A filing put the pre-money equity value at about $800 million and disclosed that the developer platform, not the driving system, has generated the company's $25 million in revenue.
The company described release 2026.31 as the largest software change in the R1's history, and said it reaches every R1 on the road.
Two software recalls filed on the same day cover 441,107 vehicles, and the 2026 Ram 1500 appears in the vehicle list of both the new camera campaign and an August one.
The group said its data-collection-to-retraining pipeline is now in full operation, and set 2028 and 2029 production dates for two systems built on different silicon.
The supplier said a major Chinese carmaker had placed a series order for a brake system that runs electronically from the pedal through to its fallback level.
Nine ministries published the 2026-2030 plan for intelligent connected new energy vehicles, listing operating systems and industrial software among the technologies the country has yet to master.
Shareholders approved ending the project funded by the software house's 2022 share placement and moving the unspent proceeds permanently into working capital.
The truck group said it plans to incorporate Red Hat's automotive Linux into TRATON ONE OS while keeping architecture, safety and regulatory responsibility itself.
Updates that complete after the driver locks the truck and walks away are now available across the United States and Canada on the company's newest tractors.
The Japanese company released a camera-only driving model as open source and said its code, training and in-vehicle optimization were carried out by an AI development loop rather than by engineers.
The company put a figure on how much of its safety argument for driverless highway trucking is finished, and reaffirmed a commercial launch by the end of the year.
An automotive group the companies described only as one of the world's largest selected Hirain Technologies' imaging radar, built on Arbe's chipset, for an automated driving program covering several brands in China.
The supplier made its Human Body Model Safety Suite available as a shared virtual-testing platform and said Toyota had begun using it to evaluate its capabilities.
The supplier connected its bus fleet platform to its workshop diagnostic software so technicians can run a full diagnostic session on a vehicle before it arrives, and said the connection is open to rival tools.
The diagnostics arm of FORVIA HELLA launched macsNova, an assistant it said draws on the company's own repair history and no external data, as the intelligence layer of a new tester.
The transport ministry published the participants selected to run this financial year's demonstrations of the Autoflow Road, a dedicated lane for unmanned automated freight.
The cockpit software supplier told the Hong Kong exchange that an unnamed Chinese electric two-wheeler maker had designated it for a system that turns the vehicle's outer panels into speakers.
The Gothenburg company moved the technology chief who had held the post since 2009 into a newly created information role and reorganized its senior team around two new positions.
A Form 6-K set out the terms of a Swedish carrier purchase that closed on September 1 and that the company has not announced through its own newsroom.
Japan's trade ministry picked the company for a large-scale demonstration grant to adapt its open-source driving stack to Saudi Arabian conditions for autonomous buses.
The regulator's notice said an operational deviation or an abnormal download during two 2024 campaigns left the vehicles short of the target software version.
The regulator said it will examine the technical data and processes behind Tesla's self-certification that a vehicle without traditional human controls meets every applicable federal safety standard.
Uber passengers in London can now be matched with a car driven by Wayve's software, with a licensed driver on board to oversee the trip, in the first autonomous ride-hailing service offered in the United Kingdom.
The cockpit-electronics supplier's board waived the share-reduction undertakings blocking the transfer of 28.30 percent of the company to Sichuan Jiuzhou, and called a shareholder meeting for September 21.
The vision-chip supplier reported quarterly revenue of $108.1 million, up 13.2 percent from a year earlier, and named its 5nm AI chips as the source of the growth without publishing an automotive split.
NTT Mobility and Aioi Nissay Dowa will compare an automated vehicle's own driving data against the insurer's telematics records to build safety-evaluation methods for automated services.
The two companies demonstrated streaming graphics and video from a vehicle's central computer straight to displays over ASA Motion Link, an open alternative to the proprietary links that normally carry it.
The Chinese chip supplier said cumulative volume production of its Journey chips reached 15 million units, and separately that a single air-cooled part now brings urban navigation assistance to combustion cars.
The brake supplier said its update-management system is certified to ISO 24089 and already in series production, and that it is adding an open, manufacturer-independent update hub built with Cojali.
The group's supervisory board approved a plan that harmonizes platforms, electronic architectures, driver assistance and software into one set for the Western hemisphere and one for the Eastern.
Nippon Seiki's disclosure and FPT's own release together set out a business alliance, a newly formed Polish entity and a transfer price withheld under a confidentiality agreement.
