Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

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TechCrunch Mobility: Self-driving trucks startup Kodiak goes public and a shake-up at Hyundai’s Supernal | TechCrunch

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Why is Electronic Arts, one of the biggest names in the video game business, reportedly in talks to go private?

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Do EA buyout talks hint at bigger industry troubles? | TechCrunch

Why is Electronic Arts, one of the biggest names in the video game business, reportedly in talks to go private?

The gaming industry notoriously targets kids for in-app purchases. Lootlock gives parents granular control over kids game spending.

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Lootlock protects kids from overspending on gaming and will be presenting at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

The gaming industry notoriously targets kids for in-app purchases. Lootlock gives parents granular control over kids game spending.

Ami Luttwak, CTO of Wiz, breaks down how AI is changing cybersecurity, why startups shouldn't write a single line of code before thinking about security, and opportunities for upstarts in the industry.

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Wiz chief technologist Ami Luttwak on how AI is transforming cyberattacks  | TechCrunch

Ami Luttwak, CTO of Wiz, breaks down how AI is changing cybersecurity, why startups shouldn't write a single line of code before thinking abou...

Researchers at consulting firm BetterUp Labs, in collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, have coined a new term to describe low-quality, AI-generated work

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Beware co-workers who produce AI-generated 'workslop' | TechCrunch

BetterUp Labs researchers suggest that workslop could be one explanation for the 95% of organizations that have tried AI but report seeing zero ret...

If you’ve been on the New York subway recently, you’ve probably seen stark white ads promoting a wearable AI device called Friend.

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AI startup Friend spent more than $1M on all those subway ads | TechCrunch

If you’ve been on the New York subway recently, you’ve probably seen stark white ads promoting a wearable AI device called Friend.

“It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco,” Trump said of a former Biden administration official.

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Trump demands Microsoft fire global affairs head Lisa Monaco | TechCrunch

Monaco joined the company in May, taking on a role overseeing the company’s cybersecurity policy and its relationship with world governments.

South Korea has launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative yet, as the nation's major tech players like LG and SK Telecom develop their own LLMs.

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How South Korea plans to best OpenAI, Google, others with homegrown AI  | TechCrunch

South Korea has launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative yet, as the nation's major tech players like LG and SK Telecom develop the...

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexterity by showing them videos of humans doing tasks. In a new essay, he calls this approach "pure fantasy thinking."

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Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed to burst | TechCrunch

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptical of companies like Tesla and Figure trying to teach robots dexteri...

Lauri Moore (Bessemer), David Cramer (Sentry), and Zach Lloyd (Warp) join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to debate what founders really need from their first engineering hires — and how AI tooling fits into the equation.

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Discover how developer tools are shifting fast at Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch

Vibe coding and modern dev tools are reshaping early-stage startup hiring