At a time when venture capital funding is slowing in China, EV is one of the few sectors that are still keeping investors excited. Case in point, Zeekr, the luxury electric vehicle brand of China’s largest private carmaker Geely, announced Monday that investors have committed to investing $750 million in its Series A funding round. […]
Two-year-old Zeekr raises $750M at $13B valuation by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
Safety advocacy group The Dawn Project is taking its campaign to ban Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system to the Super Bowl. The 30-second ad, which is broadcasting to millions of football fans in Washington D.C. and state capitals like Austin, Tallahassee, Albany, Atlanta and Sacramento, outlines several alleged critical safety defects of Tesla FSD, the […]
Tesla’s biggest hater airs Super Bowl ad against FSD by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
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AI comes to expense reports by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch
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This Week in Apps: AI apps, Bing hits the Top Charts, Google and Mozilla test non-WebKit browsers by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. “San Francisco is back!” “It never left.” “It’s been long dead.” They’re all takes, none particularly good, yet all insinuating a degree of self-importance that […]
Cities, cycles and San Francisco’s ‘return’ by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
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AI is coming to your Bing and Google searches, Apple’s M2 chip and Super Bowl streaming by Henry Pickavet originally published on TechCrunch
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Daily Crunch: Sources say Times Internet plans to sell Indian streaming platform MX Player to Amazon by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Canadian vertical farming startup Adapt AgTech is partnering with Reef Technology to bring its mushroom-growing shipping containers to major cities across the United States, starting with Austin. Reef transforms urban real estate like parking lots into mobility and logistical hubs and currently operates over 8,000 locations across hundreds of cities. The partnership will help Adapt […]
From shipping container to table: Adapt brings urban mushroom farms to US by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Recently, megastar creator MrBeast posted a video to his YouTube in which he spotlights numerous blind and visually impaired people who have undergone a surgical procedure that “cures” their blindness. As of this writing, the video has been viewed more than 76 million times, and the responses have been visceral in both praise and contempt. For […]
MrBeast’s blindness video puts systemic ableism on display by David Riggs originally published on TechCrunch
The all-electric Mercedes-Benz EQS is among the most sublime cars on the road right now, an understated exterior wrapped around a sumptuous interior, featuring all the niceties you’d expect from an S-badged Merc with the effortless acceleration of an EV and stellar ride quality to boot. The flagship EV is, quite simply, very good. It’s […]
The 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE is EV perfection in a humdrum shell by Tim Stevens originally published on TechCrunch