​Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.  

​AI tasks that work well with reinforcement learning are getting better fast — and threatening to leave the rest of the industry behind.  

​Young Minds gives parents control over what their kids do on the internet, while also protecting their children’s privacy and teaching them good online habits.   

​Drivers for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft will soon have the right to unionize in California as independent contractors, thanks to a bill signed Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom.  

​New PitchBook data illustrates how dramatically AI is dominating startup investment, with 2025 on-track to become the first year when AI accounts for more than half of all VC money invested.  

​Equity co-hosts Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff explore the how startups are navigating a topsy-turvy relationship with the U.S. government.  

​Agriculture consumes a vast amount of water, and some countries are under more stress than others. Instacrops pivoted to AI to help farmers cut water use by 30%.  

​OpenAI may be reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora.  

​The event planning startup, which has raised over $27M from a16z and others, fixed the bug after TechCrunch found that Partiful was not removing granular location data from users’ profile photos.