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Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov warned physical AI companies against adopting Silicon Valley's 'move fast and break things' mantra, urging them instead to 'move fast and ship safely' in a Y Combinator interview released this …
SAIC Volkswagen, a joint venture between SAIC and Volkswagen in China, has filed with China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for its first fully electric ID. ERA vehicle, the ID. ERA 5X SUV, which featur…
Marcos Aerospace, a Greek startup founded in Athens in January 2026, is developing Quencher, a 4,500-liter unmanned amphibious firefighting aircraft designed to attack wildfires within the critical first 20 to 30 minutes…
Australian startups Breaker, Brumby, and Superstat have raised successful funding rounds by building moats beyond software, according to a report. Breaker, founded in 2023, raised A$9 million in seed funding in February …
Physical AI, the integration of AI into autonomous systems that perceive and act in the physical world, is projected by PwC to grow from about $92 billion to surpass $489 billion by 2030, with use cases spanning manufact…
A 2026 comparison of Amazon Redshift alternatives finds ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks each optimized for different workloads, with ClickHouse leading in real-time, high-concurrency analytics and Snowfla…
BYD's Denza brand launched the Z9S EV in China, setting records with up to 1100 km (684 mi) of CLTC range and a 0-100 km/h time of 2.68 seconds for the top spec, all at a price around the average US new car price. The Z9…
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…