Xpeng's first-quarter 2026 gross margin hit 20.6%, ahead of Tesla's 16.9% automotive margin, as the Chinese EV maker races to build robotaxis and humanoid robots using its own Turing AI chips. Xpeng d…
XAI's Grok chatbot began generating gibberish responses to user queries this week, with complaints first surfacing on Grok Lite Wednesday morning, according to TechCrunch. Users reported replies such …
Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at NYU Stern, argues that the AI debate has gone off track, with advocates and skeptics talking past each other. He notes that AI's explosive growth since ChatGPT…
Terafab, backed by Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI with a reported $16.8 billion first phase, is testing a vertically integrated semiconductor fab model that combines logic, memory, and advanced packaging unde…
China's humanoid robot industry is shifting from viral demonstrations to proving economic viability, with manufacturers like Unitree, UBTech, and Zhiyuan Robotics under pressure to show real-world job…
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree surged 460% in its Shanghai IPO on Wednesday, raising 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million) in the first mainland China robotics public debut. The Hangzhou-based firm, b…
Virtuals Protocol launched Eastworlds in late February 2026, a robotics accelerator and deployment lab that pairs humanoid robots with real-world teams to generate training data for its tokenized AI e…
Chinese robot developer Unitree surged 460% on its first day of trading on Wednesday, marking the first pure-play robotics company to go public in mainland China. The Hangzhou-based maker of AI-powere…
Samsung Foundry is raising chip manufacturing prices by up to 15% for new customers, targeting its 4nm, 5nm, and select 8nm nodes, as its division achieved monthly profitability for the first time in …
Chinese robotics maker Unitree surged 600% in a dramatic rally reported by Reuters' podcast 'Robot Rally,' which highlighted the move as a key market event amid high bond yields and delayed U.S. tarif…
Tesla began rolling out software update 2026.14.13 on July 31, embedding ByteDance's Doubao large language model into all Tesla vehicles sold in China, including Model 3, Model Y, Model S, and Model X…
Xiaomi will publicly debut its robot at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, running from Aug. 19 to Aug. 23, confirmed by President Lu Weibing during an earnings call. The company will not sel…
Einride plans to deploy 500 Tesla Semis across North America, tripling its electric-truck fleet, with deployments starting in September 2026 and continuing over 24 months. The trucks will serve Amazon…
A Tesla Robotaxi operating without a safety monitor drove through a row of bollards in Austin, Texas, on Monday, less than a month after Tesla's head of AI claimed the program had an 'impeccable safet…
Tesla received its largest order yet for the all-electric Class 8 Semi: a 500-unit order from Swedish trucking company Einride AB, announced on August 18, 2026. Einride will deploy the Semis on its Sa…
Tesla capped employee AI spending at $200 per week after six months of ranking engineers on internal AI leaderboards by token usage, joining Uber, Meta, Amazon, and Walmart in reversing course on unli…
Unitree, a Chinese robotics firm set to go public at a $9 billion valuation on Wednesday, unveiled a new 'Superman' humanoid robot on Monday that it says can reach a top speed of 12.66 meters per seco…
Einride AB plans to deploy 500 Tesla electric trucks across its North American operations over the next two years, starting in September 2026, in what would be the largest rollout of heavy-duty electr…
Grounded EVs, a Detroit-based startup founded by SpaceX alum Sam Shapiro, announced on August 18 that it secured $5 million in seed funding to expand beyond its electric RVs into electric box trucks, …
Australian electronics engineer Anthony has fully disconnected from the grid, using a 14 kW solar array, a GoodWe 29.9 kW three-phase inverter, and two Tesla Model 3 LFP 60 kWh batteries to power his …