Rivian goes big on autonomy, with custom silicon, lidar, and a hint at robotaxis |

Rivian detailed Thursday how it plans to make its electric vehicles increasingly autonomous — an ambitious effort that includes new hardware, including lidar and custom…

The market has 'switched' and founders have the power now, VCs say |

12:07 PM PST · December 11, 2025 The way venture capitalists think about fundraising can bea black box.But investors must think about their go-to-market strategy…

1X struck a deal to send its 'home' humanoids to factories and warehouses |

2:03 PM PST · December 11, 2025 Robotics company 1X found some big potential buyers for its humanoid robots designed for consumers — the portfolio…

Disney hits Google with cease-and-desist claiming 'massive' copyright infringement |

In Brief Posted: 10:53 AM PST · December 11, 2025 Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to Google on Wednesday, alleging that the tech giant has…

Epic Games' Fortnite is back in US Google Play Store, as court partially reverses restrictions it won on iOS |

11:45 AM PST · December 11, 2025 Epic Games’ popular battle royale, Fortnite, has returned to the U.S. Google Play Store following a court order.…

OpenAI fires back at Google with GPT-5.2 after ‘code red’ memo |

OpenAI launched its latest frontier model, GPT-5.2, on Thursday amid increasing competition from Google, pitching it as its most advanced model yet and one designed…

Google debuts 'Disco,' a Gemini-powered tool for making web apps from browser tabs |

10:00 AM PST · December 11, 2025 Google on Thursday introduced a new AI experiment for the web browser: the Gemini-powered product Disco, which helps…

Google's AI try-on feature for clothes now works with just a selfie |

10:09 AM PST · December 11, 2025 Google is updating its AI try-on feature to let you virtually try on clothes using just a selfie,…

Rivian’s AI assistant is coming to its EVs in early 2026  |

Rivian’s two-year effort to build its own AI assistantwill launch in early 2026. And when it does, the AI assistant will roll out to every…

Runway releases its first world model, adds native audio to latest video model |

The race to release world models is on as AI image and video generation company Runway joins an increasing number of startups and Big Tech…