Day: June 23, 2025

OpenAI pulls promotional materials around Jony Ive deal due to court order OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman’s device startup io) from its website

Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with big promises and unanswered questions Tesla has started giving rides in driverless Model Y SUVs in Austin. Details are still sparse, but limited service is open to vetted and invited riders. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/22/tesla-launches-robotaxi-rides-in-austin-with-big-promises-and-unanswered-questions/

Why Danny Boyle shot ‘28 Years Later’ on iPhones Director Danny Boyle famously shot his post-apocalyptic classic “28 Days Later” on Canon digital cameras, making it easier for him to capture eerie scenes of an abandoned London, and giving the movie’s fast-moving zombies a terrifying immediacy. To make his decades-later

The stablecoin evangelist: Katie Haun’s fight for digital dollars In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who had dismissed digital assets

Moratorium on state AI regulation clears Senate hurdle A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/22/moratorium-on-state-ai-regulation-clears-senate-hurdle/