Autonomous Vehicles news and analysis on Web Pulse: 176 curated articles tracking the latest Autonomous Vehicles developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
Yann LeCun presented a talk on world models as the next step in AI, emphasizing their role in enabling machines to learn and reason like humans. The talk highlighted how world models could lead to breakthroughs in roboti…
Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun, a former Uber executive and AI researcher, says she prefers hiring Gen Z workers over industry veterans because of their adaptability and curiosity. Her autonomous trucking startup has raised ov…
London's driverless railway is still running on Windows XP, an operating system that Microsoft stopped supporting over a decade ago, raising security and reliability concerns for critical infrastructure.
San Jose police arrested Nicholas Loftis, 43, after he allegedly struck and killed a 50-year-old bicyclist with a stolen white 2025 Mazda SUV on Tuesday. Loftis faces charges of vehicular manslaughter, felony hit and run…
Ukrainian drone manufacturer Aero Center revealed that fully autonomous drones killed Russian soldiers during a battlefield test two years ago, marking a potential first in warfare. The drones were preprogrammed to activ…
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 set to debut in the s…
SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and Nasdaq Texas under the ticker SPCX on Thursday, with its $75 billion IPO priced at $135 per share and valuing the company at $1.77 trillion, making it the large…
Chinese defense scientists from the National University of Defence Technology published a plan in a peer-reviewed journal outlining a step-by-step strategy to destroy a US carrier group from 3,000 kilometers away. The pr…
SpaceX made history with a $75 billion IPO, the largest-ever amount raised in an initial public offering, as the company prepares to begin trading Friday on the Nasdaq. The $1.8 trillion rocket, satellite and artificial …
Niantic Spatial, an AI company spun out of Pokémon Go developer Niantic in May 2025, used billions of real-world images captured by millions of Pokémon Go players to train a "large geospatial model" for navigation techno…
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said in a CNBC interview Friday that a merger between SpaceX and Tesla is possible, stating the two Elon Musk-led companies share synergies and a future convergence of goals. Shotwell ack…
Ukrainian forces are deploying waves of AI-guided drones to strike Russian supply lines in occupied Ukraine, with upgraded medium-range models featuring autonomous targeting and greater resistance to electronic jamming. …
Ukraine launched a "Logistics Lockdown" campaign using AI-guided Hornet kamikaze drones, developed by US company Swift Beat LLC with backing from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to strike Russian fuel tankers, convoys, a…
Researchers have developed VLADriveBench, a new evaluation framework that assesses whether the chain-of-thought reasoning produced by vision-language-action (VLA) models for autonomous driving is relevant and causally co…
A new tutorial on world models and physical AI distinguishes between explicit world models, which use structured dynamics for planning, and implicit world models, which encode predictive structure in learned representati…
Researchers have developed Context-Centric Feature Fusion (CCFF), a framework that uses two attention-based modules to improve detection of co-occurring objects in autonomous driving. The system achieved a Category-level…
Researchers have developed MAMVI, a new test-time adaptation method for 3D point cloud models that replaces sequential multi-view optimization with a single-step adaptation process. The approach uses a hybrid masking str…
Researchers have developed PersonaDrive, a pipeline that conditions vision-language-action driving agents on retrieved demonstrations from a style-instructed human driving dataset to produce aggressive, neutral, or conse…
South Korea's Hanmi Semiconductor announced Friday it plans to acquire 50 billion won ($32.9 million) in SpaceX shares ahead of the U.S. space company's stock market debut. The investment, representing about 7.24 percent…
SpaceX raised a record US$75 billion in its initial public offering on Thursday, making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire with a net worth exceeding US$1.1 trillion. The IPO highlights investor enthusiasm for Musk…