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The Israel Defense Forces is establishing a new Unmanned Systems and Artificial Intelligence Branch, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir announced Wednesday at the IDF's 153rd Naval Officers Course graduation, with the br…
NVIDIA's modular robotaxi stack powers every major commercial-scale robotaxi program operating today, spanning AI training, simulation and in-vehicle computing, according to the company. The global robotaxi market is pro…
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, led by CEO John Bozzella, is pressuring U.S. lawmakers to enact a permanent ban on Chinese vehicles and connected hardware and software before the 119th Congress adjourns, citing p…
Defense tech company TERN announced an $11.26 million contract with the US Army on Thursday to deploy its AI-based navigation and vehicle health technologies on Army vehicles as a GPS-free alternative for soldiers facing…
Researchers introduced PlannerForge, a system that uses LLM agents to automate scenario-based testing of motion planners in autonomous driving, according to the paper's description. Scenario-based testing for Autonomous …
JD.com launched a Physical AI Acceleration Plan at JDDiscovery 2026 in Beijing, expanding AI and robotics across its logistics network and reiterating a five-year target to procure 3 million robots, 1 million autonomous …
A new arXiv paper (2609.05461v1) introduces ARC-Bench, a no-leak, fixed-candidate protocol that finds frozen JEPA-style world models rank candidate actions incorrectly, with the top-scored candidate almost always subopti…
Shield AI posted an on-site Senior Staff Engineer, Mission Architect role (R5876) in Washington, DC, with salary not published. The venture-backed defense-tech company said the position will own mission representation ac…
Tesla's Head of AI, Ashok Elluswamy, said at the Cybercab launch that Full Self-Driving v14 Lite for Hardware 3 Model S and Model X vehicles was 'supposed to go out last week,' indicating the upgrade is imminent. The sof…
Kia has expanded its PV5 electric van lineup to 10 body styles, including a new 7-seater and an upscale Prime model, and announced that it has sold over 39,000 PV5s globally through the first eight months of 2026. The co…
Elbit Systems, Israel's largest defence contractor, launched Fuse, a new division developing AI-based autonomous military technologies including drones and unmanned systems, operating from Rosh HaAyin, Israel. The unit w…
RoboCup, the international robotics and AI competition founded in 1997, challenges teams to develop autonomous robots for tasks ranging from soccer to disaster response. The event serves as a testing ground for technolog…
Waymo LLC, an autonomous driving technology company, is hiring a Research Scientist for Map Scalability with a salary range of $213,000 to $263,000 per year, based in Mountain View, San Francisco, or New York City. The r…
Pony.ai CEO James Peng said at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on September 8 that robotaxi technology is 'pretty much already solved' and that robotaxis will be common worldwide within five years, with regulators as …
Nuro, a self-driving technology company founded in 2016, is hiring a Senior/Staff Engineer for Machine Learning - Online Mapping in Mountain View, California, with a base pay range of $193,930 to $291,150. The role invol…
Cisco's IOS XE routers now support ML-DSA certificates (FIPS 204) for IPsec authentication, replacing pre-shared keys, as detailed in a technical blog post. The post shows that ML-DSA-65 public keys are 1,974 bytes versu…
James Peng, founder and CEO of Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony.ai, predicted at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on Sept. 8 that robotaxis will be widespread within five years, saying 'the technology problem is pr…
Motional, led by President and CEO Laura Major, released on Tuesday a 20,000-scenario dataset called nuReasoning that asks autonomous-driving models to explain their decisions in rare road situations, aiming to improve r…
World models are machine learning systems that build internal representations of environments to predict changes over time, enabling agents to plan and act without real-world trial and error. Jürgen Schmidhuber introduce…
Qwen-Drive 1.0, developed by Alibaba's Qwen team, turns the general-purpose Qwen3.5-4B vision-language model into a driving foundation model by adding a BEV perception head and a 1.1B-parameter Planning Expert, achieving…