As predicted, Tesla discussed its car lineup’s forthcoming self-driving features during an “Autonomy Day” keynote ahead of its Q1 2019 earnings call later this week. Autopilot Hardware 3.0 — which it claims is the worlds most advanced computer for autonomous …
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CarGurus: 32% of consumers are ‘excited’ about self-driving cars
According to marketing firm ABI, as many as 8 million driverless cars will be added to the road in 2025. Meanwhile, Research and Markets is predicting that in the U.S. alone, there will be some 20 million autonomous cars in operation by 2030. But how do cons…
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Apple in talks with self-driving car sensor suppliers
(Reuters) — Apple has held talks with at least four companies as possible suppliers for next-generation lidar sensors in self-driving cars, evaluating the companies technology while also still working on its own lidar unit, three people familiar with the disc…
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OpenAI’s Dota 2 bot defeated 99.4% of players in public matches
OpenAI Five — the AI-imbued bot designed by San Francisco, California-based research organization OpenAI that defeated a professional esports team at Valve’s Dota 2 earlier this month — became publicly playable last week via Arena, a mode which allowed player…
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Tesla earnings: Oof
Tesla just got hit with a big loss for its most recent quarter: $2.90 per share on revenue of $4.54 billion. Analysts estimated a loss of $0.69 per share on revenue of $5.33 billion. The company ended its first quarter with $2.2 billion of cash and cash equiv…
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