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Tesla delivered a record number of its electric cars in the past three months: 95,356 vehicles.  But what that number doesn't show is how many of those cars were the car company's newest Model 3 sedan: 77,634 cars. That means only 17,722 Model X and S were o…

Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel is stepping down from his day-to-day role as an executive at at the automaker, CEO Elon Musk announced during a conference call with analysts Wednesday. Drew Baglino, vice president of technology, will take over his dutie…

That said, the loss was hardly unexpected: In its first-quarter update, Tesla made it clear that while the company should become cash-flow positive later this year, short-term losses were inevitable. Bear in mind, the company said that just after it posted a …

On July 10, a Ford crew showed up at a Canadian National Railway yard in Montreal with 43 F-150 pickup trucks. They loaded 42 trucks into 10 double-decker rail cars. The 43rd, they left outside. This was a special version of the vehicle that has outsold every…

Even for a tech giant that has been making big AI-related investments for years, Microsoft's (MSFT) deal to pour $1 billion into an AI startup is a little stunning. On Monday morning, Microsoft announced it's investing that large sum in OpenAI, an AI/deep le…

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI in new multiyear partners…

Microsoft announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, a lab co-founded by Elon Musk to develop "artificial general intelligence." The investment is the start of a long-term partnership between the two organizations. OpenAI will ensure its services work on M…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk believes that both the Texas and Florida Starship prototype rockets being developed by the private space company will fly “in 2 to three months,” which is an aggressive timeline considering the planned untethered flight of its Starhopper …

Tesla points out that NHTSA's data at the end of Q1 and Q2 was one crash per 436,000 miles and 498,000 miles, respectively. However, while the numbers look good, Autopilot is most often used on highways so Autopilot-on and Autopilot-off miles cant be directly…

Story Highlights: The rapidly growing market for tiny, new-world satellites is disrupting old-world satellites and is expected to grow by 22% annually over the next six years.The global space industry could generate revenue of more than $1 t…