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Tesla is testing a robotaxi service that Elon Musk claims will launch next year

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Elon Musk said he hopes to launch a service that will let people hail self-driving Tesla vehicles in California and Texas sometime in 2025 — and claims his company has already been testing the service in the Bay Area with employees. The comments, made Wednesday on Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call, go farther than what Musk […]

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Meta suspends accounts tracking private jets of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other celebrities

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Instagram and Threads accounts that track the private jets of celebrities – including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Kylie Jenner – were suspended on Monday, according to the owner of many such accounts, Florida college student, Jack Sweeney. Links to Instagram/Threads accounts tracking the flights of former President Donald

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Beyond the hype: Why Tesla’s robotaxi future faces regulatory roadblocks

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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! Kirsten is still out doing Kirsten things, so I (Rebecca Bellan) will continue to pass along all the tech mobility news that’s fit to print. It’s been

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From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup

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Earlier this year, Abel founder Daniel Francis was going 135 miles per hour down a highway in Oakland, California. The driver, a police officer, had a gun in his lap.   Francis has made a habit of riding shotgun with policemen in the name of research for his company, which creates AI to fill out police

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Tesla’s bot non-disclosure and why humanoid robots are taking off

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At Tesla’s robotaxi reveal event last week, several Optimus humanoid robots mingled with guests, pouring drinks and cracking jokes. Impressive technology, but the vocals and some of the gesticulations appear to have been remotely controlled by humans, something Tesla did not disclose.  On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan chatted with TechCrunch’s hardware editor Brian

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How Tesla’s plans for ‘unsupervised FSD’ and robotaxis could run into red tape

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During Tesla’s much-hyped robotaxi reveal event last week, CEO Elon Musk said he expects Tesla to release an “unsupervised” version of FSD, the automaker’s advanced driver assistance system, in Texas and California in 2025 on certain Model 3 and Model Y vehicles.  He also said Tesla would begin production on its robotaxis – which are

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Tesla’s We, Robot event shows off Optimus humanoid robot, with a catch

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Elon Musk is once again showing off Optimus: Tesla’s humanoid robot. Debuted in 2021 as a prototype called Tesla Bot, Tesla’s We, Robot event showcased a lot of improvements Musk claims to have been made to Optimus since then. Sources at the event sent TechCrunch videos of the robots mixing drinks, walking around the party,

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Elon Musk unveils the Robovan: the biggest surprise from Tesla’s We, Robot event

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Elon Musk unveiled a prototype of Tesla’s Robovan on Thursday night during the company’s We, Robot event in Los Angeles. The Robovan will be an electric, autonomous vehicle roughly the size of a bus, designed for transporting people around high density areas. It will carry up to 20 people at a time and also transport

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