San Francisco presses CPUC to halt Waymo, Cruise robotaxi expansions Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 2023084 views California regulators gave Waymo and Cruise the OK last week to scale up their robotaxi services in San Francisco, but now it seems the city itself won’t have it. On… Read more
Ford aims to secure battery material supply with new Canada facility Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230133 views Ford is partnering with South Korean battery manufacturers SK On and EcoPro BM to build a cathode manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada. The CAD $1.2 billion (USD $890 million) joint… Read more
Back to school: The best apps for students Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230590 views Summer is coming to an end, which means students will (hopefully) be in air-conditioned classrooms and away from this unrelenting heat wave. It also means that they’re probably on the… Read more
6 fintech investors sound off on AI, down rounds and what’s ahead Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230103 views At the height of the funding boom in 2021, no single sector enjoyed as much VC money as fintech startups did. But in 2023, it appears that fintech companies have… Read more
Moemate’s AI avatar analyzes your whole screen, with spotty but intriguing results Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230113 views As evidenced by the slow death of Cortana, it’s clear that the AI assistants of yesteryear aren’t meeting expectations. And so they’re being remade. Amazon is building a new large… Read more
Bitcoin spot ETFs heat up, SBF’s bail revoked and web3 gaming adoption grows in Asia Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230108 views Welcome back to Chain Reaction. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. The… Read more
@Jack (Dorsey) quits Instagram, putting the first-name handle up for grabs Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230102 views The @jack handle on Instagram is back up for grabs. Today, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, now Block CEO, announced he has deleted his Instagram account — the… Read more
Cruise and Waymo see a surge in robotaxi app downloads Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230101 views Consumer interest in Cruise and Waymo’s competing robotaxi services surged following a vote last week by the California Public Utilities Commission that allowed the two companies to expand and charge… Read more
Tumblr is rolling out a new web interface, and it looks a lot like X (formerly Twitter) Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 20230107 views Tumblr is officially rolling out a new look for its web browser after testing it with select users over the past month. The new navigation interface looks a lot like… Read more
Fifteen years in and still early to the industry with Marco Zappacosta from Thumbtack Clarissa MohamedAugust 17, 2023087 views Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Marco Zappacosta, the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, a startup… Read more