The rating body published results for four models on September 2, scoring assisted-driving software, driver monitoring and the design of cabin controls alongside crash performance.
The supplier named secure software update management, vehicle diagnostics and a high-speed truck-trailer connection among the building blocks on its path to the software-defined commercial vehicle.
The supplier's IAA Transportation portfolio put cockpit and vehicle integration platforms, over-the-air-capable computers and an ETAS diagnostic stack built on ASAM SOVD at the center of its commercial-vehicle software case.
The steering supplier's interim report disclosed two steer-by-wire program launches, one in China that it says is the world's first full system launch certified to the highest automotive safety integrity level.
Chinese outlets reported that the defunct carmaker's remaining entity told owners that paying third parties to crack and reflash their cars' infotainment systems counts as unauthorized modification, with consequences for warranty cover and possible criminal liability.
Around 450 employees are based at the site, which the carmaker said it established to reach critical talent during its transformation and which will close on March 1, 2027.
The two companies widened a long-running collaboration to cover AI infrastructure, PC silicon and automotive, with NVIDIA buying MediaTek convertible bonds.
The California software company and the Saudi state-backed AI firm HUMAIN said they would put thousands of autonomous trucks on Saudi logistics corridors by 2030, running Applied Intuition's driving stack.
The Chinese driving-software supplier earned 62 percent of its first-half revenue from engineering contracts and the rest from per-vehicle licence fees, at a gross margin above 73 percent.
The transport ministry moved the September 1 application date to November 1 for vehicles already in production, citing earthquake damage to suppliers that left ordered cars unbuilt.
Licence and service income again passed chip-and-module revenue as the Chinese driver-assistance supplier sold more algorithms and intellectual property than hardware.
The two carmakers will share the high-performance and zone controllers of their next-generation vehicles, along with the operating system, middleware and vehicle control software running on them.
The state-owned carmaker's board put forward Li Zhenyu, who led Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group and now chairs an embodied-AI startup, as a candidate for its next board.
The Kobe-based in-vehicle software house fixed the date and the boards for a reorganization that gathers its infotainment, driver-assistance and connected-services work under a single platform business.
The Chinese software house reported its largest segment shrinking in the first half, while naming Snapdragon Ride Flex as the basis for its next-generation cockpit domain controller.
The carmaker's interim report recorded a 6.5 percent decline in research spending, alongside a described architecture change that consolidates cockpit, driving and electric-drive computing.
The revised Road Traffic Safety Law went out for public comment on August 28 with an official explanation that requires makers and importers of autonomous vehicles to guarantee network and data security, and bars exaggerated claims about self-driving functions.
The automotive silicon vendor reported first-half revenue of 458.5 million yuan and gross margin of 49.5 percent, while spending nearly twice its revenue on research and development.
The agency extended the comment period on both its autonomous-vehicle framework guidance and its rewritten Part 555 exemption rule to September 30, after the main US automaker association asked for more time.
A Hong Kong filing disclosed that seven investors, including a wholly owned Horizon Robotics subsidiary, will put 240 million yuan into the physical-AI and unmanned logistics venture Minieye set up this year.
SAMR approved a revised mandatory standard on vehicle dimensions that carves out sensing and communication hardware, removing a packaging constraint that has shaped where perception components can sit on a vehicle.
China's securities regulator registered Changan's share placement on Monday, and the prospectus filed the same day itemized a digital-intelligence platform project whose largest cost line is rented computing capacity and labeled driving data.
Keboda disclosed zonal control unit design wins at two Chinese electric-vehicle makers and domain controllers built across several chip platforms, and separately approved 100 million euros of capital for its German and Czech subsidiaries.
Bethel, Tuopu and Huayu each reported brake- or steer-by-wire systems reaching mass production in interim results disclosed on August 28, in a shift Bethel attributed to two national standards that took effect this year.
BMW Group said every new active safety, automated driving and parking function arriving with the Neue Klasse runs on one water-cooled computer carrying roughly 20 times the processing power of the outgoing system.
A joint notice from MIIT and three sister ministries launched a one-year national inspection campaign that makes driver-assistance validation, cybersecurity and update logging conditions of market access.
The agency asked OMB to approve an eye-tracked, on-road study of production cockpit interfaces, and said its own design guidance predates large screens, gesture input and in-vehicle commerce.
