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Never say never,”” OpenAI’s Sam Altman response on if the company would help the Pentagon develop a new weapons system. https://x.com/MsKristenTalman/status/1910483410545504474
Amazon prepares to test humanoid robots for deliveries, The Information reports | Reuters https://archive.md/o682X
Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/amazons-zoox-opens-its-first-major-robotaxi-production-facility/
Anduril, Rheinmetall partner to build military drones for Europe | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/anduril-rheinmetall-partner-build-military-drones-europe-2025-06-18/
Goldman Sees Autonomous Vehicles Transforming Insurance World – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-09/goldman-sees-autonomous-vehicles-transforming-insurance-world?srnd=undefined&embedded-checkout=true
Uber to launch self-driving taxis in London | Fortune Europe https://fortune.com/europe/2025/06/12/uber-launch-self-driving-taxis-london-complex-roads-andrew-macdonald/
New Insights for Scaling Laws in Autonomous Driving https://waymo.com/blog/2025/06/scaling-laws-in-autonomous-driving
Waymo shows that scaling data and compute lifts autonomous-vehicle forecasting and planning in a predictable way. • Similar to LLMs, motion forecasting quality also follows a power-law as a function of training compute. • Expanding data volume elevates model performance. • https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1934564747078508994
I use FSD for over 2 hours of travel every day around the Philadelphia area and have never experienced an issue as bad as this one. Any ideas why it chose the completely wrong lane? Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? https://x.com/billykyle/status/1934300693235732801
Waymo robotaxis are pushing into even more California cities | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/waymo-robotaxis-are-pushing-into-even-more-california-cities/
Honda-backed Helm.ai unveils vision system for self-driving cars https://tech.yahoo.com/transportation/articles/honda-backed-helm-ai-unveils-100605030.html
Elon Musk’s xAI in Talks to Raise $4.3 Billion in Equity Funding – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/musk-s-xai-in-talks-to-raise-4-3-billion-in-equity-funding?embedded-checkout=true
Denmark is using robotic boats to surveil for maritime threats – Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/91353311/why-danish-military-using-crewless-vessels-north-baltic-seas
Swedish Gripen E flies combat missions using onboard AI system https://interestingengineering.com/military/gripen-e-ai-first-combat-flight-saab-helsing
New test can help driverless cars make ‘moral’ decisions https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-driverless-cars-moral-decisions.html
Something like 43,000 die yearly in car crashes in the US and 2.38 million are injured. At what point does it become unethical to not to speed up driverless car adoption as a policy choice? (Waymo’s reported safety numbers align with what we have seen from independent audits)”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1934718552436625502
Tesla asked to delay robotaxi launch by Democratic Texas lawmakers | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-asked-delay-robotaxi-launch-by-democratic-texas-lawmakers-2025-06-19/?taid=6853bb56e741020001748ad0
Saab achieves AI milestone with Gripen E https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2025/saab-achieves-ai-milestone-with-gripen-e
A month ago, Nvidia released the wheeled nursing humanoid robot Nurabot, which was built by Foxconn and other companies. It is now running in hospitals such as Taichung Veterans General Hospital, and dozens of them will be deployed by the end of this year. These robots will serve https://x.com/CyberRobooo/status/1934270147336003862
New Chinese rules classify autonomous driving data as sensitive. To regulate outbound car data transfers. The rules classify data used for training autonomous driving or driver assistance as important. These transfers require government approval. Tesla operates over 2M EVs in https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1933758802710397079
It’s Waymo’s World. We’re All Just Riding in It. https://www.msn.com/en-us/general/general/it-s-waymo-s-world-we-re-all-just-riding-in-it/ar-AA1FOmxl
Drones and robotic dogs represent the future of the Army at military parade – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMNYuzDhtHo
Chamath sat in on Tesla’s internal meetings on Dojo and Optimus this week. After witnessing Elon and the Tesla employees in those meetings, he had one takeaway: “I wouldn’t sleep on this company!” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1933901985138581575
IIT demonstrates that a humanoid robot can fly – Talk iit https://opentalk.iit.it/en/iit-demonstrates-that-a-humanoid-robot-can-fly/
World’s first flying humanoid robot with jet engines debuts in Italy https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/flying-humanoid-robot-uses-jet-thrust
