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Rivian taps Google to bring custom maps into its EVs and app

For 18 months, Rivian and Google engineers worked together. Today, they’re showing off their work. Rivian is pushing out a...

Rwazi raises $12M Series A to help companies with consumer insights and...

Joseph Rutakanga spent eight years looking for tools to help companies gather consumer insight data. Eventually, he decided to just...

Apple commits $500M to U.S.-based rare earth recycling firm MP Materials

Apple is investing $500 million in MP Materials, the only fully integrated rare earth mining company currently operating in the...

DOGE staffer with access to Americans’ personal data leaked private xAI API...

A DOGE staffer with access to the private information on millions of Americans held by the U.S. government reportedly exposed...

China’s Geely is officially bringing its luxury EV startup Zeekr private

China’s Geely Auto is officially taking its luxury EV subsidiary Zeekr private, just over a year after the company debuted...

ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom

Open source database management system Postgres is nearly 40 years old, but has recently started seeing explosive demand due to...

xAI says it has fixed Grok 4’s problematic responses

When xAI launched Grok 4 last week, the company claimed the large language model outperformed several competitors on different benchmarks....

Google inks $3B deal to buy hydropower from Brookfield

As it races to build ever larger data centers, Google on Tuesday said it has agreed to pay more than...

Auriga Space raises $6M to shoot rockets off an electromagnetic launch track

While U.S.-based companies are launching more payloads into orbit than ever before, they’re still limited by the inefficiency of conventional...

Joby Aviation doubles pilot eVTOL facility capacity as it races to launch...

Joby Aviation has doubled the size and production capacity of its pilot manufacturing facility in Marina, California, as it races...