Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. There is another twist in the road for lidar company Luminar, and it includes some inside-the-boardroom intrigue. First, let us catch up. You…
Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the situation as being “hoisted by their own GPTards.” This comment came after OpenAI researchers celebrated what they claimed were major math breakthroughs for GPT-5. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis also weighed in,…
Home goods company Kohler recently unveiled a new device called the Dekoda. It is a five hundred ninety-nine dollar camera that can be attached to your toilet bowl to take pictures of what is inside. According to reports, the Dekoda…
Lee Roberts meets me at the University Club of San Francisco on a Friday morning. Hours later, his football team will lose to Cal in heartbreaking fashion due to a fumbled goal line play. Little about the University of North…
Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh had just moved to London a few days before our call, splitting his time between there and Dubai. After nearly a decade in the United States, including a period at Scale AI, he is bringing that experience to…
An outage affecting web hosting giant Amazon Web Services, or AWS, took out vast portions of the web. This included websites, banks, and some government services. Amazon stated that the outage was fully mitigated and that most services are returning…
Spotify is introducing a new feature that allows users to follow venues. This will provide updates and details on concerts scheduled to take place at those locations. Followed venues are saved in your library, where you can browse event calendars,…
Creative design giant Adobe is expanding its business offerings to include custom generative AI models. The company launched Adobe AI Foundry, a new service that enables enterprises to collaborate with Adobe to build custom generative AI models. These models are…
Oura announced on Monday that it is launching a newly redesigned app experience and a new feature called Cumulative Stress. The company also shared that it is pursuing FDA clearance for future blood pressure features that would give users a…
Spotify announced on Thursday a series of agreements with major record labels to create new AI products. These products are designed to ensure fair compensation and to center artists and songwriters in the experience. The streaming service is partnering with…
