Amazon and NVIDIA are joining forces to deliver a powerful multimodal AI assistant for vehicles by 2027, combining Alexa Custom Assistant with NVIDIA's DRIVE AGX platform to enable natural conversation, ambient awareness, and seamless cloud-connected features like smart home control and music streaming directly from the car.
NVIDIA is supercharging the global race to autonomous vehicles, partnering with BYD, Uber, and major automakers to deploy AI-powered robotaxi fleets across 28 cities on four continents by 2028, while unveiling powerful new tools including the Alpamayo 1.5 reasoning model and Halos OS safety architecture to accelerate the development of …
Zoox and Uber are joining forces in a multi-year deal to bring fully autonomous, all-electric robotaxis to Las Vegas this year and Los Angeles by 2027, making Zoox's self-driving fleet bookable directly through the Uber app.
Anthropic pitched the Pentagon on a $100M drone swarm challenge while simultaneously negotiating red lines on military AI use, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth now orders the Pentagon to bar contractors from doing business with the company.
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's World Labs secures $1 billion in funding at a $5 billion valuation from tech giants including Nvidia and AMD, as investors pivot from language models to spatial intelligence technology that could revolutionize robotics and autonomous vehicles.
Unprecedented global memory chip shortage triggered by AI boom forces major corporations including Tesla and Apple to face severe production constraints and profit compression, while soaring prices across consumer electronics, automobiles, and data centers signal a deepening crisis as DRAM supply fails to meet explosive demand.
Waymo deploys sixth-generation Ojai robotaxis with enhanced weather navigation to employees in San Francisco and Los Angeles, announcing expansion plans to 10 US cities and London while facing political scrutiny over Chinese-made vehicles in the rapidly growing $25+ billion robotaxi market.
AI stocks crash despite companies like Amazon, Alphabet, and chip manufacturers posting record double-digit growth and Amazon announcing $200 billion infrastructure investment, prompting analysts to declare the selloff a rare once-in-a-decade buying opportunity as the transformative technology remains in early development stages.
Waymo's chief safety officer confirms that remote operators in the Philippines provide only guidance to robotaxis during challenging situations, while the autonomous vehicles retain full control of all driving decisions and tasks.
Waymo launches revolutionary AI system that generates hyper-realistic driving simulations of rare scenarios like natural disasters and animal encounters, allowing engineers to test autonomous vehicles in dangerous situations impossible to replicate safely in real-world conditions.