When will Toyota launch an electric SUV for under $20,000 in the US or Europe? We’ll keep dreaming. Toyota is launching the new bZ5 electric SUV next week in China amid an intensifying EV price war. The new SUV will draw power from BYD’s batteries and EV powertrain as Toyota looks to get a leg up on the competition.
Meet the Toyota bZ5 electric SUV, starting under $20,000
After the first bZ5…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and President Trump are in the middle of a nasty break-up and it didn’t take long for Musk’s companies, including Tesla, to be thrown in the middle of it like kids in a divorce.
We will focus on the real impact on Tesla’s business here, rather than…
OpenAI announced Wednesday that its business user base has surged 50% since February, reaching 3 million paying enterprise customers as the artificial intelligence company unveiled an expansive suite of new workplace tools designed to compete directly with Microsoft’s…
CISOs know precisely where their AI nightmare unfolds fastest. It’s inference, the vulnerable stage where live models meet real-world data, leaving enterprises exposed to prompt injection, data leaks, and model jailbreaks.
Databricks Ventures and Noma Security are confronting these inference-stage threats head-on. Backed by a fresh $32 million Series A round led by Ballistic Ventures and Glilot…
Solidroad just raised $6.5M to reinvent customer service with AI that coaches, not replaces
June 6, 2025
Solidroad, an artificial intelligence startup that promises to solve one of customer service’s most persistent problems, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to expand its platform that automatically trains customer service representatives and improves AI agents.
The…
Crypto regulation is poised for a breakthrough as a top SEC official champions streamlined oversight, expanded custody options, and investor-friendly policies empowering digital asset adoption.
SEC Commissioner Aims to Cut Regulatory Red Tape in Crypto Oversight
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North Korea’s sprawling crypto laundering network has been hammered as U.S. authorities seized $7.74 million tied to fake IT jobs, blockchain trickery, and weapons funding.
DOJ Targets North Korea’s Crypto Laundering Network With Asset Seizure
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on June 5 that it has filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to recover over $7.74 million in…
Ukrainian law enforcement recently arrested a 35-year-old man accused of hacking over 5,000 customer accounts of a hosting company to mine cryptocurrency, resulting in a loss of $4.5 million.
Hacker Deploys Software to Remotely Manipulate Servers
Ukrainian cyber police…
Electric truck startup Bollinger Motors seemed to be circling the drain last week, but a fresh investment from Mullen Automotive and a new/old face at the helm means there might be life in the medium-duty EV brand, yet. Here’s what we know, so far.
Last week, we wrote…
The SONDORS electric bicycle company infamously went bankrupt in 2023, yet it now appears to be attempting a rise from the ashes. The company’s founder and former CEO Storm SONDORS is back at the helm and pre-selling a new electric motorbike with a somewhat familiar name – the Meta AT.
But will riders be once bitten, twice shy?
SONDORS originally burst onto the scene way back in 2015 – the…
