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A Xiaomi YU7 GT circled the Nürburgring Nordschleife with an empty driver’s seat and logged 10 minutes, 29.483 seconds, the first officially timed autonomous lap of the German circuit. Xiaomi set the run on June 8 and announced it on June 22, releasing onboard video that shows the steering wheel turning itself through the corners…
Samsung Electronics will hold an equipment installation ceremony at its Taylor, Texas foundry on April 24, 2026, kicking off the final run-up to mass production of Tesla’s AI5 and AI6 autonomous-driving chips on a 2-nanometer process. Han Jin-man, president of Samsung’s Foundry Business Division, will lead the ceremony alongside executives and representatives from materials, component,…
Tesla has officially detailed its Spring 2026 software update, and the feature list is longer than any single-season release in recent memory. Tesla reporter Sawyer Merritt posted the full breakdown on X on April 13, 2026 — the specific post URL was not publicly accessible at time of publication — covering twelve named changes and…
Tesla has pushed Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3 to owners via an over-the-air update, shipping inside software version 2026.2.9.6. The release notes, published on NotATeslaApp and flagged by Tesla reporter Sawyer Merritt on X, is one of the larger FSD point releases in recent memory. The headline change is a ground-up rewrite of the AI compiler…
California’s top ride-hailing regulator confirmed Tesla’s “Robotaxi” service holds only a limousine permit and is exempt from all autonomous vehicle reporting requirements.
Tesla officially launches the Terafab project to manufacture AI5 chips domestically. Elon Musk warns of a critical chip supply shortage by 2029, prompting Tesla to move toward semiconductor independence.
The timing is deliberate. One day before its investor day in New York City, Lucid Motors announced a software update rolling out to North American Lucid Gravity owners that enables Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Owners in Europe and the Middle East follow in late March, according to Lucid’s March 11 investor relations announcement. The…
Every time a Tesla owner taps “Send Command” in the app and the car responds in seconds, that experience traces back to a five-person team Thomas Dmytryk assembled in early 2015. Dmytryk, a director at Tesla who most recently held the title Senior Software Engineering Manager before moving to a broader Director role, announced his…
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