Exa co-founder Will Bryk announced on August 22 that Jeff Pinner, former CTO of Robinhood and Lyft, has been appointed as Exa's chief technology officer. Pinner, who was separated from Robinhood's CTO…
Katie Husher, a former software engineer at Cruise who wrote code for autonomous vehicles, left her job in 2023 to become cellar master at Fogarty Winery in Woodside, California, where she now manages…
Applied Intuition is launching Dana, an agentic platform for developing physical AI applications, as co-founder and CEO Qasar Younis describes the company's mission as intelligence on a billion machin…
Salahodeen Abdul-Kafi left his $450,000 tech job at companies including Microsoft and Google to open Kafi BBQ, a halal barbecue restaurant in Irving, Texas. The restaurant generated over $2 million in…
A writer draws parallels between Fullmetal Alchemist and AI development, arguing that current AI demoralizes without surpassing humans, and that the real problem is the technology itself, not hype. Th…
Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers, raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, led by Natural Capital with participation from Amazon,…
General Motors shut down its Cruise robotaxi division but plans to re-enter the robotaxi race by developing autonomous driving technology for personal cars that can later be applied to ride-hailing se…
Tesla has built an AI system that combines supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning into a single architecture that improves every time a customer drives, according to an analysis of the c…