Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI laid off 500 team members on Friday night, according to internal messages viewed by Business Insider. The emails reportedly announced an immediate strategic pivot, with the company deciding to accelerate the expansion of its specialist…
The all-electric Ram 1500 REV pickup truck is dead. Long live the extended-range Ram 1500 REV, which was once called the Ramcharger. Stellantis, the parent company of Ram, announced it will no longer develop a battery-electric full-size pickup. The company…
This week, OpenAI and Oracle surprised the markets with a new five-year agreement valued at three hundred billion dollars. This deal is part of a surge of new business that sent the cloud provider’s stock skyrocketing. However, the markets should…
Rainmaker Technology’s proposal to deploy cloud-seeding flares on small drones is facing resistance from the airline pilots union. The union has urged the Federal Aviation Administration to consider denying the startup’s request unless it meets stricter safety guidelines. The FAA’s…
Investors approached transit software startup Via’s initial public offering with caution on Friday. Shares opened below the company’s IPO price before making a modest recovery by the end of the trading day. The company, which had confidentially filed for its…
The CEO of the largest digital and print publisher in the U.S. has accused Google of being a bad actor for crawling its websites to support the search giant’s AI products. Neil Vogel, CEO of People, Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith),…
The Federal Aviation Administration has announced a new pilot program that will allow electric vertical takeoff and landing startups to test some operations before they receive full regulatory certification. This is a potentially significant change for these companies, which have…
Micro1, a three-year-old startup that helps AI companies find and manage human contractors for data labeling and training, has raised a $35 million Series A funding round. This investment values the company at $500 million. The round was led by…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will be held at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27 to October 29. If you have big funding goals, attending the session on October 29 at the Builders Stage is essential. Three powerhouse voices in…
Mastodon, an open source decentralized alternative to X, is rolling out a somewhat controversial new feature by adding quote posts, which will launch next week. The feature allows a user to quote someone else’s post and reshare it with their…
