IT総合 SpaceX reportedly has a secret backdoor for Chinese investment
Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has allowed Chinese investors to buy stakes as long as the funds are routed through th...
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IT総合 IT総合 Bradley Tusk says he makes more money with ‘equity-for-services’ than he did as a traditional VC
Bradley Tusk, co-founder and managing partner at Tusk Venture Partners, told TechCrunch in today’s episode of Equity tha...
IT総合 Waymo to launch robotaxi service in Washington D.C. in 2026
Waymo said Tuesday it will begin offering robotaxi rides via the Waymo One app in Washington D.C. in 2026. Before it ca...
IT総合 Revel opens first EV fast-charging hub in San Francisco
Brooklyn-based electric vehicle charging infrastructure startup Revel on Monday launched its first fast-charging station...
IT総合 Wayve CEO shares his key ingredients for scaling autonomous driving tech
Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall sees promise in bringing his autonomous vehicle startup’s tech to market. That is,...
IT総合 Honda and Acura EV owners to gain access to Tesla Superchargers this June
Honda and its luxury brand, Acura, are set to join the growing list of automakers providing EV owners access to Tesla...
IT総合 GM, Gatik, Torc team up with Nvidia to accelerate self-driving
NVIDIA’s GTC conference kicked off with a series of announcements highlighting its role in advancing autonomous driving ...
IT総合 Joby Aviation and Virgin Atlantic partner to launch electric air taxis in the UK
Joby Aviation is partnering with Virgin Atlantic to launch electric air taxis in the U.K., marking the seventh country i...
IT総合 Anti-aging zealot Bryan Johnson wants to start ‘foodome sequencing’
In the same way that genome sequencing determines the genetic makeup of an organism, Bryan Johnson — the investor and fo...
IT総合 Trump says he will label violence against Tesla as domestic terrorism
President Donald Trump said he will label violence against Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism, per a transcript sha...
IT総合 Learn what VCs want to see from founders at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
It’s no secret that AI has eaten the lion’s share of funding over the past couple of years, with investments into the se...
IT総合 Trump gives automakers one-month tariff reprieve to move operations from Canada, Mexico to US
President Donald Trump has delayed tariffs on automobile imports from Canada and Mexico for one month after requests fro...
IT総合 Trump gives Big 3 automakers one month reprieve for Canada, Mexico tariffs
President Donald Trump has delayed tariffs on automobile imports from Canada and Mexico for one month after requests fro...
IT総合 Growth at all costs is destroying the internet. PR maven Ed Zitron says that’s an opportunity for startups
If you spend any amount of time online, you probably noticed that your user experience keeps getting worse. Websit...
IT総合 Didi reportedly seeking funds for self-driving unit at $5B valuation
Chinese ride-hail firm Didi is on the hunt for fresh funds for its autonomous vehicle technology unit that could value i...
IT総合 Elon Musk’s DOGE comes for agency that regulates autonomous vehicles
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is firing nearly half of a small government team that regulates au...
IT総合 Tesla to test virtual queues at Supercharging locations
Road rage has been around for a while. A newer phenomenon that’s cropping up is EV charging rage — the feeli...
IT総合 Electric aircraft founder Kyle Clark threw out the Silicon Valley playbook
On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a South Burlington hangar to witness the maiden f...
IT総合 Troubled electric truck maker Nikola files for bankruptcy
Hydrogen electric trucking startup Nikola Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday after it failed to ...
IT総合 Avride launches sidewalk delivery bots on Uber Eats in Jersey City
Uber Eats customers in Jersey City can now have their orders delivered by one of Avride’s autonomous sidewalk delivery r...
IT総合 May Mobility launches its first driverless commercial ride-hail service
May Mobility is deploying autonomous vehicles differently than its peers. Rather than operate robotaxis for individual r...
IT総合 Trump picks Apple exec to lead transportation safety agency
President Donald Trump has chosen Jonathan Morrison, an Apple executive, to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Adm...
IT総合 BYD to offer Tesla-like driver assist, even on its cheapest models
Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD unveiled “God’s Eye,” an advanced driver assistance system that will be install on it...
IT総合 Revel nabs $60M in New York state funding to build more EV chargers
As President Donald Trump attempts to freeze funding for a $5 billion federal EV charging infrastructure program, some s...
IT総合 Lyft to launch Mobileye-powered robotaxis ‘as soon as 2026,’ starting with Dallas
Ride-hail giant Lyft plans to bring fully autonomous robotaxis, powered by Mobileye, to its app “as soon as 2026” in Dal...
IT総合 Lyft’s new AI customer assistant is powered by Anthropic’s Claude
Ride-hail giant Lyft has partnered with AI startup Anthropic to build an AI assistant that handles initial intake for cu...
IT総合 The Elon Musk Act aims to ban ‘special government employees’ from having federal contracts
U.S. Democratic Representative Mark Pocan plans to introduce a bill designed to ban “special government employees” like ...
IT総合 Cruise to slash workforce by 50% after GM cuts funding to robotaxi operations
Cruise is laying off 50% of its workforce as the robotaxi program ends.
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IT総合 Waabi and Volvo team up to build self-driving trucks at scale
Self-driving truck startup Waabi is partnering with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to jointly develop and deploy autonomous ...
IT総合 Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI has entered the cultural zeitgeist
The lights dimmed as five actors took their places around a table on a makeshift stage in a New York City art gallery tu...