Jessica Mathews

Jessica Mathews

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  • Simbe’s robot, called Tally, is now out in stores of 29 retail brands.Tech

    Goldman Sachs-backed Simbe raises $50M in Series C funding to bolster retail robot business

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  • Elon Musk, billionaire and chief executive officer of Tesla, at the Viva Tech fair in Paris, France, on Friday, June 16, 2023. Musk predicted his Neuralink Corp. would carry out its first brain implant later this year. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Elon Musk says Tesla robotaxi service is already on San Francisco roads in tests for employees

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  • Some of the Cruise vehicles being tested in Houston, Tex. no longer have human safety drivers sitting behind the steering wheel—they’ve moved into the passenger seat.Tech

    GM’s Cruise has removed humans from the driver’s seat in some Houston tests—and put them in the passenger seat

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  • Traders and others work on the New York Stock Exchange floorNewsletters

    Nasdaq Private Market CEO says only 25 of 1,200 unicorns are actively trading on the secondaries market

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  • TEXAS, UNITED STATES – OCTOBER 13: (—-EDITORIAL USE ONLY – MANDATORY CREDIT – SPACEX / HANDOUT’ – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) SpaceX successfully launched the latest test flight (5th) of Starship and for the first time, this demonstration mission included an attempt to maneuver the 232-foot-tall (71-meter) rocket booster to a gargantuan landing structure at the Starbase facility near Boca Chica Beach in Texas, United States on October 13, 2024. The Super Heavy was successfully caught midair on the first attempt with a pair of massive metal pincers, which SpaceX calls “chopsticks.” (Photo by SpaceX / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)Newsletters

    SpaceX’s launch this weekend will reshape the space industry

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  • 020<br /> FORTUNE Most Powerful Women 2024<br /> October 15th, 2024<br /> Laguna Niguel, CA, USA 9:40 – 10:00 AM<br /> INSIDE THE DEFENSE TECH REVOLUTION<br /> Defense tech is having a moment. Entrepreneurs who used to be drawn to other sectors are ramping up innovation and landing government contracts, and investors are seizing the opportunity. With multiple geopolitical conflicts—and potential conflicts—across the globe, there’s a lot at stake. We hear from an investor and a founder, both pioneers in the space. Katherine Boyle, General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz<br /> Nini Hamrick, Co-founder and President, Vannevar Labs<br /> Moderator: Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune Photograph by Stuart Isett/FortuneConferences

    Andreessen Horowitz defense tech investor Katherine Boyle says ‘Ukraine changed everything’

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  • Elon Musk said Tesla will aim to start production on the Cybercab before 2027.Tech

    Why Elon Musk’s Cybercab robotaxi vision is likely still several years away

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  • Photo of a Tesla car entering a tunnelTech

    Elon Musk’s underground transit system in Las Vegas is a magnet to trespassers and confused drivers who have to be escorted out

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA &#8211; NOVEMBER 06: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Altman delivered the keynote address at the first-ever Open AI DevDay conference.(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Tech

    IT’S OFFICIAL: OpenAI is worth $157 billion

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  • FOSTER CITY, CALIFORNIA &#8211; MAY 24: Amazon&#8217;s self-driving company Zoox is testing its autonomous vehicle near their headquarters in Foster City, California, United States on May 24, 2024. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)Tech

    Inside the secretive design studio of Amazon’s robo-taxi company Zoox as it readies for paying customers

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  • A surveillance tower called « Sentry » made from the company Anduril and used to track hostile drones is displayed during a Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) exercise in Vredepeel on September 20, 2023. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP) (Photo by SIMON WOHLFAHRT/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    Defense tech startup Anduril has hired more than 1,000 employees in 9 months as it prepares to build unmanned jet fighters for the Air Force

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  • Roadrunner bird sculpture made from salvaged items from the city landfill in Las Cruces, New Mexico. (Photo by: Jim Lane/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Tech

    New Mexico’s sovereign wealth fund is investing $50M in a bet that scientists will build startups in Albuquerque

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  • This picture taken on March 17, 2021 in the Israeli coastal city of Hadera shows an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone) carrying fast food deliveries (hamburgers) as part of the main demonstration performed by the companies who won the tender for this project. &#8211; Some 20 drones from five different companies will perform about 300 flights per day simultaneously in a mesh network managed by an autonomous control system located at the Ayalon Highways Aerial Control Center in Haifa. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)Newsletters

    Drone companies are making huge leaps in regulatory approvals—the path to scale will still be tough

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  • Pavel Durov, chief executive officer of Telegram, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. Durov was detained in France, on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, over claims that the messaging service failed to properly fight crime on the app. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesCompanies

    Arrest of Telegram CEO raises concerns over app’s leadership, investor cites ‘dictatorship’

    By Leo Schwartz and Jessica Mathews
  • A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar taxi drives along Venice Beach on March 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.Tech

    Alphabet’s robo-taxi service hits a major new milestone after doubling ridership in just a few months

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