Cruise fesses up, Pony AI raises its IPO ambitions, and the TuSimple drama dials back up

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! President-elect Trump has wasted little time picking cabinet members, including naming former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy as the next secretary of transportation. If Duffy’s appointment is confirmed … Read more

Threads will prioritize accounts you follow instead of randos

As people leave or deactivate , there’s been meaningful growth for alternative platforms like Meta’s Threads and underdog Bluesky. Despite the huge gap in both user numbers and funding between the two, Threads seems to be borrowing from Bluesky’s feature set to prevent it from becoming competitive. reported that Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, … Read more

Salesforce launches Agentforce Testing Center to put agents through paces

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The next phase of agentic AI may just be evaluation and monitoring, as enterprises want to make the agents they’re beginning to deploy more observable. While AI agent benchmarks can be misleading, there’s a lot of … Read more

The Water-Resistant Beats Pill Speaker Is Under $100, Amazon Clearing Out Inventory For Black Friday

The Beats Pill wireless Bluetooth speaker is currently available on Amazon for just $99, which is a massive 33% discount from its list price of $149. This deal marks the best price ever seen for this popular portable speaker and makes it an ideal purchase for anyone looking to enhance their audio experience this holiday … Read more

New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence

Lawsuits are never exactly a lovefest, but the copyright fight between The New York Times and both OpenAI and Microsoft is getting especially contentious. This week, the Times alleged that OpenAI’s engineers inadvertently erased data the paper’s team spent more than 150 hours extracting as potential evidence. OpenAI was able to recover much of the … Read more