Waymo says robotaxi service has resumed after making “temporary adjustments” in San Francisco amid a power outage that appears to have affected about 7,000 PG&E customers in the city. According to a screenshot posted on social media, Waymo told SF customers that service was “temporarily paused” and that “highway routes are not available.” When TechCrunch
Chinese company Moonshot AI this week launched a new version of its Kimi model, generating another wave of discourse about China and open source AI. Moonshot said that although the Kimi K3 “still lags behind the most powerful proprietary models, the Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol,” the new open source model “demonstrated frontier-level
You may have heard that the Honda Prologue is officially dead, a decision the company confirmed to TechCrunch, removing the last all-electric vehicle from the automaker’s US portfolio. The Prologue’s departure signals more than just the decline of Honda’s electric vehicles. It also illustrates a broader retreat of the electric vehicle industry from the US
The Justice Department says federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices, according to Reuters. A 2022 law banned federal employees from using the short-form video app on those devices, but the Justice Department reportedly says the law no longer applies, thanks to a deal that transfers ownership of TikTok’s U.S. operations to
Charging is at the forefront of the minds of potential EV buyers. Just over half of those surveyed by AAA last year said public charging infrastructure was a key concern. Those concerns are not unfounded. Historically, EV fast charging has been lackluster. In 2023, after a disastrous road trip, I wrote a “bill of rights”
It’s not just you: AI startups are receiving a lot of seed funding and, in the process, making things difficult for anyone seeking funding, even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders who are now locked into early-stage expectations.