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Lucid Motors' New CEO Cuts 18% of Staff to Streamline Operations
The company is also eliminating a production shift at its Arizona factory to align "production plans with anticipated demand."
WhatsApp Names New Chief, Meta Invests $900M in CRED
WhatsApp gets a new boss, as Will Cathcart moves to a new role at Meta, while Shah steps down as CEO of Indian fintech giant CRED to replace Cathcart.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky to Launch New AI Lab
The Airbnb CEO said last year it hasn't struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren't quite ready.
Carvana Partners with Slate Auto for New Car Sales
Carvana was granted a warrant to buy shares in Slate last year, according to documents obtained by TechCrunch. Guggenheim Partners CEO Mark Walter is heavily invested in both companies.
Mach Industries Valuation Soars to $1.8B with $300M Raise
In a wild ride for 22-year-old founder and CEO Ethan Thornton, Mach Industries has raised another $300 million. It already has five autonomous vehicles in development and completed a major acquisition.
Rivian Sets June 9 for First R2 SUV Deliveries
The company has finally set a date for the first customer deliveries of what CEO RJ Scaringe has said is "maybe the most important thing we’ve launched to date."
Vertu's AI Foldable for CEOs: Luxury and Enterprise Integration
Built on top of the open source Hermes project, Vertu's new foldable combines AI-agent workflows, enterprise integrations, and ultra-premium luxury finishes.
Xreal CEO: Smart Glasses Industry Reaches Turning Point
Chi Xu, the founder and CEO of XREAL, thinks the smart glasses business has finally reached a turning point.
How Lucra Sports Raised $20M in Esports Despite VC AI Focus
Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. And he shared several secrets on how he did it.
Garry Tan's GStack: AI Tools for Productivity and Management
Use Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA
SpaceX IPO Filing: AI Bets, Starship Dreams, and Elon Musk's Vision
SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO ever and one that will make Musk the CEO, CTO, and chairman of the board.
Nvidia CEO Predicts $200B Market for AI CPUs
The next big thing for Nvidia will be CPUs for AI agents, $200 billion worth, CEO Jensen Huang predicts.
Elon Musk vs. OpenAI: Trust in Trial's Final Days
A big theme in the trial’s final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy.
Drew Baglino Launches Heat Pump Startup Sadi Thermal Machines
Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino's second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.
Replit CEO on Cursor Deal, Apple Rivalry, and Future Plans
At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to be acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, is Replit also bound to sell?
Reddit Search Usage Surges 30% Year-Over-Year
The company saw a 30% year-on-year jump in the number of people using search every week, CEO Steve Huffman said on Thursday.
Skio's $105M Exit: AI Fintech Success Story
Subscription billing fintech Skio sold to its competitor Recharge in what was a healthy exit, according to its founder and former CEO.
Former Twitter CEO Launches $100M AI Infrastructure Startup
Former Twitter CEO Sets Sails for $100M AI Infrastructure Initiative In a bold move, the former CEO of Twitter, Bhavin Bunshaw, has unveiled an ambitious projec…
BioticsAI Founder on FDA Approval and Healthcare Challenges
BioticsAI CEO Robhy Bustami joined Isabelle Johannessen on Build Mode to discuss how the company has navigated a highly regulated space and kept the team motivated while cutting through all the red tape.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's Taiwan Dinner Sparks Intrigue
Anthropic's Dario Amodei in Taiwan: A Dinner that Generated Interest In early October 2023, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, made headlines for a dinner in T…
Parallel Web Systems Valued at $2B After $100M Raise
The AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has raised $100 million, led by Sequoia, months after raising a previous $100 million.
Would Retail Investors Trust AI for Institutional-Grade Equity Researc
I'm building a tool that tries to close the gap between how institutions analyze stocks and what's available to regular investors. The idea: you give it a company (or it surfaces one from a screen), and it does the full research cycle, reads the 10-K including the footnotes, reviews earnings call transcripts, evaluates management quality, competitive position, valuation and produces an actual research report with a buy/hold/pass recommendation. Not a signal. A report with reasoning you can read and disagree with. If something changes (earnings miss, CEO leaves, competitor announcement), it flags you and re-evaluates the thesis. Before I build more, I'm trying to understand if this solves a real problem. Three honest questions: 1. What do you actually use today to research and pick individual stocks? 2. What would it take for you to trust an AI's analysis enough to act on it? 3. Would you pay for something like this? If yes, roughly how much per month would feel fair? No landing page, nothing to sign up for. Just trying to learn before I build the wrong thing.
Neurable's Non-Invasive Mind-Reading Tech for Wearables
The startup specializes in "non-invasive" "mind-reading" tech—a kind of neural data collection that, its CEO hopes, will have all sorts of consumer applications.
Apple's Evolution Under Tim Cook: Challenges for New CEO
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss how Apple has changed since Cook became CEO in 2011, and what challenges incoming CEO John Ternus will be facing.
