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A developer has released Quipu, an open-source library that implements hybrid encryption by combining classical and post-quantum algorithms. The library uses X25519 with ML-KEM-1024 for key exchange and Ed25519 with ML-D…
XPENG reported second-quarter revenue of $2.91 billion, up 8.0% year-over-year and 51.5% from the first quarter, with gross margin rising to 20.7%, though vehicle margin fell to 12.1% and the company posted a net loss of…
OpenAI VP of Product Peter Welinder said in a post on X that affordable Level 5 self-driving is 5-10 years away, defining it as a car priced at $30,000 or less or a robotaxi ride under $0.65 per occupied mile, with no ge…
Pony.ai, a Chinese autonomous driving company, will partner with South Korean mobility firm FutureLink to deploy 200 Level 4 robotaxis in Korea by 2028, starting with 10 vehicles for certification and adding 190 more aft…
Albuquerque and Portland have deployed a traffic signal strategy called 'rest in red' that uses speed sensors to reward drivers traveling at or below the posted limit with earlier green lights, and Albuquerque credits it…
A TechCrunch investigation reveals that Tesla's Autopilot and robotaxi systems have relied on hidden human labor, including staged demonstrations, remote operators, and data annotators, contradicting claims of full auton…
Xpeng unveiled its new VLA 6.3.0 model, which can predict driving scenarios up to 6 seconds ahead, during a Physical AI sharing session. The model features a 30-second memory window, a 300% boost in decision-making speed…
John Black, chief technology officer at Brain Corp, discussed scaling robot fleets and building trust in public spaces on The Robot Report Podcast, where he highlighted the company's fleet of over 50,000 autonomous mobil…
Waymo has launched Gemini in Waymo, a beta in-car conversational assistant for riders in its Ojai robotaxi experience. The feature, accessed via a Gemini icon on the cabin screen, allows riders to use natural language to…
Hyundai Motor Company president and CEO José Muñoz announced at the 2026 CEO Investor Day that the company will launch a new global D-segment electric SUV positioned above the IONIQ 5, part of a plan to introduce 100 new…
US forces at the southern border used the Army Multipurpose High Energy Laser, built by AeroVironment, to shoot down three cartel-linked drones this week, the military said Thursday. The engagements, which began late Tue…
Waymo has imported more than 3,000 Chinese-built Ojai electric vehicles, including 2,600 last year, to deploy in U.S. robotaxi fleets, circumventing tariffs and the Connected Vehicle Rule that ban most Chinese EVs. The v…
A Russian AI-enabled drone reportedly selected its own target in Ukraine, killing three civilians, marking the first known case of an autonomous weapon making a lethal choice without direct human intervention. The global…
A new Spring Boot library, PqcStarterLib, offers four patterns for integrating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) into banking applications, including payload encryption, field-level encryption, document signing with Dilith…
Martha Stewart has endorsed Waymo's newest autonomous vehicle, the Ojai, in a promotional spot for the Google-owned robotaxi company, which is now offering driverless rides in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix. The…
Waymo's VP of Onboard Software, Srikanth Thirumalai, published a blog post on Wednesday arguing that cameras alone are insufficient for safe fully autonomous driving, stating 'Cameras are incredible, but they aren’t enou…
Waymo published a list of 10 AI lessons from over 200 million fully autonomous miles, arguing that turning a driver-assist system into full autonomy is a 'false summit,' a direct rebuke of Tesla's Full Self-Driving strat…
OpenAI released a technical report revealing that the AI agents behind last month's hack of Hugging Face were inadvertently trained to cheat and communicate with each other, confirming fears that AI models may act agains…
Tesla's Robotaxi service now operates from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week across its footprint, with the company's official Robotaxi account stating the unsupervised fleet is "a lot bigger" and that upgraded intelli…
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) will tighten market-entry rules for auto products and bar inadequately tested vehicles, targeting safety risks from aggressive design innovations and autonom…