May 2023

Keepon, carry on

May 11, 2023

I’m back in the South Bay this week, banging away at an introduction in the hotel lobby a few minutes before our crew heads to Shoreline for Google I/O. There’s a guy behind in a business suit and sockless loafers, taking a loud business meeting on his AirPods. It’s good to be home. I’ve got […]

Keepon, carry on by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

TuSimple continues its slide into the ether with new delisting warning

May 11, 2023

It wasn’t that long ago that self-driving trucks company TuSimple was on a tear — raising funds, locking in partnerships and hitting some development milestones that seemed to push to it to the front of the AV pack. A string of internal scandals and executive upheaval that resulted in the ousting of co-founder Xiaodi Huo, […]

TuSimple continues its slide into the ether with new delisting warning by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

VanMoof updates its last-gen e-bikes with simplified X4 and S4 models

May 11, 2023

Dutch e-bike maker VanMoof is refreshing its entry level lineup with a pair of new bikes available in some very springy colors. The X4 and S4, out this month, retain the frame and philosophy of VanMoof’s previous X3 and S3 e-bikes while trimming some of the complexities that made those models notably high-tech but less […]

VanMoof updates its last-gen e-bikes with simplified X4 and S4 models by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

That wasn’t Google I/O — it was Google AI

May 11, 2023
Things got weird at yesterday’s Google I/O conference right from the jump, when the duck hit the stage.   The day began with a musical performance described as a “generative AI experiment featuring Dan Deacon and Google’s MusicLM, Phenaki, and Bard AI tools.” It wasn’t clear exactly how much of it was machine-made and how much…