What happened: Toyota announced it will equip production passenger cars with AI-based autonomous driving technology starting in 2028. The system, developed in-house, lets the AI assist with surroundings recognition and drive to a destination with almost no driver operation, even in urban areas with many pedestrians.
Japanese Finance Minister Katsuki Katayama visited Honda's autonomous driving demonstration in Joso City, Ibar…
Amazon has tripled its orders of Nvidia GPU chips to support rising demand for AI workloads on AWS and interna…
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Toyota plans to install AI-based automated driving technology in its commercial passenger cars starting in 202…
KDDI and Michinori Holdings announced on August 28, 2026, that they will run a demonstration from September 1…
KDDI and Michinori Holdings will run a trial using AI to autonomously optimize communication quality for auton…
LG Innotek will mass produce and supply automotive camera modules for Zoox, Amazon's autonomous vehicle unit
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Ford Motor Company will adopt Apple's MapKit for Automotive software development kit (SDK) for its universal E…
Kodiak AI, a provider of AI-powered autonomous driving tech, has partnered with chipmaker AMD to use AMD EPYC…
Tesla is setting aside its Grok model in China and will use ByteDance's localized large language model (LLM)…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company's upcoming AI5 inference chip could deliver two to three times the perfor…
The Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) is looking to use AI, Uber, and Lyft to improve its…
Lockheed Martin (LMT) is expanding into AI airspace monitoring and sea launch operations
Bedrock Robotics Inc. has deployed fully autonomous, retrofitted heavy excavators onto active infrastructure p…
Goldman Sachs Global Institute co-head Jared Cohen argues that the world will be redesigned for machine intell…
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Lockheed Martin ran a live trial of its NetSense AI-enabled Airspace Awareness-as-a-Service, using commercial…
Guident CEO Harald Braun said human-in-the-loop oversight is still needed for robotaxi fleet safety, with AI-d…
Xiaomi is expanding its in-house semiconductor push from smartphones into AI acceleration and autonomous drivi…
Tesla's second-quarter revenue reached around $27 billion with automotive sales up about 23% year over year, b…
AI, satellite navigation, and autonomous systems are transforming robotic lawn mowers from a niche product int…
Waymo disclosed details of its onboard computing system for autonomous driving, including a purpose-built 5 nm…
TIER IV and Renesas have begun a collaboration to build an open AI-native computing platform for autonomous ve…
The U.S. Navy's Rapid Capabilities Office and Defense Innovation Unit awarded Shield AI roughly $50 million ar…
Toyota and STATION Ai (a SoftBank subsidiary) have opened a co-creation program called "Tsunagete Hirogaru Ans…
Russian forces launched dozens of ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missiles plus 168 drones at Kyiv and the s…
Waymo outlined its autonomous-driving AI strategy on August 19, 2026, arguing that a single end-to-end (E2E) A…
Citi analyst Alicia Yap discussed Baidu's latest earnings, highlighting the company's renewed focus on AI mode…
Palo Alto startup Also raised $150 million in Series D funding led by Prysm Capital, pushing its valuation pas…
Global venture funding in physical AI (robotics, autonomous vehicles, aerospace, drones, industrial automation…
Horizon Robotics is preparing its Journey 7 (J7) automotive AI chip family for mass production in 2027, target…
Chinese autonomous driving company WeRide is considering expansion into Australia, South Korea, Japan, and Sou…
BlackRock's head of global technology, Tony Kim, returned from his 13th annual tech tour across San Francisco…
Pony.ai announced on August 14 that it will deploy more than 2,000 robotaxis across Europe under an expanded p…
Uber and Pony.ai announced a plan to bring 2,000 robotaxis to four European cities as part of an expanded part…
Uber and Chinese autonomous-vehicle company Pony.ai announced Friday that they will deploy 2,000 of Pony.ai's…
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Zoox, Amazon's autonomous vehicle subsidiary, began charging passengers for driverless rides in Las Vegas on M…
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Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system has entered a critical stage in seeking European Union market approval…
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Archer Aviation, an eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft manufacturer, has struck a deal wit…
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PlusAI says it has reached 93.4 percent Safety Case Readiness in the first half of 2026, up from 90.1 percent…
NOC and Boeing conducted a test of an AI-enabled connection between an unmanned Triton drone and a P-8 Poseido…
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Shield AI and Taiwan's National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) announced on August 6…
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Moove announced a $250 million Series C funding round, valuing the company at $2.1 billion
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British Antarctic Survey and partner organizations are deploying autonomous underwater gliders, submarines, dr…
Dubai Future Foundation and Oxa, an autonomous vehicle technology developer, have launched SHIFFT, a joint ven…
Caterpillar, the world's largest construction equipment manufacturer, is scaling two AI systems across its ope…
Tesla achieved record Q2 2026 deliveries and exited the quarter with its largest order backlog since 2023, wit…
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