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Waymo finally has a music experience worthy of its robotaxi

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Waymo now lets you stream music straight from Spotify, which makes the back seat of a robotaxi feel more like your own private space.

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India’s Rapido begins testing food delivery to take on Swiggy, Zomato

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Rapido’s beta food delivery service has popped up in three key localities in Bengaluru before a broader rollout.

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Monarch Tractors won’t be built by Foxconn after Ohio factory sale

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Monarch’s tractors were the only vehicles being built by Foxconn in Ohio after Lordstown Motors, Fisker Inc., and IndiEV went bankrupt.

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Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO

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Self-driving truck maker Waabi has hired autonomous vehicle industry veteran and Uber Freight CEO, Lior Ron, to step in as chief operating officer, as the startup looks to scale its commercial operations ahead of its planned launch of driverless trucks on public highways later this year.

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TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global

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Ultraviolette aims to expand its electric motorcycles to 40 European countries, as well as Latin America and Southeast Asia.

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Trump admin stops illegal freeze of $5B EV charger funds after losing in court

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The money is on the table again, but with fewer requirements for proving out safety, environmental impacts, and inclusion of minority- and women-owned businesses.

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Elon Musk confirms shutdown of Tesla Dojo, ‘an evolutionary dead end’

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“Once it became clear that all paths converged to AI6, I had to shut down Dojo and make some tough personnel choices, as Dojo 2 was now an evolutionary dead end,” Musk posted on X, the social media platform he owns, on Sunday.

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Ford throws out Henry Ford’s assembly line to make low-cost EVs in America

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The automaker is investing $2 billion into the Louisville Assembly Plant with a $30,000 EV pickup slated for 2027.

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Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

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Security researcher Eaton Zveare told TechCrunch that the flaws he discovered in the carmaker’s centralized dealer portal exposed vast access to customer and vehicle data. With this access, Zveare said he could remotely take over a customer’s account and unlock their cars, and more.

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SoftBank reportedly bought Foxconn’s Ohio factory for the Stargate AI project

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Foxconn spent years promising electric vehicles would be built at the former Chevy Cruze factory. Now it will make AI servers.

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