Technology
Fisker loses customers’ money, Robinhood releases a credit card, and Google generates travel plans

Hey, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), on 360Wise Media with TechCrunches most recent newsletter summarizing the large events in tech over the past few days.
This week, TC automotive reporter Sean O’Kane revealed how electric vehicle startup Fisker temporarily lost track of multimillion-dollar customer payments because it ramped up deliveries, resulting in an internal audit that began in December and lasted months.
Elsewhere, Lorenzo reported how Facebook was spying on users’ Snapchat traffic as a part of a secret project known internally at Meta as “Project Ghostbusters.” Court documents show that the goal was to intercept and decrypt network traffic between people using the Snapchat app and its servers.
Late last week, Manish wrote in regards to the resignation of Stability AI founder and CEO Emad Mostaque. Mostaque’s departure from Stability AI – a startup known for its popular Stable Diffusion image generation tool – comes amid an ongoing struggle for stability (pun intended) at a company that was reportedly spending ~$8 million per thirty days as of October 2023 with little revenue on thing show it.
Many other things happened. We sum all of it up on this issue of WiR – but first, let’s remind you to enroll in the WiR newsletter every Saturday.
News
Fisker suspended: Fisker’s bad week continued with the startup’s stock trading halting. The New York Stock Exchange decided to delist Fisker, citing “abnormally low” inventory levels.
AI-based routes: As a part of an update to its search generation feature, Google has added the flexibility to ask users to plan a travel route in Google Search. Using artificial intelligence, the search engine will pull ideas from web sites together with reviews, photos and other details.
New Robinhood card: Nine months after acquiring credit card startup X1 for $95 million, Robinhood on Wednesday announced the launch of its recent Gold Card, powered by X1 technology, with a list of features that would make Apple Card users envious.
At AT&T, the word mom is most vital: This week, the private information of roughly 73 million AT&T customers was leaked online. However, AT&T won’t say how – despite the fact that the hack accountable for this occurred greater than three years ago.
Financing
Boom Co-pilot: Budgeting app Copilot raised $6 million in a Series A round led by Adjacent Nico Wittenborn. The app is partly benefiting from the death of Mint, Intuit’s financial management product.
Liquid assets: In an article taking a look at the broader VC-backed beverage industry, Rebecca and Christine note the recent $67 million fundraising of canned water startup Liquid Death, bringing the corporate’s total to over $267 million. Talk about liquidity.
HVAC project: Dan Laufer, a former Nextdoor executive, raised $25 million from Canvas Ventures and others for PipeDreams, a startup that takes popular HVAC and plumbing corporations and scales them with software that helps with planning and marketing.
Analysis
Is Nvidia the subsequent AWS?: Ron writes about many similarities in the event trajectories of Nvidia and AWS.
Podcasts
This week continues Right, the crew delved into Robinhood’s recent credit card, Fisker’s latest misadventures, and even Databricks’ recent artificial intelligence model, which it spent $10 million developing. They also highlighted two corporations creating startups focused on children and concluded with a have a look at a recent $100 million fund geared toward supporting progressive climate technologies.
Meanwhile, proceed FoundAllison Wolff, co-founder and CEO of Vibrant Planet, a cloud-based planning and monitoring tool for adaptive land management, discussed why the wildfires we see today are hotter and spreading faster than we are able to contain, and ensure proper land management management will help spark smaller and slower-burning fires.
And next Chain response, Jacquelyn interviewed Scott Dykstra, CTO and co-founder of Space and Time. Space and Time goals to be a verifiable computation layer for Web3 that scales zero-knowledge proofs, a cryptographic motion used to prove something about a piece of information without revealing the provenance data itself.
Bonus round
Spotify is testing online learning: As a part of its ongoing effort to get its greater than 600 million users to spend more time and money on its platform, Spotify is introducing a recent line of content: e-learning. The streaming (traditionally audio) platform is starting out with a UK launch and is testing the waters for its online education offering with freemium video courses.
Technology
Tesla used cars offers rapidly increased in March

The growing variety of Tesla owners puts their used vehicles on the market, because consumers react to the political activities of Elon Musk and the worldwide protests they were driven.
In March, the variety of used Tesla vehicles listed on the market at autotrader.com increased rapidly, Sherwood News announcedCiting data from the house company Autotrader Cox Automotive. The numbers were particularly high in the last week of March, when on average over 13,000 used Teslas was replaced. It was not only a record – a rise of 67% in comparison with the identical week of the yr earlier.
At the identical time, the sale of latest Tesla vehicles slowed down even when EV sales from other brands increases. In the primary quarter of 2025, almost 300,000 latest EVs were sold in the USA According to the most recent Kelley Blue Book reporta rise of 10.6% yr on yr. Meanwhile, Tesla sales fell in the primary quarter, which is nearly 9% in comparison with the identical period in 2024.
Automaks resembling GM and Hyundai are still behind Tesla. But they see growth growth. For example, GM brands sold over 30,000 EV in the primary quarter, almost double the amount of a yr ago, in line with Kelley Blue Book.
(Tagstranslat) electric vehicles
Technology
Ilya Sutskever uses Google Cloud to supply AI Startup tests

