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Austin Russell is on quite a run. The 28-year-old founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies, which develops vision-based lidar and machine perception technologies primarily for self-driving cars, told the Wall Street Journal earlier today that he is buying an 82% … Continue reading →

In case you haven’t heard, you — yes you, TechCrunch readers — have a voice and a vote in the programming at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, taking place September 19–21 in San Francisco. Audience Choice voting is open now through May … Continue reading →

The rumors are true: Elon Musk has chosen NBCU leader Linda Yaccarino as the next CEO of Twitter. Musk confirmed Yaccarino’s new role in a tweet this morning, a day after he announced that he had completed his search for … Continue reading →

Michael Beckley Contributor Share on Twitter Michael Beckley is a co-founder and CTO of Appian, where he drives the technical vision for the company, leads product and solutions marketing teams, and oversees customer initiatives. When the economy is tight, financial … Continue reading →

How far has the psychedelics medicines industry come over the past 12 months? Well, it depends on where you look. If you look at the stock market, the view isn’t very good: the charts are all down and in the … Continue reading →

Autonomous delivery robot startup Nuro will lay off 30%, or about 340 employees, across the company as part of a restructuring meant to extend its capital runway. Earlier this week, Nuro co-founders Dave Ferguson and Jiajun Zhu explained in a … Continue reading →

News from Google’s AI-soaked developer event this week makes it plain that we’re on the cusp of a new era of search. Following Microsoft’s moulding of OpenAI’s tech into Bing, Google is experimenting with its own AI tech and opening … Continue reading →

Reminder: Today is the deadline for the Meta’s lead privacy regulator in Europe to adopt a final decision on a nearly decade-long complaint against Facebook’s transfers of personal data from the EU to the US that could see the company … Continue reading →

Hackers have installed password-stealing malware on the devices of multiple Worldcoin Orb operators, TechCrunch has learned, giving them full access to the Worldcoin operator dashboard. Worldcoin, founded by Sam Altman, says it is creating a “collectively owned global currency that … Continue reading →

Sweden-based VC fund Pale Blue Dot bounced onto the scene in 2020 with a €53 million fund to help climate-focused startups. This fund grew again by €34 million in April 2021, and after deploying investments into 28 climate-forward companies, the … Continue reading →