Sources: Thinking Machines lacks a clear product or business strategy and has been struggling over the past couple of months to raise a new round of financing
More Thinking Machines employees are in talks to join OpenAI. Also: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on ACCESS and the Sources Live @ Davos lineup.
Rivian launches Universal Hands-Free driving for second-generation R1 EVs, expanding coverage from 135,000 highway miles to 3.5M+ miles across the US and Canada
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Q&A with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe on founding Rivian in 2009, production challenges, the VW partnership, autonomy, AI, EVs, chips, CarPlay, and more
Today's Stratechery Interview is with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe. Last week Rivian held their Autonomy and AI Day …
Rivian spins off Mind Robotics as a new stand-alone industrial AI and robotics company; Mind Robotics raised a $115M seed led by Eclipse
Rivian has created its second spinoff company this year: an industrial AI and robotics venture called Mind Robotics.
VW revives its struggling software unit Cariad after a “complete reset” of its strategy, including partnerships with Xpeng in China and Rivian in the US
Carmaker hails ‘massive transformation’ in software unit as it seeks to take on Tesla and Chinese EV rivals
Rivian and VW finalize a software development joint venture; VW has invested $1B of its planned up to $5.8B by 2027 in the JV designed to be a 50-50 partnership
To celebrate its recent coupling, Volkswagen … João da Silva / BBC : VW launches $5.8bn tie-up with Tesla rival Rivian Edwin Lopez / Automotive Dive : Volkswagen, Rivian launch their $5.8B joint ventu...
Analysts say some arguments in the DOJ's lawsuit may favor Apple, as a judge ruled that Apple doesn't violate antitrust laws when Epic made similar claims
Here's Why Kristijan Lucic / Android Headlines : The DOJ lawsuit “threatens who we are”, Apple says Investing.com : Apple shares maintain neutral rating amid DOJ antitrust lawsuit Research Live : Appl...
Sources: DJ Novotney, an Apple VP of hardware engineering who led work on home devices and helped start Apple's electric vehicle project, is leaving for Rivian
- DJ Novotney, VP of hardware, helped start Apple's car project — Apple has seen multiple senior leaders leave in recent months
Amazon now has 10,000 Rivian electric delivery vehicles in the US and Europe, up from 5,000 in July 2023; Amazon aims to have 100K+ Rivian vans by 2030
and a sliding door fit for Star Trek About Amazon : Everything you need to know about Amazon's electric delivery vans from Rivian Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch : Amazon's fleet of Rivian-made electric ...
Amazon Q4: revenue up 9% YoY to $149.2B, net income down 98% YoY to $278M, AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $21.4B, and employees down 4% to 1.54M; stock is down 5%+
Up 28% from 2021 Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Amazon Revenues Up 9 Percent to $149.2 Billion in Q4 Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Amazon reports content spending up 28% YoY to $16.6B in 2022, of...