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TechCrunch Mobility: A new, bigger AV boom is here

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

• 81 autonomous vehicle startups pitched to Trucks VC in 2026, a 2/3 increase from last year
• Foundation models enable startups to create end-to-end AV architectures within months
• Pure-play robotaxi businesses emerge as direct competitors to Waymo

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Go Beyond the Bay Area, Join Us at Founder Summit

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TechCrunch Founder Summit on November 4 in Boston

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Could Apple's Latest iPhone Be Its Biggest Growth Catalyst in Years?

Apple’s first foldable smartphone is generating quite the buzz.

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I built a free Whisper transcription site that runs in the browser: 5 things that broke

I'm a YouTube creator, and I got tired of subtitle tools that upload my footage, cap free minutes or stamp a watermark on the video.

• Quietscribe runs Whisper in the browser without file uploads
• Five main issues encountered during Quietscribe development
• Opt-in Cloud mode enables large model transcription on low-resource devices

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