Three USC faculty members will lead four research projects funded by the Toyota Research Institute, totaling $3 million, to advance self-driving cars, humanoid robotics, and workplace AI adoption. The…
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…
AI evaluations are essential for distinguishing working systems from broken ones, yet many companies ship AI into production without systematic quality checks, relying on 'vibe checks' instead. A four…
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…
The rise of "vibe coding" — where developers rely on AI to generate code without fully understanding it — is leading to a sharp decline in software quality, with apps riddled with security vulnerabili…
Box founder Aaron Levie warned that executives pushing AI to replace workers often lack understanding of those jobs, calling it "AI psychosis." ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents,…
Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo unit will deploy a new autonomous vehicle called the Ojai, built with China-based Geely's Zeekr, to offer public rides without human supervision in San Francisco, Los Angeles, an…
Tesla Inc. has registered only 42 vehicles for its Texas robotaxi service, according to new state data, while rival Waymo operates 577 automated vehicles in the state — more than 13 times Tesla's flee…
Box founder Aaron Levie accused many CEOs of suffering from "AI psychosis," arguing they are the least likely to understand the jobs they are replacing with artificial intelligence. The criticism come…