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Tesla AI lead Ashok Elluswamy said on August 3 that manual max-speed control is an 'anti-pattern' for Full Self-Driving and that the team is working on learning drivers' implied preferences. The statement did not announc…
Tesla's AI lead Ashok Elluswamy confirmed that the company will not restore the Max Speed setting in Full Self-Driving (FSD), calling it 'an anti pattern' and stating that Tesla is working on better learning of user's im…
Nvidia released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34 billion parameter vision language action model for commercial robotaxi development, available under the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW 1.1 license. The model, which can generate driving…
Blue Water Autonomy, led by CEO Rylan Hamilton, was selected by the U.S. Navy to compete for open-ocean mapping work under a two-year contract with a shared ceiling of $40 million, covering international waters in the In…
NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, its largest open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles, under the permissive OpenMDW-1.1 license, enabling commercial use by automakers and AV startups. The model, roughly three times …
NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34-billion-parameter reasoning model for autonomous driving, for commercial use on August 4, 2026, under the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW-1.1 license, clearing a licensing barrier that h…
China has begun testing an AI-powered maritime patrol vessel, the 12-meter Haixun 14102, in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, which can navigate, avoid obstacles, and assist in rescue simulations without constant human contr…
Elon Musk now spends nearly 50% of his speaking time on Tesla Inc. earnings calls discussing artificial intelligence, robotaxis, and Full Self-Driving software, up from 15%-20% in 2022, according to an analysis by TechCr…
NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, an open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles, now available for commercial use under the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW-1.1 license. The model ranks first on the LingoQA benchmark, outper…
NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, an open 34-billion-parameter reasoning vision-language-action model for autonomous vehicle development, combining a 32-billion-parameter Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner with a 2-billion-paramete…
Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works and the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School flew an AI agent through 27 live, sensor-guided fighter intercepts on the X-62 VISTA, the first flight-test series where onboard targeting data from …
Joby Aviation announced a strategic partnership with Atoms, the industrial AI and infrastructure company founded by ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, to acquire and develop a network of vertiports across the US, initially tar…
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov said at a Y Combinator talk released Monday that Silicon Valley's 'move fast and break things' mantra is unacceptable for physical AI, where mistakes can cost human lives, and advocated instead…
XPENG's sales rose 4% year over year in July 2026 to 38,027 vehicles, up from 36,717 in July 2025, according to the company's monthly investor update. Cumulative sales reached 1,211,071 vehicles, and the company announce…
NIO Inc. reported 35,934 vehicle deliveries in July 2026, a 71% increase from 21,017 in July 2025, though down from 40,597 in June 2026. The company's cumulative deliveries reached 1,224,649 by end of July, with the NIO …
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov said at Startup School 2026 that the Waymo Driver now completes 500,000 trips per week and drives over four million fully autonomous miles weekly across 15 U.S. cities, with 17 times fewer seri…
Ukraine's military began receiving Shrike drones in mid-July equipped with AI-powered autonomy from US company Auterion, enabling autonomous tracking and strikes on moving targets without GPS. The Ukrainian company SkyFa…
The US Army has awarded an 18-month contract to Harbinger Motors, a California-based EV startup, for uncrewed, hybrid-electric resupply vehicles, with American Rheinmetall as the lead contractor and partners Forterra and…
A shooting spree in Twin Falls, Idaho on Saturday wounded a taxi driver sitting in his Tesla at a Supercharger station; he is alive but undergoing multiple surgeries. CleanTechnica advises EV drivers to stay safe at char…
Wall Street shrugged off a global slump as S&P 500 futures rose 0.49% ahead of Palantir Technologies' Q2 earnings, while electric air taxis from Joby Aviation are set for pilot projects this summer. Joby Aviation executi…