Autonomous Vehicles news and analysis on Web Pulse: 1273 curated articles tracking the latest Autonomous Vehicles developments, tools, and research, updated continuously from vetted sources.
General Motors is using artificial intelligence, simulation, and decades of engineering data to compress its vehicle development timeline from the standard four to six years down to two years. The automaker, which alread…
Russian military trucks, including Ural and KAMAZ models, have been painted with black-and-white "dazzle" patterns to confuse AI-enabled machine-vision targeting used by Ukrainian drones, according to multiple reports. T…
Researchers introduced GeoDrive-Bench, a benchmark of 5,053 human-validated multiple-choice questions across six countries to test vision-language models on region-specific traffic rules and driving behavior. Testing nin…
Longshot Space Technologies is developing a compressed gas cannon at Alameda Point that the company says could dramatically reduce the cost of launching cargo into space. The system, which uses 40-foot segments of sewer …
A developer used IBM's Granite-3.2-8B large language model to build a modular control system for an autonomous racing agent in the TORCS simulator. The system implements proportional-derivative steering, adaptive braking…
A developer is building an autonomous racing agent for the TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator) simulator, aiming to complete a clean lap around the Corkscrew track without crashing. The project will use a local LLM, IB…
Police identified Janelle Margaret Benson Weispfenning, 50, of Livermore, as the motorcyclist killed after she allegedly ran a red light and collided with a Tesla sedan driven by an 87-year-old woman on April 28. The 87-…
NVIDIA released Cosmos 3, a multimodal world foundation model that processes text, images, video, audio, and actions within a single architecture for robotics and physical AI development. The model generates physically a…
General Motors Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson said the automaker is entering a "third epoch" of engineering where artificial intelligence and machine learning are compressing development timelines from 15 hours …
NVIDIA today released a major open source collection of physical AI agent skills and tools spanning Omniverse, Cosmos, Alpamayo and Metropolis, designed to turn complex robotics, autonomous vehicle, vision AI and industr…
NVIDIA released Alpamayo, an open portfolio of AI models and simulation frameworks for autonomous vehicle development, including the AlpaGym closed-loop training framework that enables post-training of AV policies throug…
NVIDIA today launched Alpamayo 2 Super, a 32-billion-parameter open reasoning model for level 4 robotaxi development, alongside new simulation tools AlpaGym and OmniDreams. The model reasons, plans and acts across the fu…
NVIDIA announced Cosmos 3, a new world foundation model that combines vision reasoning and multimodal generation to help physical AI systems — including robots, autonomous vehicles and smart spaces — predict and act on f…
NVIDIA released Cosmos 3, the first open omni-model for physical AI reasoning and action, on Hugging Face June 1, 2026. The single unified model combines world generation, physical reasoning, and action generation, repla…
NVIDIA has released Cosmos 3, a unified foundation model for physical AI that combines reasoning, world generation, and action generation into a single open-source system. The model uses a Mixture-of-Transformers archite…
Chevrolet has added an off-road-oriented Trail Boss trim to its Silverado EV lineup for 2026, marking the first major expansion of the automaker's only electric truck since its debut. The new model features a factory-ins…
A Russian military KamAZ truck has been photographed with a black-and-white "dazzle camouflage" pattern, a World War I naval technique designed to confuse optical rangefinders, in an apparent attempt to evade Ukrainian s…
Seven of nine former Tesla data labelers who trained the company's Full Self-Driving (FSD) software said they would not ride in a vehicle operating on the system, according to a Reuters investigation. The workers, who re…
Taiwan faces a losing economic battle in a potential conflict with China, as the island cannot sustain the cost of defending against cheap, mass-produced drones and missiles. China's industrial base and political system …
Elon Musk is considering merging SpaceX and Tesla, a deal that would create a combined company valued at $3.4 trillion, making it the fifth most valuable publicly-traded firm globally. Despite the massive valuation, the …