UC Berkeley robotics professor Ken Goldberg argued in a talk at MIT that data alone will not solve robotics, citing a 100,000-year data gap between robotics and language models and pointing to Tesla's…
Waymo is adding Google's Gemini AI assistant to its Ojai robotaxi for the first time, alongside a major redesign of the in-car screen interface, as the company prepares to open the purpose-built vehic…
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced bipartisan legislation that would ban the sale of connected vehicles in the US by companies with more than 15% ownership by Chinese entities, potentially affecti…
Global venture funding hit a record ~$300 billion in Q1 2026, but 65% of that went to just four AI companies — OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo — which together raised $188 billion, according to Crun…
Waymo is considering ending its partnership with Uber as tensions escalate over the rollout of autonomous vehicles, according to sources familiar with the matter. The two companies have been locked in…
Tesla shares plunged over 13% Thursday morning after the company reported dismal second-quarter results, with gross profits dropping as AI-related capital expenses and R&D costs climbed faster than re…
Tesla shares fell 6.1% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the EV maker's Q2 earnings per share dropped to $0.33 from $0.51 a year earlier, causing Elon Musk's net worth to fall $44.3 billion to…
Physical AI firms have raised more than $23 billion in venture capital in 2026 so far, according to The Wall Street Journal, with major deals including Waymo's $16 billion Series D, Skild AI's $1.4 bi…
Anthropic reported $1.97 million in federal lobbying expenses for Q2 2026, up from $1.56 million in Q1, while OpenAI reported $1.2 million, up from $1.02 million, according to disclosures posted by th…
Applied Intuition cofounders Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig argue that physical AI companies automating trucks, mines, and farms will ultimately become larger than any digital AI company, as operators …
Tesla is expected to report a negative free cash flow of $3.3 billion for the second quarter of 2026, its first quarterly cash burn in over two years, as surging capital expenditures on AI infrastruct…
Public opinion is turning against AI, with communities protesting data centers and most Americans believing AI is moving too fast, according to Pew Research. Journalist Jasmine Sun argues the backlash…
Only 4% of senior tech leaders trust model guardrails alone, according to a VentureBeat survey, highlighting a massive gap between AI agent capability and enterprise deployment. Bryan Silverthorn, dir…
AI Weekly published the AI Use-Case Library, a free database of 159 real AI deployments across 21 industries with reported outcomes on 77 of them, including six halted projects. The library shows narr…
Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal outlined a strategy integrating financial services, autonomous vehicle technology, and AI advancements, with plans to embed financial products into its platfor…
Passengers falling asleep in Waymo robotaxis have triggered 99 emergency calls in Austin during the service's first nine months, according to Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services Commander …
Apple has sued OpenAI in the Northern District of California, alleging a coordinated campaign to steal unreleased hardware trade secrets through former employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan. The lawsuit cl…
Apple has accused OpenAI of trade secret theft, alleging that the AI company used distillation techniques to train its models on Apple's proprietary data without authorization. The accusation, reporte…
A shirtless man climbed onto a Waymo autonomous vehicle and smashed it in a crowded Los Angeles street, leading to his arrest. The incident sparked online debate about whether his actions were driven …
London tested its first driverless bus on public roads, an Ohmio autonomous pod that follows a fixed route in Barnes, south west London. The vehicle, which weighs only three tonnes, is being considere…