Co -founder and former scientist of Opeli and former primary scientist ILYA SUTSKEVER, SAFE SUPERINTELELENCE (SSI), uses the Google Cloud TPU systems to supply their AI research, partly latest partnership that corporations announced on Wednesday press release.
Google Cloud claims that the SSI uses TPU to “accelerate its research and development to build safe, overintelical artificial intelligence.”
Cloud suppliers chase a handful of AI Unicorn startups, which spend tons of of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on computing power supply for training AI Foundation models. The SSI agreement with Google Cloud suggests that the primary will spend a big a part of its computing budget with Google Cloud; The well -known source says TechCrunch that Google Cloud is the primary supplier of SSI calculations.
Google Cloud has the history of striking computing agreements with former AI researchers, a lot of which now lead billions of dollars of AI start-ups. (Sutskever once worked on Google.) In October Google Cloud said that he can be the primary supplier of computers for World Labs, founded by the previous scientist Ai Ex-Google Cloud Ai Fei-Feii Li.
It is just not clear whether the SSI has hit the partnership with other cloud or computers suppliers. Google Cloud spokesman refused to comment. A spokesman for a secure superintelligence didn’t immediately answer to the request for comment.
SSI got here out of Stealth in June 2024, months after Sutskever left his role because the primary scientist Opeli. The company has $ 1 billion in support from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, DST Global, SV Angel and others.
Since the premiere of the SSI, we’ve got heard relatively little about startup activities. On his websiteSSI says that the event of secure, super -intellectual AI systems is “our mission, our name and our entire product map, because this is our only goal.” SUTSKEVER He said earlier that he identified the “new mountain to climb” and is investigating latest ways to improve the performance of AI Frontier models.
Before the co -founder of Opeli, Sutskever spent several years on Google Brain examining neural networks. After years of conducting work of security, AI Openai Sutskever played a key role within the overthrow of the overall director of OPENNAI Altman in November 2023. Sutskever later joined the worker’s movement to restore Altman as CEO.
After the Sutskever trial, he was supposedly not seen in Openai offices for months and eventually left the startup to start SSI.
(Tagstransate) ilya SUTSKEVER (T) SSI
Technology
Meta introduces limited teen accounts on Facebook and Messenger

Meta introduces teen accounts on Facebook and Messenger. A function that routinely saves young users for the impression of applications with built -in security, shall be available on these platforms within the USA, Great Britain, Australia and Canada, before it expands to additional regions in the long run.
Teen accounts first appeared on Instagram in September last yr after Instagram, and other popular social networks were grilled by American legislators for not doing enough to guard teenagers. As a part of Tuesday’s announcement, Meta said that he brings a brand new built -in account protection for teenagers on Instagram.
With the extension of Facebook and messengers, teenagers shall be routinely placed in an experience that goals to cut back inappropriate content and unwanted contact. Teens under 16 years of age need parents’ consent to vary any of the settings.
While Post on the META blog about launching doesn’t provide exact restrictions under which teenagers shall be placed, the corporate told TechCrunch We -Mail that teenagers will only receive messages from individuals who follow or had news earlier.
In addition, only teen friends can see and reply to their stories. Tags, references and comments will even be limited to people they follow or who’re their friends.
Teens will even receive reminders of leaving social networks after using them for an hour a day. In addition, they shall be enrolled within the “quiet mode” overnight.
As for brand spanking new instagram restrictions, teens under 16 years of age is not going to give you the chance to modify to the platform, unless their parents give them permission. In addition, teenagers under the age of 16 can have to get the parents’ consent to show off the applying function, which blur images containing suspicion of nudity in DMS.

The changes announced on Tuesday show the newest Meta step towards solving problems related to the mental health of teenagers related to social media. These fears were Raised by an American general surgeon and several states, a few of which have even began to limit teenagers from using social media Without the consent of the parent.
The Meta shared insight into how teen accounts on Instagram are doing, because the corporate claims that it has moved 54 million teenagers to teen accounts. The meta claims that there remains to be lots more, because this function remains to be developing all around the world. The company also shared that 97% of teenagers aged 13-15 maintain built-in protection, says finish.
The finish line also commissioned an IPSOS study, which showed that just about all surveyed parents (94%) claim that teen accounts are helpful for fogeys, and 85% consider that they make helping teenagers easier to have positive experiences on Instagram.
(Tagstranslate) Facebook
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