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A Tesla logo outside the company’s Tilburg Factory and Delivery Center. Karol Serewis | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the automaker completed its first driverless delivery of a new car to a customer, routing a Model Y SUV from the company’s Austin, Texas, Gigafactory to an apartment building in the area on June…
The SpaceX Starbase industrial complex and rocket launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas, US, on Thursday, April 17, 2025. Mark Felix | Bloomberg | Getty Images A SpaceX crane collapse at the company’s Starbase, Texas facility on Tuesday has prompted an investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the federal agency told CNBC in…
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., and Omead Afshar, left, leave an event at the site of the company’s manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China, on Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk has fired Omead Afshar, the automaker’s vice president of manufacturing and operations, CNBC…
Waymo partners with Uber to bring robotaxi service to Atlanta and Austin. Uber Technologies Inc. Uber and Alphabet‘s Waymo are now offering robotaxi rides to the public in Atlanta, as the companies continue expansion of their partnership. The Waymo robotaxis available through the Uber app will cover approximately 65 square miles around Atlanta, but will not yet…
A Tesla robotaxi drives on the street along South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, on June 22, 2025 Joel Angel Juarez | Reuters Tesla was contacted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday after videos posted on social media showed the company’s robotaxis driving in a chaotic manner on public roads in Austin,…
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images When Mark Zuckerberg feels the heat, he opens his wallet. The 41-year-old Facebook founder and Meta CEO is on a spending spree like never before in an effort to position…
Blythe Christopher attends a demonstration to protest Tesla robotaxis on June 12, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Todd Wiseman With Elon Musk looking to June 22 as his tentative start date for Tesla’s pilot robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, protesters are voicing their opposition. Public safety advocates and political protesters, upset with Musk’s work with the…
Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, speaks at the company’s Data and AI Summit in San Francisco on June 11, 2025. Jordan Novet | CNBC Databricks, a data analytics software vendor, said on Wednesday that it expects to generate $3.7 billion in annualized revenue by July, with year-over-year growth of 50%. CFO Dave Conte…
From left, Cully Cavness, co-founder and operating chief of Crusoe, and Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe’s co-founder and CEO, appear at a Kent Denver School event in Englewood, Colo., on April 9, 2025. The two were recognized as distinguished alumni. Crusoe Cloud infrastructure startup Crusoe, which is helping to build OpenAI’s Stargate data center project in Texas,…
Yale University’s famed endowment has been trying to offload one of the largest portfolios of private equity investments ever in a single sale, a move that reflects the pressures on both Wall Street and higher education under the Trump administration. The Ivy League school has sought buyers for up to $6 billion in stakes in…