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Audio leak: San Francisco and Austin first responders tell NHTSA Waymo robotaxis are "downgrade" and commit more traffic violations than before (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 30, 2026

Aarian Marshall / Wired: Leaked audio: San Francisco and Austin first responders tell NHTSA that Waymo robo-axis are “downshifting” and…

Business & Money

Michael and Susan Dell donate $750 million for UT Austin medical campus

By Stacey D. WallsApril 21, 2026

Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, speaks at CNBC’s Invest In America forum in Washington, April 15, 2026.Aaron…

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MLB deploys “robot umps,” or an automated ball-striking system, using advanced cameras made by Sony to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: More OpenAI Executive Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Next Elusive Hit The Big Technology…

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Emails, text messages and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robo-taxis to stop for school buses, as required by law (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 30, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “You’re Going to Have Trouble”, with Christina Warren The director’s commentary track…

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How a team of crypto-focused criminals moved from SIM swap attacks to coordinated, violent home invasions and kidnappings, targeting small-time crypto investors (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 4, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The High Growth Handbook: Molly Graham’s Frameworks for Managing Chaos, Change, and Scale Interviews with world-class…

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Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin is significantly behind Waymo, deploying about 30 cars with safety drivers, compared to Waymo’s 200 cars without human monitors (Jack Ewing/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 25, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “A Ugly Citizen”, with Quinn Nelson The director’s commentary track for Daring…

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Tesla shares closed at a 2025 high on Monday after the company confirmed it was testing driverless vehicles in Austin without a human safety operator (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 16, 2025

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Evan Spiegel is building the future of computing Grit explores what it takes to create, build…

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Aalo Atomics, based in Austin, which builds a modular nuclear reactor and a data center, set to finish construction in 2026, collected a B series of $ 100 million led by Valor (Julia Hornstein / Business Insider)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 19, 2025

Julia Hornstein / Initiate of Business:: Aalo Atomics, based in Austin, which builds a modular nuclear reactor and a data…

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The PE company based in Austin, Haveli Investments, agrees to acquire Couchbase, which offers a cloud database for AI applications, for around 1.5 billion dollars (Akash Sriram / Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 22, 2025

Featured podcasts Podcast by Lenny: From Chatgpt to Instagram via Uber: the calm architect behind the most popular products in…

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The Robotaxi service of Tesla will be launched in Austin with only ~ 10 cars which are geofisted to avoid complex intersections and monitored by rescue teleoperators (Richard Waters / Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 19, 2025

The management of labor passwords is facilitated with Zoho Vault – Each click, each connection, each digital interaction – We…

From discreet cooperation to strategic partnership? – The diplomat

Counter-drone efforts in Southeast Asia – The Diplomat

5 years later – The diplomat

Transnational repression against Hong Kongers in the UK is worrying – The Diplomat

Trump-Xi summit leaves South Korea facing familiar pressures – The Diplomat

Chinese electric vehicles are coming to Canada and dealers are eager to sell them

Family Investors Turn to Old Economy Companies to Avoid AI Disruption

Starbucks to lay off 300 US employees, close some regional offices

China to order 200 Boeing planes, Trump tells Fox News

CDC says there are currently no cases of hantavirus in the United States, 41 people are being monitored

Trump doesn’t have enough votes to get his ballroom money

The war in Iran broke Trump

China humiliated Trump and now he’s in a damage control frenzy

HUD Secretary’s BDS is completely closed

JD Vance Compares Himself to Child Abandoned at Deranged White House Event

How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how these efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AV, and more. (Bill Gurley/Bill’s Substack)

Kraken cut about 150 employees after AI tools improved efficiency and its IPO could be delayed until late 2026 or early 2027 due to falling digital asset prices (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

A profile of Runway, an AI video generation startup that trains models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3 billion and added $40 million in ARR in the second quarter (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Ofcom says X committed to implementing tougher protections for UK users, including reviewing illegal hateful content within 24 hours, following an investigation (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Bill Ackman says his fund took a new stake in Microsoft after the company’s recent stock price decline; Ackman says investors underestimated Microsoft (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

Browsing: Austin

Audio leak: San Francisco and Austin first responders tell NHTSA Waymo robotaxis are "downgrade" and commit more traffic violations than before (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

Michael and Susan Dell donate $750 million for UT Austin medical campus

MLB deploys “robot umps,” or an automated ball-striking system, using advanced cameras made by Sony to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

Emails, text messages and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robo-taxis to stop for school buses, as required by law (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

How a team of crypto-focused criminals moved from SIM swap attacks to coordinated, violent home invasions and kidnappings, targeting small-time crypto investors (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin is significantly behind Waymo, deploying about 30 cars with safety drivers, compared to Waymo’s 200 cars without human monitors (Jack Ewing/New York Times)

Tesla shares closed at a 2025 high on Monday after the company confirmed it was testing driverless vehicles in Austin without a human safety operator (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Aalo Atomics, based in Austin, which builds a modular nuclear reactor and a data center, set to finish construction in 2026, collected a B series of $ 100 million led by Valor (Julia Hornstein / Business Insider)

The PE company based in Austin, Haveli Investments, agrees to acquire Couchbase, which offers a cloud database for AI applications, for around 1.5 billion dollars (Akash Sriram / Reuters)

The Robotaxi service of Tesla will be launched in Austin with only ~ 10 cars which are geofisted to avoid complex intersections and monitored by rescue teleoperators (Richard Waters / Financial Times)