The Beijing mapping and chip supplier said its automotive data-compliance service line grew to 618 million yuan, about a third of group revenue, while unit prices fell across its other businesses.
At its 2026 CEO Investor Day, Hyundai gave dates for its software and autonomy programs, including a 100-megawatt training data centre due online from 2029.
Waymo set out in its own words the ten decisions behind the Waymo Driver, and used them to reject both camera-only sensing and pure end-to-end neural driving.
A vice minister said the 2026 to 2030 plan will attach a digital identity to each traction battery so that its origin can be traced and its destination checked, alongside new administrative regulations and joint enforcement.
The Series D, led by the Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, came with delivery figures Gatik has not published before.
The Ningbo supplier's interim report records wins with European, Japanese and Korean carmakers for assisted driving, cockpit and automated-driving data recorder systems, while revenue fell 7.4 percent.
The carmaker's interim results paired a 53 percent fall in total profit with rising research spending, the rollout of Coffee Pilot 4 and a cockpit operating system it plans to push to more models by over-the-air update.
The Japanese supplier put its battery passport software into commercial service ahead of the European Battery Regulation's February 2027 deadline, built on a blockchain record and an industry data model.
The agency asked for approval to run a study in Phoenix and Iowa City, saying no consensus method exists for testing drowsiness detection and that the European protocol leaves its own test conditions unspecified.
The Chinese automotive operating-system supplier reported first-half revenue up 30.5 percent and said the vehicle operating system itself now has to run models, schedule agents and govern their permissions.
A vice minister tied recent quality and autonomous-driving incidents to aggressive designs fitted to vehicles without adequate testing, and set out a drafted five-year plan for intelligent connected new-energy vehicles.
A front-view camera module built on Horizon Robotics' Journey 6B took a design win across several models of a mainstream German group's global passenger-car platform, with production from 2027.
The Swedish driver-monitoring supplier reported 128 percent organic growth in its automotive business, with royalty revenue from cars already in production up more than 200 percent in the quarter.
A US federal advisory said a stack overflow in Bendix's EC80 commercial-vehicle brake controller can be used to run code and inject CAN traffic, and named replacement firmware for all eleven affected part numbers.
A revision of the Road Traffic Safety Law given a first reading on August 25 adds a chapter that shifts enforcement to the manufacturer or importer when a violation happens with the autonomous function switched on.
Xiaomi was reported to have presented Xring D100, its first in-house smart-driving processor, at a chip briefing on August 24, with commercial use set for 2027.
XPeng reported that revenue from services and others rose 93.9 percent to 2.70 billion yuan on technical research and development work for an unnamed car manufacturer, at a gross margin six times that of its own vehicles.
A draft mandatory national standard would require Chinese-market vehicles to use approved cryptography to verify software update packages, boot firmware in stages, and authenticate whoever writes calibration parameters through the diagnostic port.
NHTSA upgraded a two-year-old Cadillac Lyriq investigation into an engineering analysis covering an estimated 1.16 million General Motors vehicles built with the eBoost brake system, plus two Honda-badged models GM builds under joint venture.
Porsche agreed to sell the 4,500-person management and IT consultancy MHP to Tata Consultancy Services, and signed a five-year deal under which TCS will run a dedicated AI center for the carmaker.
Idaho National Laboratory is assessing whether Chinese-made lidar would create security risk if widely fitted to US vehicles, in a review reportedly funded by industry rather than government, according to TechCrunch.
TIER IV joined the expanded Open Invention Network cross-licensing framework, extending its patent non-aggression cover to the Autoware open-source driving stack.
Geely filed two recalls covering 92,915 cars whose lidar power chip may be damaged, and told the regulator it would find the affected vehicles by reading early diagnostic signals from its cloud platform.
Kaspersky published research on a campaign against Android head units in which the unit's own legitimate update component installed the payload.
Nine manufacturers filed recalls covering 4,275,743 vehicles over a hard-to-find emergency door release on a single day, and six of them discharged part of the remedy by rewriting window-control software remotely.
China's market regulator published a recall plan under which Tesla will add in-cabin camera monitoring to 2,740,642 domestically built cars whose existing system did not warn drivers who looked away from the road.
KPIT Technologies and Vietsol agreed to jointly pursue vehicle software and engineering work across Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Chinese outlets reported that GAC Aion showed a model built on what it calls a chip-level integrated drive-and-control architecture, with driving software it links to WeRide's automated driving stack.
