TechCrunch Mobility: Lyft has entered the robotaxi chat
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation, and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall”
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the US in April 2024, the day before…
Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world
Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.
Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board
Automattic says Mullenweg is back as “chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board.”
OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026
While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.
Tesla says it will finally unveil the second generation Roadster on October 1
Tesla’s halo sports car was first announced in November 2017.
Anthropic CEO outlines plan to ‘pace the frontier’
What would it actually look like to “pace the frontier”?
Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.
AI Is Quietly Creating Millionaires — and Here’s Exactly How to Copy Them (No Code, No Staff)
The exact prompts for finding where AI can create revenue, scale your output and protect the work that still needs you.
IBM Is Using The U.S. Open To Prove Sports Are the Perfect Playground for AI
IBM is using AI at the US Open to transform the fan experience, analyze billions of data points and showcase how sports can become a powerful testing ground for AI technology.
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.