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TechCrunch Mobility: The custom chip driving Waymo’s robotaxi ambitions

TechCrunch Mobility: The custom chip driving Waymo’s ro...

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on ...

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Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, ...

Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind...

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Uber faces fine of nearly $1B over automated driver suspensions

Uber faces fine of nearly $1B over automated driver sus...

The Dutch Data Protection Authority is fining Uber €825 million in the second la...

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Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the inte...

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Venezuela abandoning the bolivar and adopting the U.S. dollar would be the biggest currency switch since the advent of the euro, Hanke says

Venezuela abandoning the bolivar and adopting the U.S. ...

"Taming inflation is the key to restoring stability in Venezuela, and all the ot...

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At Olympics-like event, Chinese robots smash athletic records set by humans — including Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint time

At Olympics-like event, Chinese robots smash athletic r...

At a 100-meter sprint, a humanoid robot achieved a result of 9.39 seconds, beati...

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SpaceX is hiring in natural gas trading for energy needs

SpaceX is hiring in natural gas trading for energy needs

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket uses super-chilled methane — the primary ingred...

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Mark Walter’s sports empire offers a glimpse of the money machine behind private credit—and the plumbing keeping it together

Mark Walter’s sports empire offers a glimpse of the mon...

Where did the money come from for Walter to buy the Dodgers, Lakers and Chelsea ...

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Women want ‘dads,’ not ‘duds’: A Nobel-winning historian has a theory for falling birthrates, but the economics aren’t so straightforward

Women want ‘dads,’ not ‘duds’: A Nobel-winning historia...

"The more that men can credibly signal they will be dependable ' dads' and not d...

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Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’

Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ...

After raising $1.7 billion for his new robotics company Atoms, Travis Kalanick i...

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Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup

Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquir...

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has al...

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OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer priv...

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide th...

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Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities

Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all r...

The next-generation robotaxi, called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company's...

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Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’

Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘sin...

What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between diffe...

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Strait of Hormuz chaos has incentivized China to use an alternative trade route: a 3,400 mile frozen Arctic channel dubbed the ‘Ice Silk Road’

Strait of Hormuz chaos has incentivized China to use an...

Chinese shipping company Sea Legend Line just announced a shipping route through...

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Princeton’s ‘AI Snake Oil’ author says the real fear isn’t thinking machines—it’s that AI exposes who already knows how to think

Princeton’s ‘AI Snake Oil’ author says the real fear is...

Princeton's Arvind Narayanan says his students are "in a bind." How much should ...

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USC just shattered its fundraising record by nearly $100 million—thanks partly to the billionaire family behind the Houston Texans

USC just shattered its fundraising record by nearly $10...

The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation donated $25 million to the University of...

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Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxi permits. Sin City gave it 10, capped the speed at 45mph, and banned airport trips

Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxi permits. Sin C...

Nevada capped Tesla's fleet at a fraction of its request and kept it away from H...