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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a preliminary investigation on September 21 into Comma AI's driver-assistance devices after five reported crashes in which equipped vehicles struck slow-moving or…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra became the first model to complete DrivingBench, a new benchmark from Aditya Ramabadran, Simon Mahns and Tobias Gessler that lets frontier language models drive a real 2022 Toyota Corolla through a r…
GPT-6 Astra, run through Codex at medium reasoning effort, completed 100% of the DrivingBench cone course in 5:22, the only model to finish among four frontier models given control of a Toyota Corolla's steering, acceler…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a formal investigation into aftermarket driver-assistance devices sold by startup Comma.AI following five crashes that killed three people and seriously injured 1…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation has opened a federal probe into aftermarket driver-assist devices from comma.ai, citing five crashes in which drivers using the devices…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of Defects Investigation opened a preliminary evaluation (PE26007) into Comma.ai's aftermarket hands-off driver assistance technology after five reported crashe…
Geely Automobile Holdings unveiled a charging system in Ningbo, China, on Wednesday that it claims can replenish an electric vehicle from 10% to 70% in 4.5 minutes and from 10% to 97% in 8 minutes and 40 seconds, using a…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating Comma.ai after at least two serious crashes — one fatal in Ascension Parish, Louisiana involving a Toyota RAV4, and one injury crash in Cameron, Missour…
Ukraine is deploying AI-guided drone autonomy in two forms: "last mile" guidance, in which a human pilot flies a drone near a target and onboard AI takes over for the final stretch, and full "mission autonomy," in which …
Tesla launched Grok Bot capability on September 22, 2026, letting drivers manage email, calendars, files, chats, and tasks by voice and delegate multi-step errands such as placing coffee orders, booking reservations, or …
The US Navy demonstrated its Collaborative Autonomy Mission Planning tool, or CAMP, at the Point Mugu Sea range in California earlier this month, connecting the system to General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc.'s MQ-20…
Mercedes-Benz signed a definitive production agreement with British self-driving startup Wayve to integrate Wayve's end-to-end "AI Driver" into future Mercedes vehicles, with integration starting within two years. The de…
Mercedes-Benz signed a production agreement to integrate Wayve's AI Driver self-driving software into future models within two years, making the German carmaker the first premium automaker to adopt the London start-up's …
A developer built "Fly-By-Wire," a project that uses the fruit fly connectome from the 2024 FlyWire reconstruction (Dorkenwald et al., 2024) to steer an autonomous vehicle, isolating 1,122 neurons from one visual circuit…
Waabi said it completed the first fully autonomous truck run without the system previously practicing the 300-mile drive in simulation or relying on new real-world data. The Forbes report attributes the claim to the Toro…
Mercedes-Benz will integrate Wayve's autonomous driving system into at least one model to be deployed within the next two years, as the German carmaker aims to close an AI gap with Chinese rivals, the Financial Times rep…
A new chip called LightTok converts light directly into 'tokens' for AI, according to Live Science, with the aim of slashing energy use in drones and other autonomous machines. The report gives no figures for the chip's …
AI researcher Gary Marcus published an open letter to Elon Musk challenging Musk's prediction that artificial general intelligence will arrive by 2029, arguing that current deep learning techniques struggle with edge cas…
Researchers introduced the Industrial Kinematic Trajectory Model (IKTM), a coordinate-free autoregressive trajectory generator that represents industrial vehicle motion through kinematic sequences of speed and heading ch…
A hybrid vision architecture combining frame-based and event-based cameras achieves segmentation rates up to 500 Hz at under 1.87 mJ per inference, according to an arXiv paper (arXiv:2609.22500v1). The system pairs a 42k…