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Rivian CEO says the EV maker’s new large driving model will one day allow for fully autonomous driving—and maybe a spot in the robotaxi race

Rivian CEO says the EV maker’s new large driving model will one day allow for fully autonomous driving—and maybe a spot in the robotaxi race

“Our initial focus will be on personally owned vehicles,” RJ Scaringe said. But “this also enables us to pursue opportunities in the rideshare space.”

By Jordyn Grzelewski and Tech Brew

December 15, 2025

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A combine harvester during a soybean harvest on a farm near Gregory, Arkansas, US, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. Soybean futures edged higher after US President Donald Trump expressed optimism on striking a deal with China, fueling hopes that the world’s largest buyer of the oilseed might soon resume purchases of US supplies. Photographer: Rory Doyle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

More financially distressed farmers are expected to lose their property soon as loan repayments and incomes continue to falter

A U.S. soldier keeps watch during a patrol in Syria’s northeastern city Qamishli, in the Hasakeh province, mostly controlled by Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), on January 9, 2025. Turkey has long been rankled by United States support for the Kurdish-led SDF in northern Syria. Ankara sees the main component of the SDF, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), as an extension of its outlawed domestic foe the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). But Washington has long seen the SDF — which spearheaded the fight that defeated Islamic State group jihadists in 2019 — as crucial to preventing a jihadist resurgence in the area. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP) (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump pledges retaliation after 3 Americans are killed in Syria attack that the U.S. blames on the Islamic State group

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A Christmas tree outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. Stocks churned at the start of a week in which investors will search for clues on next year’s interest-rate path as they look beyond an all-but-certain cut at the Federal Reserve’s final meeting of 2025. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

There have been head fakes before, but this time may be different as the latest stock rotation out of AI is just getting started, analysts say

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 03: David Sacks, U.S. President Donald Trump’s AI and Crypto Czar (C), accompanied by U.S. President Donald Trump (L), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) CEO C.C. Wei (R), and accompanied by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (2nd-R), speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, one of the largest manufacturers of semiconductor chips, plans to invest $100 billion in new manufacturing facilities in the United States. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Can there be competency without conflict in Washington?

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Term Sheet Next: Erica Wenger on elephants, branding in VC, and her first fund

Term Sheet Next: Erica Wenger on elephants, branding in VC, and her first fund

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp visits "The Claman Countdown" with host Liz Claman at Fox Business Network Studios on October 23, 2025 in New York City.

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After shutting down Vine in 2017, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey invests in a reboot of the app with more than 10,000 archived six-second videos

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Cloudflare CEO says Google is abusing its monopoly in search to feed its AI

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Two firefighters suffered chemical burns in a Boring Co. tunnel. Then the Nevada Governor’s office got involved, and the penalties disappeared

Two firefighters suffered chemical burns in a Boring Co. tunnel. Then the Nevada Governor’s office got involved, and the penalties disappeared

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Trump, who slapped an extra $100,000 on the H-1B visa, now says there aren’t enough talented people in the U.S. to fill jobs

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November 12, 2025

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OpenAI says it plans to report stunning annual losses through 2028—and then turn wildly profitable just two years later

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Elias Torres’s Agency raises $20 million Series A to chase agentic AI for customer success

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Exclusive: Coinbase and stablecoin startup BVNK call off $2 billion acquisition

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Alexis Ohanian ignored Paul Graham’s warning that Reddit’s ‘terrible’ name would be ‘poison’. Now it’s a $38 billion business

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Brian Chesky says Airbnb’s successful IPO was ‘one of the saddest periods’ of his life—then Barack Obama gave him one piece of advice

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AirOps raises $40 million Series B at $225 million valuation to rethink marketing in the age of AI

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into Las Vegas manholes—then ‘feigned compliance’ and was caught doing it again

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