Lucid adopts Tesla’s charging standard
Lucid has reached an agreement that will give owners of its luxury EVs access to Tesla’s network of superchargers — following the path of Ford, GM and the majority of automakers that sell EVs in … Read more
GM halts production of Cruise Origin robotaxi amid suspended operations
Cruise is pausing production of its purpose-built robotaxi, the Origin — the autonomous vehicle company’s latest setback amid suspended operations and increased scrutiny from regulators. Forbes first reported the news, citing audio of Cruise CEO … Read more
Mamaearth makes public debut, youngest Indian unicorn to list
Shares of Honasa Consumer, the parent firm of direct-to-customer beauty and personal care Mamaearth, jumped slightly in a key public listing watched by many Indian startups as they evaluate their own initial public offerings. Mamaearth, … Read more
WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, files for bankruptcy
Flexible-office-space firm WeWork has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a remarkable collapse for the once high-flying startup co-founded by Adam Neumann and bankrolled by SoftBank, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs. The New York-based firm, which … Read more
Why this autonomous vehicle veteran joined a legged robotics startup
Zhang Li‘s career path has looked like a bellwether for China’s tech trends. When the Cisco veteran joined WeRide in 2018, the Chinese autonomous vehicle company was less than a year old. In the next … Read more
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by … Read more
Max Q: Will Starlink IPO?
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Online store exposed millions of Chinese citizen IDs
A security researcher said he discovered millions of Chinese citizen identity numbers spilling online after an e-commerce store left its database exposed to the internet. Viktor Markopoulos, a security researcher working for CloudDefense.ai, said he … Read more
Sources confirm that Salesforce intends to announce new Slack CEO next week
It was a whirlwind kind of day at Salesforce and Slack as the company learned that Slack CEO Lidiane Jones would be leaving at the end of the year to become CEO at dating app … Read more
A choreographer’s lawsuit over Fortnite dance moves isn’t dead after all
A prominent choreographer’s lawsuit against Fortnite maker Epic Games is back on after the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s decision to throw the case out last year. Kyle Hanagami sued … Read more