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  • Nevada Approves Commercial Robotaxi Permits for Up to 8,000 Vehicles Across Tesla, Waymo, and Uber

    The Nevada Transportation Authority (NTA) has unanimously approved commercial robotaxi operating permits for Tesla, Waymo, and Uber across Clark County, establishing the regulatory foundation for up to 8,000 autonomous passenger vehicles in the Las Vegas metropolitan area over the next 12 months. The regulatory decision marks one of the largest single-county autonomous vehicle authorizations in the United States, distributing operating rights across three primary commercial applicants: * Tesl

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  • Waymo Details Custom 5nm ASIC and Heterogeneous Compute Architecture for Robotaxis

    Alphabet subsidiary Waymo has disclosed the architectural specifications of the computing platform powering its sixth-generation autonomous driving system, revealing a custom 5-nanometer application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) engineered specifically for front-end sensor ingestion and edge machine learning. The disclosure, authored by VP of Engineering Satish Jeyachandran and Compute Lead Daniel Rosenband, details how the company processes raw data from onboard sensor arrays in real time

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  • Waymo Brings Gemini Voice Assistant to Custom Ojai Robotaxis

    Waymo has integrated Google's Gemini large language model into its purpose-built Ojai robotaxis, introducing a conversational in-cabin voice assistant while maintaining strict isolation boundaries between the passenger interface and the vehicle's autonomous driving system. The voice assistant allows passengers to control cabin settings (such as adjusting air conditioning), query trip details, ask about points of interest along the route, and request general information hands-free during autonom

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  • Nvidia Opens Alpamayo 2 Super for Commercial Use

    Nvidia has released the weights for Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34-billion-parameter vision-language-action model for autonomous-vehicle development, under the Linux Foundation's OpenMDW-1.1 license. The change gives automakers and autonomous-driving developers a commercial path to fine-tune, redistribute, and build derivative models from Nvidia's largest Alpamayo release, according to the company's announcement and model card. A cloud teacher model, not a robotaxi driver Alpamayo 2 Super combi

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