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Big Tech has found its latest battleground: self-driving cars.
While the autonomous-vehicle industry has been slow to develop, tech companies have been patient.
Their large cash reserves and desire to find new high-growth markets has fueled that patience.
Today s tech giants grew in parallel, finding success in fast-growing markets with elegant, easy-to-use products and mostly staying out of one another s way.
But as these companies have expanded, they ve found themselves competing more often. Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft followed Apple s lead into smartphones in the 2010s. All four have developed a cloud-computing service. Now their interests are converging once again on a product that might prove to be their greatest challenge yet: self-driving cars.
What Waymoâs new leadership means for its self-driving cars
Self-driving cars still have a bumpy road ahead Ben Dickson is the founder of TechTalks. He writes regularly about business, technology and politics. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook
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Waymo, Alphabetâs self-driving car subsidiary, is reshuffling its top executive lineup. On April 2, John Krafcik, Waymoâs CEO since 2015, declared that he will be stepping down from his role. He will be replaced by Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov, the companyâs former COO and CTO. Krafcik will remain as an advisor to the company.
Anthony Levandowski closes his Church of AI
Way of the Future s funds donated to NAACP
The first church of artificial intelligence has shut its conceptual doors.
Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer who avoided an 18-month prison sentence after receiving a presidential pardon last month, has closed the church he created to understand and accept a godhead based on artificial intelligence.
The Way of the Future church, which Levandowski formed in 2015, was officially dissolved at the end of the year, according to state and federal records. However, the process had started months before in June 2020, documents filed with the state of California show. The entirety of the church’s funds exactly $175,172 were donated to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. The nonprofit corporation’s annual tax filings with the Internal Revenue Service show it had $175,172 in its account as far back as 2017.
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