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Tesla released Full Self-Driving v14 'Lite' for older Hardware 3 vehicles, bringing features like parking preferences and speed profiles to AI3 cars. The rollout began in the Early Access Program, with CEO Elon Musk prev…
Tesla has started rolling out FSD v14 'Lite' to Hardware 3 cars, bringing a distilled version of its newer software stack to roughly 4 million vehicles that had been frozen on FSD v12.6 since early 2025. The update remai…
A drone nearly struck a United Airlines Boeing 737 landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on Friday, coming within 100 feet of the aircraft. The pilot of United Flight 1513 reported the circular, three-foot-wide…
Europe's aerospace and defense sector faces a defining decade as geopolitical instability and advances in autonomous systems drive a push for technological independence. The conflict in Ukraine has exposed vulnerabilitie…
Chinese self-driving software firm Momenta opened its Hong Kong IPO on Monday, seeking up to $752 million to fund AI research and robotaxi development. The GM-backed company, valued at nearly $9 billion, is selling 19.9 …
XPENG unveiled its Physical-World Foundation Model roadmap and VLA 2.0 autonomous driving system at CVPR 2026, with the model already in mass production and capturing over 50% of assisted-driving mileage share in its fir…
Soitec, a French semiconductor materials company, partnered with Chinese foundry ZenSemi to mass-produce 300mm BCD-on-SOI substrates for power chips used in AI datacenters, electric vehicles, and humanoid robots. The dea…
The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL) will make its international debut on September 5, 2026, at Imola, Italy, bringing up to five fully autonomous Dallara Super Formula SF23 racecars to the iconic track. Organiz…
DIT (Hunan Display Innovation Technology) launched the MST3588XB NANO, an industrial mini PC powered by the Rockchip RK3588 octa-core processor, targeting edge AI, robotics, and autonomous systems. The device features up…
On June 29, 1995, the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis docked with Russia's Mir space station while orbiting Earth, marking a milestone in international space cooperation.
Researchers have developed OverFlowLight, a real-time framework that uses multi-modal sensing from cameras and radars to detect and prevent queue overflow at urban intersections. Deployed across 43 intersections in three…
Researchers at arXiv have developed a reinforcement learning method to train autonomous agents with policies that make their internal state more observable through their actions, even without explicit communication. The …
Researchers propose SemCityLoc, a semantic-geometric alignment system for aerial 6DoF localization that uses foundation-model-derived visual priors and standardized LoD-compliant 3D city models, improving recall by up to…
Researchers propose HIA-GAT, a heterogeneous graph attention network for frame-level traffic conflict risk prediction on freeways. The model outperforms baselines on NGSIM datasets, achieving AUC up to 0.867, and provide…
NIO's F2 electric vehicle plant in Hefei, China, operates with 98% automation, using 941 KUKA robots for body assembly and AI-driven systems to produce one car per minute. The factory employs a zero-inventory model, gene…
Shane van Gisbergen held off Chase Briscoe on the final lap to win the NASCAR Cup Series Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway for the second consecutive year, completing a weekend sweep. Van Gisbergen led 74 of 110 lap…
A cyclist riding an e-bike died after colliding with a car Saturday afternoon in Fremont, marking the city's sixth fatal traffic collision of 2026. The crash occurred at 4:34 p.m. near Grimmer Boulevard on Auto Mall Park…
Iran launched drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait on Sunday in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes, threatening to halt negotiations if Washington continues its attacks. The strikes targeted Gulf states hosting U…
9 Mothers, a Y Combinator-backed defense startup, is selling Edda, an AI-powered point-defense turret designed to stop small FPV suicide drones at close range. The Austin-based company has sold $1.6 million of systems to…
Jeep has revived the Cherokee for its sixth generation as a hybrid, following a 2023 discontinuation due to poor sales. The 2026 model features a turbocharged 1.6-liter engine with two electric motors, achieving 210 hors…