Amazon, the multi-trillion dollar e-commerce monolith, seemingly cheaped out on on a key feature installed on its six-propeller delivery drones. Predictably, this backfired almost immediately. On a (lightly) rainy December day at the company’s testing range in Oregon, not one but two Prime Air drones suddenly stopped spinning their propellers mid-flight and plummeted some 200… Continue reading Amazon’s Delivery Drones Are Crashing, and We Finally Know Why
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AI Is Helping Job Seekers Lie, Flood the Market, and Steal Jobs
And nobody knows what to do about it, either. Oodles of Experience The advent of generative AI has fundamentally altered the job application process. Both recruiters and applicants are making heavy use of the tech, making an already soul-sucking and tedious process even worse. And as TechRadar reports, applicants are going to extreme lengths to… Continue reading AI Is Helping Job Seekers Lie, Flood the Market, and Steal Jobs
Anthropic Tried to Defend Itself With AI and It Backfired Horribly
The advent of AI has already made a splash in the legal world, to say the least. In the past few months, we’ve watched as a tech entrepreneur gave testimony through an AI avatar, trial lawyers filed a massive brief riddled with AI hallucinations, and the MyPillow guy tried to exonerate himself in front of… Continue reading Anthropic Tried to Defend Itself With AI and It Backfired Horribly
Meta faces Democratic probe into plans to power a giant data center with gas
New gas plants could be built to power the company’s largest data center yet. New gas plants could be built to power the company’s largest data center yet. Meta’s building a new AI data center so massive in Louisiana that the local utility company has plans to construct three new gas-fired power plants to provide… Continue reading Meta faces Democratic probe into plans to power a giant data center with gas
Arc’s new 24-foot electric boat is its cheapest yet
Electric boat startup Arc has a new model that is its cheapest and most approachable watercraft yet. The new boat is called the Arc Coast, and it will start at $168,000. The company is taking preorders now and says the Coast will ship in 2026. The Coast is what’s known as a “center console” boat,… Continue reading Arc’s new 24-foot electric boat is its cheapest yet
TechCrunch Mobility: Google’s Gemini is coming to your car, chaos comes for Luminar, and the Amazonification of Uber 2.0
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! OK, who placed their bet on General Motors being the landing spot for Aurora co-founder and chief product officer Sterling Anderson? Not me. But here we are.… Continue reading TechCrunch Mobility: Google’s Gemini is coming to your car, chaos comes for Luminar, and the Amazonification of Uber 2.0
Tesla’s robotaxi fleet will be powered by ‘plenty of teleoperation’
Tesla’s Austin robotaxi fleet will be powered by ‘plenty of teleoperation’ as it “can’t screw up”, according to a new report from Morgan Stanley after meeting with Tesla. You won’t hear anything negative about Tesla from Morgan Stanley very often. Morgan Stanley’s Tesla analyst, Adam Jonas, has often been described as a ‘Tesla cheerleader’ on… Continue reading Tesla’s robotaxi fleet will be powered by ‘plenty of teleoperation’
Elon Musk hires another Tesla board member to cash checks and let him destroy the brand
Tesla has hired a new board member with no automotive background, but that’s not a problem as the main responsibility of Tesla’s board members these days is to sell stocks and let Elon Musk destroy the brand. Tesla announced today that Jack Hartung, better known for being a long-time top executive of Chipotle, the Mexican… Continue reading Elon Musk hires another Tesla board member to cash checks and let him destroy the brand
This Robotic Centipede Crawls Farms to Kill Weeds — and Might Join the Military
Just keep them far away from us. Creepy Robo Crawlers Engineers have developed a giant robotic centipede that can scuttle across farmland to root out weeds. As IEEE Spectrum reports, Georgia Tech spinoff Ground Control Robotics has created a bio-inspired centipede that uses sensors and plenty of motor-actuated limbs to control weeds. “Centipede robots, like… Continue reading This Robotic Centipede Crawls Farms to Kill Weeds — and Might Join the Military
Grok AI Went Off the Rails After Someone Tampered With Its Code, xAI Says
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is blaming its multibillion-dollar chatbot’s inexplicable meltdown into rants about “white genocide” on an “unauthorized modification” to Grok’s code. On Wednesday, Grok completely lost its marbles and began responding to any and all posts on X-formerly-Twitter – MLB highlights, HBO Max name updates, political content, adorable TikTok videos of piglets… Continue reading Grok AI Went Off the Rails After Someone Tampered With Its Code, xAI Says