Rivian has filed a lawsuit in Ohio to sell its electric vehicles directly to consumers, marking another chapter in the ongoing battle between new automakers and the powerful dealership lobby. The company sued Ohio’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles registrar in…
Electric air taxi developer Joby Aviation has agreed to acquire Blade Air Mobility’s helicopter rideshare business for up to $125 million. The deal includes the Blade brand and its passenger operations in the United States and Europe, while Blade’s medical…
Amazon has denied reports that it is shutting down Wondery, the podcast studio it acquired in late 2020. The denial comes after Bloomberg reported on Monday that the company planned to close the studio and cut 110 jobs. Amazon clarified…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Tesla CEO Elon Musk finds himself in a challenging position. He has pushed hard for shareholders to view Tesla as an AI and…
Elon Musk’s AI company has officially launched Grok Imagine, xAI’s image and video generator, available to all SuperGrok and Premium+ X subscribers on its iOS app. True to Musk’s vision of Grok as an unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI, the generator permits…
Elon Musk says he’s bringing back Vine — sort of. The X owner announced over the weekend that the company discovered the video archive for the popular short-form video app, thought to have been deleted, and is working to restore…
ChatGPT’s impressive growth as a consumer app continues, with the chatbot on track to reach 700 million weekly active users this week. Earlier this year, the app had already hit 500 million weekly active users by the end of March,…
AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, Cloudflare published research stating it observed the AI startup ignore blocks and…
Google has removed the names of more than 50 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) groups from its list of organizations it substantially supports, according to a new watchdog report. The list, which outlines groups backed by Google’s U.S. Government Affairs…
Lyft’s European expansion will include Chinese-made robotaxis. The U.S. ride-hailing company announced a strategic partnership with Baidu to deploy the Chinese tech giant’s Apollo Go autonomous vehicles across several European markets. The companies aim to launch robotaxi services in Germany…
