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Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company, is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for its Multimodal Perception team in Mountain View, California, with a salary range of $213,000 to $263,000 per year. The rol…
Saudi Arabia's sovereign AI firm Humain has partnered with US-based Applied Intuition to deploy self-driving trucks in the Kingdom by 2030, marking the first planned deployment of 'physical AI' in the country. The partne…
Xiaomi will showcase three cars at IFA 2026 in Berlin from September 4–8, including the production SU7 Ultra, the SU7 Max, and a 1,900-horsepower Vision Gran Turismo concept developed for Polyphony Digital's Vision GT pr…
A roundup of technology and open-source news highlights that Tesla's autonomous vehicles continue to crash into oncoming freight trains, and that competitive advantages of large language models are quickly disappearing. …
Japan's Defense Ministry on Monday disclosed an 8.9 trillion yen ($55.6 billion) budget request for the next fiscal year, which includes plans to deploy attack drones, develop hypersonic missiles, and integrate an AI pla…
Caterpillar is applying its decades of experience in automating heavy machinery, such as 400-ton haul trucks in remote mining pits, to develop robust AI deployment infrastructure for industrial-scale robotics and autonom…
Waymo's head of onboard AI, Srikanth Thirumalai, told Axios in an interview published August 26, 2026, that Tesla's camera-only self-driving approach is fundamentally limited because AI cannot recover information the sen…
Caterpillar is applying operational lessons from decades of remote autonomous mining equipment deployments to its enterprise AI system deployment strategy, according to TechCrunch. The company's experience with autonomou…
Wayve, a developer of Embodied AI technology for autonomous driving, is hiring a senior Software Engineer for its Data Flywheel Platform in Sunnyvale, California, to build the infrastructure that turns world-scale fleet …
A developer has released Quipu, an open-source library that implements hybrid encryption by combining classical and post-quantum algorithms. The library uses X25519 with ML-KEM-1024 for key exchange and Ed25519 with ML-D…
XPENG reported second-quarter revenue of $2.91 billion, up 8.0% year-over-year and 51.5% from the first quarter, with gross margin rising to 20.7%, though vehicle margin fell to 12.1% and the company posted a net loss of…
OpenAI VP of Product Peter Welinder said in a post on X that affordable Level 5 self-driving is 5-10 years away, defining it as a car priced at $30,000 or less or a robotaxi ride under $0.65 per occupied mile, with no ge…
Pony.ai, a Chinese autonomous driving company, will partner with South Korean mobility firm FutureLink to deploy 200 Level 4 robotaxis in Korea by 2028, starting with 10 vehicles for certification and adding 190 more aft…
Albuquerque and Portland have deployed a traffic signal strategy called 'rest in red' that uses speed sensors to reward drivers traveling at or below the posted limit with earlier green lights, and Albuquerque credits it…
A TechCrunch investigation reveals that Tesla's Autopilot and robotaxi systems have relied on hidden human labor, including staged demonstrations, remote operators, and data annotators, contradicting claims of full auton…
Xpeng unveiled its new VLA 6.3.0 model, which can predict driving scenarios up to 6 seconds ahead, during a Physical AI sharing session. The model features a 30-second memory window, a 300% boost in decision-making speed…
John Black, chief technology officer at Brain Corp, discussed scaling robot fleets and building trust in public spaces on The Robot Report Podcast, where he highlighted the company's fleet of over 50,000 autonomous mobil…
Waymo has launched Gemini in Waymo, a beta in-car conversational assistant for riders in its Ojai robotaxi experience. The feature, accessed via a Gemini icon on the cabin screen, allows riders to use natural language to…
Hyundai Motor Company president and CEO José Muñoz announced at the 2026 CEO Investor Day that the company will launch a new global D-segment electric SUV positioned above the IONIQ 5, part of a plan to introduce 100 new…
US forces at the southern border used the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser, built by AeroVironment, to shoot down three cartel-linked drones this week, the military said Thursday. The engagements, which began late Tue…