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Journalist covering transportation and autonomous vehicle technology for TechCrunch, where she also co-hosts the Equity podcast.
AI chiefs signed Trump's Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities, a pact he calls "morally binding" and TechCrunch calls "deeply non-binding." For teams that buy or build AI, it creates no duty and no protection they can plan around.
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Meta made Muse the centerpiece of Connect, aiming the agent at consumers while OpenAI and Anthropic chase coding and enterprise work. The one hands-on report describes a one-off win. A daily habit would run on sensitive data given to an ad company.
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Mercedes-Benz will build Wayve's Level 2 driving software into at least one model due within two years, with the human still driving. The deal gives the startup more reach through carmakers, but its driverless product still has to prove itself in separate robotaxi work.
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Dario Amodei's proposal to slow frontier development won fast support from rival labs. The parts described so far seat outside evaluators inside the labs and ask the companies to coordinate with one another.
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The safety case for driverless cars is argued in collision counts, and TechCrunch's read of federal injury filings shows the people inside the test fleet paying for it in whiplash and months off work.
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Two partners, two portfolio companies that grew into rivals, and an antitrust statute almost never pointed at VCs. The cost of that theory falls on any firm making several bets in one category.
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