Tesla is testing a production Cybercab with no steering wheel or pedals on public roads in Austin and the Bay Area, with a safety monitor in the passenger seat. The vehicle relies solely on cameras an…
The IMF, BIS, and Bank of England have warned that leveraged AI investments pose systemic financial risks beyond inflated valuations. Record margin debt and leveraged ETF growth have created condition…
XPENG unveiled its Physical-World Foundation Model roadmap and VLA 2.0 autonomous driving system at CVPR 2026, with the model already in mass production and capturing over 50% of assisted-driving mile…
Autonomous vehicle development faces setbacks including a Tesla crash and Waymo recall, but the industry is doubling down with AI-driven partnerships. Stellantis, Uber, and Wayve plan Level 4 driverle…
Xprize founder Peter Diamandis argues that mass surveillance from satellites, autonomous vehicles, and connected devices will make humans behave better, citing studies on police body cameras. He envis…
The US Department of Transportation proposed removing the requirement for brake pedals in driverless vehicles, a move that could accelerate deployment of robotaxis by companies like Waymo and Tesla. T…
Clay, an AI-powered prospecting tool, delivered strong results in a live test, correctly identifying CEOs for ten companies and finding valid work emails for nine of ten leads. However, its high cost …
Coval raised $28 million in Series A funding to stress-test AI voice agents before they reach real callers. The San Francisco startup applies simulation techniques from autonomous vehicles to catch fa…
Coval, a voice AI evaluation platform, raised $28 million in Series A funding led by Norwest, with participation from Twilio Ventures and others, bringing total funding to $31 million. The company pro…
Coval, a San Francisco voice AI evaluation startup founded by former Waymo engineer Brooke Hopkins, raised a $28 million Series A led by Norwest to test voice AI systems with the same simulation-heavy…
A developer argues that responsibility for AI decisions falls entirely on developers, not the AI itself, citing incidents such as Air Canada's false chatbot response, Waymo mishaps in Texas, and Amazo…
Ben & Jerry's cofounder Ben Cohen advised young people to pursue careers based on passion rather than money, warning against becoming Uber drivers due to Waymo's autonomous vehicles. He emphasized fin…
The Trump administration imposed export controls on Anthropic's Fable model, limiting access to U.S. citizens and forcing Anthropic to make the model unavailable. Ben Thompson argues that the incident…
A researcher argues that the AI community should stop focusing on artificial general intelligence (AGI) timelines and instead measure the ratio of human input to AI output, drawing parallels to the se…
Four AI giants—OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo—raised $188 billion in Q1 2026, accounting for 60% of all venture capital deployed that quarter. The concentration of capital is reshaping early-stage …
Waymo is recalling 3,871 robotaxis to fix a software issue that caused the autonomous vehicles to enter and drive through freeway construction zones in Phoenix and San Francisco. The Alphabet Inc. uni…
General Motors shut down its Cruise robotaxi division but plans to re-enter the robotaxi race by developing autonomous driving technology for personal cars that can later be applied to ride-hailing se…
The IPO market is surging this summer with a new group of tech giants—dubbed MANGOS, including Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX—preparing to go public. Half of these companies are s…
Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng is spending approximately $41 million per month, or nearly $500 million annually, on AI training for its autonomous driving systems. The company's head of autonomo…
Researchers have released StandardE2E, a unified open-source framework that standardizes preprocessing and data loading across six major autonomous driving datasets, including Waymo and Argoverse. The…