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Waymo resumes service in San Francisco after robotaxis stall during blackout
Waymo suspended its robotaxi service in San Francisco on Saturday evening after a massive blackout appeared to leave many of its vehicles stalled on city streets.
Numerous photos and videos posted to social media captured Waymo…
Waymo suspends San Francisco robotaxi service after blackout chaos
Alphabet-owned Waymo has suspended its driverless ride-hail service in the San Francisco Bay Area after blackouts plagued the city Saturday afternoon."We have temporarily suspended our ride-hailing services in the San Francisco Bay Area…
TechCrunch Mobility: Bankruptcy takes out two
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The year in transportation started with a couple of…
Xbox is losing the console war to PlayStation and Switch
The Xbox booth during the Gamescom video games trade fair at the Trade Fair Center in Cologne, Germany, Aug. 20, 2025.Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty ImagesMicrosoft's Xbox has had a tumultuous year.A slew of layoffs, price hikes and studio…
Google and Apple reportedly warn employees on visas to avoid international travel
Law firms representing Google and Apple have warned that employees who need a visa stamp to re-enter the United States should avoid leaving the country due to longer-than-usual visa processing times, according to Business Insider.
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Lucid’s Gravity SUV arrives with high expectations, and big risks
Lucid Motors gets rave reviews from critics. But it's sorely lacking customers. That's a problem the company can't afford. The Arizona-based EV maker has top-shelf tech, deep-pocketed backers, and highly praised cars. However, it has…
Roomba’s bankruptcy may wreck a lot more than one robot vacuum maker
Medianews Group/boston Herald Via Getty Images | Medianews Group | Getty ImagesLos Angeles resident Ruth Horne, 76, enticed by a bargain, bought what she thought was a Roomba to vacuum her house, but the experience ended in…
Ex-Splunk execs’ startup Resolve AI hits $1 billion valuation with Series A
Resolve AI, a startup developing an autonomous site reliability engineer (SRE), a tool that automatically maintains software systems, has raised a Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to three people familiar with the…
Former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick leaves Meta board
Dina Powell McCormick, who was a member of President Donald Trump's first administration, has resigned from Meta's board of directors.Powell McCormick, who previously spent 16 years working at Goldman Sachs, notified Meta of her…
Sequoia partner spreads debunked Brown shooting theory, testing new leadership
Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire is once again drawing unwanted attention to the prominent venture firm after falsely accusing a Palestinian student of being behind the December 13 Brown University mass shooting and the subsequent…
Musk’s 2018 Tesla pay package must be restored, Delaware court rules
Elon Musk's 2018 CEO pay package from Tesla, worth some $56 billion when it vested, must be restored, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled Friday."We reverse the Court of Chancery's rescission remedy and award $1 in nominal damages," the…
Oracle to run TikTok’s U.S. business with Silver Lake, MGX
Oracle's stock jumped 7% Friday after the cloud provider joined a group of investors slated to lead TikTok's U.S. operations. In a memo to employees Thursday, CEO Shou Zi Chew said the social media company's U.S. division will be run by…
OpenAI is reportedly trying to raise $100B at an $830B valuation
OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $100 billion in a funding round that could value the ChatGPT maker at up to $830 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources.
The company is aiming to raise the funding…
TikTok signs agreement to create new U.S. joint venture, memo says
Samuel Boivin | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesTikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told employees on Thursday that the company's U.S. operations will be housed in a new joint venture.The entity is named TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, according to a memo…
TikTok agrees to deal to cede control of U.S. business to American investor group
TikTok has reached a deal to cede a substantial portion of its U.S. operation to a group of American investors, thus ending a years-long tussle in which the federal government has sought to force the platform to do just that.
The new…
Instacart to pay $60 million in FTC settlement
Pavlo Gonchar | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesInstacart will pay $60 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that it misled users with false advertising and deployed "unlawful subscription enrollment"…
Visa’s AI agents automating hundreds of purchases for customers
Mustafa Hatipoglu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesVisa said on Thursday that it successfully completed hundreds of AI transactions as part of a pilot program that kicked off after the company's product event in April.The credit card issuer and…
Instacart’s AI-driven pricing tool attracted attention — now the FTC has questions
According to Reuters, Instacart is currently getting the regulatory equivalent of a throat-clearing from the FTC, which has sent the grocery delivery platform a civil investigative demand regarding its AI-powered pricing tool,…