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Lyft ‘opens a can of whoop ass’ on surge pricing, Tesla’s Dojo explained and Saudi Arabia pumps $1.5B into Lucid

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! Anyone paying even a little bit of attention to Tesla has probably heard about Dojo. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has referenced Dojo repeatedly over the years, oftentimes

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Elon Musk’s X agrees to pause EU data processing for training Grok

Elon Musk has agreed to stop turning Europeans’ X posts into AI training fodder for his Grok chatbot — for now. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), which leads on privacy oversight of X under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), announced the development in a press release Thursday, saying it welcomed the social media

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As X sues advertisers over boycott, the app ditches all ads from its top subscription tier

Days after Elon Musk’s X announced it was suing an ad industry group over an alleged boycott of its service, the company is ditching ads entirely from its top subscription tier. On Wednesday evening, the X account announced that its Premium+ subscription would now be “fully” ad-free, leading some to question how this change would

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Secretaries of state urge X to stop its Grok chatbot from spreading election misinformation

Grok, not to be confused with the homophonic AI startup Groq that this morning raised over $600 million, spread false information about Vice President Kamala Harris on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. That’s according to an open letter penned by five secretaries of state and addressed to Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO

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Tesla Dojo: Elon Musk’s big plan to build an AI supercomputer, explained

For years, Elon Musk has talked about Dojo — the AI supercomputer that will be the cornerstone of Tesla’s AI ambitions. It’s important enough to Musk that he recently said the company’s AI team is going to “double down” on Dojo as Tesla gears up to reveal its robotaxi in October.  But what exactly is

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Alphabet pours $5B into Waymo, Cruise scraps the Origin and Elon’s bet on autonomy

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! I don’t know about you, but for me, the past few days have offered up even more evidence that our world is vulnerable to software bugs. Yep,

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Elon Musk sets new date for Tesla robotaxi reveal, calls everything beyond autonomy ‘noise’

Elon Musk says he will show off Tesla’s purpose-built “robotaxi” prototype during an event October 10, after scrapping a previous plan to reveal it August 8. Musk said Tesla will also show off “a couple of other things,” but didn’t explain what that meant. The comments, made on Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call Tuesday, largely confirms

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Elon Musk sets new October 10 date for ‘robotaxi’ reveal and ‘other things’

Elon Musk says he will show off Tesla’s purpose-built “robotaxi” prototype during an event October 10, after scrapping a previously-planned reveal on August 8 earlier this month. Musk said Tesla will also show off “a couple of other things,” but didn’t explain what that meant. The comments, made on Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call Tuesday, largely

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