Lyft's Flexdrive subsidiary will open an 80,000-square-foot vehicle cleaning and maintenance depot in Nashville in October to service Waymo robotaxis, employing about 70 full-time workers, about half …
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…
Uber Technologies Inc.'s average US fares rose 83% from 2018 to 2022, nearly four times the annual rate of inflation, according to Business Insider, which found that identical UberX ride requests at t…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley, facing backlash over the company's 120,000 license plate reading cameras across 49 states, said in a Bloomberg interview that 'we're not Big Brother' and announced pl…
Travis Kalanick, co-founder of Uber, ended his eight-year public silence at the launch event of his new company Atoms, where he discussed his belief that industrial AI will automate food production, m…
Flock, the controversial surveillance company, pitched a plan to turn Uber and Lyft drivers into a network of roaming surveillance vehicles by using their dashcams to scan license plates, according to…
Chinese autonomous vehicle companies WeRide, Baidu, and Pony.ai are expanding into Europe through partnerships with local operators, targeting public robotaxi services by 2027. WeRide partnered with D…
Flock Safety pitched a plan to use 350,000 rideshare and delivery dashcams to scan license plates, according to a report from 404 Media. The proposal, which would involve Uber and Lyft drivers, aims t…
During a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Republicans and Democrats agreed that surveillance pricing—companies using personal data to adjust prices—is harmful, but no consensus emer…
Lyft is hiring a Data Scientist for its Safety and Customer Care team in Toronto, Canada, to apply causal inference and machine learning to optimize AI-powered support interactions, which handle over …
Flyte 2, the durable AI runtime from the Linux Foundation, is now generally available, offering a ground-up rebuild that is faster, more scalable, and supports durable distributed AI workflows using r…
AI agents are killing the App Store model by bypassing visual interfaces and communicating directly with databases via APIs, eliminating the need for individual apps. This shift disintermediates Apple…
At LangChain Interrupt 2026, Rippling engineers shared four principles for shipping AI agents at scale: keep agents flat, build generic composable tools, pass code into LLM context instead of data, an…
Daniel, a product owner with 20+ years of experience, launched ApplyAssists, an AI resume builder based on the Google XYZ formula, after using the method to land a job in 3 weeks. The tool, currently …
Bloomy, an AI tutor and curriculum for K-12 students that has doubled ARR every two weeks since June, is hiring a founding engineer. The YC S26 startup's student users learn approximately 2x faster in…
Kimi's cost per AI token is cheaper than Anthropic's, but it is 10 months behind in development, according to DVx Ventures CEO and VistaShares co-founder Jon McNeill, who previously served as Tesla pr…
Netflix Chief Product and Technology Officer Elizabeth Stone said systems thinking is now the most important skill she looks for and that AI fluency is becoming a universal expectation across roles, n…
Coinbase, Lyft, and Axon are making strategic moves beyond the AI-driven 'Magnificent Seven' stocks, with Lyft expanding into robotaxis and Axon developing advanced Taser technology, highlighting broa…
SpaceX's IPO has sparked envy among Blue Origin employees, who feel their stock options were essentially worthless under the company's old equity plan. Meanwhile, OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing fo…
A Consumer Reports investigation found that Uber and Lyft charge different customers significantly different prices for the same rides, with median price differences of about 50%. The investigation al…