This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes |

Nearly two decades ago, a young college student wrote his final thesis about software capable of generating design documents for school buildings. Al Dram was…

Amazon drops data center NDAs, and AI agents want your credit card

Amazon says it willstop using NDAswhen negotiating data center deals with local governments, followingasimilar move from Microsoftearlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against…

Mobility: Reining in robotaxis |

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobilityyour hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get…

Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying it

This week, the White House gotnearly everymajor tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them —to sign an…

Robotaxi operators will face fines for blocking first responders |

Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology companies like Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox will have to provide first responders with local, on-the-ground support when their robotaxis cause problems…

Lyft is paying $272.5M to settle lawsuit over how it classified drivers |

Lyft has agreed to pay $272.5 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the ride-hailing company of violating California law by misclassifying drivers as independent contractors,…

This startup wants to turn idle car inventory into rental revenue |

When Igor Dobrianskyi looks at a car dealership lot, he sees a wasted opportunity. “Millions and millions of used cars are sitting on parking lots,…

A Neko Health investor on the $700M bet to scan your whole body

Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Healthraised $700 millionto build a business around scanning your body, butit’snot the only company centering its roadmap around a new…

Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents |

As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia…

Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn't as far-fetched as it sounds |

Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora told investors last week that it expects to have more than 30,000 self-driving trucks on the road generating $5 billion…