Lidl has put Einride’s cab-less Level 4 electric truck into daily service between a logistics centre and a store in Germany, under a first-of-its-kind permit from the federal transport authority. The route appears to be less than a mile, and the permit…
Waymo has opened fully autonomous rides to the public in Las Vegas, the company said. More than 100,000 people had registered interest after months of mapping the city’s roads. The service area covers nearly 24 miles, from Boulder Junction up the Strip…
Voicemod has launched Key Pocket, a MagSafe device that brings real-time voice changing and soundboards to phones, consoles and social apps without a PC, on sale in the United States with Europe to follow. Article 50 of the AI Act has required provider…
Volkswagen’s Mission Efficiency concept set three certified records, including a 0.158 drag coefficient and a 1,278 km run from Wolfsburg to Vienna on one charging stop. European rules count every battery car as zero at the tailpipe, and the proposed i…
Xi Jinping used the BRICS summit to propose a China-led community for open-source AI and to invite members into the World AI Cooperation Organization, a Beijing-founded body of 29 countries with no EU state among them. Europe drew its line in the AI Ac…
China’s National Data Administration said it will develop standards for embodied AI data and guide local authorities on the work, ten days after seven companies asked it for exactly that. Europe regulates who may reach the data a machine generates but …
Tesla says it will reveal the next-generation Roadster on 1 October, the first firm date since it showed the car as a concept in 2017 and promised production for 2020. European reservations cost EUR 43,000 paid within ten days, no customer anywhere has…
Larry Ellison has been absent from Oracle’s earnings calls this year and is not on the billing for next month’s user conference, a year after the company promoted Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-chief executives. Magouyrk built the cloud business …
Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $10bn in Anthropic’s initial public offering, which seeks as much as $100bn at a valuation near $2trn and would be the largest listing in history. Three days earlier it returned as an investor in Mistral’s EUR 3bn rou…
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is weighing a merger of Electronic Arts with Savvy Games, which would put Madden NFL and Pokemon Go under one roof. Brussels cleared the EA takeover on competition and foreign subsidy grounds six weeks ago, and com…