Lidar manufacturer Luminar says that founder and CEO Austin Russell resigned following an ethics inquiry and appoints former Nuance CEO Paul Ricci as its CEO
The board put out a press release announcing the move at the same the company released Q1 earnings which had a glowing quote from Russell 🤔 — techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/b... Kirsten Korosec / @kirste...
GM names Aurora co-founder and CPO Sterling Anderson as its VP of Global Product and its Chief Product Officer, a newly created position, starting on June 2
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Self-driving software startup Ghost Autonomy, formerly Ghost Locomotion, shuts down, after raising ~$220M, and just five months after partnering with OpenAI
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Waymo plans to slow the development of autonomous trucking as the company moves its focus and investment to ride-hailing
At Waymo, we're developing a generalizable, fully autonomous Driver … Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch : Waymo puts the brakes on self-driving trucks program Bhushan Akolkar / Coinspeaker : Alphabet-owned...
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro will lay off 30% of its workforce, or ~340 people, as part of a restructuring; Nuro laid off 20% of its staff in November 2022
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Larry Page's flying car startup Kittyhawk says it will “wind down” and is “working on the details of what's next”; Kittyhawk was founded as Zee.Aero in 2010
Larry Page's air taxi startup — is shutting down Umar Shakir / The Verge : Larry Page's flying car startup Kitty Hawk is shutting down Kyle Barr / Gizmodo : Air Taxi Company Kittyhawk Calls It Quits K...
Anthony Levandowski closed his AI-focused church, Way of The Future, in 2020 and donated the church's ~$175K funds to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
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Amazon has canceled re:MARS 2020, its annual AI event scheduled for June 16 to 19 in Las Vegas
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Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun lays out the company's challenges in an internal email, says it still isn't profitable even after generating $90M in revenue in 2018
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Waymo CTO talks about the early days of Google's self-driving project, its 10th anniversary, Waymo's plans to expand commercially beyond ride-hailing, more
A decade ago, about a dozen or so engineers gathered at Google's main Mountain View campus on Charleston Road to work on Project Chauffeur … Tweets: @maxbraun and @kirstenkorosec Tweets: Max Braun / @...