The funnest car I ever drove was the original Tesla Roadster. This was in 2011, back when Elon Musk’s EV company was courting press instead of denigrating us, and they offered me a test drive. I took the car up I-280 — a beautiful, mostly deserted highway with perfectly banked curves that seemed designed for Silicon […]
Denver Broncos: 5 big winners, just two losers from huge Thursday Night Football win
The Denver Broncos have improved to 4-3 following a decisive win over the New Orleans Saints on Thursday night. The Broncos have still lost just one time in their history in New Orleans and that was all the way back in 1988. The Saints came into this game with numerous injuries and were without several […]
Nvidia, the AI chipmaker, just hit another record high
Nvidia shares hit a record high on Monday, closing at $ 138.07 as Wall Street anticipates earnings updates from Microsoft, Meta, Google and Amazon on their AI infrastructure spending. The stock’s climb has been stupefying — surging nearly 180% this year, following a rapid climb last year; it’s also a reflection of Nvidia’s renowned stronghold […]
Khosla Ventures just backed OpenAI with $405M more, but not necessarily with its own capital
Khosla Ventures has raised $ 405 million for OpenAI, according to a regulatory filing. Based on the filing alone, Khosla’s stake in the ChatGPT maker appears to be at least 6% of the $ 6.6 billion round the company closed last week. But that doesn’t mean Khosla has put substantial or any capital into the […]
Amazon team in charge of Just Walk Out loses three execs, gains one
Three Amazon executives in charge of developing new technologies for checking out of physical stores – including Just Walk Out, Dash Carts, and Amazon One – are leaving or have left the division, TechCrunch has learned. In addition, a former high-ranking advertising executive at Amazon, Colleen Aubrey, was recently put in charge of Just Walk […]