IT総合 Uber, Nvidia-backed Serve Robotics hits public markets with $40M splash
Serve Robotics, the Uber and Nvidia-backed sidewalk robot delivery company, debuted publicly on the New York stock excha...
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IT総合 IT総合 Seven Waymo robotaxis block traffic to San Francisco freeway on-ramp
Waymo can operate on San Francisco freeways without a human driver, but the company is still only testing on freeways wi...
IT総合 Waymo begins robotaxi testing in Atlanta
Waymo, the self-driving company under Alphabet, began testing its robotaxis in Atlanta on Tuesday, adding another city t...
IT総合 Tesla ditches EV inventory discounts to ‘streamline’ sales and delivery
Tesla has ended discounts on inventory across its electric vehicle lineup — even as sales for EVs have flagged ...
IT総合 Tesla layoffs hit high performers, some departments slashed, sources say
Tesla management told employees Monday that the recent layoffs — which gutted some departments by 20% and even hit...
IT総合 Tesla drops FSD price to $99 per month in US
Tesla has slashed the price of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software subscription to $99 per month, down from $199 per mo...
IT総合 Cruise robotaxis are back – sort of
Cruise is redeploying robotaxis in Phoenix after nearly five months of paused operations, the company said in a blog pos...
IT総合 The overlooked tech that kept cities moving in 2023
Over here at TechCrunch, our time is often spent finding and reporting on the next new new thing in mobility from autono...
IT総合 What the demise of Superpedestrian means for the e-scooter industry
At an all-hands meeting just before Thanksgiving, Superpedestrian’s CEO Assaf Biderman told staff the electric scooter c...
IT総合 Why Australia is ripe for VC
The addition of new technology sectors into Australia’s landscape could also help attract the necessary capital and busi...
IT総合 From graphic design to visual workflows, Canva’s new AI core is changing its business
With Canva, generative AI hits different. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a better technology to boost Canva’s user growth...
IT総合 Micromobility.com gets delisted from the Nasdaq
Micromobility.com, formerly Helbiz, was delisted from the Nasdaq on Monday as a result of the company’s noncomplia...
IT総合 Tesla requests pause in federal racial bias lawsuit as it wraps up other cases
Tesla wants to pause a federal agency’s lawsuit against the automaker for racial bias against its Black workers at...
IT総合 Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to 4 years for securities fraud
Trevor Milton, the disgraced founder and former CEO of electric truck startup Nikola, was sentenced Monday to four years...
IT総合 May Mobility’s driverless microtransit might beat robotaxis to profitability
Autonomous vehicle company May Mobility has launched its first driverless on-demand microtransit service on public roads...
IT総合 Getaround’s Q3 earnings delight investors, but the company isn’t out of the woods yet
Peer-to-peer carsharing company Getaround has filed its first earnings report since going public a year ago via a SPAC c...
IT総合 Waymo launches curbside robotaxi pickup at Phoenix airport
Select Waymo One riders can now get picked up or dropped off by the company’s robotaxis curbside at Phoenix Sky Ha...
IT総合 Cruise faces fines in California for withholding key details in robotaxi accident
Cruise keeps getting kicked while it’s down. The General Motors-owned robotaxi company may face fines and sanction...
IT総合 Kodiak’s military prototype AV is a Ford F-150 pickup
Kodiak Robotics has unveiled its first autonomous test vehicle for the U.S. Department of Defense, a Ford F-150 pickup t...
IT総合 Innovation or folly? The Cybertruck will test whether anyone still trusts Tesla
The Tesla Cybertruck, the first of which will be delivered Thursday four years after its debut, is loved and loathed. Fo...
IT総合 London’s iconic black cabs can soon be hailed on Uber
Uber has secured another win over the struggling taxi industry. Soon, riders in London will be able to hail an iconic bl...
IT総合 Scooter startup Tier lays off 22% of workforce to reach profitability
German micromobility operator Tier Mobility is laying off another 22% of its workforce to cut costs in the never-ending ...
IT総合 Sweden sides with Tesla, says transport agency must deliver plates or pay up
Tesla won a small battle against Swedish union workers fighting for collective bargaining rights, but the war will conti...
IT総合 Judge to deliberate competition harm vs Google’s gains in search antitrust trial
The U.S. Justice Department wrapped the evidentiary phase of its antitrust trial against Google a couple of weeks ago, w...
IT総合 In Australia and New Zealand, a venture downturn isn’t the end. It’s time to shine.
The geographic isolation of Australia and New Zealand creates a sense of hustle, if not urgency, around raising funds an...
IT総合 Florida judge finds Tesla, Elon Musk knew of defective Autopilot system
There is “reasonable evidence” to conclude that Tesla and its officers, including CEO Elon Musk, knew its ve...
IT総合 Kinterra Capital’s debut $565M fund to support mining for battery metals
Kinterra Capital, a Canadian private equity firm, has closed its $565 million debut fund dedicated to securing critical ...
IT総合 Motional and Hyundai to jointly build IONIQ 5 robotaxi in Singapore
Hyundai Motor Group and Motional, the Aptiv-Hyundai joint venture aimed at commercializing autonomous vehicles, announce...
IT総合 Cruise suspends employee stock program, corp bonuses moved up
Cruise, the autonomous vehicle subsidiary of General Motors, told staff Thursday that the employee share selling program...
IT総合 The Wild West of robotaxis: Will Texas be a regulatory haven or chaos unleashed?
All eyes might be on the California robotaxi market, but Texas is the one shaping up to be the next hot testbed of the t...