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The investment comes after speculation that Saudi Arabia may take Lucid Motors private -- which the EV maker has denied.

Ben Greene discusses how software engineers can adapt and thrive in an era of rapid AI code automation. Drawing on his startup experience, he explains key mindsets like starting simple, maintaining code comprehension, attacking hard problems first, and focusing on customer impact. He shares why human empathy, agency, and practical problem-solving remain irreplaceable when code is automated. By Ben Greene

As it promised last year, Baidu has started testing its robotaxis in London along with partners Lyft and Freenow.

Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles will be available on Freenow, the mobility network that Lyft acquired in 2025.

Elena van Engelen discusses how to eliminate serverless vendor lock-in without sacrificing native cloud capabilities. She explains how to structure FaaS applications using Clean Architecture, Spring Cloud Function, and Gradle modules to isolate business logic. Finally, she shares a live demo deploying portable Kotlin services across AWS and Azure using Terraform CDK for multi-cloud IaC. By Elena van Engelen

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.

The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.

The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch.

The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.

The carmaker has said it's owed a refund in the "tens of millions of dollars."

Tesla's electronic door handles that have been linked to several deaths could lead to tougher safety rules for the entire auto industry. In a notice published today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that complaints about Tesla's mechanical door release don't warrant a defect investigation. Instead, the issue is better addressed through a broader […]

Jörg Schad explains how to tame the complex "data management hairball" to build scalable, safe architectures for AI. He shares how autonomous data products act like containers for data, encapsulating pipelines, schemas, and metadata. Discover how progressive tool discovery via protocols like MCP limits context rot, enforces governance policies, and ensures reliable, multi-modal access. By Jörg Schad

Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.

The new rule-making process follows a series of incidents, including fatal ones, in which people have become stuck inside cars.

In an earnings call yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk did his best to paint a positive portrait of the company's robotaxi program. New cities are being added, more miles are being driven, and more people are experiencing Tesla's unsupervised vehicles. But Musk's typical bullishness seemed to be absent from the call, as the occasional trillionaire […]

The number of paid robotaxi miles traveled fell 36% in the second quarter, despite expanding to new cities, according to Tesla's own figures.

The car manufacturer is planning a big push into electric vehicles.

Charing your phone in the car may technically use energy, but not enough to give a second thought.

Ford is the first automaker to use a new set of developer tools that will let it embed Apple Maps navigation and mapping directly into its vehicles' infotainment systems.