TechCrunch Mobility: The great Tesla rebranding
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How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading. For months, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency had been cutting a wide swath through…
India offers zero taxes through 2047 to lure global AI workloads
New Delhi’s latest move comes as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft expand data center investments in India.
Bye-bye corporate conglomerates. Hello personal conglomerates.
Elon Musk’s reported merging of SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla harkens back to the heyday of General Electric — or maybe the robber barons of the Gilded Age.
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I Learned These Surprising Lessons While Writing My Autobiography
Here’s how writing my autobiography redefined my purpose.
Meet the new European unicorns of 2026
From Belgium to Ukraine, five fresh European unicorns were minted this January.
Waymo reportedly raising a $16 billion funding round
Waymo is reportedly finalizing a new funding round that will value the robotaxi company at $110 billion.
SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers
SpaceX’s filing claims these satellites will be “a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization — one that can harness the Sun’s full power.”
Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company’s $100B OpenAI investment has stalled
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that a recent report of friction between his company and OpenAI was “nonsense.”
The Only Crew with Access to a $450 Million ‘Gold Rush’
Investors have a narrow window to participate.