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Luminar sale approved despite last-minute mystery bid

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An unidentified bidder submitted a Hail Mary offer that was “substantially higher” than the winning bid at auction. Founder Austin Russell has been circling a bid, but it’s not clear he was behind it.

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A ‘rogue Waymo’ that crashed into a parked car was being manually driven.

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The Zeekr van was seen on video driving up on an embankment in Echo Park before crashing into several parked cars. Waymo told CBS that its looking into the incident but stressed that the vehicle was being manually driven and was not in autonomous mode. Waymo has yet to deploy its new Zeekr vans in […]

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San Francisco Police Department investigating Zoox collision with a parked car

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The investigation is looking into a January 17 crash where a Zoox robotaxi hit the driver’s side door of a parked car, which Zoox said was “suddenly opened.”

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Plus-one passes are almost gone and only 3 days remain

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The TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 plus-one passes at 50% off are almost sold out, and this deal ends in 3 days. Register here before this deal ends on Friday, January 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

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The conference where founders scale: TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 tickets are now live at the lowest prices

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TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 unites 1,100 founders and investors in Boston on June 23 for a day focused on real-world scaling insights and networking that pushes the needle. Save up to $300 on your ticket.

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Redwood attracts Google for its $425M Series E as AI power needs rise

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Google is the latest investor to back Redwood Materials as the battery recycling startup scales a new energy storage venture to power AI data centers and other industrial sites.

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Self-driving truck startup Waabi is teaming up with Uber on robotaxis

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Waabi, the Toronto-based autonomous trucking startup, is expanding its portfolio to include robotaxis. And it’s bringing Uber along for the ride. Raquel Urtasun, the former chief scientist at Uber’s now defunct Advanced Technologies Group, founded Waabi in 2021 to be a more “AI-centric approach” to autonomous vehicles. That approach initially focused on trucking, with Waabi […]

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Waabi raises $1B and expands into robotaxis with Uber

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Waabi has secured a $750 million Series C round to accelerate autonomous trucking, and another roughly $250 million commitment from Uber to deploy 25,000 robotaxis exclusively on its platform.

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The price gap between Waymo and Uber is narrowing

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Data collected and analyzed by Obi suggest a shift is underway.

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Tesla’s robotaxis are cheaper than Waymo, but the wait times are longer

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Tesla’s robotaxis are not robotaxis in the sense that they’re not fully driverless and still feature safety monitors with access to a kill switch in case anything goes wrong. But the automaker is shaking things up with its approach to pricing, according to a new analysis of the nascent market. Obi, an app that aggregates […]

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