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Alphabet Waymo approval to expand driverless ride-hailing to San Jose
A Waymo autonomous vehicle drives along Masonic Avenue on April 11, 2022 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAlphabet's Waymo unit has received approval to expand its autonomous ride-hailing…
AMD strikes a deal to sell ZT Systems’ server-manufacturing business for $3B
Semiconductor giant AMD followed through with its plan to spin out ZT Systems’ server-manufacturing business.
AMD announced on Monday that it was selling ZT Systems’ server-manufacturing business to electronic manufacturing services…
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says the bank will let clients buy bitcoin
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon delivers a speech during the Global Markets Conference, ahead of the Choose France summit, in Paris, on May 15, 2025. Michel Euler | Afp | Getty ImagesJPMorgan Chase is finally allowing clients to buy…
Qualcomm to launch data center processors that link to Nvidia chips
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon speaks at Computex 2025 in Taipei on May 19, 2025. Cheng Yu-chen | Afp | Getty ImagesQualcomm on Monday said it plans to launch processors designed for data centers to power artificial intelligence, which will…
Crypto elite increasingly worried about their personal safety
Cryptocurrency executives and other investors with significant wealth from crypto holdings are getting more serious about personal security, according to stories this weekend in both the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
While…
Nvidia and Tesla soar, boosted by Trump’s Middle East tour
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on January 31, 2025 shows (L) Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025, and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on January…
Heybike’s Alpha step-through e-bike is an affordable, all-terrain dreamboat
I’ve tested out a number of e-bikes in my time here at TechCrunch. And I’ve never been so tempted to hang onto one as I have with Heybike’s new Alpha.
This sturdy, fat-tire, all-terrain e-bike is worth the $1,699 price tag. The Alpha…
Trump coin dinner to include mostly non-Americans based on top holders
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesWith President Donald Trump's private dinner for top meme coin holders less than a week away, the leaderboard is awash with crypto wallets that are effectively anonymous.On May 22, the top 220 $TRUMP…
Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle and OpenAI backing UAE Stargate project
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends an event, "Investing in America," held by President Donald Trump in Washington, April 30, 2025.Leah Millis | ReutersU.S. tech giants Nvidia, Cisco, Oracle and OpenAI are supporting the "UAE Stargate"…
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is choosing chatbots over podcasts
While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he likes podcasts, he might not actually be listening to them anymore.
That tidbit comes towards the end of a longer Bloomberg profile of Nadella, with a focus on Microsoft’s AI strategy and its…
Challenges face Elon Musk and NASA in sending people to Mars
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world's richest man, want to make living on Mars a reality. Musk has said that his company, SpaceX, can get humans to Mars as early as 2029. Meanwhile, NASA officials have said that sending…
Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees
Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported back in February, its first attempt didn’t yield an AI worth hiring.
But it’s now placed three new ads on YC’s job board for “AI agents…
Grok’s ‘white genocide’ responses show gen AI tampered with ‘at will’
Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty ImagesIn the two-plus years since generative artificial intelligence took the the world by storm following the public release of ChatGPT, trust has been a perpetual problem.Hallucinations, bad…
Tesla limits investors’ ability to sue over breach of fiduciary duties
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at an opening ceremony for Tesla China-made Model Y program in Shanghai on Jan. 7.Aly Song | ReutersIn a regulatory filing out Friday, Elon Musk-led automaker Tesla announced a change to its corporate bylaws…
OpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
OpenAI is poised to help develop a staggering 5-gigawatt data center campus in Abu Dhabi, positioning the company as a primary anchor tenant in what could become one of the world’s largest AI infrastructure projects, according to a new…
Tech IPO market is finally showing signs of life
Yoni Assia, co-founder and chief executive officer of EToro Group Ltd., center, and Ronen Assia, co-founder of EToro Group Ltd., center left, ring the opening bell during the company's initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in…
xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’
xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in South Africa” when invoked in certain contexts on X.
On Wednesday, Grok began replying to…
U.S., UAE agree on path for Emirates to buy top American AI chips, Trump says
U.S. President Donald Trump signs a guest book next to United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at Qasr Al Watan, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 15, 2025. Brian Snyder | ReutersABU DHABI, United Arab…