Walmart plans to expand Wing, Alphabet's on-demand drone delivery service, to another 150 stores, bringing the total to 270+, covering ~10% of US population
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Ford plans to repurpose its Kentucky factory manufacturing capacity to launch a battery storage business for data centers, amid its shift from making large EVs
now it's pivoting to hybrids and energy storage X: Erik Grossman / @erikgrossman : Cool to share what I've been working on. Ford is getting into energy storage in a big way Lucas Aulbach / @lucasaulba...
Point One Navigation, which develops precise location tech, raised a $35M Series C led by Khosla Ventures, a source says at a $230M post-money valuation
While everyone's debating the future of AI in the digital world … Kirsten Korosec : I met Aaron Nathan, co-founder of Point One Navigation, years ago when autonomous vehicles were ramping up to peak b...
Lidar manufacturer Luminar says that founder and CEO Austin Russell resigned following an ethics inquiry and appoints former Nuance CEO Paul Ricci as its CEO
The board put out a press release announcing the move at the same the company released Q1 earnings which had a glowing quote from Russell 🤔 — techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/b... Kirsten Korosec / @kirste...
GM names Aurora co-founder and CPO Sterling Anderson as its VP of Global Product and its Chief Product Officer, a newly created position, starting on June 2
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Uber and WeRide plan to expand their robotaxi service to 15 more cities over the next five years, including in Europe, after a December 2024 launch in Abu Dhabi
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San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO roads with employee-driven cars, as part of a phased approach targeting eventual commercial operations
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Sundar Pichai says Waymo logs 200K+ weekly paid robotaxi rides, doubling in a year and 20x in two; Waymo says its self-driving system logs 1M+ miles per week
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SoftBank-backed P2P vehicle sharing service Getaround is shutting down US operations, including HyreCar, to focus on Europe, where it operates in six countries
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A January 17 filing shows the US NHTSA said it “upgraded” its April 2024 probe into Ford's BlueCruise, a driver assistance system used during two fatal crashes
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