Waymo has won approval from California regulators to expand its robotaxi service across 18 new counties, a move the company says will enable it to surpass one million paid rides by the end of the year…
Ukraine's Ministry of Defense approved the MUL.E, the country's first all-wheel-drive electric military motorcycle, for operational use late last month. The bike features dual electric motors, wide lo…
Pony.ai plans to deploy 100,000 L4 autonomous light-duty trucks by 2030, with 500 to 1,000 Gen-4 heavy-duty trucks expected in China over the next two to three years. The company says its fourth-gener…
Hyundai Motor Group is developing its first Software Defined Vehicle (SDV), with a prototype IONIQ 5 spotted in South Korea featuring a large 17-inch or 18-inch central infotainment screen and minimal…
Elon Musk's X feed has escalated into open white nationalism, with his AI company xAI suing Minnesota to block a law targeting nonconsensual sexual deepfakes. Musk posted that 'Hitler was a socialist,…
The Trump administration's Bureau of Land Management approved the first AI data center on public land by repurposing an environmental review for a 19-MW solar farm, allowing a 167-MW data center in Bo…
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…
Meta has quit the RE100 global renewable electricity initiative as it backs 10 new gas-fired power plants totaling about 7.5 GW to fuel its AI data centers in Louisiana, according to reports. The tech…
Tesla closed a ~$2 billion acquisition of an unnamed AI hardware company in Q2 2026, paying $1.95 billion in stock and equity awards, according to its 10-Q filing. Only $222 million was allocated to a…
Tesla began rolling out its 2026 Summer Update, adding Grok voice commands for phone calls, music, climate, and glovebox control; Caraoke scoring; automatic navigation that learns routines; and self-d…
Honda has begun production of the all-electric, autonomous ProZision Autonomous ZTR lawn mower at its US Power Equipment factory in North Carolina, targeting the $2 billion domestic lawnmower market. …
XPeng's L03 electric SUV coupe is the first vehicle from an Asia-Pacific automaker to ship with Google Maps Auto SDK, replacing the company's overseas navigation stack and feeding map data into its NG…
Elon Musk quietly acquired a $1 billion gas turbine company to power his Grok AI, while a Tesla Model S Signature sedan is being flipped for $260,000 — a $100,000+ markup. Lucid's stock was halted and…
Elon Musk told Tesla employees to switch to using Grok, the AI model from his own xAI, despite admitting it is inferior to rivals. The directive follows Tesla capping employee spending on third-party …
Sunrun launched a pilot program that installs AI compute nodes in homes with solar panels and battery storage, paying homeowners to host the hardware and selling computing capacity to enterprise custo…
Tesla launched Tesla Home, a home energy management platform powered by its Opticaster AI engine, which optimizes electricity storage and usage to reduce power bills. The platform integrates Tesla's e…
Rémi Cadène, a former Tesla Optimus scientist, launched Paris-based startup UMA with a lightweight humanoid robot called Northstar, targeting European manufacturing and logistics. The company has 50 p…
Kia converted its PV5 electric van into an off-grid mobile racing simulator with a 55-inch screen, powered by the vehicle's V2L capability. The simulator will be used at the Goodwood Festival of Speed…
Tesla will cap employee AI spending at $200 per week starting July 6, according to an internal memo. The move comes months after the company urged workers to use AI more aggressively, highlighting cha…
A Rivian R2 was spotted near the company's headquarters in Irvine, California, equipped with a LiDAR sensor that blends into the vehicle's design without the bulky 'taxi bump' seen on other cars. The …