Foryou's controlling shareholder signed an agreement transferring 28.30 percent of the company to Sichuan Jiuzhou, moving the head-up display supplier under a municipal state asset commission.
The Wuhan software house reported automotive-electronics revenue down 12.60 percent and testing revenue down 56.65 percent, and argued that carmakers are passing price competition upstream.
Hyundai Motor Group's Android Automotive-based cockpit platform reached a production flagship, alongside a cloud-side battery management system that flags anomalies to the driver.
The two signed a memorandum of understanding on battery management systems and integrated power electronics for European carmakers, with Schaeffler owning software, functional safety and validation.
The agency submitted a study design that would compare a carmaker's own interface head-to-head with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in the same vehicles.
Seres Group's interim report disclosed what it paid Huawei's carved-out automotive unit in six months, in a half-year that turned a 2.94 billion yuan profit into a 1.72 billion yuan loss.
MIIT granted Geespace a two-year commercial trial licence for satellite Internet of Things services on Geely's own constellation, naming intelligent transportation among the target sectors.
The consortium published source code, code generators and a runnable demo of the Adaptive Platform, extending its work from written specifications to software that runs.
The remedy for the Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram vehicles is an over-the-air radio software update delivered across all four brands.
The outgoing technology chief will lead a newly formed initiative defining how to scale the company's platform and digital technology, reporting to the chief executive.
The company announced a certification it said makes virtual evidence from its toolchain usable toward UN R171 approval, without publishing a certificate number or the date the assessment finished.
The developer of the open-source Autoware stack said it is collaborating with Renesas to build an open computing platform spanning Level 2+ assistance through Level 4 automated driving.
The chipmaker disclosed that its entry-level driver-assistance processor has been designed into more than 50 models at over 25 carmakers, with Bosch, Denso and Aumovio building products on it.
The Swedish company said it will run 500 trucks built by another manufacturer through Saga AI, on the same morning its first results as a listed company disclosed driverless hours and planned distance.
A technical explainer set out how the company is validating the eyes-off driving system it plans to launch on the Cadillac Escalade IQ, disclosing for the first time how much simulated driving the program runs.
The three companies said their combined stack — Momenta's driving software, XHEART's X7 chip and QNX's safety operating system — has passed ISO 26262 ASIL D certification and is intended for vehicles sold under European driver-assistance rules.
A six-week Department for Transport consultation would write the UN regulation on driver control assistance, the widened automated lane keeping rules and the EU's new secure-diagnostics conditions into the British approval scheme.
A draft amendment would require manufacturers to supply the national inspection body with the encryption source needed to build diagnostic testers, free of charge, ten days before a new model goes on sale.
The US sensing startup established Teradar GmbH in Wiesbaden as its European headquarters, and named updates to European regulation as the condition for vehicle integration from 2028.
Six weeks after Euro NCAP published the result, Qualcomm said the assistance stack it co-developed with BMW contributed to two of the four stages the 2026 protocol scores.
The Linux Foundation launched a committee to maintain reusable functional-safety evidence for the Xen hypervisor, so integrators certifying it no longer each rebuild the same artifacts.
The combustion sedan and estate run MB.OS as their central software platform, extending the operating system across the whole model family after the electric C-Class launched on it in April.
A display that can fail at startup takes the hazard lights, turn signals and seat-belt warning with it, and the filed remedy is a dealer-applied software update rather than one sent to the car.
A notice that would drop two physical crash tests also pushes back the consumer rating system for driver-assistance technologies, which NHTSA attributed to resource constraints.
The executive who held overall responsibility for the MB.OS operating system is going for personal reasons, and no successor has been named.
The assistant reads a vehicle's real-time telemetry and its owner's manual through the owner app, and Ford said the in-vehicle version would follow by 2027.
Cadillac and Momenta said the new XT5 PHEV would carry the R7 world model, the second vehicle program between the two after a battery-electric SUV.
The Gothenburg company said a major European automaker had selected its combined driver and occupant monitoring software for three models, moving the camera into the rear-view mirror.
Horizon Robotics said its partner Pateo had been named platform supplier at an unnamed leading Chinese new energy automaker, in what it called the industry's first high-end AI cockpit award using a fully domestic cabin-drive-integrated chip.
onsemi told investors the Federal Trade Commission had granted early termination of the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period, leaving stockholder approval and other clearances still outstanding before the deal can close.
