-robotics-company-raises-1-7b-led-by-a16z",
  "title": "Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z",
  "summary": "Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.",
  "authors": "Sean O'Kane",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-22T18:50:44.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-23T05:10:49.458Z",
  "source_slug": "techcrunch-ai",
  "source_name": "TechCrunch",
  "source_homepage": "https://techcrunch.com",
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  "original_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/22/travis-kalanicks-robotics-company-raises-1-7b-led-by-a16z",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
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