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Hyundai Motor and Kia opened UX Studio Shanghai, a user experience research center in Shanghai's Jing'an district, to study Chinese consumer trends and apply them to future vehicle development. The companies said China's…
Researchers have developed EGRNet, a lightweight semantic segmentation network with only 0.46 million parameters that achieves 65.28% mean Intersection over Union on the Cityscapes dataset, designed for real-time urban s…
Researchers present SafeGen, a goal-conditioned diffusion framework for generating safety-critical driving scenarios to evaluate vision-language models (VLMs) in autonomous driving systems. SafeGen increases the Judge Ov…
Elon Musk hinted at a potential merger between SpaceX and Tesla during Tesla's earnings call on Wednesday, raising analysts' expectations to a 90% probability according to Deepwater's Gene Munster. Musk cited growing col…
Chinese AI startup PsiBot, also known as Lingchu Intelligence, is raising close to US$100 million at a US$1.48 billion valuation, making it one of the few unicorns in embodied AI and world models. The funding round is le…
Tesla's heavy spending on AI, robotics, and self-driving technology drove operating profit down sharply in the second quarter, even as revenue rose 23% to $28 billion. CFO Vaibhav Taneja said the company plans to spend m…
Tesla's adjusted earnings fell to US$0.33 a share in Q2, missing the US$0.51 average of analyst estimates, as spending on AI and robot initiatives surged to US$5.8 billion, resulting in the company's first cash burn in t…
Tesla missed analysts' profit forecasts for the second quarter and reported negative free cash flow for the first time in over two years as Elon Musk's AI spending surged. Adjusted profit was 33 cents per share, below th…
Travis Kalanick revealed that he spent eight years secretly building Atoms, a portfolio of industrial AI businesses including Cloud Kitchens (hundreds of facilities in 30 countries), autonomous mining company Pronto, and…
Tesla's Q2 2026 revenues rose 26% to $28.2 billion, but operating expenses surged 47% to $4.4 billion, squeezing net income to $1.1 billion—down 5% year over year—as CEO Elon Musk spends heavily on AI. The company's prof…
Physical AI firms have raised more than $23 billion in venture capital in 2026 so far, according to The Wall Street Journal, with major deals including Waymo's $16 billion Series D, Skild AI's $1.4 billion Series C, NEUR…
Tesla delivered a record 480,126 vehicles in Q2 2026, but revenue fell 12% to $22.5 billion and operating income plunged 42% to $0.9 billion, missing earnings per share consensus of $0.42 with $0.40. The company's aggres…
Tesla Inc. reported a 55% drop in second-quarter net income to $1.48 billion, as discounts on electric vehicles weighed on results and capital expenditures more than doubled to $2.27 billion, driven by the company's acce…
Tesla reported $28.2 billion in Q2 2026 revenue, up 26% year over year, but net income fell 5% to $1.11 billion, missing profit expectations. The company posted negative free cash flow of $1.1 billion, citing heavy spend…
Travis Kalanick's robotics company Atoms is betting on specialized industrial robots rather than humanoids, with divisions in food, mining, and transport built on the existing CloudKitchens infrastructure. The company's …
Travis Kalanick's industrial automation company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion and is staffing a physical AI empire, with 55 open positions on its Greenhouse board as of Wednesday. The hiring push, announced via X on July…
Tesla will report second-quarter earnings after the closing bell Wednesday, with investors focused on updates about robotaxis, humanoid robots, and a potential SpaceX-Tesla merger. Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Andres Sheppa…
Automakers are adapting their electrification technologies to the home energy business, with Ford offering a new setup that allows drivers of certain F-150 models to plug their vehicle directly into their electric meter …
Hybrids accounted for nearly one in four new car registrations in California in the second quarter, surpassing electric vehicles at 17.8%, according to the California New Car Dealers Association. The shift reflects affor…
Santa Monica is using AI-enhanced cameras mounted on city parking enforcement vehicles to catch drivers illegally parked in bike lanes, issuing a $93 fine per violation. The Automated Bike Lane Enforcement Program, power…