CARIAD said HS8, developed with Horizon Robotics, was the Volkswagen Group's first in-house full-scenario Level 2++ driver assistance system for China, and is planned for seven new energy models this year.
The company said a formal safety clearance, combining quantified risk across autonomy, platform and operations, had to be met before any safety-relevant software release, hardware change or operations revision.
The optional Safety Coach app scores braking, acceleration and cornering on the infotainment screen, and drivers in Sweden and Norway who choose to share the data can take a usage-based offer from the insurer Volvia.
The supplier said its EVO platform consolidates processing that commercial vehicles have spread across many individual control units, using Renesas silicon and a Green Hills software architecture that keeps safety-critical functions separated.
The chipmaker put its 7-nanometer automotive AI accelerator into mass production and began volume supply, pitching it as a card that adds on-vehicle model compute to cars already sold.
The autonomous driving company reported that revenue from the business it defines as driver-assistance research and development services grew almost twenty-seven times year over year, against a 47.3 percent increase in its Level 4 business.
A memo in the Engineering Analysis docket shows Tesla asked on August 5 for a partial extension of the August 12 deadline, and that the agency granted September 23 for eight questions, including the one covering modifications to the software.
The two companies opened a joint program to integrate Einride's autonomous driving system into DAF's electric truck platform, with Dutch research institute TNO working on the interfaces and on type-approval compliance.
The ministry put the approval draft of a security standard for the car-to-cloud link in vehicle-road cooperative systems out for public comment, at the head of a batch of 50 communications-industry standards.
The carmaker said the first major upgrade of its second-generation vision-language-action model would arrive as version 6.3.0, merging the driving and cockpit models and pushing part of its robotaxi behavior down into production cars.
Britain's CAM Pathfinder awards went to fail-operational braking, photorealistic simulation and a bus service moving from Level 3 to Level 4.
The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to build a development platform for production end-to-end autonomous driving models, with commercialization targeted around 2030.
Two Car Hacking Village sessions on August 9 described cloning a fob from a brute-forced rolling code, and operating a commercially available relay attack tool against a car.
The agency's information request, issued July 2, gave Tesla until Wednesday to hand over the design, testing and deployment history of the system meant to detect when Full Self-Driving's cameras are impaired.
Avatr's product page presents the five-seat sport utility vehicle as among the first equipped with Huawei's Qiankun ADS 5 on the WEWA 2.0 architecture, including a cruise mode the company said works with no destination set.
The conference program scheduled a Car Hacking Village talk for August 8 whose abstract described reaching a production vehicle's internal network through a rogue DHCP server on its OBD Ethernet port.
The Hong Kong-listed chip designer's first interim results announcement showed smart-vehicle revenue up 252.1 percent and 25 carmaker brands signed, alongside a loss for the period widening to RMB 688.0 million.
The two companies released a joint technical white paper on August 7 setting out the data definitions and IT architecture requirements that carmakers and battery makers face under the EU Battery Regulation and the Ecodesign Regulation.
The in-cabin AI software maker reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $69.6 million on August 6 and disclosed a multi-brand Cerence xUI award from Stellantis, alongside the first share buyback in its history.
The UN telecommunications standards body's Study Group 21 consented a Recommendation setting functional requirements for software-defined vehicle services built on vehicle gateway platforms, and South Korea's ETRI announced it on August 6.
An advisory published August 4 said KARR anti-theft systems used one Bluetooth authentication key across devices, letting anyone within radio range open the doors and stop the engine.
The union filed suit in Alameda Superior Court on August 5, arguing that the DMV wrongly treated the rules as too small to require the economic assessment California reserves for major regulations.
Chinese outlets reported that Huawei's HIMA alliance launched the Maextro V800 and V680 on August 5, with a fourfold-redundant driving computer on the larger car, a day after China's Level 3 safety standard was published.
The chipmaker's third-quarter results, published August 5, put its Automotive segment at €1,932 million and attributed the increase to parts sold into software-defined vehicles.
The carmaker said on August 4 that the Uber and Nuro robotaxi project would sit inside Lucid Technologies, a business unit combining artificial intelligence, driver assistance and digital work.
The company said on August 4 that Alpamayo 2 Super was available for commercial use, and that the OpenMDW license now covered the whole model family rather than research use alone.
