Topic: autonomous driving
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Wayve's $1.5B Series D Fuels AI Self-Driving Tech Scale-Up
Wayve secured a landmark $1.5 billion investment, led by firms like SoftBank and including strategic partners such as Microsoft and NVIDIA, to accelerate the global rollout of its AI driving technology. The company's unique "embodied AI" system learns directly from data, enabling it to generalize...
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Rivian Launches Universal Hands-Free Driving Feature
Rivian has launched a new "Universal Hands-Free" driver-assistance feature for its latest R1 vehicles, expanding its operational domain to over 3.5 million miles of roads in the U.S. and Canada. The system has significant limitations, requiring constant driver supervision and lacking the ability ...
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Rivian's AI-Powered Self-Driving Strategy Revealed
Rivian's new AI-driven "Large Driving Model" shows promising but imperfect autonomous driving, handling basic navigation but still requiring safety driver interventions in complex situations. The company pivoted from a rules-based system to a data-driven AI approach in 2021, with significant prog...
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Rivian Develops AI Chips for Self-Driving Vehicles
Rivian is developing its own proprietary AI chips, including a 5nm processor, to vertically integrate its autonomous driving technology and compete with companies like Tesla. The company's new chip architecture is designed for high efficiency and claims significant processing power, capable of ha...
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Lucid Announces Consumer-Ready Autonomous Cars
Lucid Motors is advancing its autonomous driving technology through a partnership with Nvidia, aiming to introduce a Level 4 system that operates without human input in specific areas. The collaboration leverages Nvidia's Drive AGX Thor computers and software stack to accelerate the development o...
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Nvidia Unveils Open AI Models for Autonomous Driving Research
Nvidia has launched the open-source Alpamayo-R1 model, a vision language action model designed to advance autonomous driving by enabling vehicles to process visual and textual data for better environmental interpretation and navigation. The model, built on Nvidia's Cosmos Reason architecture, aim...
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Tech Giants Forge Robotaxi Alliance: Uber, Stellantis, Nvidia, Foxconn
Stellantis has formed a strategic alliance with Uber, Nvidia, and Foxconn to develop and launch an autonomous ride-hailing service, marking a significant resurgence in the robotaxi sector. The partnership will see Stellantis manufacturing vehicles, Nvidia and Foxconn integrating self-driving tech...
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Harbinger Acquires Self-Driving Tech Firm Phantom AI
Harbinger, an electric truck maker, has acquired autonomous software firm Phantom AI to vertically integrate and expand beyond its core chassis business, following a recent move into energy storage. The acquisition includes a licensing deal with ZF Group to integrate Phantom AI's driver-assistanc...
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Tesla's Best Software Updates: Top Features Added Over Time
Tesla revolutionized car ownership by introducing over-the-air software updates, allowing vehicles to improve over time with new features like enhanced infotainment and safety systems. The company's core innovation is its advanced driver-assistance suite, including Full Self-Driving (Supervised) ...
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At CES, One Robotaxi Company Left the Competition in the Dust
CES has transformed into a major auto show, highlighting that the gap in robotaxi readiness between industry leader Waymo and its competitors is substantial, with significant technological and operational hurdles remaining. Hyundai presented a broad vision for autonomous mobility beyond cars, inc...
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Ford's AI Assistant Arrives This Year, Level 3 Autonomy by 2028
Ford is developing an in-house AI voice assistant for 2026 and targeting hands-free, eyes-off Level 3 autonomous driving by 2028, aiming to make these advanced features more affordable. The company is pivoting its strategy to focus on attainable driver-assist technology and a new electric vehicle...
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GM's 'Eyes-Off' Driving: What Happens When Cars Go AI?
General Motors will launch an "eyes-off" driving system in 2028 for the Cadillac Escalade IQ, enabling drivers on mapped highways to engage in non-driving activities while the vehicle handles safety and prompts for control resumption. The system results from a collaboration between GM's Super Cru...
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Rivian CEO Reveals Plans for CarPlay, Lidar, and Budget EVs
Rivian is expanding its market reach with the upcoming R2 model, priced at $45,000, aiming to compete with mainstream EVs like the Tesla Model Y while maintaining its adventure-focused brand identity. The company is advancing its autonomous driving capabilities through an AI-driven approach and h...
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OpenAI's Fake Video App: WIRED's Deep Dive
Tesla's Full Self-Driving system sends alerts that appear to encourage reliance on automation during moments of impaired driver alertness, contradicting safety guidelines requiring constant human supervision. This creates a safety paradox by potentially leading drivers to depend more on the syste...
