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Ford’s new electric truck, ‘Fathom’, starts at $28,350
Ford’s next-generation electric truck will be called Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 when it goes on sale in 2027, the company said on Thursday. A “destination and delivery” fee will bring that...
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Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce
Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson and Shivaditya Sinha spent years building the behavioral intelligence infrastructure behind Spotify’s recommendation engine. Called Vector AI, the system is designed to pred...
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Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI
AI lab Mirendil has signed a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to source compute capacity for its self-improving AI research, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The deal mirrors two trends sh...
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Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product
Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role. Bier wrote Wednesday that he thinks it’s “time to pass the torch...
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Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO
Another former Uber executive is joining Travis Kalanick’s robotics and industrial AI startup Atoms, just a few weeks after it raised $1.7 billion. Gautam Gupta, the former finance chief under Kalani...
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Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases
Meta, considered a bit of a straggler in the AI harnesses realm, is making strides to catch up. This week, the company released a new terminal coding agent aimed at programmers looking for assistance...
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Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced on Wednesday that OpenAI, and its once-subsidiary Statsig, signed a settlement that includes three years of oversight over the AI lab’s hiring...
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Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders
Publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform Klaviyo has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by serial entrepreneur Elias Torres. The ter...
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Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX’s first earnings call
Elon Musk spent SpaceX’s first earnings call making some out-of-this-world claims about the company’s business and future prospects, while his fellow executives kept trying to bring his ideas closer t...
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Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis
Lucid Motors said Tuesday that its “operational reset” will focus on $1.4 billion in cash reductions along with three other “must win” and potential money-making priorities that include robotaxis, its...
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SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year
SpaceX has ramped up purchases of Tesla Megapack, spending $295 million on the battery storage devices in the second quarter and $329 million so far this year, according to the company’s earnings repo...
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Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers
For many apps, granting permission to access your device’s precise location makes sense. Your favorite weather app needs to know where you are to get the day’s forecast, or your go-to fitness app for...
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