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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…
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…