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…

Waymo is scaling fast: Here’s what the fleet data shows |

Waymo’s commercial robotaxi ramp-up looks expansive, both in geographic reach and in ridership. And by almost every measure, it is — until you pay attention…

Mobility: How do we know when an AV is safe enough? |

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

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI |

Four years ago, a startup lab launched that wasn’t quite an incubator, accelerator program, or venture firm. UP.Labs, as it was called then, built startups…