The accelerator is on the floor for autonomous vehicles

Autolane, a Palo Alto-based startup developing the “air traffic control” for autonomous vehicles, raised $7.4 million in a ...

This AI Model Can Intuit How the Physical World Works

Researchers have developed an AI system that learns about the world via videos and demonstrates a notion of “surprise” when ...

Waymo to issue software recall over how robotaxis behave around school buses

Waymo plans to voluntarily issue a software recall with federal safety regulators related to how its robotaxis operate around ...
The New York Times

Self-Driving Taxis Are Catching On. Are You Ready?

With the arrival of Amazon’s Zoox robot taxi in San Francisco to compete with Waymo, autonomous services are gaining momentum. But there are pros and cons. Tech Fix With the arrival of Amazon’s Zoox ...
Ars Technica

Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

Em dashes have become what many believe to be a telltale sign of AI-generated text over the past few years. The punctuation mark appears frequently in outputs from ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, ...
Law

Crash Avoidance Technology Features: Over-the-Road Vehicles

The companies promoting robot cars, autonomous vehicles, and crash avoidance technologies are promising an end to the injuries and deaths. Are they correct? We are not sure, but robot cars, autonomous ...
The Oakland Press

Waymo driverless ride-hailing service is coming to Motown

Robot cars are coming to Detroit streets. Waymo LLC, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, said Monday that its self-driving fleet is headed to the Motor City. The electric autonomous ...
New York Daily News

New NYC subway cars mean return to shorter trains on C line

The MTA’s new $1.5 billion order of subway cars will mean shorter trains on the C line, the Daily News has learned. The new train car, dubbed the R268, is expected to look and function much like New ...
Carscoops

Automakers Tell Trump His Factory Robot Tariffs Will Make Cars Pricier For Humans

Tariffs have long been a sore point in the auto industry, shaping everything from vehicle prices to where manufacturers choose to build their cars. Now, that debate has flared up again. Most of ...
Decider

Michael Cyril Creighton Says 'Only Murders in the Building' Almost Cut Nathan Lane's Robot Line But That It Was Just "Too Funny": "It's the Only Way To End That Scene"

Discover What’s Streaming On: Hulu may not want to admit it, but letting Nathan Lane drop an F-bomb in the penultimate episode of Only Murders in the Building Season 5 might have just made the whole ...
FierceBiotech

Kite puts $1.64B on the line for Pregene’s in vivo CAR-Ts

Gilead Sciences' Kite Pharma is doubling down on in vivo CAR-T, this time inking a deal worth up to $1.64 billion biobucks with Chinese biotech Pregene Biopharma. Kite has paid out $120 million ...
NPR

Here We Go Again... Our Phone Line is Open

Got a car question that’s been burning a hole in your psyche for the past decade? Well, Ray is back for some limited engagements behind the microphone. All you have to do to ask him a car question is ...