Andrew J Hawkins

Tesla has begun deploying unsupervised robotaxis in Austin without safety drivers, though only a handful of vehicles are operating with safety monitors gradually being phased out while competitors like Waymo have already completed over 100 million autonomous miles.

“Author of "Tesla Finally Ditches Safety Drivers in Austin Robotaxis"”

Ford will launch an AI-powered voice assistant in 2025 and introduce Level 3 hands-free autonomous driving in 2028 by developing core technology in-house to reduce costs and maintain control, rather than outsourcing to third-party providers.

“Author of "AI That Knows Your Car > AI That Just Guesses"”

Uber is launching a pilot program allowing US drivers and couriers to earn money performing AI training microtasks, positioning itself to compete with Scale AI and Amazon Mechanical Turk in the data labeling market.

“Author of "Uber Is Turning Its App into an AI Training Ground" in The Verge”

Microsoft launched MAI-Image-1, its first in-house text-to-image generator, which ranks in the top 10 on LMArena and produces photorealistic imagery faster than larger competitor models.

“Author of "Microsoft just built its own AI artist"”

“Reported on Dreame's shutdown of its electric car project after government funding dried up.”