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Rivian Automotive is considering making its own lidar sensors and could do so in partnership with a Chinese firm, CEO ‌RJ Scaringe said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday. Rivian said that a version of its R2 vehicles coming later this year would include lidar sensors, which help self-driving vehicles gain a three-dimensional view of the road. Rivian did not disclose who would supply it with lidar sensors, which on demonstration vehicles were much smaller than the large, spinning units found on the streets of San Francisco and other cities in ‌robotaxis designed by Alphabet's Waymo.

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have partnered with asset managers to more aggressively market their enterprise AI products.

OpenAI and rival Anthropic have been racing to convince more businesses to pay for their AI software.

Investing.com -- OpenAI has secured more than $4 billion in capital for a new joint venture designed to accelerate the corporate adoption of its artificial intelligence software. The initiative, named The Deployment Company, drew participation from 19 investors including TPG Inc (NASDAQ:TPG), Brookfield Asset Management Inc (NYSE:BAM), Advent, and Bain Capital Specialty Finance Inc (NYSE:BCSF), according to a report from Bloomberg, citing a person familiar with the matter. The transaction values

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Amazon-backed Anthropic (AMZN) is close to setting up a joint venture with Blackstone (BX), Goldman

Hertz stock is moving sharply after expanding its Uber partnership, and elevated short interest could add fuel if momentum holds.

David Marcus worked as the president at fintech giant PayPal (Nasdaq: PYPL) in the early 2010s before moving to Facebook as the vice president of messaging products in 2014. During his tenure at Facebook, he was the co-creator of Diem, a failed cryptocurrency project initiated by the ...

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Oct. 13—One small step for man, one giant leap for Solstar Space Co. The Santa Fe-based company on Monday entered into a $15 million partnership with Momentus, a group based in California offering commercial satellite buses and in-space infrastructure services. "This is just a fantastic opportunity for us to test our first commercial product, that's the Deke Space Communicator, on board with ...

Nuburu (BURU) announced the successful execution of the first milestone under the phased acquisition plan for Tekne established following formal notice received from the Italian government under the “Golden Power” framework. Through its new subsidiary, Nuburu Defense, the company secured an initial equity stake equal to the maximum interest permitted under current Golden Power regulatory thresholds and agreed to an action plan that, by utilizing the Luxembourg investment vehicle TCEI, will pave