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- Applied Intuition to buy autonomous trucking SPAC Embark for $71M Embark Trucks, the autonomous trucking company that recently cut 70% of its workforce, is being acquired by Applied Intuition, a simulation and software provider for autonomous vehicle development. The all-cash transaction has an equity value of about $71 million, according to the companies. Embark went public in 2021 via a...
- Probabilistic AI that knows how well it’s working It’s more important than ever for artificial intelligence to estimate how accurately it is explaining data....
- Exploring new methods for increasing safety and reliability of autonomous vehicl... A new study finds human supervisors have the potential to reduce barriers to deploying autonomous vehicles....
- Ford’s Level 3 driver-assist feature won’t be able to handle busy city streets a... Image: Ford Ford’s executive team revealed new details about the company’s partial autonomy features at a capital markets event Monday. BlueCruise, Ford’s hands-free driver-assist system, will be available in 500,000 vehicles by 2024. And a Level 3 system, which is also called conditional or unsupervised autonomy, will be first available...
- Other Barks & Bites for Friday, May 19: Apple Employee Charged with Trade Se... This week in Other Barks & Bites: Sanofi wins its patent case against Amgen in front of the U.S. Supreme Court; Open AI CEO Sam Altman asks Congress to regulate the AI industry; and a former Apple employee was charged for stealing autonomous vehicle trade secrets from the tech firm....
- Robot Talk Episode 49 – Nick Hawes Claire chatted to Nick Hawes from the University of Oxford all about robot decision-making, long-term autonomy, and artificial intelligence. Nick Hawes is a Professor of AI and Robotics at the University of Oxford, where he directs the Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI). Within the ORI he leads the Goal-Oriented Autonomous Long-Lived Systems...
- Cruise, Waymo near approval to charge for 24/7 robotaxis in San Francisco Self-driving vehicle companies Waymo and Cruise are on the cusp of securing final approval to charge fares for fully autonomous robotaxi rides throughout the city of San Francisco at all hours of the day or night. Amid the city’s mounting resistance to the presence of AVs, the California Public Utilities...
- Baidu boss charged with stealing Apple’s self-driving car tech Illustration: The Verge A former Apple engineer and the executive at an electric vehicle startup owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu has been charged with stealing Apple’s self-driving technology, as reported earlier by CNBC. On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice indicted and charged Weibo Wang with the “theft...
- Varda Space raising new tranche of funding at $500M post-money valuation Varda Space Industries, the in-space manufacturing startup that wants to revolutionize the production of pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and more, is in the process of raising $25 million in new capital that would put its valuation at around $500 million after investment, according to documents viewed by TechCrunch. The fundraising comes at a crucial time for Varda,...
- Self-driving cars are taking ages to become a reality, but they won’t take forev... My dream of never having to drive again is far from dead. I just need to add five or ten years to my prior timelines. Self-driving cars are taking ages to become a reality, but they won’t take forever by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch...
- Waymo announces expansion of autonomous taxi coverage in Arizona, San Francisco Thursday, May 11, 2023 A Waymo Jaguar I-Pace in San Francisco in June. Image: Dietmar Rabich. Transport Related articles 11 May 2023: Waymo announces expansion of autonomous taxi coverage in Arizona, San Francisco 21 April 2023: Paris judge acquits Airbus, Air France of involuntary manslaughter in 2009 crash that killed...
- Nuro plans for more layoffs as the AV sector’s economic woes deepen Image: Nuro Robot delivery startup Nuro announced plans to layoff a portion of its workforce and to pause its commercial operations as it pivots to more research and development. The news comes amid a broader set of financial challenges for the burgeoning autonomous vehicle sector. Nuro grew too rapidly in...