Autonomous Vehicles news and analysis on Web Pulse: 1265 curated articles tracking the latest Autonomous Vehicles developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra became the first AI model to surpass human-level performance on all five Drone-Bench subtasks — 3D mapping, self-localization, route planning, person detection, and motion tracking — in at least one …
A UK thinktank has urged the government to introduce taxes on self-driving cars now to offset rising congestion and job losses, warning that widespread autonomous vehicle adoption would put hundreds of thousands of priva…
Atsign and Intel reported an approximately 8,700% performance improvement for hardware-accelerated, end-to-end encrypted agent communications using the Agent2Agent (A2A) standard, achieved by combining Atsign's zero-trus…
Researchers at Rice University's PHI Lab released GRADE, a single-frame radar depth estimation system that grounds a pretrained generative prior in 4D mmWave radar geometry to produce metric depth under visual degradatio…
Researchers introduced TrajFusionNet+, a transformer-based model that predicts pedestrian crossing intention for autonomous vehicles by fusing sequential trajectory data, visual bounding-box overlays, and pedestrian-cent…
Japan designated 19 municipalities in Hokkaido's Tokachi region, including Obihiro, as national strategic special zones on Thursday to promote AI-powered agriculture, the first such designation for AI-driven farming. The…
DoorDash co-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang outlined a 10-year outlook in which agentic CLI interfaces, custom delivery robotics, and enterprise LLM bottlenecks reshape physical-world commerce, predicting an expandin…
Applied Intuition is hiring a Prediction and Planning Technical Lead in Sunnyvale at $200,000–$300,000 per year, a range the job board reports as 5% above the $238,000 median for Core ML roles in the United States that p…
Waymo posted a Senior Software Engineer, Mapping Data & Eval role on its Roadgraph team, offering a base salary of $213,000 to $263,000 per year for on-site work in San Francisco or Mountain View, California. The positio…
Bedrock Robotics is hiring an Internship 2027 Behavior Machine Learning Engineer for its World Models team in San Francisco, a hybrid intern role with no published salary. The intern will train and evaluate world models …
Waymo posted an opening for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on its Predictive Planning (PrePlan) team, offering a base salary of $213,000 to $263,000 per year for an on-site role in Mountain View or San Francisco, Cal…
The Israel Defense Forces is establishing a new Unmanned Systems and Artificial Intelligence Branch, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir announced Wednesday at the IDF's 153rd Naval Officers Course graduation, with the br…
NVIDIA's modular robotaxi stack powers every major commercial-scale robotaxi program operating today, spanning AI training, simulation and in-vehicle computing, according to the company. The global robotaxi market is pro…
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, led by CEO John Bozzella, is pressuring U.S. lawmakers to enact a permanent ban on Chinese vehicles and connected hardware and software before the 119th Congress adjourns, citing p…
Defense tech company TERN announced an $11.26 million contract with the US Army on Thursday to deploy its AI-based navigation and vehicle health technologies on Army vehicles as a GPS-free alternative for soldiers facing…
Researchers introduced PlannerForge, a system that uses LLM agents to automate scenario-based testing of motion planners in autonomous driving, according to the paper's description. Scenario-based testing for Autonomous …
JD.com launched a Physical AI Acceleration Plan at JDDiscovery 2026 in Beijing, expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network and reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous …
A new arXiv paper (2609.05461v1) introduces ARC-Bench, a no-leak, fixed-candidate protocol that finds frozen JEPA-style world models rank candidate actions incorrectly, with the top-scored candidate almost always subopti…
Shield AI posted an on-site Senior Staff Engineer, Mission Architect role (R5876) in Washington, DC, with salary not published. The venture-backed defense-tech company said the position will own mission representation ac…
Tesla's Head of AI, Ashok Elluswamy, said at the Cybercab launch that Full Self-Driving v14 Lite for Hardware 3 Model S and Model X vehicles was 'supposed to go out last week,' indicating the upgrade is imminent. The sof…