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Elon Musk said Tesla should spend on AI 'as fast as we can' even if some money is wasted, as the EV giant's capital expenditure soared 142% year-over-year to $5.8 billion in Q2 2026. Tesla recorded a negative free cash f…
Tesla raised its 2026 capital expenditure guidance to over $25 billion, up from over $20 billion in January, as the EV maker bets heavily on AI, the Cybercab robotaxi program, and the Optimus humanoid robot line. The com…
Tesla reported record revenue of $28.24B in Q2 2026 but missed profit forecasts with adjusted EPS of $0.33 versus Wall Street expectations of $0.50-$0.53, and free cash flow swung to negative $1.1B, the first deficit in …
Tesla shares fell roughly 6% in premarket trading on July 23, dragging S&P 500 futures down about 0.3% ahead of the company's Q2 earnings report. The sell-off came despite Tesla delivering 480,126 vehicles in Q2, beating…
Uber cut 10% of its community operations team on July 22, 2026, becoming the first gig-economy giant to directly blame AI for job reductions, according to a memo from vice-president Megha Yethatika. The cuts target custo…
Travis Kalanick's industrial AI company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion, with autonomous mining trucks already surpassing human productivity and delivering 20–40% yield gains for customers like Vale. Kalanick argues the bi…
Anyscale Inc. today introduced the Anyscale Physical AI Skill, a new workload skill for building robotics and autonomous-driving systems with Ray and Anyscale that generates code, dependency pins, compute configuration, …
Hyundai Motor and Kia opened UX Studio Shanghai, a user experience research hub in Shanghai's Jing'an District, to deepen China-specific vehicle development as competition intensifies in the world's largest auto market. …
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 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…
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…
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…