| KEZIAH WEIR,
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Elon Musk may not have been the tech mogul who popularized the concept of "move fast and break things" (that would be Zuck), but from his 130 days as a special government employee to claims that his fleet of autonomous taxis are coming to take down Waymo, he's gone full bore at embodying the ethos. Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana could hardly be more different, as writer Noah Shachtman learned while profiling her for VF. In fact, one venture capitalist and former exec in the autonomous-vehicle industry refers to the safety-obsessed lawyer as "the un-Elon." Still, amid an automotive arms race in which the stakes are literally life and death, Waymo's driverless cars have become emblematic of today's thorniest questions around automation and its effect on humanity writ large.
Elsewhere, Rebecca Ford gives us an exclusive first look at Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett's Is This Thing On?, and a former Windsor family butler disputes Prince Harry's account of King Charles and Queen Camilla's wedding. More tomorrow… |
Elon Musk has claimed he's coming to take down Waymo and its more than 1,500 robotaxis with competing Teslas that can operate in "Full Self-Driving" mode—beginning with a 20-vehicle invite-only autonomous taxi service that's started testing in parts of Austin. In 2019 Musk pledged to have a million Tesla robotaxis in service by 2020. So far, the Austin experiment hasn't exactly been flawless. |
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Tekedra Mawakana, co-CEO of Waymo—whom one venture capitalist calls "the un-Elon"—is gearing her car company up for a cross-country drive: "It's not a play to have fanboys. It's a play to, like, actually change people's lives." |
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In a new book, a former butler of the Windsor family challenges Harry's story of the day the couple tied the knot. |
Princess Charlene of Monaco recalls a family tragedy that led her to her current mission. |
It seems Kelly's own granddaughter Camille Gottlieb has taken inspiration from her grandmother's inexhaustible charm. |
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Will Arnett and Bradley Cooper first met for an audition—of sorts. At the time, Arnett was dating Amy Poehler, who had become good friends with Cooper during the filming of Wet Hot American Summer. Poehler wanted to see what Cooper thought of Arnett, so they all met up at a bar in New York. Arnett would pass the test (he and Poehler married and were together for nine years), and he and Cooper would become good friends, later living next door to each other in Venice, California.
Though Arnett and Cooper often talked about working together, nothing felt right until a script about a fledgling stand-up comic in crisis came along. VF has an exclusive first look at Is This Thing On? and talks shop with the film's stars: "This movie is not a midlife crisis—it's a midlife catharsis," says Cooper. |
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