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Faulty backup camera systems have triggered recalls of approximately 21 million vehicles in the US since the government mandated the technology eight years ago, including nearly 6 million in the last year alone, accordin…
Hybrid cars, led by the Toyota RAV4, have become the hottest segment in the global new car market, accounting for about 1 in 7 new cars sold in the US last year, up from less than 3 percent in 2020, according to a Bloomb…
Australia's plug-in vehicle penetration rate fell to approximately 31% in July 2026, with 33,869 plug-in vehicles sold out of almost 108,000 total sales, down from a record 36% in June, according to CleanTechnica. Tesla'…
China exported 1.043 million vehicles in July, up 81.3% year over year, with NEV exports reaching 553,000 units, a 145.5% increase, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). This marks the se…
Kookmin University researchers, led by professor Kim Jang-ho, developed SharedKD, a technology that compresses 3D object detection models for autonomous driving, in collaboration with Hyundai Motor. The findings were pre…
GameShame Studios founder Nidhish Sajwan revealed in NeoPod's sixth community AMA that Raijin Protocol, an on-chain aerial combat PvP game under development on Neo X since 2025, chose the chain for its MEV-resistant desi…
Chevrolet, the US-based automaker, is exiting the Chinese market after 21 years, citing a sharp drop in sales and competitiveness as plug-in vehicles now account for 63% of China's auto sales. At its peak, Chevrolet sold…
Waymo has imported 3,200 Zeekr-built Ojai electric robotaxis into the United States despite a 102.5% tariff on Chinese-made EVs, with more than 2,600 deliveries in 2026 and about 500 vehicles recently spotted at a Waymo …
Xiaomi has delivered 216,322 vehicles in 2026, less than half of its 550,000 annual target, with July deliveries at 31,267, indicating the company is significantly behind schedule. The shortfall suggests Xiaomi will like…
Volkswagen is applying its platform strategy to autonomous driving with the HS8 platform, which includes the GAIA 2.0 data and simulation system and the HS foundation model, deployed in vehicles starting with the ID. ERA…
Comma.ai launched chestnut, a compute upgrade for its comma four device, enabling openpilot to run a new 1B parameter driving model that is 30x larger and uses 100x more FLOPs than previous on-device models. The chestnut…
Applied Intuition, Inc., a $15 billion Silicon Valley company founded in 2017, is hiring a Software Engineer for Prediction and Planning ML in Sunnyvale, California, with a salary range of $151,000 to $258,000 per year. …
Google DeepMind, Nvidia, Meta, and well-funded AI startups are racing to build 'world models' that predict real-world consequences, a shift beyond language models that could enable robots, autonomous vehicles, and other …
Tesla faces an uphill battle to obtain Beijing's approval for its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system in China due to data regulation concerns, according to analysts cited by the South China Morning Post. Meanwhile, European …
Celona launched Celona Orion, a unified agentic converged wireless platform that merges private 5G, Wi-Fi, public cellular, and satellite connectivity into a single network fabric for physical AI and robotics. The platfo…
Auterion CEO and founder Lorenz Meier outlined three ways AI and drones are transforming modern warfare, citing their growing role in surveillance, targeting, and autonomous operations on the battlefield.
NATO is building the Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative, a digital battlespace network using AI-assisted drones, sensors, and satellites to detect and repel potential Russian attacks along its eastern border, while keep…
NVIDIA introduced OmniDreams, a real-time generative world model for closed-loop autonomous vehicle simulation, built from the Cosmos diffusion model and trained on 21k hours of driving scenarios. In tests, a world-actio…
Researchers introduced 4D-WAM, a world-action model that uses geometric foundation models during training to enforce 4D consistency in predicted driving scenes, improving trajectory planning. The model achieved state-of-…
Pony.ai expects to deploy 500 to 1,000 Gen-4 autonomous heavy-duty trucks in China over the next two to three years and aims for 100,000 L4 autonomous light-duty trucks by 2030, according to He Xing, Vice President of Po…