Autonomous Vehicles news and analysis on Web Pulse: 1267 curated articles tracking the latest Autonomous Vehicles developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
A SpaceX Falcon rocket's upper stage slammed into the moon on Wednesday as predicted, after drifting off course for a year, scientists reported. A telescope in Chile spotted the debris plume, and Boston University's Carl…
Project Phoenix, an autonomous AI agent system, has been updated, featuring a fleet of agents, a command queue, a development tree, and a board of governors, with the director auto-playing over the checkpointer, World, a…
Edmunds' auto experts selected the 2026 Toyota RAV4, Nissan Pathfinder, Jeep Grand Wagoneer, Lincoln Navigator, and Cadillac Escalade IQ as the best SUVs for towing across different size and price categories. The RAV4 to…
Moove, a mobility infrastructure company, announced it raised $250 million in Series C funding, bringing its valuation to $2.1 billion. The round was led by Mubadala Investment Company, Woven Capital, Toyota's Growth Fun…
President Donald Trump's 'American Energy Dominance' plan, which supports biomass alongside fossil fuels, is benefiting sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects, including the Montana Renewables facility in Great Falls, …
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature a new Real World AI Stage, focusing on the intersection of AI with physical systems, including autonomous vehicles, defense technologies, and de-extinction efforts. The stage will inc…
Quantum Systems has equipped its Vector reconnaissance drone with a yellow fuselage and an onboard AI that autonomously evades interceptor drones, responding to the threat of FPV interceptors that have become the top kil…
CAST AI's 2026 Kubernetes Efficiency Report found CPU overprovisioning jumped from 40% to 69% year over year, and Karpenter's disruption system—consolidation, drift, and expiration—can recover that waste but requires gua…
NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B-parameter vision-language-action model for autonomous driving, under the OpenMDW-1.1 license, enabling commercial use. The model, built on a 32B Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner backbone an…
Leapmotor's new Z9S electric sedan, priced higher than the Z9GT despite being shorter and lower, targets younger buyers with tech features but lacks the emotional appeal needed for luxury status, according to an analysis…
Waymo launched its fully autonomous robotaxi service in Dallas, opening rides to all users via the Waymo app after welcoming nearly 150,000 riders since February 2026. The company also announced plans for fully autonomou…
BYD achieved record exports in July 2026 with 180,538 vehicle sales abroad, a 123.6% increase from 80,737 deliveries in July 2025 and a 3% rise from June 2026's 175,349, according to CleanTechnica. The growth in exports …
US startup Aptera is developing a three-wheeled solar-powered electric vehicle, code-named Atlas, that can use California's HOV lanes without multiple passengers because it qualifies as an autocycle under existing traffi…
BYD, the world's largest electric vehicle maker, reported a 31% year-over-year increase in battery-electric passenger vehicle sales in July 2026, reaching 233,105 units, up from 177,887 in July 2025. Total passenger vehi…
TIER IV, the Tokyo-based developer of the open-source autonomous driving software Autoware, and automotive supplier Astemo signed a memorandum of understanding on August 5, 2026, to jointly build a next-generation develo…
Waymo opened its Dallas robotaxi service to the general public on August 4, 2026, ending the invitation-only phase that began with the city's commercial launch in February. The company reported nearly 150,000 riders thro…
MagicLAG, a maker, developed a method to strengthen 3D-printed parts by embedding carbon-fiber cloth between a core and outer shell layers, more than tripling the yield strength of test hooks compared to standard prints.…
May Mobility, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based autonomous vehicle company, is hiring a Lead Machine Learning Engineer for Localization with a salary of $235k–285k/yr for a remote position in the USA. The role involves archit…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang released Alpamayo 2 Super's model weights and inference code on August 4th, giving autonomous-vehicle developers access to a 34-billion-parameter system designed to perceive road scenes, explain i…
Torc Robotics, a Daimler subsidiary, is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer for its Scene Generation team, offering a salary of $250k–300k per year for a remote position based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The role involv…