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Nvidia's Biggest CES 2026 Announcements Revealed
Nvidia unveiled its next-generation **Vera Rubin AI architecture**, an integrated "AI supercomputer" platform designed to train complex AI models with greater power efficiency than its predecessor. The company announced a major push into autonomous vehicles with its **Alpamayo portfolio**, a Leve...
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Elon Musk: Tesla Drivers Can Text, But Should They?
Tesla's CEO announced upcoming Full Self-Driving software may allow texting in certain conditions, conflicting with current laws requiring constant driver supervision. Regardless of software features, drivers retain full legal and moral responsibility for safe vehicle operation, not the automaker...
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Tesla's New Master Plan: Big Vision, Few Details
Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's fourth master plan, which replaces previous targets and presents broad ambitions without concrete details or timelines. The plan emphasizes sustainability and aims to combine manufacturing with autonomous technology to accelerate global prosperity, but lacks measurable ...
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Tesla's New Model Y: The Affordable EV Is Here
Tesla's new affordable electric vehicle is a budget-friendly Model Y variant, not the previously announced $25,000 Model 2, focusing on cost reductions and a stripped-down design. The vehicle features significant visual changes like missing front and rear light bars and interior downgrades, inclu...
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Elon Musk: Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer to Power Space-Based AI
Tesla is reviving its Dojo3 project to develop supercomputing hardware for space-based AI processing, marking a strategic pivot from recent reliance on external chip suppliers. Elon Musk is publicly recruiting engineers to rebuild the team, framing the project as an opportunity to create potentia...
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Sony-Honda Afeela EV Arrives Late 2026
The Sony-Honda Afeela 1 electric sedan is scheduled for a U.S. launch in late 2026 at a starting price of $90,000, with the company also revealing an SUV concept for potential production by 2028. The vehicle emphasizes Sony's entertainment and technology, featuring a panoramic dashboard screen, a...
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Honda's Surprising Leap Into Reusable Rockets
Honda successfully launched and landed a reusable rocket prototype in Japan, marking a significant expansion beyond its traditional automotive products into space technology. The company's space initiative aims to support mobility and communication networks through satellites, which are essential...
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Tesla Shifts Full Self-Driving to Subscription-Only
Tesla is ending the one-time purchase option for its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software, shifting entirely to a monthly subscription model, a strategic change that could impact its finances and legal standing. The move is likely driven by low adoption rates, with only 12% of owners having pu...
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Rivian's AI Assistant Arrives in EVs Early 2026
Rivian will release its proprietary AI assistant in early 2026 for all existing and future vehicles, following a two-year development effort. The voice-activated assistant will control cabin functions and integrate with third-party apps, starting with Google Calendar, using Google's AI platforms ...
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Nvidia Expands Open Source AI with Acquisition and New Models
Nvidia acquired SchedMD, the developer of the open-source Slurm workload manager, to accelerate its development and integration for scaling AI and high-performance computing clusters. The company launched the open Nemotron 3 AI model family, designed for building efficient AI agents, with variant...
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Porsche's Curved Screen Defines the Electric Cayenne
The Porsche Cayenne Electric will feature an innovative curved OLED "Flow Display," the largest and most distinctive screen Porsche has ever used, integrated with a new operating system for a cohesive digital cabin experience. Porsche's design philosophy merges the Cayenne's core characteristics ...
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Tesla Probed Over Door Handles That Trap Occupants
Federal regulators are investigating Tesla's electronic door handles due to reports of occupants, especially children, being trapped inside vehicles during system failures. The probe focuses on malfunctions during low-voltage battery situations, where external doors may fail completely and manual...
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AI Skills Boost Salaries by 43%—Even Outside Tech
The demand for AI skills is driving significant salary premiums, with roles requiring even one AI skill paying an average of 28% more than those without. AI expertise is sought across diverse sectors beyond technology, including marketing, public relations, and scientific research, with skills va...
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How the Tesla Model S Revolutionized the Auto Industry
The Tesla Model S, launched in 2012, redefined the automotive industry by making electric vehicles aspirational luxury items and establishing Tesla as a major force through its groundbreaking design and software-defined features. Its strategy of targeting the high-end market first forced establis...
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Rivian Develops Its Own AI Assistant for Vehicles
Rivian has independently developed a proprietary AI assistant for its vehicles, targeting a consumer launch by year-end, with more details to be revealed at its December AI & Autonomy Day. The assistant is designed for deep vehicle integration using a flexible, model-agnostic architecture and a h...
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