Tesla offers little information on Robotaxi. Here’s the deeper scoop
After a great deal of hype, Tesla conducted its “We Robot” robotaxi reveal on Thursday Evening at Warner Studios in Los Angeles.
Innovation
First look at Elon Musk’s long-awaited Tesla Cybercab
The billionaire CEO said the new fleet of autonomous vehicles would cost $30,000 and launch before 2027, though Musk has blown by product timelines in the past.
Elon Musk expected to finally unveil driverless ‘Cybercab’ at Tesla robotaxi event
Musk is returning to his old stomping ground of LA to lift the lid on Tesla’s Cybercab. In true Hollywood style, the reveal is happening on the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank.
Robinhood’s billionaire cofounder wants to set up hundreds of solar panels in space
Aetherflux, founded by Baiju Bhatt, plans to build a constellation of satellites that can beam renewable energy to the surface using lasers.
Apple sells privacy to consumers. But it’s quietly helping police use iPhones for surveillance.
At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit, cops from 7 countries learned how to use Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing.
OpenAI seeks dismissal of Elon Musk’s lawsuit—calls it a ‘blusterous’ harassment campaign
OpenAI alleged Musk’s suit was an attempt to gain a competitive advantage for his own artificial intelligence startup, xAI.
Notion and Stripe trust this year-old startup to make sure their AI tools work
Ankur Goyal’s year-old startup is popular with Airtable, Brex, Notion, Stripe and others building AI products. The LLM Ops startup offers evaluations, logging and more.
Australian quantum company sets q-tech funding record with $168 million Series B
Q-CTRL received a further US$59 million (AU$88 million) capital injection, bolstering its latest funding round led by late-stage venture capital firm, GP Bullhound.
Elon Musk’s X loses fight against Australia’s eSafety Commission, forced to pay $610k fine
The Australian Federal Court has ruled that X Corp is obliged to respond to a request addressing the proliferation of child sexual exploitation material on its platform. The Judge has also ordered X to pay eSafety’s legal fees.
Father horrified by an AI Chatbot that mimicked his murdered daughter
Drew Crecente’s daughter was brutally murdered 18 years ago. Someone made a chatbot on unicorn startup Character AI’s platform using her name and yearbook photo.