To build the autonomous machines of the future, sometimes your model needs a model.
Companies developing self-driving cars, robots manipulating the physical environment, or autonomous construction equipment collect thousands, if not millions, of hours of video data for evaluation and training.
Organizing and cataloging that video is now a job for humans, who have to watch all of it. Even…
Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early-stage AI startups
April 1, 2026
Runway is moving beyond building AI video models and into shaping what gets built on top of them.
The AI video-generation startup has launched a $10 million venture fund to invest in early-stage companies building across AI, media, and world simulation, the company’s…
With now more than 100 million cameras in the field, Amazon-owned Ring is ready to take advantage of its sizable footprint with the launch of a new app store that will expand its cameras’ capabilities. Focused initially on areas like elder care, workforce analytics…
Mark Lupkey, the manufacturing operations leader who oversaw Cybercab assembly and end-of-line ramp at Giga Texas, has announced his departure from Tesla. He is the third senior leader directly involved in bringing the Cybercab to production to leave the company in just over a month.
Lupkey spent nearly eight years at Tesla across two separate stints, working his way through some of the…
Toyota's new luxury EV in China receives over 3,000 orders in 1 hour after launching for $22,000
April 1, 2026
The bZ7, Toyota’s new flagship EV in China, may be its most advanced vehicle yet. After launching for under $22,000, the luxury electric sedan secured 3,100 orders within its first hour.
The bZ7 launches as Toyota’s new flagship luxury EV
Toyota’s joint venture…
A new bipartisan bill introduced in Congress could finally establish a long-missing federal framework for regulating electric bikes and similar micromobility devices in the US.
Dubbed the Safe Standards for Personal E-Bike and E-Moto Device Specifications Act, or the Safe…
Ukraine’s war has forced the country to become a trailblazer in drone interception. The conflict in the Middle East could be its make-or-break moment to take the technology global.
In an effort to export Ukrainian systems and know-how, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criss-crossed the Gulf region this weekend to hash out deals with countries that have been targeted by waves of Iranian drone…
ROME — U.S. military aircraft heading from the United States to the Middle East have been refused permission to stop off at an air base in Italy, an Italian government source has told Defense News.
The request to land at Sigonella air base in Sicily was issued to Italian…
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The U.S. Navy spent at least six months resurrecting a high-energy laser weapon that previously graced the bow of…
After years of pissing me and other Windows 11 users off, Microsoft says it’s ready to turn a new leaf, fixing mistakes, making improvements, and adding some long-requested features. I’d like to believe that Windows 11 is headed in the right direction. But given how anti-user Windows has become, I’m bitter and cynical. There’s one way Microsoft can prove that it’s serious…but I don’t…
