TechCrunch Mobility: Waymo makes its defense

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Earlier this month, Waymo chief safety officer Mauricio Peña testified before the Senate Commerce Committee as part of a hearing to … Read more

The 9,000-pound monster I don’t want to give back

Before heading on a trip to Tahoe last weekend, GM offered me the use of the company’s 9,000-pound monument to excess – the new 2026 electric Escalade IQL (starting at $130,405) – for a week to test-drive. Before you continue, note that I’m not a professional car reviewer. TechCrunch has excellent transportation writers; I am … Read more

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia. Archive.today — which also operates under several other domain names, including archive.is and archive.ph — is perhaps most widely used to access content that’s otherwise inaccessible behind … Read more

The Genesis Invitational: Rory McIlroy lies second but six shots back from leader Jacob Bridgeman after third round | Golf News

Rory McIlroy is in second place but six shots behind leader Jacob Bridgeman going into the final round of The Genesis Invitational on Sunday. McIlroy is targeting a first title of the season at the Riviera Country Club and while he is in second place after the third round, has plenty of ground to make … Read more

Google VP warns that two types of AI startups may not survive

The generative AI boom minted a startup a minute. But as the dust starts to settle, two once-hot business models are looking more like cautionary tales: LLM wrappers and AI aggregators.  Darren Mowry, who leads Google’s global startup organization across Cloud, DeepMind, and Alphabet, says startups with these hooks have their “check engine light” on. … Read more

T20 World Cup: Pakistan vs New Zealand abandoned without a ball bowled as Super 8s starts with Colombo washout | Cricket News

The T20 World Cup Super 8s began in frustrating fashion with Pakistan’s game against New Zealand in Colombo washed out without a ball bowled. Persistent rain kept the players from the field after Pakistan had won the toss and elected to bat, with the sides taking a point each from Saturday’s abandonment at R Premadasa … Read more