SAN FRANCISCO — Two months before Cruise’s driverless cars were yanked off the streets here for rolling over a pedestrian and dragging her about 20 feet, California regulators said they were confident in self-driving technology and gave the company permission to operate its robotaxi service around the city.That approval was a pivotal moment for the

SEC Chair Gary Gensler. Image Credit: Getty ImagesAI could cause a “nearly unavoidable” financial crisis if regulators cannot get a handle on it soon, the head of the SEC said on Monday. Gary Gensler, the chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Commission, told the Financial Times that the lack of diversity in AI models used by

A Russian billionaire has become the latest cryptocurrency businessman to die in mysterious circumstances after his helicopter crashed in good weather near Monaco. Entrepreneur Vyacheslav Taran, 53, died after the helicopter plunged near the resort town of Villefranche-sur-Mer after taking off from Lausanne in Switzerland.Taran is the third cryptocurrency entrepreneur to die unexpectedly in the past few…

The Crash at Crush was a one-day publicity stunt in the U.S. state of Texas that took place on September 15, 1896, in which two unmanned locomotives were crashed into each other head-on at high speed. William George Crush, general passenger agent of the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, conceived the idea in order to demonstrate a staged…