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The Boring Company’s Las Vegas loop is attracting riders, and trespassers

The Boring Company’s 2.4-mile underground Loop in Las Vegas is proving anything but boring for management, with at least 67 trespassing occurrences since 2022, according to a deep dive by Fortune.   Designed for Tesla models to shuttle passengers underneath the … Continue reading

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X is cleared to go back online in Brazil

Brazil’s Supreme Court said on Tuesday that Elon Musk’s X could return online in the country, marking the end to a months-long battle between the social media platform and Brazilian officials. Addressing the reasons that X was banned in the … Continue reading

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Fei-Fei Li picks Google Cloud, where she led AI, as World Labs’ main compute provider

Cloud providers are chasing after AI unicorns, and the latest is Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs. The startup just tapped Google Cloud as its primary compute provider to train AI models, a deal that could be worth hundreds of millions of … Continue reading

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The White House joins Reddit and shares hurricane information

VP Kamala Harris is on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, FEMA has a page dedicated to fighting the rumors circulating on social media about the hurricanes, and now the White House is on Reddit. It’s clear that the traditional means … Continue reading

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Tesla Robotaxi reveal: What to expect

Tesla is gearing up to reveal its Robotaxi this Thursday, and everyone wants to know what it will look like, whether Tesla will unveil a commercialization strategy, and what outrageous timelines Elon Musk might announce to bump Tesla’s stock.  The … Continue reading

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AI mortgage startup LoanSnap loses license to operate in Connecticut

The revocation comes after TechCrunch’s exclusive reporting on how LoanSnap was inundated with lawsuits. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Fourteen AGs sue TikTok, claiming that it harms children’s mental health

Fourteen U.S. attorneys general sued TikTok on Tuesday, alleging that the platform negatively impacts minors’ mental health and harvests data without their consent. TikTok, a U.S. company owned by the Chinese conglomerate ByteDance, is embroiled in a number of lawsuits … Continue reading

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North American robotics sales declined in first half of 2024

Even a category as hot as robotics is not immune from macroeconomic trends. According to figures from automation advocacy group, A3, the North American robotics market declined in the first half of 2024, both in terms of sales and revenue. … Continue reading

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Code in Meta’s Threads app references a communities feature, similar to Elon Musk’s X

Meta’s take on a Twitter/X rival, Instagram Threads, may be inching further into its competitor’s territory with the development of a communities feature that would presumably allow users to better organize their discussions on the platform by topics. At least … Continue reading

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Former Google Maps team members get Sequoia backing to build out an AI-powered collaboration board

When you talk to a chatbot like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, your responses are largely linear. You often have to ask follow-up questions to get more information. For instance, when you are planning a trip, you might first ask the … Continue reading

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