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Ex-Tesla engineer’s startup taps Pronto to help automate a copper mine

Pronto's autonomous haulage trucks are about to start operating at Mariana Minerals's Utah copper mine -- the first such deal since Pronto got acquired by Travis Kalanick's Atoms I...

Tesla’s Former AI Lead Goes To Anthropic

Andrej Karpathy was Tesla’s AI lead well before AI was everywhere all the time. At the very early part of the AI hype cycle, he was the only AI guy many people knew. He led Tesla’s...

Ex-Google Engineer's Bid To Nix Conviction Nears Partial Win

A California federal judge appeared open Tuesday to partly unwinding a jury's decision to convict a former Google engineer of trade secret theft and economic espionage, saying he's...

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to help launch a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research; he he...

Madison Mills / Axios: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to help launch a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research; he helped found OpenAI and worked at Tesla...

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announces he's joining Anthropic

Andrej Karpathy, the influential 39-year-old Slovak-Canadian AI researcher and one of the original 11 co-founders of OpenAI, and former head of Tesla's AI division, announced on Tu...

Uber commits $10B to AV fleet — while trashing Waymo

Uber commits $10B to AV fleet — while trashing Waymo Christine McLaren Sun, 05/17/2026 - 05:00 Primary Image Uber is committin...

TechCrunch Mobility: Who is poaching all the self-driving vehicle talent?

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.  

Lessons Learned From Prosecution of Google Employee for Theft of Trade Secrets and Espionage

Background of Case - On January 29, 2026, a federal jury in San Francisco convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding on seven counts of economic espionage and seven co...

Andrej Karpathy Joined Anthropic

Andrej Karpathy, on Twitter/X (XCancel link): Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very...

Is Sam Altman the Guy to Lead the AI Revolution?

Dario Amodei Hires OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy in Major Talent Win

Anthropic hires Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder, boosting its bid to rival OpenAI in the fast-moving A.I. talent race.

Here Comes Ojai, Waymo’s New Chinese-Made Robotaxi

The pale-blue Ojai vehicles will start picking up members of the public in California and Arizona today.

Elon Musk, Sam Altman head to court in high-stakes showdown over AI

Technology tycoons Elon Musk and Sam Altman are poised to face off in a high-stakes trial revolving around the alleged betrayal, deceit and unbridled ambition that blurred the bick...

Apptronik’s new CPO hire a major step in right direction

Apptronik taps Waymo veteran Daniel Chu as CPO to lead its $935M transition from humanoid R&D to mass-market commercialization. The post Apptronik’s new CPO hire a major step i...

Waymo to Deploy New Ojai Robotaxi to Expand Public Rides

Dubbed the Ojai, the self-driving vehicle will initially be made available to select riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix. 

Google’s AI architect lived rent-free in Elon Musk’s head

About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, we've heard from some of the most powerful people in tech - including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Elon Musk's fixer Jared Birchall,...

Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies

Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a na...

Elon Musk takes stand in trial vs. Sam Altman that could reshape AI's future

Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO, world's richest man and OpenAI's cofounder, took the stand in a high-stakes trial revolving around a bitter feud between himself and former friends Sam Al...

Why OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Just Joined Its Fiercest Rival 

The famed AI researcher and educator is known for coining the term ‘vibe coding’ and has taken a position at Anthropic.

Musk-Altman Federal Trial in Oakland Could Reshape Global AI Race

Elon Musk's $150 billion lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft went to trial in Oakland on April 27, 2026. The verdict could force the unwinding of OpenA...

Uber CEO says other execs are lying about AI: 'They say it'll be fine' but privately admit millions of jobs are gone

The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic

Pope Leo XIV may not be able to disarm AI, but he’s got the attention of the industry.

xAI Co-Founder Joins Secret Jeff Bezos Project. Here’s What We Know

The tech mogul is poaching to get ahead in the AI-sphere.

Uber turns on Waymo as it pours $10B+ into owning robotaxi alternatives

Uber is publicly trashing its robotaxi partner Waymo while simultaneously investing more than $10 billion to build its own autonomous vehicle fleet with Rivian, Lucid, and Nuro....