Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. If you haven’t noticed, Uber is suddenly everywhere, at least when it comes to autonomous vehicles. The company sold off Uber ATG, its…
Elon Musk recently outlined ambitious plans for a chip-building collaboration between his companies Tesla and SpaceX. According to reports, Musk shared his plans on Saturday night at an event in downtown Austin, Texas. A photo from the event suggests that…
Shortly after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS’s groundbreaking $50 billion investment deal with OpenAI, Amazon invited me on a private tour of the chip development lab at the heart of the deal, mostly at its own expense. Industry experts…
This week, a topic that has been circulating in Silicon Valley moved into the spotlight: AI tokens as compensation. The idea is straightforward. Rather than giving engineers only salary, equity, and bonuses, companies would also provide them with a budget…
On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “just setting up my twittr.” That was the very first post on the site still best known as Twitter, even after being renamed X by its new owner, Elon Musk.…
Hachette Book Group has announced it will not publish the novel “Shy Girl” in the United States this spring due to concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text. The publisher also stated it will discontinue the book…
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage for his annual GTC keynote on Monday, the $4 trillion company’s stock started to drop. Wall Street investors were unmoved by the leather jacket-clad founder’s bullish two-and-a-half-hour speech. Instead, they placed more…
An anonymous Substack post published this week accuses compliance startup Delve of falsely convincing hundreds of customers they were compliant with privacy and security regulations. The post warns this could expose those customers to criminal liability under HIPAA and hefty…
For decades, humans have sought to harness the power of the stars to generate electricity here on Earth. And for nearly as long, achieving that goal always seemed just a decade away. Now, a number of startups are closer than…
Anthropic submitted two sworn declarations to a California federal court late Friday afternoon. These documents push back on the Pentagon’s assertion that the AI company poses an unacceptable risk to national security. Anthropic argues that the government’s case relies on…
