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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Ford plans to repurpose its Kentucky factory manufacturing capacity to launch a battery storage business for data centers, amid its shift from making large EVs
now it's pivoting to hybrids and energy storage X: Erik Grossman / @erikgrossman : Cool to share what I've been working on. Ford is getting into energy storage in a big way Lucas Aulbach / @lucasaulba...
A look at life in online scam compounds run by Chinese gangs on the Myanmar-Thai border, with purported Thai immigration officials luring trafficking victims
Thailand has become a key transit hub for trafficking victims … Bluesky: Adolfo Arranz / @adolfux : Over 185,000 brush strokes went into creating this visual story in “sequential art” format about gan...
Brain Co., co-founded by Jared Kushner, Elad Gil, and others to help enterprises and governments use AI, comes out of stealth with a $30M Series A
Kushner teamed up with prolific solo investor Elad Gil and Luis Videgaray, the former Mexican foreign minister, to launch Brain Co. … Bluesky: @seanokane Bluesky: Sean O'Kane / @seanokane : we're at t...
Sources: plans for X Money, a US payments service integrated into X, have stalled as executives leave and the DFS NY and other state regulators raise concerns
For decades, one of Elon Musk's biggest ambitions has been using technology to disrupt and replace traditional banks and payments processors. X: @amir . Bluesky: @seanokane and @davelee.me X: Amir Efr...
A US jury finds Tesla partially liable for Autopilot's role in a fatal 2019 crash in Florida, and orders the company to pay $243M in damages
Awards $329 Million In Damages Aarian Marshall / Wired : Tesla Found Partly Liable in 2019 Autopilot Death Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget : Tesla found partially liable for a deadly 2019 crash Cassand...
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised $2B led by a16z at a $10B valuation; Murati will hold board voting rights that outweigh all other directors
This former OpenAI CTO has doubled that and retains full voting rights over the board members. @cuibonobaby : “carrying on an undertaking of great advantage but nobody to know what it is”. 😂🤣 Sean O'...
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile
The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Florida man expands crypto empire with new wireless service and phone Joseph Gedeon / The Guar...
Obvio, which uses AI-powered stop sign cameras to detect infractions, raised a $22M Series A led by Bain to expand beyond its first five cities in Maryland
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch : LinkedIn: Sean O'Kane LinkedIn: Sean O'Kane : New from me: Obvio is a startup pushing cameras at stop signs as a way of cutting down reckless driving and pedestrian injurie...
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...