GM adds native Apple Music to select 2025 model year Cadillac and Chevrolet vehicles, and rolls out digital key support, after phasing out CarPlay from 2023
And Fixing A Big Problem Michael Frank / TopSpeed : More GM Vehicles Get Apple Music With Dolby Atmos High Resolution Audio Streaming David Welch / Bloomberg : GM Strikes Deal to Put Apple Music in Al...
Tesla's shares closed at a 2025 high on December 15, after the company confirmed it is testing its driverless vehicles in Austin without a human safety operator
or Riders Howard Smith / Motley Fool : Why Tesla Stock Hit an All-Time High Today Akash Sriram / Reuters : Tesla shares jump as Musk confirms driverless robotaxi testing Stan Schroeder / Mashable : Dr...
Uber plans to launch its first robotaxi in the San Francisco Bay Area in late 2026, built on Lucid's Gravity SUV, after testing 100 cars in the coming months
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Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on GM's plans for AI, autonomous driving, ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, and more
We've got a special episode of Decoder today. I'm talking to General Motors CEO Mary Barra and new GM Chief Product Officer …
Kayak launches a ChatGPT-powered AI Mode chatbot on its desktop and mobile website that lets users ask travel questions and compare flights, hotels, and cars
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Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London in 2026, its first international expansion, after human-supervised cars first collect data
It's good timing too. The UK is ready to start piloting fully driverless vehicles. … London's iconic black cabs could soon face a new rival: Waymo.
Uber and Shanghai-based robotaxi startup Momenta plan to test Level 4 fully driverless cars in Munich from 2026, as a precursor to launching a robotaxi service
The tests are a precursor to the companies' plan to launch a robotaxi service in 2026.
Xiaomi releases MiDashengLM-7B, an AI voice model based on its foundation voice model deployed in cars and smart home devices, under an Apache 2.0 license
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Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: currently exclusive to Aston Martin, enhances center console integration, works smoothly with driver assist systems, and more
But There's a Catch KTLA 5 on YouTube : I took CarPlay Ultra for a spin in a $250,000 Aston Martin Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac : CarPlay Ultra hands-on reveals its standout best new feature Sam Cross /...
Tesla's Austin robotaxi service gets a limited launch, with ~10 Model Y vehicles and safety drivers; Elon Musk says initial users will pay “a $4.20 flat fee”
or want to know—about Tesla's robotaxi service David Pierce / The Verge : Tesla's robotaxi reality check Richard Brack / Austin American-Statesman : Tesla robotaxis begin rolling in Austin, but only f...