Tesla receives just 10 robotaxi permits in Nevada after applying for 5,000, with strict rules limiting vehicles to 45 mph on the Las Vegas Strip under human supervision — raising serious doubts about the company's ambitious autonomous ride-hailing timeline as full-scale deployment isn't expected until late 2026 or early 2027.
Ford launches an AI-powered assistant for Ford and Lincoln vehicles, starting as a mobile app chatbot with real-time vehicle data, and targeting a full in-car voice feature by 2027 as automakers race to integrate AI technology.
NVIDIA launches Alpamayo 2 Super, a commercially available open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles that ranks first on all major autonomous driving benchmarks, outperforming Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-4o, while offering developers full fine-tuning and deployment rights under a permissive license.
Applied Intuition launches Dana, an agentic AI platform that slashes vehicle development timelines from months to days, enabling engineers to deploy up to ten times daily, with early adopters Isuzu Motors and Komatsu already leveraging the technology across automotive, defense, and heavy equipment industries.
NVIDIA launches Cosmos 3, the world's first fully open omnimodel capable of natively processing text, images, video, sound, and actions for robotics and autonomous vehicles, while simultaneously unveiling the global Cosmos Coalition to accelerate open world model development across industries.
NVIDIA unveils Cosmos 3, a groundbreaking open world foundation model combining vision reasoning, multimodal generation, and native action output to help robots and autonomous vehicles understand real-world scenarios, already topping multiple benchmarks and available now to developers worldwide.
Pony AI surges 145% in Q1 revenue to $34.3 million, crushing analyst estimates, while raising its 2026 robotaxi fleet target to 3,500 vehicles — even as operating losses widen to $58.3 million.
Google's 25-year-old search interface is being retired as AI reshapes the industry, triggering a $350M investment surge into AI search startups, while Uber launches a massive autonomous vehicle data initiative, and an OpenAI model makes history by solving an 80-year-old math problem first posed in 1946.
A Waymo robotaxi ride to Google I/O turns into a $102.72 nightmare as the self-driving vehicle gets lost in a parking lot, takes a wrong turn, and arrives 37 minutes late, exposing critical limitations of autonomous vehicles in real-world, time-sensitive conditions.
Uber launches 'AV Lab,' deploying sensor-equipped vehicles across its ridehail network to collect real-world driving data for robotaxi partners, targeting 2 million miles of data per month by end of 2026.