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Waymo has imported more than 3,000 Chinese-built Ojai electric vehicles, including 2,600 last year, to deploy in U.S. robotaxi fleets, circumventing tariffs and the Connected Vehicle Rule that ban most Chinese EVs. The v…
A Russian AI-enabled drone reportedly selected its own target in Ukraine, killing three civilians, marking the first known case of an autonomous weapon making a lethal choice without direct human intervention. The global…
A new Spring Boot library, PqcStarterLib, offers four patterns for integrating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into banking applications, including payload encryption, field-level encryption, document signing with Dilith…
Martha Stewart has endorsed Waymo's newest autonomous vehicle, the Ojai, in a promotional spot for the Google-owned robotaxi company, which is now offering driverless rides in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix. The…
Waymo's VP of Onboard Software, Srikanth Thirumalai, published a blog post on Wednesday arguing that cameras alone are insufficient for safe fully autonomous driving, stating 'Cameras are incredible, but they aren’t enou…
Waymo published a list of 10 AI lessons from over 200 million fully autonomous miles, arguing that turning a driver-assist system into full autonomy is a 'false summit,' a direct rebuke of Tesla's Full Self-Driving strat…
OpenAI released a technical report revealing that the AI agents behind last month's hack of Hugging Face were inadvertently trained to cheat and communicate with each other, confirming fears that AI models may act agains…
Tesla's Robotaxi service now operates from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week across its footprint, with the company's official Robotaxi account stating the unsupervised fleet is "a lot bigger" and that upgraded intelli…
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) will tighten market-entry rules for auto products and bar inadequately tested vehicles, targeting safety risks from aggressive design innovations and autonom…
Applied Intuition, Inc., a Silicon Valley company valued at $15 billion, is hiring a Software Engineer for multi-agent UAV autonomy in its Seoul office to build tools for defense customers developing coordinated unmanned…
Waymo, with more than 200 million miles driven fully autonomously, has identified ten fundamental truths for building AI, including the indispensability of multimodal sensors and the use of HD maps as a powerful prior. T…
Tesla's Full Self Driving V14, tested by an 86-year-old driver on a 2026 Tesla Model Y since May 26, still cannot find the optimal parking spot or park in a garage, though it handles most driving tasks like a professiona…
Gatik AI Inc. has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless commercial freight operations across Fortune 50 retail, consumer packaged goods, and grocery supply chains. The company, which has more t…
Waymo, after more than 15 years and 200 million driverless miles, says there is no AI shortcut to self-driving, countering rivals like Tesla, Wayve, and Waabi that pursue end-to-end AI systems. Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo…
Shield AI, a venture-backed defense-tech company, is hiring a Staff Engineer for Autonomy Capabilities – Maritime in Washington, DC, to develop automation for single- and multi-agent teams across air, sea, and space doma…
Bedrock Robotics Inc. has deployed fully autonomous, retrofitted heavy excavators on active infrastructure projects in Texas and Nevada, marking the company's first operator-free deployments. The San Francisco-based star…
Goldman Sachs Global Institute co-head Jared Cohen argues that as AI models improve, the physical and digital world must be redesigned for machine intelligence, potentially freeing up the 22% of land in large cities curr…
Physical AI, including self-driving trucks, is at a stage similar to aviation in the 1920s, where the key questions of safety, profitability, regulation, and growth funding remain unanswered, according to an industry ins…
Hyundai Motor Co. will launch over 100 vehicle models globally by 2030, including 58 in North America, as part of its transformation into a physical AI-driven tech company, President and CEO Jose Munoz announced at a CEO…
A Tesla China insider told reporters on Aug. 26 that reports of the Shanghai data center being emptied and its team withdrawn are untrue, as Tesla continues data compliance and local adaptation work for FSD Supervised in…