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Aurora executives told investors it expects to scale from about 200 driverless trucks by the end of 2026 to over 30,000 by 2030, generating $5 billion in annual revenue. CFO David Maday said the figure is modest relative to the 250,000-300,000 new trucks produced annually by major manufacturers. Despite the projections, Aurora's stock fell over 12% following its September 23 investor day and has continued declining.
Jonah Lowenstein, co-founder and CEO of luxury lifestyle management startup Aurora, discussed the company's origins and growth strategy in an interview with Entrepreneur. He described building the AI-plus-human-expert service for founders, athletes and family offices since mid-2024, and noted the company recently hosted a private poker night at Flyfish Club attended by figures including Kevin Hart, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jack Goldburg and Brooks Nader.
Aurora Innovation is running fully autonomous semi trucks without safety drivers on two of the busiest freight corridors in Texas, I-45 between Houston and Dallas and I-20 between Fort Worth and El Paso. The company currently operates 20 driverless trucks and plans to expand to 200 by the end of the year, betting on a pay-per-mile 'driver as a service' model for freight customers.
The IO500 Committee removed SCNet's ISC26 submissions built on Sugon's ParaStor F9000 all-flash storage systems from its Production list after determining they failed reproducibility rules requiring public architecture details and general availability. Those entries, which had posted record-setting bandwidth and IOPS figures, were shifted to the Research list, and Argonne National Laboratory's Aurora system running DAOS storage was restored to the #1 Production and Production 10-Client rankings.
Woot is selling a refurbished Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop with an Nvidia RTX 5050 GPU for $927 for new customers using a checkout code, or $1,029 for returning shoppers, undercutting the $1,099.99 new price at Alienware's own site. The refurbished unit still carries a one-year Alienware warranty and includes a 1600p 120Hz 16-inch display, Intel's Core 7 240H processor, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 512GB SSD.
Aurora Store, the popular open-source client used to download apps without a Google account, has started failing for many users with a 'Server busy, please try again later' error when installing apps anonymously. The problem persists across troubleshooting steps like clearing cache, using a VPN, or restarting devices, suggesting Google may be blocking access at the server level rather than a local bug.