Boom goes faster than the sound and prepares Elon with self -driving service by summer

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If you miss it, Timing CEO Elon Musk He said that the company will launch a Horse riding service with a fleet of drivers without vehicles In Austin in June. For those who follow, this is five months away. The musk dropped this announcement during Tesla The fourth quarter and the entire year profits Call.

Musk did not provide almost any details about this next service, including what geological restrictions (environmental, geographical and operational restrictions) will be. But perhaps this is the point: the excitement cylinder and its attention is distracted from the work of somewhat flat cars.

I recommend Passing through our live blog From the Tesla Reserves and Call report, where there are many nuggets that may have been lost in the ether, from Bitcoin and Lithium Confinery to the absence of Dojo and how Tesla training FSD in China. Oh, and finally, Elon admitted that yes, all these 3 devices vehicles will need to upgrade to cancel the entire future capabilities in its full self -driving program (which is an auxiliary system for the advanced operating program).

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Two small birds shared some colors behind the scenes in Cruise, which we included in a recent article about GM and The estimated savings of $ 1 billion The auto company expects to close the Robotaxi development program.

It was placed inside this article some of the stories that are shared by sources in Cruise, which told us that the administration began to expand the preset offers for employees-almost all of them are engineers-in mid-January.

“While our plans remain subject to approval of the board of directors of cruises, I wanted to share that we have completed the first wave of notifications for those employees who we expect to need as part of cruises,” said Mark Whiteon, CEO Mark Whiteen at the email. What was seen by Techcrunch. He also called for the continuation of patience, as the high leadership has reached what the next steps will be and waited for the Maritime Falls Council to make a call.

Whiten added that those who have not yet received a notice are not necessarily at risk of losing their jobs.

Sources at Cruise Techcrunch told the board of directors that the board of directors should meet in early February, and while we hope that they will reach a plan for thousands of workers and anxiety now.

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Deals!

If you really don’t care MicrofFintech Fintech African supported by Uber, it should be. The company got tremendous growth within five years. In 2020, Moove 76 had cars in Lagos, Nigeria; Today it has 36,000 cars operating in 19 cities across six continents.

You might remember that Moove announced Partnership with Waymo Last year to provide driver’s fleet operations in Phoenix and Miami.

Now the company, which provides vehicle financing to delivery and delivery applications across six continents, is expanding through acquisitions. Muf said that Gain coffeeBrazil’s urban mobility provider.

The value of the deal is not detected, but Muf confirmed that it was fully treated, and the coffee is now fully owned by Moove. MOVE, co-founder and co-founder of Co-COO LADI Dellano Techcrunch, told Moove that the deal collides with Fintech’s annual revenues to $ 275 million.

Other deals caught my attention …

AngellStarting the French smart electric bike, it is On the verge of bankruptcy.

Bonsai robotsAn independent agricultural start -up company based in California, 15 million dollars raised In the Forest Funds Series. Chabus Capital, Acre Venture Partners, Control Ventures, Fall Line Capital, E14 Fund, SNR and Serra Ventures.

TravelperkBarcelona -based business management, it has Collect 200 million dollars With a huge evaluation of $ 2.7 billion – approximately 1.4 billion dollars in rating in the previous fundraising last year. The tour was led by E -Round by the European Investment Capital, with the participation of EQT Growth, Noteus Partners, Kinnevik, General Catalyst, among other investors. Besides the increase, Travelperk has also announced that it had obtained a Swiss startup Yukoy For an amount that has not been revealed.

LoftyThe Israeli young woman who has developed “MRI”, vision -based, Rapid 191 million dollars In the extension of the S -Series D 2023, led by the Toyota Capital Growth Fund. The tour includes a mix of $ 41 million in stock financing – with the participation of UMC Capital and Myberg – and a $ 150 million debt facility of Trinity Capital.

VoiSwedish, common, giant Micromobility, invented with it The first profitable year In 2024, according to uncommon preliminary results.

Promise readings and other tales

Independent vehicles

General Motors He said he expected it Save up to $ 1 billion annually By ending it cruise Robotaxi development program.

Kodiak Robotics Glory Two independent trucks For Customer Atlas Energy Solutions- For driver operations in an off-road environment in a prominent aid tinquet-the first commercial launch to start operation.

And emo It was a crowded week. First, a Hidden Waymo feature In its application, it allowed the security researcher to display any characters you want on the upper Robotaxi screen. The security researcher also found a file New transformation feature While Android “reverse engineering” is the application.

On the expansion front, Waymo said it would start testing vehicles without a driver on Los Angeles highways; Currently, only employees will be allowed to ride. It also plans to bring robots – in manual status – to 10 American cities this year. At the same time, his waymo The pressure activity increased In San Francisco, it seems that the main goal is to open access to the airport.

Electric cars, shipping and batteries

clear The owners of the SUV will gain gravity Access to Tesla charger Friday. Here is a tour Tesla Supercharger-nacs NewsIncluding automobile companies now access to the network.

Timing Bring her Y model y suv model To the United States, Canada and Mexico in March, with a shy starting price only $ 60,000.

Our reports may remember last month on a A handful of claims It raised against Rural By employees who claim to be harassed by executives. Below are some updates about a few of these cases: one, presented by the former sculptor of clay Nathan Facciolla in October 2024 against Rivian and the chief designer Jeff Hamoud, is now transferred to arbitration. The second, presented in February 2024 by COLOR, Mateial, and team manager, Elizabeth Coran vs. Rivian and Hamoud, are now being followed in the history of a possible trial in September 2025 – although Rivian is trying to make the judge judge the previous case this happens.

Car technology

apple Confess The next generation is lateBut he says he is still under development.

The space and future of the trip

Amazon Expand Done Delivery Delivery Service To the United Kingdom, starting from Darlington, northern England.

Boom Supronic Faster. The XB-1 protester in Startup Mach 1 purified and remained a four-minute period in the sky over Mojave Desert in California.

Hurrications this week

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