Elon Musk is lobbying lawmakers on driverless vehicle rules
Musk and others in his orbit have been calling members of Congress directly, according to Bloomberg.
May 2025
Yandex Releases Yambda: The World’s Largest Event Dataset to Accelerate Recommender Systems
Yandex has recently made a significant contribution to the recommender systems community by releasing Yambda, the world’s largest publicly available dataset for recommender system research and development. This dataset is…
Yep, X was down again
People reported that photos weren’t loading, its banking service XMoney wasn’t working, and search wasn’t returning any results, among other things.
TechCrunch Mobility: A ride-sharing pioneer comes for Uber, Tesla loses more ground, and dog-like delivery robots land in Texas
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches
The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk’s DOGE left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray.
It’s not your imagination: AI is speeding up the pace of change
Venture capitalist Mary Meeker just dropped a 340-page report to describe the speed at which AI is being developed, adopted, spent on, and used.
Stanford Researchers Introduced Biomni: A Biomedical AI Agent for Automation Across Diverse Tasks and Data Types
Biomedical research is a rapidly evolving field that seeks to advance human health by uncovering the mechanisms behind diseases, identifying new therapeutic targets, and developing effective treatments. This field encompasses…
Trump administration to claw back $3.7B in clean energy and manufacturing awards
Large corporations and growing startups were wrapped up in the latest move by the Trump administration to undo Biden-era contracts.
Speed Without the Stress: How AI Is Rewriting DevOps
Software development requires new products to be created and delivered at warp speed, with no interruptions in continuous delivery. As the backbone of modern software teams, DevOps answers the call.…
AI Is Changing the Creator Economy – Will Digital Content Lose Human Touch?
It’s no secret that generative AI and autonomous agents are redefining the creator economy. Generative AI can promote divergent thinking, challenge expertise bias, boost the inherent creativity, assist in idea…