{"id":75615,"date":"2025-02-10T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/its-the-end-of-the-road-for-cruise-and-bluesky-is-still-taking-off-equity-podcast\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:44:36","slug":"its-the-end-of-the-road-for-cruise-and-bluesky-is-still-taking-off-equity-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/its-the-end-of-the-road-for-cruise-and-bluesky-is-still-taking-off-equity-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the end of the road for Cruise, and Bluesky is still taking off | Equity Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, on TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha and Margaux MacColl are unpacking the week\u2019s news, including GM\u2019s <!--more--> decision to give up on self-driving startup Cruise. The choice initially came as a shock considering the $10 billion GM pumped into the company over the years, but it became clearer when examining Cruise\u2019s tumultuous 2023 and 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the full episode to hear about:    <\/p>\n<p>  \u2022  Freysa.ai\u2019s public challenge and what\u2019s motivating users to make the AI chat bot fall in love with them.<br \/>\n  \u2022  Why VCs are lining up to back Lumen Orbit\u2019s moonshot of data centers in space.<br \/>\n  \u2022  Which startups are stepping up amid a looming TikTok ban and if we\u2019ll see another company capture Bluesky\u2019s success. According to Anthony, it all depends on, &#8220;luck, timing, and something to do with critical mass.&#8221;<br \/>\n  \u2022  Who\u2019s stepping up to fill Y Combinator\u2019s place in Africa and where else we could see a pivot to local accelerators.<\/p>\n<p>Equity is TechCrunch\u2019s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We&#8217;d also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, on TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha and Margaux MacColl are unpacking the week\u2019s news, including GM\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}