The US Transportation Secretary ordered NHTSA to accelerate national AV performance standards, update ten federal safety rules and streamline exemptions.
Why it matters: The US is shifting from exemption-by-exemption approvals toward national performance standards — the compliance roadmap every automated-driving software program will be built against.
Second-quarter results put Rivian's software and services segment at $515 million, $308 million of it from the Volkswagen Group technology joint venture.
The Sky Nomad range-extended SUVs run Xiaomi's assisted driving on a 700-TOPS NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor chip rather than in-house silicon, according to Chinese media reports.
Continental's former automotive unit extends MK C2 integrated brake deliveries to the mid-2030s and settles past warranty disputes with a €350 million payment.
PCA Cyber Security's Q2 threat report counted 345 unique automotive vulnerabilities, 161 of them high-severity — up from 75 the quarter before.
BMW will build its next-generation digital cockpit and automated-driving systems on Qualcomm's Snapdragon platforms under a decade-spanning agreement.
After a 9X owner lost vehicle functions for about 30 hours while traveling abroad, Zeekr promised an OTA-delivered switch for its cross-border restriction, off by default.
The two carmakers are in late-stage talks to jointly develop an operating system for next-generation software-defined vehicles, according to Nikkei Asia.
HarmonyOS Zhixing started pushing the rebuilt Qiankun ADS 5 driving stack to the AITO M5 through M9 range, according to Chinese media reports.
The Coconut 3.1.0 update gives 2026 Max+ and Ultra+ trims a driving model that outputs steering and pedal signals directly, according to Chinese media reports.
FSD (Supervised) active users grew 56 percent quarter over quarter to 1.48 million, with annualized subscription revenue reaching roughly $791 million.