MIIT said on August 4 that GB 44721—2026 had been approved as a mandatory national standard, replacing the recommended version and setting a single safety baseline for conditional and high automation.
The supplier's quarterly report, filed August 4, put its Software and Services product line at $152 million for the three months to June 30, against $137 million a year earlier.
A European Commission factsheet published August 3 confirmed that reporting duties for actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents begin on September 11, with part of the Data Act following a day later.
The chipmaker's second-quarter results, published August 3, listed Rivian's R2 platform as a zonal-architecture and on-board-charging design win alongside year-over-year automotive growth.
Owners running Tesla's older Autopilot computer reported overheating and dropped driver-assistance functions after an over-the-air update, in accounts collected by Electrek that Tesla has not addressed.
Volkswagen's software subsidiary closed a debt-to-equity conversion on August 3, turning a 2023 loan to the Chinese driver-assistance chip designer into a near-10 percent shareholding.
A staged update released in China on July 31 installs ByteDance's Doubao as an in-car voice assistant, Tesla's first use of a domestic Chinese language model, according to CnEVPost and Sina Finance.
An interim final rule struck the provision limiting a temporary exemption to vehicles manufactured on or after its effective date, effective immediately with comments due August 31.
The chip venture ECARX co-founded with Arm China raised the round as it moves from cockpit processors into single chips that run infotainment and driving workloads together.
The company said its NGP (Next Generation Pilot) system, powered by the VLA 2.0 model it developed in-house, would begin a global rollout in 2027 as cumulative deliveries passed 1.2 million.
GB/T 47439-2026 sets out how workshops should handle high-voltage and hydrogen systems on new-energy vehicles, from risk identification to tool checks.
FAW-Volkswagen began taking blind pre-orders for the ID. AURA T6, a battery-electric SUV on the electronic architecture developed with XPeng, according to CarNewsChina.
The notice sets out enhanced application instructions for automated-driving exemptions and discloses 517 alleged ADS crashes and 787 alleged Level 2 crashes reported from June to December 2025.
The cybersecurity and over-the-air updates task force will take up extending RXSWIN to UN R156 and pushing R155 duties down onto components and separate technical units.
The agency will replace its nine-year-old ADS 2.0 guidance chapter by chapter, publishing drafts as they are ready and keeping the docket open until July 2027.
Ministry inspectors spent two days at three Anhui automakers, randomly selecting sample vehicles and battery packs on site for national-standard compliance testing tied to production access.
Regulator filings cover 39,552 electric sedans with gear-shift and thermal-management software defects — the fix is a free OTA push beginning August 1.
The Federal Register notice exempts Zoox's purpose-built vehicle from eight FMVSS requirements written around human drivers, clearing paid rides for up to 2,500 vehicles a year.
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 US Transportation Secretary ordered NHTSA to accelerate national AV performance standards, update a set of federal safety rules and streamline exemptions.
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.
BMW will build its next-generation digital cockpit and automated-driving systems on Qualcomm's Snapdragon platforms under a decade-spanning agreement.
PCA Cyber Security's Q2 threat report counted 345 unique automotive vulnerabilities, 161 of them high-severity — up from 75 the quarter before.
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 The Japan Times.
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 optimizes navigation and parking assist on 2026 Max+ and Ultra+ trims, whose NX9031-and-NWM stack outputs steering and pedal signals directly, according to Chinese media reports.
Active FSD (Supervised) subscriptions reached 1.48 million, up 56 percent year over year against deliveries up 25 percent, with a record attach rate in North America.
BYD becomes Xperi's 14th OEM partner, standardizing the third-party media platform across its export markets from late 2026.
The Cariad-controlled joint venture Carizon gains white-box access to Horizon Robotics' AI foundation model, with conditional Level 3 deliveries targeted for late 2027.
XPeng debuted the L03 simultaneously in China and Munich, built around the VLA 2.0 foundation model and headed for 65 markets.
The expanded alliance adds a MISRA-compliant AI coding assistant for vehicle software alongside Toyota's continued use of DriveOS and DRIVE AGX.
A global OTA update adds native Apple Music integration to Volvo models back to model year 2020, with Spatial Audio on the newest cars.
China issued GB 47955-2026, its first mandatory national standard for combined driver-assistance systems, taking effect January 1, 2027.