AEye CEO Matt Fisch says lidar revenue grew roughly ninefold year over year and 25 customers now take paid shipments, as a NASA-backed Lunar Outpost contract and Alive3D deal open new verticals.
Lyft riders in central Nashville can now be matched with fully autonomous Waymo vehicles at no additional cost, the first market where Waymo runs on both the Waymo and Lyft apps.
Hirain and Arbe have been selected by a major automotive group for a multi-brand Level 3 passenger vehicle program in China, with series-production radar deliveries starting Q4 2027.
Inceptio Technology reports more than 1 billion kilometers of commercial autonomous trucking mileage, 97% highway coverage in China, and a new Freight Physical AI framework spanning model, scenario, and fleet intelligence.
Motional has open-sourced nuReasoning, a 20,000-scenario long-tail driving dataset with 247,000 human-verified reasoning annotations, and launched a companion research challenge with UCLA at ECCV.
UAE team Kinetiz won A2RL's first race outside Abu Dhabi, a 12-lap, five-car autonomous contest at Imola, after technical issues and a collision sidelined Unimore, PoliMOVE and two-time champion TUM.
NHTSA has opened Audit Query AQ26002 into Tesla's certification of the Cybercab as FMVSS-compliant, the same day Tesla began commercial deployment of the pedal-less, wheel-less vehicles in Austin, Texas.
PlusAI will go public through a SPAC merger with Texas Ventures Acquisition III at an $800 million pre-money valuation, with up to $300 million in capital targeting a 2027 factory-built autonomous truck launch.
Zoox is sending its retrofitted test fleet to Houston and San Diego later this month, bringing its US presence to 12 cities and lining up freeway, fog, heat, and flood validation ahead of robotaxi service.
Wayve and Uber have launched supervised autonomous rides in London, the first in the UK, using Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles with the Wayve AI Driver and a TfL-licensed driver on board.