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Uber drivers are waiting to see the company’s future driverless cars successfully dodge potholes before they start looking for new jobs.On Thursday, Uber said it would invest $300 million in electric vehicle maker Lucid as part of a deal to put robotaxis on the roads of a major US city in 2026. Uber is also partnering with startup Nuro on the autonomous driving technology.The deal comes as competitors already have driverless cars on the streets. Waymo is ferrying riders around cities like Phoenix and San Francisco without a human behind the wheel. And Tesla launched its robotaxi service to a…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell spent last week tamping down the All-Star excitement.First, she had to play some crucial games.On Friday, she finally had a chance to show how she felt about playing Saturday’s game on her home court. Mitchell’s eyes opened wide, the trademark grin stretched across her face and the words started flying out of her mouth.“I feel grateful,” she said. “I feel happy that my family and friends are able to come. It’s close for us because I’m from Cincinnati, so a lot of us get to connect, reconnect through basketball. It’s just fun,…

BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) — Parents at a preschool in a Portland suburb are reeling after immigration officers arrested a father in front of the school during morning drop-off hours, breaking his car window to detain him in front of children, families and staffers.“I feel like a day care, which is where young children are taken care of, should be a safe place,” Natalie Berning said after dropping off her daughter at the Montessori in Beaverton on Friday morning. “Not only is it traumatizing for the family, it’s traumatizing for all the other children as well.”Mahdi Khanbabazadeh, a 38-year-old chiropractor and…

2025-07-19T09:03:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. The biggest names in tech don’t agree on what AI means for white-collar jobs. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sparked fears when he said that AI could wipe out 50% of entry-level office jobs. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman doesn’t see such a risk. He’s not alone. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued a warning…

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione say NY prosecutors issued an ‘unlawful’ subpoena to his former insurer.The subpoena sought the time period of his Aetna coverage and his HIPAA-protected account number.But Aetna sent prosecutors 120 pages of confidential medical records by mistake, his lawyers allege.Lawyers for the accused United Healthcare CEO killer, Luigi Mangione, are up in arms over what they say were “secret” communications between his New York prosecutors and Aetna, his former health insurer.They say prosecutors sent Aetna an “unlawful,” back-channel subpoena seeking his confidential insurance account number and the time period for his coverage — and that in response,…

At a still-under-construction tower in downtown Detroit, venture capitalists and founders from both coasts gathered for the second annual Reindustrialize Summit. The site was a fitting, if unintentional, metaphor for the conference’s central theme: how startups and venture capitalists can spur an American industrial renaissance.The conference speakers, who were mostly company builders and their investors, boldly shared the event’s mission: “Welcome to year two of the save America conference,” Chris Power, CEO of automated factory startup Hadrian, said in his opening speech. “We’re about to go into a generational grudge match with the Chinese Communist Party.”Reviving the country’s manufacturing and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who almost served as a surrogate for a Southern California couple now under investigation by authorities said she backed out after the couple asked her if any of her friends would like to carry a child for them too.The request as well as conflicting information she was getting left the woman, Esperanza, unnerved and she decided not to sign a surrogacy contract with Silvia Zhang, who offered her $60,000. Esperanza spoke to The Associated Press on the condition that her last name not be used because she has not shared her surrogacy experience publicly.Zhang,…

LONDON (AP) — Ukrainian coal miner Andrii’s face lights up when he talks about meeting Oleksandr Usyk.“Wow!” the 36-year-old says in English.Andrii and more than a dozen other war veterans will be on hand when Usyk faces Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night in the pair’s fight to become the undisputed world heavyweight champion.It’s a rematch of their 2023 bout that Andrii viewed under vastly different circumstances.“I watched this fight on the front line on my phone,” he told The Associated Press through an interpreter during a stop Friday at the Ukrainian Embassy in London. “We were watching…

2025-07-19T01:48:26Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Astronomer CEO Andy Byron is on leave after a viral Coldplay concert video, the company said. The video appeared to show Byron embracing HR head Kristin Cabot, sparking an internet frenzy. Astronomer is investigating the incident, with Pete DeJoy named interim CEO. Tech company Astronomer has placed its chief executive on leave…

A 61-year-old man in New York has died after he was sucked into a magnetic resonance imaging machine this week, Nassau County Police said Friday.The man was wearing a large metal chain and entered a room without authorization as the MRI machine, which uses a strong magnetic field, was running at a medical office in Westbury on Wednesday afternoon, police said.The metal necklace caused him “to be drawn into the machine which resulted in a medical episode,” police said about the incident that occurred around 4:30 p.m.Open MRI office in Westbury, N.Y. (Google Maps)He was pronounced dead from his injuries…