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Tesla completed a $1.95 billion acquisition of an unnamed AI hardware company on July 24, disclosing the deal only in a footnote in its Q2 2026 financial filing. The bulk of the payment, $1.73 billion, is contingent on s…
Two researchers from the universities of Oxford and Warwick argue in a Journal of Business Ethics article that AI regulation should focus on the societal systems where the technology is used, such as traffic or healthcar…
OMODA & JAECOO launched the OMODA O4 globally in Indonesia on July 27, introducing the Super AI Cockpit powered by a large language model and ten AI agents. CEO Shawn Xu said Indonesia was chosen as the first country for…
A new multi-agent lane change decision model using the QMIX framework with a convolutional neural network (CNN-QMIX) can increase cooperative platooning rates by up to 26.2% for connected automated vehicles (CAVs) in mix…
Researchers introduce FogDrive, a multi-modal synthetic driving dataset for autonomous driving under fog, containing 660 scenes (~133k frames) with four synchronized cameras, LiDAR, and radar across three calibrated fog …
Hyundai Motor Group's push into physical AI and robotics is failing to offset investor concerns, as weakening automotive earnings prompt brokerages to cut target prices for Hyundai Motor and Kia. Despite Executive Chair …
Tesla is rolling out a major integration of xAI's Grok AI assistant into its vehicles via the 2026.26 over-the-air software update, giving drivers voice-activated control over Spotify playback, phone calls, climate setti…
Defence contractors including BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Airbus have participated in a record $4.1bn of venture capital funding rounds for defence tech start-ups so far this year, according to Dealroom. White & Cas…
Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta has launched its Robovan autonomous freight business, with vehicles already operating in Suzhou's Xiangcheng district for express and overnight delivery using its R7 world model…
Huawei, a global ICT infrastructure and smart devices provider founded in 1987 with approximately 213,000 employees operating in over 170 countries, has been announced as a partner for IOAI 2026. The company is investing…
The space industry's aggressive pursuit of artificial intelligence (AI) creates risks for preventing an arms race in outer space, according to an analysis of international law and trust-building measures. The United Nati…
A July 26, 2026 post on Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University aggregates national security and Korean news, including analysis of potential U.S. nuclear targets in Iran beyond the previously reported 'Pickaxe' s…
A 73-year-old woman is suing Starship Technologies after a delivery robot repeatedly struck her at Arizona State University in 2023, causing a four-inch gash, back pain, and mobility issues. The lawsuit alleges the robot…
Defense tech startups raised $12.3 billion from venture funds in the first half of 2026, already surpassing the $9.95 billion raised in all of 2025, according to PitchBook data cited by the Financial Times. Anduril Indus…
Defence giants are providing record backing for military start-ups, with traditional companies acting more like venture capitalists as drones and autonomous systems transform the battlefield, according to the Financial T…
UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan told the Financial Times that Prime Minister Keir Burnham's push to 'reindustrialise' Britain will center on chips and drones, with technology seen as a way for the country 'to get its moj…
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood named Tesla and SpaceX as her top AI stock picks on Fox Business on July 22, 2026, citing robotaxis, Optimus robots, and orbital data centers as key drivers. ARK Invest deployed approximately $…
Tesla confirmed the wide release of FSD v14 Lite for Hardware 3 vehicles on July 22, 2026, but millions of owners who paid up to $15,000 for Full Self-Driving remain permanently locked out of unsupervised autonomy due to…
AMD announced an integrated platform for robotics and autonomous systems, targeting physical AI computing with standardized architectures and open ecosystems to simplify development and deployment across markets.
Tesla Vice President of AI Ashok Elluswamy said during the company's Q2 Earnings Call on July 22, 2026, that Tesla's Robotaxi program has driven more than 380,000 miles of unsupervised ride-hailing across six cities in t…