This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade-school, Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Modal Motors is trying to cut China out of electric motors entirely; plus, PitPro’s first tire-changing robot goes live in Canada

Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.