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Today β€” 13 March 2025Main stream

Waymo was slapped with nearly 600 parking tickets last year in SF alone

13 March 2025 at 21:48

Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic laws, parking is another matter entirely. According to city records cited by the Washington Post, these rolling robots racked up 589 citations totaling $65,065 in fines last year for parking violations that ranged from blocking traffic to […]

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Travis Kalanick thinks Uber screwed up: β€˜Wish we had an autonomous ride-sharing product’

12 March 2025 at 18:28

Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, made it clear on Wednesday: he believes the company’s decision to abandon its autonomous driving program was a mistake. Said Kalanick at the Abundance Summit in L.A., β€œLook, [new management] killed the autonomous car project we had going on. At the time, we were really only behind Waymo […]

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Google has given Anthropic more funding than previously known, show new filings

11 March 2025 at 18:21

Anthropic, a San Francisco startup often cast as an independent player in the AI race, has deeper ties to Google than previously known. Court documents recently obtained by The New York Times reveal that Google owns a 14% stake in the company and is set to pour another $750 million into it this year through […]

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Yet another AI robotics firm lands major funding, as Dexterity closes latest round

11 March 2025 at 10:57

The intersection of robotics and AI continues to attract attention from investors and Big Tech alike. The latest indicator? Dexterity, a startup specializing in industrial robots with β€œhuman-like” finesse, has raised $95 million at a post-money valuation of $1.65 billion, per Bloomberg. The investment, which includes backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sumitomo Corp., highlights […]

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Neom is reportedly turning into a financial disaster, except for McKinsey & Co.

9 March 2025 at 21:34

A new WSJ report suggests that Saudi Arabia’s now eight-year-old Neom project β€” a futuristic, carbon-neutral, 105-mile-long linear city envisioned by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman β€” has become a financial sinkhole. Plagued by delays and cost overruns, the country, which has already shelled out $50 billion, could reportedly face another 55 years of construction, […]

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Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg

Here’s a blast from the past: Digg, one of the web’s early news aggregators, is now back under the ownership of its original founder Kevin Rose. Notably, he’s being joined as co-owner by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (both pictured above). Digg and Reddit were once fierce rivals in the online social news aggregation space, launching […]

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Mark Cuban offers to fund government tech unit that was cut in the middle of the night

1 March 2025 at 22:15

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban waded into the latest government tech shake-up on Saturday, offering support on the social network Bluesky for newly laid-off federal workers whose job it was to make government tech work better. His message, which quickly gained traction, urged the displaced engineers and designers to turn the upheaval to their advantage. β€œIf […]

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General Catalyst is reportedly weighing a potential IPO

28 February 2025 at 21:43

General Catalyst, the powerhouse venture firm, is considering an IPO, Axios reported Friday morning, citing β€œmultiple sources.” TechCrunch has reached out to the firm’s managing partner, Hemant Taneja, for comment. In the meantime, those following General Catalyst’s trajectory won’t be surprised by the prospect. Founded 25 years ago as a small Cambridge, Mass.-based venture firm, […]

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Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia takes wraps off his first assignment for DOGE

27 February 2025 at 20:06

Almost two weeks after The New York Times reported that Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia had joined Elon Musk’s β€œDepartment of Government Efficiency,” Gebbia clarified his role on Thursday, announcing on X that as a starting point, he’ll be leveraging his design expertise as part of an effort to overhaul the government’s notoriously slow, paper-heavy retirement […]

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Fyre Festival 2 is coming, and it already sounds bananas (and not in a good way)

24 February 2025 at 21:06

Party promoter Billy McFarland is back with Fyre Festival 2. Scheduled to take place in Isla Mujeres, Mexico from May 30 to June 2, tickets just went on sale, ranging from $1,400 to a truly brazen $1.1 million β€” even though no artists have been confirmed, and McFarland himself isn’t sure if he can legally […]

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Holmes and Balwani’s appeal falls flat as court upholds fraud convictions

24 February 2025 at 14:01

Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh β€œSunny” Balwani’s appeal to overturn their fraud convictions and reduce their prison sentences was denied Monday by the Northern District Court of California, which also refused to soften their $452 million joint restitution order. Holmes, the founder of Theranos, and Balwani, its former COO, were convicted in separate trials in 2022 […]

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The lesson of Larry Ellison’s misadventures in farming

23 February 2025 at 21:17

Larry Ellison’s leap into farming with his company, Sensei Farms, serves up a classic reminder: being a genius in one arena doesn’t mean success in another. As the WSJ reports, the Oracle co-founder set out to reinvent agriculture on Hawaii’s Lāna’i Island, which he scooped up for $300 million back in 2012. Eight years and […]

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The pain of discontinued items, and the thrill of finding them online

22 February 2025 at 12:02

We’ve all been there. A favorite item is suddenly unavailable for purchase. Couldn’t the manufacturer have given you advance warning? Whether owing to low sales, changing habits, production costs, or even because something is a little wrong with your favorite product (shh), discontinued items are part of life. In a weekend piece, the New York […]

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Nextdoor’s Nirav Tolia thinks he can turn things around with AI; he has a lot riding on it

17 February 2025 at 14:11

Social media is often about scale, but Nextdoor bet long ago on something different: that it could grow a big business off smaller, local communities. For years, the plan worked. The 15-year-old company has long been a dominant platform for neighborhood-based conversations, connecting users for everything from lost pet alerts to local business recommendations. Then […]

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Can sim drivers make the shift to F1? Max Verstappen thinks so

16 February 2025 at 16:43

Motorsports have long been a pay-to-play arena, with young drivers spending thousands of dollars just to get started in karting. Four-time Formula One champion Max Verstappen knows this all too well, but he also sees a way to change it through sim racing, a virtual form of car racing that closely replicates real-world racing. It’s […]

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Death of OpenAI whistleblower deemed suicide in new autopsy report

15 February 2025 at 21:11

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday, the city’s medical examiner ruled his death a suicide, countering suspicions by his family that had fueled widespread speculation online. Balaji made headlines in October when he accused OpenAI of illegally using copyrighted material to train […]

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xAI’s β€œColossus” supercomputer raises health questions in Memphis

15 February 2025 at 10:53

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI plans to continue using 15 gas turbines to power its β€œColossus” supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, according to an operating permit with the Shelby County Health Department for non-stop turbine use from June 2025 to June 2030. Why does it matter? The Commercial Appeal, a news outlet that obtained the documents, […]

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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng receives a hero’s welcome back home

2 February 2025 at 19:19

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng is being hailed as a hero in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where he grew up and reportedly returned for the Lunar New Year, joined by bodyguards. Wenfeng β€” who, at 40, is already a billionaire due to his hedge fund, High-Flyer β€” is apparently even more beloved by locals […]

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Dub: The copy trading app that has teens talking

2 February 2025 at 10:00

Social media changed everything, from news consumption to shopping. Now, Dub thinks it can do the same for investing through an influencer-driven marketplace where users can follow the trades of top investors with a few taps. Think of it as TikTok meets Wall Street. Founded by 23-year-old Steven Wang β€” a Harvard dropout who began […]

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Real estate firms pivot to energy development amid booming data center demand

25 January 2025 at 16:33

Brendan Wallace has a lot on his mind lately. Wallace is the co-founder of Fifth Wall Ventures, a 9-year-old proptech venture firm with $3.2 billion in assets under management. He’s also a homeowner in L.A., which continues to battle raging wildfires. While his place remains intact, many of his friends haven’t been so lucky.Β  Wallace […]

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