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June 2026 saw major gadget announcements at Computex, Apple's WWDC, and AWE, including Dell's XPS 13 laptop, Segway's Navimow X430 lawn mower, and Xbox Series X25, but rising component costs due to AI data center demand …
Ford Motor Co. reduced new-car problems by 21% after hiring 350 veteran engineers to fix quality issues that arose when the company relied too heavily on artificial intelligence. The automaker ranked first among mainstre…
BlackRock's iShares Micro-Cap ETF (IWC) increased its holdings in Strive Inc. by 79,805 shares, bringing total holdings to 213,713 shares valued at approximately $3 million. Strive, a Bitcoin treasury company, now holds …
China announced the initial scale deployment of embodied AI in complex automotive supply chains, challenging Western dominance in high-value manufacturing. The move aligns with Beijing's 'Made in China 2025' strategy to …
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe wants his electric vehicle company to be compared to Apple and Nike rather than Tesla, emphasizing product quality and brand identity over competing directly with Tesla's scale. Despite a challengi…
Ottawa-based defence tech company Dominion Dynamics raised $139 million CAD in Series A financing, led by Georgian with participation from Valor Equity Partners, OMERS Ventures, and others. The round, Canada's largest de…
Ferrari and BMW have begun replacing copper wiring with aluminum in their electric and hybrid vehicles, challenging the demand thesis that has driven copper prices to record highs. The shift, driven by aluminum's lower c…
Researchers trained a Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) on unlabeled driving data from the nuPlan dataset and used temporal prediction error as a zero-shot complexity score, finding it effectively identifies…
Researchers introduced GeoISF, a large-scale LiDAR-to-satellite image geo-localization pipeline that uses an instance semantic forest built from WordNet to bridge the modality gap between point clouds and satellite image…
A developer used Comma.ai's open dataset to build a case study on Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) systems, demonstrating how the data can be leveraged for safety-critical automotive applications. The project highlights…
A gyrocopter crashed Monday morning near Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose, injuring two people. One person suffered moderate injuries and was released from a hospital, while the other had minor injuries. The Federal Avi…
Germany is awarding a €580mn contract to Munich AI firm Helsing to build the software brain for its future air warfare system, the Combat Fighter System Nucleus, after the joint Franco-German fighter jet project collapse…
A helicopter made a violent emergency landing in Changzhou, China, on June 11 after its tail broke off, tossing two passengers inside like rag dolls. The passengers were hospitalized with non-critical injuries.
Firefly Aerospace successfully operated an NVIDIA Jetson platform in lunar orbit for the first time aboard its Blue Ghost lander, demonstrating edge AI capabilities in cislunar space. The milestone supports NASA's CLPS p…
USC hosted the Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference and the International Conference on Neuro-Symbolic Systems simultaneously in June, bringing together researchers to address the gap between AI systems that learn …
BMW Group will deploy Figure 03 humanoid robots at its Spartanburg plant after a successful 11-month pilot with Figure 02, which produced over 30,000 BMW X3 vehicles. The new robots will handle logistics sequencing tasks…
BlackBerry shares surged after the company reported Q1 revenue of $152.9 million, up 26% year-over-year, and its fourth net profit in five quarters. The former smartphone maker has transformed into a B2B enterprise softw…
BlackBerry shares surged after the company reported Q1 revenue of $152.9 million, up 26% year-over-year, and a net profit for the fourth time in five quarters. The former smartphone maker now focuses on its QNX operating…
Chinese humanoid startups AI²Robotics and X Square Robot both surpassed 20 billion RMB in valuation on the same day, with AI²Robotics raising nearly 5 billion RMB and X Square Robot completing four rounds in two months. …
Tesla released Full Self-Driving v14 'Lite' to Hardware 3 vehicles, distilling AI4's capabilities into older hardware. The update introduces parking, unparking, reversing, arrival options, and speed profiles, with improv…