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.
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.”
How do you build tooling for the AI software stack? A company called Modelence has an interesting answer.
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.
Designed to autonomously resolve help desk tickets, Risotto has raised $10 million in seed funding in a round led by Bonfire Ventures.
“We’re on the cusp of a completely new way of shopping,” Gates told TechCrunch.
Uber is not developing its own robotaxis again; instead it plans to collect and offer data. It’s a bet that more volume will help autonomous vehicle partners solve the weirdest edge cases.
SpotDraft now processes over 1 million contracts annually using its AI tool, with contract volumes up 173% year-over-year.
A company called Life Electric Vehicle Holdings has emerged as the top bidder for Rad Power’s assets. It’s not clear what the company plans to do with them, though.