Tag: Tesla

SpaceX’s recent IPO and Starship rocket test flight delivered two big data points that offer a realistic vision for the coming years — and one that may disappoint both the company’s boosters and its critics…

​Deepak Khosla is Chief Growth Officer & Head of AI Business at Impetus Technologies, Inc. gettyFor many CTOs, the first question around agentic AI has been which model to use or how much to invest in fine-tuning, prompt engineering and infrastructure. Those questions matter, but they are not the full strategy. In my view, models…

Every year I read through thousands of Startup Battlefield applications. And every year, I see the same pattern: The founders who belong on this stage are often the ones who almost didn’t apply. They think they’re too early. They think they need more traction. They think the program is for companies further along than they…

For decades, the U.S. has had a plutonium problem. Around 100 tons of the stuff was made during the Cold War to go into powerful atomic bombs. But as nuclear stockpiles were dismantled, the government had to store the radioactive material in high-security facilities. Now it wants startups to help get rid of some of…

Stephen Colbert, hosting a special edition of “Only In Monroe”Monroe Community Media, 2026At the beginning of Thursday’s Late Show finale, host Stephen Colbert cryptically made these comments: Tonight is our final broadcast from the Ed Sullivan Theater. “Though technically our first show in July of 2015 was from a public access station in Monroe, Michigan…

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The deadline to apply or nominate for Startup Battlefield 200 is May 27. This is your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000. Apply now…

Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical on Monday. Titled Magnifica Humanitas, it addresses “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence.” And while AI is the hook, the problems Leo focuses on are older and more pervasive: inequality, war, the erosion of democracy, and the concentration of power in the hands of…

Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. He landed famed public investor Cathie Wood and her ARK Invest Venture Fund as a lead in a startup fundraising round. Lucra announced last month that it raised a $20 million Series B, led by the…

11 May 2026, Rhineland-Palatinate, Bitburg: A self-driving Tesla Model Y is driving autonomously on the roads of the Eifel. A factory driver sitting at the wheel intervenes as required in the “Full Self-Driving” (FSD/Supervised) software update, which is not yet approved nationwide. Photo: Harald Tittel/dpa (Photo by Harald Tittel/picture alliance via Getty Images)dpa/picture alliance via…