Welcome back to Mobility TechCrunchits center for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a role. To get this delivered to your inbox, sign up here for free – just click TechCrunch Mobility! I’m already back from vacation. What did I miss? It turns out that many things, including
In March, Bluesky’s former CEO, Jay Graber, stepped down from that role to become its chief innovation officer. Graber was immediately succeeded by Toni Schneider, the founding CEO of Automattic, which is the company behind WordPress and Tumblr. Schneider, who has led the company as interim CEO for the past four months, will now abandon
China’s state-owned space company successfully launched a Long March orbital rocket and landed the booster on an offshore recovery vessel, becoming the second country to achieve the feat. Friday’s demonstration shows that the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) is prepared to match the breakthrough that catapulted SpaceX to the top: reusing the same
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? After X users hinted that Musk might wake up one day and simply boot the AI lab from SpaceX’s servers as a way to defeat a rival, Musk responded with glowing praise for the AI lab. He said that trick “wasn’t my style.” “I was clearly
In the lead-up to the SpaceX IPO, there were dozens of stories about early employees and investors who could make millions of dollars betting on or working for Elon Musk. But thanks to Musk’s work with DOGE, his public comments about X, and the infamous gesture he made at Donald Trump’s inauguration that looked a
A judge approved a $1.5 million fine imposed on Elon Musk that will settle a lawsuit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission despite having “significant concerns” about it. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan signaled her court would accept the settlement, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, citing her court opinion. Sooknanan’s approval resolves a lawsuit filed by