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A Waymo Zeekr was spotted on I-96 near Detroit, fueling speculation about a possible soft launch of Waymo service in Detroit in Q3.
This paper proposes an expanded formulation of valence and arousal in an active inference model of human driving, conditioning affective estimates on predicted future outcomes and evaluating it in interactive driving scenarios.
NVIDIA highlights the importance of open world models for physical AI, introducing the NVIDIA Cosmos 3 open model family and Omniverse libraries for simulation and model specialization.
A self-driving car rental service has launched in Hainan, offering 24-hour rentals for just 60 RMB (about $9 USD).
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi dismissed reports of a rift with Waymo, saying the partnership remains strong in Austin and Atlanta while acknowledging Uber is diversifying with other AV partners.
The article argues that the U.S. auto industry is adding massive new assembly capacity despite existing plants running below 70%, facing a future of declining population growth, rising robotaxis, and alternative mobility that will reduce new-car sales.
Waymo opens its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to everyone in Dallas, after onboarding nearly 150,000 riders since February, and announces upcoming testing at Love Field Airport and on freeways.
Alpamayo 2 Super, an open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles, is released on Hugging Face under the Linux Foundation's permissive OpenMDW-1.1 license, enabling commercial adaptation and redistribution.
NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, an open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles, now available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license, delivering frontier-scale reasoning for robotaxis and AV development.
The author highlights the underappreciated wave of AI-driven job displacement in commercial driving and transit, citing real-world Waymo driverless rides as evidence that Level 4 autonomy is already operational and set to rapidly transform trucking, buses, delivery, and ride-hailing.
A Los Angeles judge granted Santa Monica's preliminary injunction, ordering Waymo to stop overnight charging operations at two lots due to noise and traffic complaints from residents.
Zoox receives first US approval to charge passengers for rides in its purpose-built steering-wheel-free robotaxis, marking a significant milestone for autonomous vehicles.
This paper introduces DiffTilt, a distributional framework that exponentially tilts a diffusion model-induced joint distribution over environments and executions to efficiently discover rare safety-critical failures in autonomous and cyber-physical systems, outperforming conditional sampling strategies on ARCH-COMP benchmarks and a new tractor-trailer benchmark.
Ukraine is using drone carriers and drone boats to deploy ground robots armed with explosives into battle, bypassing terrain and defenses, showcasing innovative military tactics to offset manpower disadvantages.
Tesla expands its Robotaxi service to Orlando and Tampa, but the fleet remains small and inconsistent, with only 17 unsupervised vehicles in Austin and none in Houston, contrasting sharply with Waymo's thousands of driverless vehicles.
This preprint extends prior work on pedestrian archetypes by introducing 7 additional pedestrian behavior models for autonomous vehicle safety testing.
Lyft CEO David Risher discusses the company's turnaround, profitability, competition with Uber, and plans for autonomous vehicles, positioning Lyft as the 'good Uber.'
Proposes a VAE-based multi-task semantic communication framework for satellite-assisted autonomous driving, achieving significant bandwidth reduction while maintaining performance for traffic sign reconstruction and classification.
Anyscale is promoting a panel at Autonomous2026 featuring their Field CTO, Christian Stano, alongside leaders from Kodiak Robotics, Torc Robotics, and BotAuto, discussing the compute and safety layers driving autonomous freight innovation.
Uber's Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal discusses the company's expansion into hotel bookings, financial services for drivers, and autonomous vehicle data collection via AV Labs, while clarifying Uber's strategy to avoid becoming an everything app.