AI CEOs Discuss Universal Basic Income Timeline
In my oppinion it will take 10 or more years. Goverments are slow as hell. I work in a call center in Portugal and they work slow and are very disorganized. Even tho they already use ai. But ai needs to take our job first to have productivity so then they can give us the universal income. I work in a bank call center and I don't see ai taking my job already. Maybe it could but organizations work so slow
Preventing AI Model Collapse: The Need for Human-Generated Data
Im all for acceleration. I think the faster we hit AGI the better. but theres a bottleneck nobody here talks about enough-training data. right now we are quietly poisoning the well. More than half of online content is already synthetic. bots talking to bots, articles written by AI, reddit threads generated by LLMs. when the next generation of models trains on this they eat their own tail. model collapse is real. we saw it with image generators. Outputs get blander, weirder, less useful.we need a way to label or filter human-generated data. not because humans are better but because diversity prevents collapse. I know the standard solution sounds like a dystopian meme. biometric scanners, iris codes, hardware verification. and yeah maybe it is dystopian. but so is a dead internet where nothing can be trusted.Reddit CEO Steve Huffman put it simply recently - platforms need to know you're human without knowing your name. Face ID / Touch ID level stuff. im not saying that specific device is the answer. but the category of solution - proof of human that doesnt create a surveillance state - seems necessary if we want to keep scaling past the cliff.what do you think? Is proof-of-personhood just a regulatory speed bump, or is it infrastructure for the next generation of AI?curious where this sub lands.
Self-Taught Developer from Bahrain Launches Multi-Model AI Platform
https://reddit.com/link/1sxotqx/video/xlaqd9i8guxg1/player I'm a self-taught developer, 39 years old, based in Bahrain. Four months ago I started building AskSary - a multi-model AI platform with a persistent memory layer that sits above all the models. The core idea: the model is not the identity. Most AI tools lose your context the moment you switch models. I built the layer that remembers you across all of them. Here's what's shipped so far: **Models & Routing** Every major model in one place - GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Grok 4, Gemini 3.1 Pro, DeepSeek R1, O1 Reasoning, Gemini Ultra and more - with smart auto-routing or manual override. **Memory & Context** Persistent cross-model memory. Start with Claude on your phone, switch to GPT on your laptop - it already knows what you discussed. Proactive personalisation that messages you first on login before you've typed a word. **Integrations** Google Drive and Notion - connect once, pull files and pages directly into chat or your RAG Knowledge Base. Unlimited uploads up to 500MB per file via OpenAI Vector Store. **Video Analysis** \- Gemini native video understanding for YouTube URL analysis (no download required, processed natively) and direct file upload up to 500MB. Full breakdown of visuals, audio, dialogue, editing style and key moments. **Generation** Image generation and editing, video studio across Luma, Veo and Kling, music generation via ElevenLabs, video analysis via upload or YouTube URL. **Builder Tools** Vision to Code, Web Architect, Game Engine, Code Lab with SQL Architect, Bug Buster, Git Guru and more. Tavily web search across all models. **Voice & Audio** Real-time 2-way voice chat at near-zero latency, AI podcast mode downloadable as MP3, Voiceover, Voice Notes, Voice Tuner. **Platform** Custom agents, 30+ live interactive themes, smart search, media gallery, folder organisation, full RTL support across 26 languages, iOS and Android apps, Apple Vision Pro. **Where it is now** 129 countries. Currently at 40 new signups a day. 1080 Signup's so far after 4 weeks or so. MRR just started. Zero ad spend. All of it built solo, one feature at a time, on a balcony in Bahrain. **The Stack:** Frontend - Next.js, Capacitor (iOS and Android) and Vanilla JS / React Backend - Vercel serverless functions, Firebase / Firestore (database + auth) and Firebase Admin SDK AI Models - OpenAI (GPT, GPT-Image-1), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), xAI (Grok), DeepSeek Generation APIs - Luma AI (video), Kling via Replicate (video), Veo via Replicate (video), ElevenLabs (music), Flux via Replicate (image editing), Meshy (3D — coming soon) Integrations - Google Drive (OAuth 2.0), Notion (OAuth 2.0), Tavily (web search), OpenAI Vector Store (RAG), Stripe (payments), CloudConvert (document conversion), Sentry (error tracking), Formidable (file handling) Rendering - Mermaid (flow charts) and MathJax Platforms - Web, iOS, Android, Apple Vision Pro (visionOS) Languages - 26 UI languages with full RTL support [asksary.com](http://asksary.com) Happy to answer questions on any part of the build - stack, architecture, API cost management, anything.
Fliki: AI Text to Video with Voiceovers
Transform text into captivating videos with lifelike AI voiceovers.
Apple's Evolution Under Tim Cook: Challenges Ahead for John Ternus
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss how Apple has changed since Cook became CEO in 2011, and what challenges incoming CEO John Ternus will be facing.
Apple's Hardware Focus Under New CEO John Ternus
John Ternus, Apple's incoming CEO, is a hardware guy, signaling Apple may be putting devices back at the center of its strategy.
OpenAI CEO Apologizes to Tumbler Ridge for Mass Shooting Oversight
In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is “deeply sorry” that his company failed to alert law enforcement about the suspect in a recent mass shooting.
Synthesia AI Video Generator: Create AI Videos with Avatars and Voiceo
Create AI-generated videos with avatars and voiceovers.