Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot 'Robot Park' in Austin to train its Apollo humanoid robots, backed by $1 billion from investors including Google and Mercedes. The robots are already working in M…
Physical AI raised $55.8 billion in H1 2026, nearly double the full-year record from 2025, with 12 commercial humanoid platforms available and Figure AI delivering 350+ units. NVIDIA released new Visi…
Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers after realizing overreliance on AI caused reliability issues, leading to billions in warranty costs. The human experts helped Ford achieve the top spot in the 2026 J…
Ford Motor Company hired 350 veteran engineers, dubbed 'gray beards,' over the past three years to train junior staff and fix ineffective AI tools after realizing AI's limitations. The move helped For…
Chinese self-driving software firm Momenta opened its Hong Kong IPO on Monday, seeking up to $752 million to fund AI research and robotaxi development. The GM-backed company, valued at nearly $9 billi…
Toyota's manufacturing principles of jidoka and kaizen offer a blueprint for controlling AI agents, replacing prompt-based guardrails with Continuous Enforcement (making recurring mistakes non-committ…
Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers over three years after AI tools failed to preserve expertise and train junior staff, leading to quality problems. The engineers reprogrammed AI systems and mentored …
Agility Robotics, a maker of humanoid robots for warehouses, announced a $2.5 billion merger with Churchill Capital Group to go public. The company's Digit robot is already deployed in warehouses, bac…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed claims that the artificial intelligence boom is a bubble, calling such talk an 'insult' to AI at the company's annual shareholders' meeting in Tokyo. Son, whose So…
Investors are shifting from value to growth stocks in Japan, driven by AI-related firms like Kioxia and SoftBank overtaking traditional manufacturers in market-cap rankings. This change reflects growi…
A software engineer argues that Agile methodology has become a pointless corporate ritual, citing daily standups, retros, and planning sessions as time-wasting activities that fail to improve producti…
Databricks' $134 billion valuation and 70% adoption by major US firms highlight East Asian AI infrastructure demand, as Toyota and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group use the platform despite government su…
A female passenger died early Sunday when a Buick sedan fleeing Santa Clara police crashed into a Toyota and then a telephone pole in San Jose, marking the city's 21st traffic fatality of 2026. The dr…
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son has committed approximately $87 billion to build AI data centers in France, marking a resurgence after his WeWork losses. Son also chairs the $500 billion Stargate AI in…
SoftBank Group committed €75 billion ($87 billion) to build AI data center capacity in France by 2031, sending its stock up 14% in a single day. The investment, combined with massive stakes in OpenAI …
Code Metal raised $125 million to rewrite defense industry code using AI, while Google and Microsoft report that 25–30% of their new code is now AI-generated. Anthropic built a 100,000-line C compiler…
According to a new study by Toyota Research Institute North America, analysis of anonymized data from over 6,000 Toyota RAV4 Prime and Lexus NX 450h+ vehicles (2021–2024) shows that plug-in hybrid own…
Audi's upcoming Q9 SUV will introduce adaptive beam headlights to the US market later this year, offering brighter illumination while reducing glare for drivers and other road users. This technology, …