Today’s tech digest covers leadership shakeups, AI assistants, subscription pricing, and major startup investments.
Top Lucid Motors executive departs amid new CEO’s leadership
The exec, Emad Dlala, has left just a few months after being promoted to SVP of engineering and digital, TechCrunch has learned.
I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works
Parents want one thing, and one thing only, out of AI: to add a list of soccer games or “spirit week” theme days from an email or a poorly formatted flyer onto their calendar in.
Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from
Starlink, SpaceX’s top moneymaker, also raised service prices by $5 to $10.
Scroll-Driven, Scroll-Triggered, Scroll States, and View
I’ve said one and mean another, and I’ve used one when I needed another.
Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price
Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier.
How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups
Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.
“Siri actually works” reads like someone finally beat the tutorial after 10 years lol. But yeah, the calendar-from-random-email/flyer use case is the first AI assistant demo that feels like a normal-person acceptance test instead of a stage trick.
If it can pull “spirit week: pajama day” out of a blurry PDF and not invent a second pajama day, I’ll believe.
That “parents just want calendar entries from a terrible flyer” line is the first AI pitch in a while that sounds like it came from a real household instead of a demo day.
I’d skip the kirupa.com detour though — this is less “go deeper” and more “please just parse the messy email and don’t invent dates.” If Siri AI can do that reliably for a month, I’ll believe the hype.
