Waymo says California authorized it to operate across the entire Bay Area and Sacramento, and between LA and San Diego, where it plans to expand to in mid-2026
California officials have quietly opened the door to one of the largest geographic expansions of autonomous ride-hailing the state has ever seen.
Fabric8Labs, which uses electrochemical additive manufacturing to create chip-cooling plates for data centers, raised $50M led by NEA and Intel Capital
Fabric8Labs, a San Diego-based electrochemical additive manufacturing startup, raised $50 million led by NEA and Intel Capital, CEO Jeff Herman tells Axios Pro exclusively.
San Diego-based Clearspeed, which offers AI-driven voice-based risk assessment tech for 60+ languages, raised a $60M Series D, taking its total funding to $110M
Voice risk assessment startup Clearspeed Corp. today announced that it has raised $60 million in new funding to scale …
San Diego-based defense startup Shield AI raised $240M from L3Harris, a16z, and others at a $5.3B valuation to develop its Hivemind autonomous vehicle platform
The company is raising $240 million and pushing into software. — Defense startup Shield AI has finalized a deal to raise $240 million … Bluesky: @danielmconnolly Bluesky: @danielmconnolly : Autonomo...
Apple plans to move a San Diego-based Data Operations Annotations team, responsible for improving Siri's accuracy, to Austin; sources say 121 staff are impacted
- Company will relocate key Siri data operations group to Austin — Employees who can't transfer or find other jobs will be let go
Apple is shutting a 121-person San Diego team of the Data Operations Annotations group, responsible for improving Siri's accuracy, and moving staff to Austin
- Company will relocate key Siri data operations group to Austin — Employees who can't transfer or find other jobs will be let go
San Diego-based self-driving trucking company TuSimple plans to shutter its US business, laying off ~150, or 75% of its US staff, and move its business to China
Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal :
San Diego-based edge AI chipmaker Kneron raised a $49M Series B extension, after raising a $48M Series B in October 2022, bringing its total funding to $190M
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Meta's Supplemental Privacy Policy for Threads says that “your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account”, surprising some users
Exactly How Private Is Meta's New Twitter Challenger? NBC 7 San Diego : Meta's Twitter Rival Threads Explodes to 50 Million Signups One Day After Launch Rael Hornby / Laptop Mag : How to delete Twitte...
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
As Twitter has become even less-filtered … Michael Muchmore / PCMag : Hands On With Instagram Threads: Does Meta's Twitter Killer Deliver? John Palmer / Cryptopolitan : Meta's Threads Promises Decentr...