Lucid Motors names new CEO, lands more money from Uber and Saudis

The search for a new CEO, which lasted over a year following the sudden resignation of Peter Rawlinson, is finally over.

Inertia moves to commercialize one of the world’s most elaborate science experiments

Inertia has signed three agreements with the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, paving the way for the company to bring its pioneering fusion reactor to market.

Slate Auto: Everything you need to know about the Bezos-backed EV startup

Slate auto burst onto the scene in April 2025. Here is a timeline that covers its origins, backers, product, and other new details.

At the HumanX conference, everyone was talking about Claude

Anthropic was the star of the show at San Francisco’s AI-centric conference.

TechCrunch Mobility: Who is poaching all the self-driving vehicle talent?

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.  

From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts

X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier

Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model

The report is particularly surprising since the Department of Defense recently declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk.

Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses

These glasses are a step back from an ambitious plan that once called for Apple to launch a variety of mixed and augmented reality devices.

The largest orbital compute cluster is open for business

Kepler Communications is flying 40 GPUs in Earth orbit. And its latest customer is Sophia Space.