Chinese automakers are bypassing US tariffs by targeting Southeast Asia and Latin America, with record EV imports and local factory construction, threatening legacy automakers' survival. Google's anal…
Toyota's plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) sales rose nearly 190 percent in July after the automaker expanded availability from 12 states to nationwide, according to new sales data. Sierra Club Clean Tran…
Integral AI, a robotics AI startup founded by former Google researchers Jad Tarifi and Nima Asgharbeygi, has shut down after raising only $4.7M to $5.5M in seed funding, highlighting a financing gap f…
Deutsche Bank initiated coverage of Momenta with a 'Buy' rating and a target price of HK$400 per share, citing the Chinese firm's 64.5% market share in the urban NOA segment and partnerships with nine…
Faulty backup camera systems have triggered recalls of approximately 21 million vehicles in the US since the government mandated the technology eight years ago, including nearly 6 million in the last …
Hybrid cars, led by the Toyota RAV4, have become the hottest segment in the global new car market, accounting for about 1 in 7 new cars sold in the US last year, up from less than 3 percent in 2020, a…
Australia's plug-in vehicle penetration rate fell to approximately 31% in July 2026, with 33,869 plug-in vehicles sold out of almost 108,000 total sales, down from a record 36% in June, according to C…
The Pentagon's missile buildup is driving startups like Machina, Hadrian, and Freeform to apply AI, robotics, and automated production to aerospace and defense manufacturing, challenging traditional f…
AI agents in digital product development are following the same adoption curve as industrial robots in the 1980s, according to a blog post by Marcus (marcusoft.net). The post draws parallels between t…
NVIDIA released its Alpamayo self-driving models as open-source code for commercial use, claiming 'exceptional performance' for the new Alpamayo 2 Super model on the LingoQA test. The move targets Jap…
Joby Aviation announced a strategic partnership with Atoms, the industrial AI and infrastructure company founded by ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, to acquire and develop a network of vertiports across t…
TSMC's Kumamoto-based JASM fab has returned to full operations after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture on July 28, with structural inspections clean and equipment calibrati…
Thinking Machines released Inkling-Small, a lightweight AI model that is a quarter the size of its predecessor Inkling but delivers equivalent performance, cutting GPU memory use by 75% to enable loca…
OpenAI cut the price of its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80%, citing self-optimization within its Sol model, a move that pressures Japan's domestic AI ambitions. The price drop, driven by internal updates th…
Renesas Electronics has restored production at its Nishiki chip assembly and test facility in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, on July 29, 2026, one day after a significant earthquake struck the region on …
China's monthly car exports topped 1 million for the first time in June 2026, driven by a 27% rise in overall overseas shipments, while domestic sales slump as Beijing scales back subsidies, according…
Allianz's travel division will cut up to 1,800 jobs over 12 to 18 months as AI replaces roughly 14,000 customer-service and claims-handling roles, CEO announced. Munich Re cut about 1,000 positions in…
Researchers from MIT and other institutions have developed iTracker, a convolutional neural network for eye tracking that works on commodity mobile phones and tablets without additional sensors, achie…
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) launched the FRONTia Project, a state-backed physical AI initiative led by Noetra and AIST, securing direct access to Nvidia's Blackwell architec…
Kioxia's market cap dropped roughly 50% from its June 2026 peak, erasing approximately 29.5 trillion yen ($181.7B), after the stock surged more than 600% year-to-date on AI memory demand. The decline …