A Tesla Robotaxi operating without a safety monitor drove through a row of bollards in Austin, Texas, on Monday, less than a month after Tesla's head of AI claimed the program had an 'impeccable safet…
Tesla Inc. targets late August for staff-only rides of its autonomous Cybercab on public roads in Austin, Texas, before a wider Robotaxi fleet rollout, according to people with direct knowledge. The c…
Waymo received final approval from the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Department of Motor Vehicles to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service to the entire Bay Area, Sacr…
In an AMA recap, the authors of Observability Engineering's second edition—Charity, Liz, George, and Austin—answered additional questions on telemetry, AI, and human-in-the-loop processes. Charity adv…
Waymo is adding Google's Gemini AI assistant to its Ojai robotaxi for the first time, alongside a major redesign of the in-car screen interface, as the company prepares to open the purpose-built vehic…
Elon Musk told The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes that artificial intelligences will be in charge of the world by 2036 and that money will not matter in 20 years, predicting AI will ex…
SpaceX and xAI are building an 11-million-square-foot satellite factory in Bastrop, Texas, called Gigasat, to produce orbital data centers for AI computing, targeting 1 gigawatt of annual orbital AI c…
Tesla has expanded its Robotaxi program in Florida to include Tampa and Orlando, joining Miami as the third city in the state to offer unsupervised autonomous rides without safety drivers, as confirme…
The Bay Area captured 51.5% of all AI venture dollars and 53.2% of all B2B dollars from July 2025 through June 2026, according to Carta's Startup Ecosystem Leaderboard, which tracked $124 billion inve…
Tesla confirmed its Miami Robotaxi fleet operates without human supervision, relying solely on Full Self-Driving technology. The service launched on June 3 in a 10-14 square mile zone, making Miami th…
9 Mothers (YC P26) is hiring for 9 roles in Austin, TX to build counter-drone systems combining AI perception, kinetic engagement, and kill-chain integration. The startup emphasizes short iteration lo…
Apptronik unveiled Apollo 2, a humanoid robot designed for real-world industrial tasks, alongside the opening of its expanded Robot Park in Austin, Texas. The robot, available in bipedal and wheeled v…
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot facility in Austin called Robot Park to collect teleoperation data from its Apollo 2 humanoid robots for Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics AI models. The company …
A developer who previously advised founders to use AI APIs directly now recommends against it after witnessing a team waste three weeks on signup friction. The developer argues that the AI API landsca…
A mid-sized SaaS company in Austin reduced its junior engineering staff by 40 percent, with no public announcement, as AI tools like Claude Code increasingly automate entry-level coding tasks.…
Oxlo.ai offers request-based pricing for LLM-driven named entity recognition, making it economically viable for long documents. The platform supports structured output via JSON mode and function calli…
Hacker News users reported an advertisement for Gauntlet AI appearing on the site's front page, with the post offering to fly users to Austin, train them in AI, and provide a $200,000+ job. Users expr…
Austin founder Ryan Merket launched Clare, an AI desktop assistant designed to help users overwhelmed by the internet, after observing older family members struggle with phishing scams and complex onl…
The Fay apartment tower in downtown San Jose opened two years ago with fewer than one parking spot for every three units, and the building now sits 60% vacant — a sign that California's 2022 law elimi…
On March 17, 2025, Elon Musk warned during a podcast with US Senator Ted Cruz that America's reliance on Taiwan for advanced AI chip manufacturing poses a critical national security risk if China inva…