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Kia has expanded its PV5 electric van lineup to 10 body styles, including a new 7-seater and an upscale Prime model, and announced that it has sold over 39,000 PV5s globally through the first eight months of 2026. The co…
Elbit Systems, Israel's largest defence contractor, launched Fuse, a new division developing AI-based autonomous military technologies including drones and unmanned systems, operating from Rosh HaAyin, Israel. The unit w…
RoboCup, the international robotics and AI competition founded in 1997, challenges teams to develop autonomous robots for tasks ranging from soccer to disaster response. The event serves as a testing ground for technolog…
Waymo LLC, an autonomous driving technology company, is hiring a Research Scientist for Map Scalability with a salary range of $213,000 to $263,000 per year, based in Mountain View, San Francisco, or New York City. The r…
Pony.ai CEO James Peng said at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on September 8 that robotaxi technology is 'pretty much already solved' and that robotaxis will be common worldwide within five years, with regulators as …
Nuro, a self-driving technology company founded in 2016, is hiring a Senior/Staff Engineer for Machine Learning - Online Mapping in Mountain View, California, with a base pay range of $193,930 to $291,150. The role invol…
Cisco's IOS XE routers now support ML-DSA certificates (FIPS 204) for IPsec authentication, replacing pre-shared keys, as detailed in a technical blog post. The post shows that ML-DSA-65 public keys are 1,974 bytes versu…
James Peng, founder and CEO of Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony.ai, predicted at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on Sept. 8 that robotaxis will be widespread within five years, saying 'the technology problem is pr…
Motional, led by President and CEO Laura Major, released on Tuesday a 20,000-scenario dataset called nuReasoning that asks autonomous-driving models to explain their decisions in rare road situations, aiming to improve r…
World models are machine learning systems that build internal representations of environments to predict changes over time, enabling agents to plan and act without real-world trial and error. Jürgen Schmidhuber introduce…
Qwen-Drive 1.0, developed by Alibaba's Qwen team, turns the general-purpose Qwen3.5-4B vision-language model into a driving foundation model by adding a BEV perception head and a 1.1B-parameter Planning Expert, achieving…
XPENG showcased its physical AI technology at IFA Berlin, highlighting technical details of its ADAS and smart cabin features in current and upcoming products for European customers. John Ma, Senior Director and Head of …
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley discussed the company's shift to seven-day data retention defaults and deployment of AI systems to monitor law enforcement conduct in an All-In Podcast interview with Jason Calacanis, as …
Uber and Wayve launched the UK's first supervised robotaxi rides in London, deploying 15 all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles with a trained, Transport for London-licensed private-hire driver behind the wheel. The s…
Alibaba's research arm released Qwen-Drive 1.0, an AI model that integrates environmental perception, traffic Q&A, and route planning for autonomous driving, but the researchers found that text-image models lack inherent…
Alibaba's Qwen team, with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, released Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B, an open-source model for autonomous driving that integrates driving-scene understanding and motion planning. Built on Q…
Emergent Ventures, a fellowship program by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, announced its 59th cohort of winners, including 15-year-old Maximilian Kornstein from the Atlanta area, who is building AI agents…
Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber Technologies Co. Ltd., is reportedly returning to the ride-hailing market by developing robotaxi technology at his new startup Atoms, according to a Financial Times report on Sunda…
Tesla Inc. announced that its Robotaxi fleet surpassed one million miles of unsupervised operation, up from 380,000 miles disclosed in late July, during its Cybercab event in Austin on September 3. Tesla Vice President o…
Tesla AI lead Ashok Elluswamy said on September 4, 2026, that 24-hour Robotaxi service will arrive 'next month or so' once 'the next tech to merge on the v15 plan' is ready, marking the clearest timeline yet for overnigh…