Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies | TechCrunch
Uber has a long-term ambition that goes well beyond shuttling passengers: the company eventually wants…
Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies | TechCrunch
Uber has a long-term ambition that goes well beyond shuttling passengers: the company eventually wants to outfit its human drivers’ cars with sensors to soak up real-world data for autonomous vehicle (AV) companies — and potentially other companies training AI models on physical-world scenarios. Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber’s chief technology officer, revealed the plan in…
Bus plunges into river after trainee driver crash, massive rescue response: reports
A driver in training sent a bus careening into the River Seine near Paris Thursday after hitting a parked car and veering off the road, triggering a massive rescue operation, according to BBC and Reuters. All four people on board were pulled to safety as more than 90 firefighters, divers and emergency crews — along…
Ford recalls over 179,000 Bronco and Ranger vehicles over seat defect
Financial influencer Taylor Price joins ‘Varney & Co.’ to break down how shifting your mindset can help Americans grow wealth and achieve the American Dream. Ford is recalling more than 179,000 vehicles due to a defect with the front seat frame that could increase a person’s risk of injury in a crash, according to the…
Josh Duggar Claimed Family Wanted to ‘Ambush’ Him After Conviction
Josh Duggar reportedly lamented about being judged by family members in an angry text to his mother following his 2021 conviction for receiving and possessing child pornography. “[F]amily members continuing to judge and condemn, saying hurtful things is so hard to deal with,” Josh, 38, wrote to mom Michelle Duggar in a text obtained by…
Pete Alonso rips on traffic, crushes homer against Yankees in return to NYC
For the first time in his MLB career, Pete Alonso rolled into New York City as part of a visiting team. Only, on Friday, he wasn’t headed to his old Citi Field stomping grounds; he was headed to the Bronx as he and his Baltimore Orioles teammates took on the New York Yankees. And, right…
Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell
Amjad Masad has been building Replit for a decade, but the last 18 months have been something else entirely. The AI coding assistant company went from $2.8 million in revenue in all of 2024 to tracking toward what Masad describes as a billion-dollar annual run rate. At TechCrunch’s sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on…
Joe Rogan pans Trump DOJ’s Comey indictment as ‘nuts’
Podcast giant Joe Rogan slammed the Trump Justice Department’s recent indictment of former FBI director James Comey on Friday. “It’s nuts. It’s nuts,” Rogan said on “The Joe Rogan Experience.” The DOJ made waves this week, indicting Comey on two counts in North Carolina, including threatening the President, over his viral Instagram post last year…
Where Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes Stand After Hanging Out in NYC
Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes are “not back together” despite a recent hangout in New York City, multiple sources tell Us Weekly exclusively. “There’s always a feeling of unfinished business with them, and both feel it’s hard to fully close the door on the relationship,” one source explains to Us, noting that there haven’t been…
Coatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, possibly for Anthropic
Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital and hedge funds, has a new plan to generate bigger returns on AI beyond its sizable stakes in Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and data center companies like Singapore’s DayOne and CoreWeave. It has launched a venture called Next Frontier to buy up land near large power sources…
