Samsung will soon let you control smart home devices from your car’s dashboard

Samsung has launched a Car-to-Home integration for Hyundai and Kia vehicles, letting drivers manage smart home devices — from air conditioners to robot vacuums — without ever leaving their seat.

Motional robotaxis join the Uber app in Vegas two years after major reset

The launch comes just two years after a major reboot at Hyundai-owned Motional. The service will start with a safety monitor, which Motional hopes to remove by year’s end.

Maybe robots SHOULD steal some jobs: new firefighting ‘bot saves human lives
Maybe robots SHOULD steal some jobs: new firefighting ‘bot saves human lives

Hyundai announced the unimaginatively named Unmanned Firefighting Robot last week – but this life-saving robot isn’t just a futuristic concept. The first operational unit was donated and deployed at the National Fire Agency, where it hopes to prove tha…

Musk claims Tesla will ‘make AGI’ after years of wrong AI predictions
Musk claims Tesla will ‘make AGI’ after years of wrong AI predictions

Elon Musk declared today that Tesla will be “one of the companies to make AGI” and “probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form.” It’s the latest in a long string of grand AI predictions from the Tesla CEO.

The problem is that Musk h…

Elon Musk’s xAI is undoing Tesla’s climate work all in the name of AI slop
Elon Musk’s xAI is undoing Tesla’s climate work all in the name of AI slop

Elon Musk’s xAI is now operating 62 unpermitted methane gas turbines across two data centers in Memphis, Tennessee, and Southaven, Mississippi. According to xAI’s own permit application, the facilities could emit more than 6 million tons of greenhouse …

Hyundai has no Kona EV plans for 2026, but it isn’t retiring for good

Facing soft EV sales and shifting market dynamics, Hyundai pauses Kona Electric production for 2026, leaning on inventory and prepping a reinvigorated 2027 model to revive interest.
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You might finally see CarPlay Ultra beyond a $200,000 Aston Martin

CarPlay Ultra has been hard to find outside a $200,000 Aston Martin, but it may finally reach a mainstream Hyundai or Kia model later this year, signaling Apple’s first real chance to scale its bespoke dashboard system.
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Motional puts AI at center of robotaxi reboot as it targets 2026 for driverless service

Motional says it will launch a driverless robotaxi service in Las Vegas before the end of 2026.