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Two 15-year-olds were arrested in San Mateo after a Waymo autonomous vehicle they were riding in alerted police to their misbehavior, including drinking alcohol and shooting water beads from a toy gun. The car stopped in…
Defense stocks surged to record highs as governments increase military spending on weapons and AI battlefield technology, driven by geopolitical tensions and the need to replace depleted stockpiles. The iShares U.S. Aero…
The US, China, and Russia are collectively investing over $2 trillion in AI, drones, hypersonic weapons, and satellite systems, reshaping the global arms race. The Pentagon's fiscal 2026 budget includes a record $13.4 bi…
In 1926, Berkeley launched a major vehicle safety campaign, including a parade with wrecked cars and a morgue wagon, to educate motorists and pedestrians about new red stop signs. The city simultaneously promoted road de…
A developer built a Bangladesh Rickshaw Traffic Dataset for Physical AI, Computer Vision, Robotics, and Autonomous Driving research. The dataset captures complex urban traffic scenes with rickshaws, motorcycles, buses, t…
9 Mothers (YC P26) is hiring for 9 roles in Austin, TX to build counter-drone systems combining AI perception, kinetic engagement, and kill-chain integration. The startup emphasizes short iteration loops, real telemetry …
Hesai Technology, a Chinese lidar maker partnered with Nvidia on autonomous-vehicle platforms, faces renewed U.S. cybersecurity scrutiny after being designated a Chinese military company. AUVSI CEO Michael Robbins cited …
Defense tech startups have raised $12.3 billion in venture funding since the start of 2026, nearly double the amount from the same period last year, as investors shift from generic AI to military-focused autonomy and sen…
KDDI announced a feasibility study to deploy AI-powered drones in Vietnam and the Philippines, supported by Japanese government subsidies. The project, involving KDDI SmartDrone, will assess technical and regulatory requ…
Boston Dynamics vice president Matt Malchano says AI is enabling autonomous robots to perform complex tasks in workplaces and potentially homes, a shift from 15 years ago when robots could only navigate from point A to B…
Chile is reviewing the future of state-owned Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, as an internal audit reveals a 27,000-tonne overstatement of 2025 production, bringing output to its lowest in 27 years. The revi…
A product manager recounts how an automated evaluation caught a bug that would have slipped through a 'vibe coded' tool, prompting a historical look at human-in-the-loop versus human-on-the-loop automation. The US Air Fo…
Israeli maritime AI and navigation startups are being positioned as tools to help ships navigate drone attacks and GPS jamming around the Strait of Hormuz, according to a July 7, 2026 opinion article in the Jerusalem Pos…
HIVE, a London-based physical AI startup, raised $15 million in pre-Series A funding to build an intelligence layer for industrial machines. The company retrofits vehicles with a silicon brain that enables autonomous ope…
Researchers at a university found that selectively applying monocular depth priors from Depth Anything V2 improves sparse-view neural reconstruction in driving scenes, with Splatfacto gaining 1.029 PSNR and reducing RMSE…
Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) and Naver signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly develop an AI foundation model for defense applications, combining Naver's AI and cloud technologies with KAI's aerospace expert…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3% on Monday after President Donald Trump made bullish remarks about U.S. equities. Micron Technology gained amid a chip rebound, while SpaceX fell ahead of its Nasdaq-100 inclusio…
Rosenblatt named Ambarella Inc. a top pick for the second half of 2026 with a $120 price target, driving a surge in the company's shares. The edge-AI chipmaker reported $100.4 million in fiscal Q1 2027 revenue, up 16.9% …
UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, warning that AI deployment is outpacing governance and that humanity cannot 'vibe code' its future. He called for an inte…
Google Cloud and Valtech launched Nexus SDV, an open-source, AI-enabled connected vehicle platform built on Google Cloud to secure and scale software-defined vehicles. The platform integrates Gemini AI models for real-ti…