Sources: Uber is in talks with Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of Pony.ai's US arm; Pony.ai has permits to operate robo taxis in the US and China
and Uber might help Natalie Lung / Bloomberg : Uber in Talks With Kalanick to Fund Pony.AI Bid, NYT Says Mike Isaac / The Straits Times : Uber in talks with founder to help buy US unit of China's self...
Document: Trump's transition team seeks to repeal a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation
#DOGE #musk — www.reuters.com/business/aut... @lorifontanes : just like pregnancy health outcomes & gun violence, data on #selfdriving #car crashes shouldn't be suppressed & is essential to #PublicH...
Elon Musk unveils a Tesla Cybercab prototype, claims “you will be able to buy one” for under $30K, and expects the robotaxi to be in production “before 2027”
1,028,294 viewsStreamed live 6 hours ago — Lady: “I want two drinks” … Gabe Lerman / Pivot to AI : Elon's double nothingburger: robotaxis any year now, bro. And robots, bro. Trust us, bro. Ryan Brow...
A look at AIxCC, or AI Cyber Challenge, a competition launched in 2023 and run by DARPA to design an AI program that scans open source code for security flaws
Computer scientists brainstorm in Pentagon-backed competition to design an AI program that scans open-source code for flaws bad actors could exploit Mastodon: @JosephMenn@infosec.exchange . Bluesky: @...
How China is testing more driverless cars than any other country, with 16+ cities letting 19+ companies test vehicles on public roads, aided by government help
Assisted driving systems and robot taxis are becoming more popular with government help, as cities designate large areas for testing on public roads. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @baidu_inc and...
California's DMV suspends Cruise's deployment and driverless testing permits, ending the GM self-driving car subsidiary's robotaxi operations in San Francisco
DMV: “The video footage presented to the department ended with the AV initial stop following the hard-braking 'maneuver. … @transbay@sfba.social : A phrase that I never thought I'd write: DMV FTW. — ...
Police in San Francisco and other cities are obtaining warrants for Waymo and Cruise driverless car camera footage to help solve murders and other crimes
What is the difference between these cameras being used and police installing cameras? — This needs to be curtailed! Twitter: Rachel Metz / @rachelmetz : Fascinating story by @byJuliaLove about how ...
A brief history of VR/AR/MR devices and why hardware challenges have limited mainstream adoption, which could likely slow the metaverse's emergence and growth
Modern efforts to build extended reality (XR) devices—i.e., dedicated virtual reality (VR), dedicated augmented reality (AR) … Tweets: @marknb00 , @carnage4life , @cccalum , @ballmatthew , @ballmatthe...
After investors bet an estimated ~$100B on self-driving vehicle startups, little progress has been made as companies take shortcuts and losses continue to mount
The first car woke Jennifer King at 2 a.m. with a loud, high‑pitched hum. “It sounded like a hovercraft,” she says, and that wasn't the weird part. Tweets: @trippmickle , @trengriffin , @joelwebersho...
How Syrian human rights group Mnemonic used AI trained on synthetic data to analyze videos for evidence that “cluster” weapon RBK-250 was used against civilians
Technique used to teach Tesla cars and Amazon Alexa has gathered evidence of weapons used against civilians Tweets: @financialtimes , @sylviakangara , @samjoiner , and @madhumita29 Tweets: @financialt...