TECH

Waymo ramps up robotaxi production at new Arizona factory
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . May 6, 2025
Waymo has played coy for years about exactly how many Jaguar I-Pace EVs are in its autonomous fleet — a

AI chatbots are ‘juicing engagement’ instead of being useful, Instagram co-founder warns
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . May 3, 2025
Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI companies are trying too hard to “juice engagement” by pestering their users with follow-up

Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 30, 2025
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI

The RealReal founder Julie Wainwright has a startling new memoir
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 27, 2025
Julie Wainwright has taken two companies public, a pretty incredible feat by any standard. Yet in her new memoir, Time

IBM affected by DOGE cuts, downplays impact during Q1 earnings call
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 24, 2025
Tech and consulting giant IBM was not immune to the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts. IBM had 15 of

Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 21, 2025
One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company

Defense tech Theseus landed Y Combinator, the US Special Forces, and $4.3M from a tweet
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 18, 2025
On February 18, 2024, Ian Laffey posted on X that he and two others he’d just met built a cheap

RLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for robotics
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 15, 2025
As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than

Forerunner’s long game: As startups stall before IPO, all options are on the table
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 12, 2025
Thirteen years ago, Forerunner Ventures began helping to usher in a new era of consumer startups, including Warby Parker, Bonobos,

A 25-year-old police drone founder just raised $75M led by Index
- By fromermedia@gmail.com
- . April 9, 2025
If you ever call 911 from an area that’s hard to get to, you might hear the buzz of a