Former USAID head Jeremy Konyndyk linked Tesla CEO Elon Musk's DOGE budget cuts to the devastating Nepal floods, citing canceled disaster risk reduction projects and $420 million in climate work at NA…
XPENG reported second-quarter revenue of $2.91 billion, up 8.0% year-over-year and 51.5% from the first quarter, with gross margin rising to 20.7%, though vehicle margin fell to 12.1% and the company …
Elon Musk on 28 August asked his AI chatbot Grok to roast Billie Eilish for 'hypocrisy' in criticizing capitalism and 'stolen land' while selling her eponymous perfume, sparking mixed reactions on X. …
Austin's City Council voted unanimously on Thursday to begin the process of banning hyperscale AI data centers within city limits, with binding land-use regulations due by December 31, 2026. The resol…
OpenAI VP of Product Peter Welinder said in a post on X that affordable Level 5 self-driving is 5-10 years away, defining it as a car priced at $30,000 or less or a robotaxi ride under $0.65 per occup…
On August 29, 2026, xAI's Grok Bot successfully placed an order for a Tesla Model Y on behalf of user @Baconbrix, marking one of the first publicly documented high-value purchases executed by an AI as…
Sanctuary AI announced on June 17 that it will license its Carbon AI control system to run on third-party robots, after achieving a 99.5% success rate on a wire-plugging task for a Tier 1 automotive s…
Arini, an AI operating system for healthcare, is hiring a Software Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $150k–300k/yr. The role involves designing, prototyping, and deploying AI agents and autom…
SpaceX has committed over $2.8 billion to gas turbines for xAI's data center operations, including an approximately $805 million agreement and a potential $2 billion deal for mobile turbine units, as …
A TechCrunch investigation reveals that Tesla's Autopilot and robotaxi systems have relied on hidden human labor, including staged demonstrations, remote operators, and data annotators, contradicting …
Anthropic and Perplexity have raised First Amendment defenses in copyright lawsuits filed by Daniel Benjamin Gilbert and Reddit, respectively, following Elon Musk, Tesla, and Warner Brothers Discovery…
Hugging Face cofounder Thomas Wolf said customers placed more than $2.6 million in orders for the $399 Microduck robot within its first 24 hours on sale, causing a backlog that delays new orders by 4–…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on May 31, 2026 that the company is rebuilding its robotics division to develop humanoid robots, targeting construction-assisting models by 2027 and consumer robots lat…
Waymo's VP of Onboard Software, Srikanth Thirumalai, published a blog post on Wednesday arguing that cameras alone are insufficient for safe fully autonomous driving, stating 'Cameras are incredible, …
Waymo published a list of 10 AI lessons from over 200 million fully autonomous miles, arguing that turning a driver-assist system into full autonomy is a 'false summit,' a direct rebuke of Tesla's Ful…
Tesla's Robotaxi service now operates from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week across its footprint, with the company's official Robotaxi account stating the unsupervised fleet is "a lot bigger" and t…
Tesla's Full Self Driving V14, tested by an 86-year-old driver on a 2026 Tesla Model Y since May 26, still cannot find the optimal parking spot or park in a garage, though it handles most driving task…
Sodium-ion batteries are rapidly gaining traction for grid energy storage, driven by lower costs, better low-temperature performance, and reduced cooling needs, according to industry executives. ESS C…
Waymo, after more than 15 years and 200 million driverless miles, says there is no AI shortcut to self-driving, countering rivals like Tesla, Wayve, and Waabi that pursue end-to-end AI systems. Srikan…
The KraneShares Global Humanoid Robotics and Physical AI Index ETF (KOID) has outperformed the Roundhill Humanoid Robotics ETF (HUMN) by roughly 30 percentage points in 2026, with KOID up 41.8% year-t…