Avride, a Yandex spinoff, partners with Hyundai to jointly develop fully driverless cars for ride hailing and aims to deploy 100 driverless Ioniq 5 SUVs in 2025
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Waymo closed a $5.6B Series C led by Alphabet to expand its robotaxi service in and beyond LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, bringing its total funding to $11.1B
Having had the pleasure of seeing Waymo come … Lora Kolodny : Waymo has closed its series C funding round at $5.6 billion. The self-driving venture owned by Google parent Alphabet...
UK-based Wayve, which develops AI software for vehicles, starts testing its driver-assistance system in San Francisco and opens a new office in California
what started as a vision to build a scalable solution to autonomy is now proving itself on two continents. Can't wait to be picked up at SFO! Seth Winterroth / @sethwinterroth : Sp...
Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo is now giving 100K+ paid robotaxi rides every week in LA, San Francisco, and Phoenix, a few months after passing 50K+
Waymo disclosed Tuesday it's now giving more than 100,000 paid robotaxi rides every week across its three main commercial markets in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix.
Apple's iPad Pro ad “Crush”, which shows paints, toys, guitars, sculptures, and more being crushed to reveal the thin device, draws criticism on social media
Internal documents: Cruise knew its cars struggled to detect large holes and sometimes had problems recognizing kids, prior to its California permitting crisis
In Phoenix, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and San Francisco, hundreds of so-called autonomous vehicles, or AVs …
US authorities arrest student loan service Frank founder Charlie Javice; the SEC charges her with falsifying Frank user numbers for JPMorgan's $175M acquisition
and do compare that sentence to every person in jail for a non-violent, cannabis “crime” — and let's remember to free those innocent souls. #justice https://twitter.com/... Alex Ro...
Having perfected the art of using hype to move markets, VCs managed to hype their own rumors to collapse SVB, accidentally slaying a much loved accomplice
After more than a decade of venture capitalists insisting they provide more than just cash to their portfolio companies, the moment to prove that finally arrived.
The US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC say all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will be “fully” protected, and their money will be available on March 13
WASHINGTON, DC — The following statement was released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen …
Instagram's shift away from being a photo-sharing app fits within its broader continuous evolution, from photo filtering tool to network to Stories and beyond
Sources: Facebook's head of trust and safety policy admits to a “trust deficit” on a call with 200+ advertisers, as the company tries to stem an ad boycott
not the people checking the product every day. https://twitter.com/... Matthew Garrahan / @mattgarrahan : A leading Facebook exec has admitted the company is suffering from a “trus...
Waymo sends members of its early rider program an email saying they could be matched with a fully driverless car soon, and if so, the Waymo app will notify them
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle business under Alphabet, sent an email to customers of its ride-hailing app that their next trip might …