Waymo, robotaxi operators face fresh scrutiny over emergency response failures |

Waymo and other robotaxi operators are facing increased scrutiny — and possible new federal requirements — over how their autonomous vehicles interact with emergency responders,…

Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture |

12:56 PM PDT · July 24, 2026 The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two Volkswagen engineers with securities fraud for an alleged insider-trading scheme…

‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’sopen model Kimi went viral this weekfor reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do withhow…

Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue

Open source AI is booming, according toHugging FaceCEOClem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI…

Your gaming data could be the secret to AGI, according to this Bezos-backed startup

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models justdon’thave what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claudeare great at text, butthey’reless…

Humble Robotics’ CEO says the tech finally caught up to the vision for autonomous vehicles

We’vesaid it before, andwe’llsay it again: the autonomousvehiclespace is starting to feel like a repeat ofthe2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick isback building a robotics company,…

Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that |

Take a stroll around San Francisco and it won’t take long to spot an empty autonomous vehicle cruising the city’s streets, waiting to be hailed…

The US banned Anthropic’s Fable 5 release, but the numbers don’t seem to care

Just as last weekwas ending,the US governmentforced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon…

NEA’s Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning

Tokenmaxxingwasthe hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as faras it would go.Then the bill came…

It’s hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe

The IPO market is back, andit’snot the samecompaniesleading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but anew acronym is taking over: MANGOS— Meta (or Microsoft,…