Autonomous Vehicles

The US Army conducted a tabletop exercise inspired by Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb drone attack to prepare for defending its bases against drone strikes and cyber attacks. The exercise highlighted the need for layered c…

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Michael Morton discussed e-commerce in the age of AI, covering challenges like unfalsifiable bear cases, distribution versus referral models, grocery, and autonomous vehicles in an interview on Stratechery.

Investors are speculating about a potential merger between SpaceX and Tesla after SpaceX's $85 billion IPO made it worth over $1 trillion more than Tesla. Analysts and investors argue the combination could create synergi…

Researchers achieved first place in the ICRA 2026 GOOSE 2D Fine-Grained Semantic Segmentation Challenge by combining a DINOv3 ViT-L/16 backbone with a Mask2Former decoder and inference-time aggregation, scoring 76.57% co…

Researchers introduced BeliefDiffusion, a framework combining diffusion models and model predictive control for navigation in partially observable environments. The method outperformed reinforcement learning and other ge…

Researchers introduced TRIDENT, the first multi-agent reinforcement learning framework that co-designs three components to cancel biases from hybrid discrete-continuous actions, safety constraints, and physics-governed d…

Odyssey, an AI lab founded by self-driving veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, with Amazon participating and committing to AWS as its preferred cl…

Illinois could become the first U.S. state to make driving while wearing AI smart glasses a felony, after the General Assembly approved a bill updating distracted-driving law with no hands-free or stopped-traffic excepti…

Three aircraft crashes in Missouri, California, and Texas killed 21 people in recent days, prompting federal investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board. The accidents involved a business jet in Laredo, Te…

Disneyland must retire the gas-powered Autopia cars by February under a settlement with California's air pollution regulator, or close the attraction. The park plans to replace them with fully electric vehicles as part o…

The Senate Armed Services Committee adopted an amendment from Sen. Mark Kelly requiring 'ultimate human responsibility' in AI-powered kill chains, as autonomous weapons systems proliferate in conflicts like the U.S.-Iran…

VisionWave Holdings (Nasdaq: VWAV) debuted the VARAN Autonomous Ground System at Eurosatory 2026 in Paris, showcasing live hardware demonstrations alongside its STRATUM AI platform and a stereo/thermal sensing collaborat…

Mistral AI has emerged as a major force in the AI startup landscape, with its models gaining significant traction and attention. The company's latest developments, including competitive pricing and strong benchmark perfo…

BareMetal OS now runs inside Firecracker microVMs with a cold start time under 1 millisecond, achieving ~700µs with network and disk enabled on an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395. The project enables near-instant-on, hardware-isol…

General Motors is cutting its vehicle development cycles in half by using AI and simulation, aiming to match the two-year pace of Chinese automakers like BYD. The effort is led by Sterling Anderson, a former Tesla execut…

Ouster and AIM Intelligent Machines announced a strategic agreement for Ouster digital lidar sensors to retrofit heavy earthmoving equipment into AI-enabled autonomous fleets for mining, construction, and defense. The de…

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology developed an AI charging algorithm that, in simulation, extended lithium-ion battery life by 23% compared to standard methods, though it has only been tested on a single s…

Wireless connectivity, not artificial intelligence, is the primary bottleneck limiting the deployment of autonomous systems such as drones and robots in real-world environments, according to an analysis by EE Times. The …

Researchers introduced DriveJudge, a driving evaluation agent that combines rule-grounded evaluation with Vision-Language Model (VLM) reasoning to assess autonomous driving in a context-aware and interpretable manner. Dr…