TechCrunch Mobility: Blue-green is the color of autonomy
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Amazon settles with ex-AWS managers in kickback lawsuit, GeekWire reports
Amazon has settled its lawsuit against two former Amazon Web Services real estate managers it accused of taking kickbacks on data centre deals, GeekWire reported. Amazon told the …
Western Australia seeks refund from Deloitte over flawed AI-aided report
Western Australia’s government is seeking a fast refund from Deloitte over a flawed report on merging three of the state’s universities. The report contained AI-generated referenc…
The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about
We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.
Ukraine says Starlink drone speeds are back above 400 km/h
Ukraine’s Starlink and Starshield links now work for drones flying faster than 400 km/h, Defence Minister Yevhenii Khmara said on Saturday. A speed cap had cut the link for fast-m…
OpenAI checked fired researchers’ phones for Signal chats, WSJ reports
“I was told that there was a breach of trust because I interacted with a third party through unsanctioned channels,” Tomek Korbak said. Korbak is one of three OpenAI safety resear…
US Treasury moves to curb AI, chip and biotech deals in China and Russia
“The proposed regulations would strengthen the existing Outbound Investment Security Program to prevent our adversaries from using U.S. investment to develop critical technologies…
Elon Musk invests about $1bn in David Ellison’s Skydance
“I would not doubt for a minute that before very long you’re going to see an announcement,” cable billionaire John Malone said on Tuesday. Two days later, Semafor reported that El…
DeepSeek and MiniMax cleared to take AI models abroad, state media says
“Since the policy was announced, two leading companies, DeepSeek and MiniMax, have successfully completed the registration process and obtained open-source and overseas licensing …
Trump says Google’s Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean
“No, no, no. This time I’m not doing it… Oceans are different, sir.” That is what Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said when Donald Trump asked him to rename the Atlantic Ocea…
Outside evaluators found ways OpenAI’s agents could slip past its monitor
AI agents at OpenAI could have hidden hundreds of their own actions from the OpenAI monitoring system, outside evaluators found. That exploit was one of several flaws the safety n…
OpenAI cuts its valuation target to $1.25tn as it nears a $30bn round
OpenAI has lowered the valuation it is seeking for its new funding round to $1.25tn, from the $1.4tn it pitched earlier this month. Some investors had pushed back on the higher pr…
Australian court orders Apple to open the iPhone to rival app stores
Fortnite is back on the App Store in Australia, Epic Games said on Friday. That came a day after the Federal Court of Australia ordered Apple to let the game return. G’day, Austra…
Starlink seems to be working normally again in Ukraine
Elon Musk reportedly ordered SpaceX to throttle Ukraine's Starlink access.
Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?
The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber
Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor.
Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max
PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet
Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software sca…
Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 …
These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential
From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative ways to take advantage of Apple's first foldable i…
The Boox Palma 2 Pro finally got me to stop reading on my phone
The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who want to read books, articles, and documents on a small E Ink display.
Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
UK funds £100m AI biosecurity lab with OpenAI and Anthropic
The UK government will put £100m into a new AI Biosecurity Lab, which will use advanced AI to spot and respond to biological threats. OpenAI and Anthropic will add up to £200m bet…