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How Luminar’s doomed Volvo deal helped drag the company into bankruptcy

In early 2023, Luminar was riding high. After going public during the pandemic and scoring a key deal with Volvo, the company had added Mercedes-Benz and Polestar as customers...

Nvidia is reportedly testing tracking software as chip-smuggling rumors swirl

Nvidia is allegedly testing software that can track the location of its AI chips as reports of its...

November & December at the National Museum of Industrial History: Spotlight on Hard-to-Find Manual Machinists and Experienced Equipment Mechanics

As the year winds down, cultural institutions across the United States prepare special programming to engage communities and...

The Timeless Charm of Tin Litho Toys: From Vintage Collectibles to Modern Decor

Tin lithography has long captured the imagination of collectors and enthusiasts alike. From its humble beginnings in the...

Netflix co-CEO reportedly discussed Warner Bros. deal with Trump

Will Netflix’s $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. get approval from federal regulators? While Paramount was assumed to...

Waffles eat Bluesky | TechCrunch

For the past few days, my Bluesky feed has been increasingly filled with mysterious posts about waffles. The back-and-forth seems to have started with a...

Here’s what it’s really like to appear on billionaire VC Tim Draper’s ‘Meet the Drapers’ pitch show

There was barely a breeze on the roof of the MCM studios building in Manhattan last week as six entrepreneurs graced a stage to...

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch heads to Meta

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has lost one of its co-founders to Meta. The Wall Street Journal...

EVs take a backseat in Stellantis’ $13B U.S. investment plan

Stellantis, the international automaker that owns Chrysler, Jeep, and Ram, said it will invest $13 billion to beef up its U.S. manufacturing over the...

Senate Republicans deepfaked Chuck Schumer, and X hasn’t taken it down 

Senate Republicans shared a deepfake video of Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, designed to make it seem like Democrats are celebrating the ongoing...

Rainbow-on-a-chip’ could help keep AI energy demands in check — and it was created by accident

A lab accident has led engineers to build a chip that fires a rainbow of powerful laser beams — and it could help data...