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Waymo raises $16B to scale robotaxi fleet internationally

Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company, has raised $16 billion as it plans to grow its fleet of driverless taxicabs this year to more than a dozen new cities...

OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network

The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new name — again. After a legal...

Anduril has invented a wild new drone flying contest where jobs are the prize 

Palmer Luckey’s eyes light up, and he talks a mile a minute, when discussing his company’s new recruiting...

Gmail is having issues with spam and misclassification

If your Gmail account doesn’t seem to be working properly today, you’re not alone. The official status dashboard for...

Sources: project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400M valuation as inference market explodes

Some of the team responsible for maintaining SGLang, a popular open-source tool used by companies like xAI and...

Department of Energy cancels $7.5B of clean energy projects in mostly blue states

The Department of Energy said Wednesday night it was canceling 321 awards worth $7.56 billion that were largely focused on clean energy. The agency...

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...