Plaintiffs in the class -action complaint allege Rivian falsely promised for years it would bring hands-free driving to its first-generation R1 vehicles.

The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.

Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.

Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.

In April, for the first time ever, an Earth observation satellite found what it was looking for, all on its own.

By integrating an AI assistant directly into Edits, Meta is aiming to keep creators engaged on Instagram as it continues to compete with TikTok and YouTube for creators' attention.

Alt Carbon said the agreement followed more than a year of scientific review and due diligence, with Microsoft requiring additional verification and data-sharing measures.

SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd is betting the ocean has vast amounts of untapped geothermal energy.

Anthropic released Claude Fable, its first Mythos-class AI model, yesterday and it's already causing concerns inside Microsoft. Sources tell me that Microsoft is limiting the use of Claude Fable 5 for employees because of Anthropic's new data retention requirements.

While Microsoft quickly rolled out Claude Fable 5 to its GitHub Copilot and Foundry customers, I'm told the model isn't available in the model picker that Microsoft employees use for internal versions of GitHub Copilot. All other Claude models are still available internally at Microsoft, because they operate under Zero Data Retention (ZDR) rules.

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Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous vehicle testing, now available via API for developers to build on.

Fusion power startup Avalanche Energy said its reactor prototype heated a plasma to over 10 million degrees Celsius.

Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gigawatts' worth by 2030.

The exec, Emad Dlala, has left just a few months after being promoted to SVP of engineering and digital, TechCrunch has learned.