TechCrunch Mobility: Self-driving trucks startup Kodiak goes public and a shake-up at Hyundai’s Supernal

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

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Trump demands Microsoft fire global affairs head Lisa Monaco

“It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco,” Trump said of a former Biden administration official.

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TruSources to show off its on-device identity-checking tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Age verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This Battlefield startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.

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Threads is developing a tool that lets you ‘tag’ its algorithm to configure your feed

Threads is developing a new feature that would let users control what they see by ‘tagging’ the algorithm.

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Instagram now has 3 billion monthly active users, will test features to help users control their feeds

As Instagram celebrates the 3 billion milestone, it also plans to roll out features that help users control what content is algorithmically recommended to them.

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NASA’s new astronaut class includes SpaceX veterans Anna Menon and Yuri Kubo

SpaceX isn’t just a private company – it’s becoming an astronaut proving ground.

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Oracle promotes two presidents to co-CEO role

Safra Catz will become the executive vice chair of Oracle’s board of directors after 11 years as the company’s CEO.

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TechCrunch Mobility: The two robotaxi battlegrounds that matter

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.”

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How Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni used Gen Z methods to raise $8M for Phia

Phia raises $8M seed round in deal led by Kleiner Perkins.

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Meta CTO explains why the smart glasses demos failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth offered a postmortem on Meta’s demo fails this week at its developer conference, where it showed off new smart glasses.

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ICE unit signs new $3 million contract for phone hacking tech

Homeland Security Investigations, the law enforcement arm of ICE, adds phone unlocking tech made by Magnet Forensics to its arsenal of technology used to power the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown.

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Jaguar Land Rover to pause production for third week due to cyberattack 

The company owned by Tata Motors is estimated to be losing millions of pounds a week due to the shutdown.

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Waymo approved to start testing autonomous vehicles at San Francisco International Airport

Waymo has spent years locked in back-and-forth negotiations with SFO, the biggest airport serving its home base of Silicon Valley.

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China says Nvidia violated antitrust regulations

China is investigating Nvidia’s 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies as trade tensions between the U.S. and China heat up.

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iPhone 17, iPhone Air, AirPods Pro 3, and everything else announced at Apple’s hardware event

From a new slim iPhone Air model to redesigned AirPods, here’s what was announced at this year’s Apple event.

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