TIER IV and Astemo Plan Development Platform for End-to-End Self-Driving AI
TIER IV and Astemo signed a memorandum to jointly develop a platform for end-to-end autonomous driving AI targeting commercialization around 2030. Astemo plans to integrate end-to-end AI models into passenger vehicles in the early 2030s using the new development platform.
Read full story →Waymo Drops the Dallas Waitlist as Freeway and Airport Testing Looms
Waymo eliminated its Dallas waitlist on August 4, 2026, allowing anyone to download the app and request autonomous rides without invitation. The company had served nearly 150,000 riders during its previous invitation-only phase that began in February.
Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 model approaches frontier AI capabilities but lacks key safety mitigations according to a SaferAI report. The gap between open-weight model performance and safety protections has renewed concerns about governance of powerful publicly available AI systems.
Mistral’s Shieldstral Packs Policy-Adaptive Safety Screening Into 3B Parameters
A 3-billion-parameter safety classifier called Shieldstral evaluates text and images against moderation policies specified at inference time rather than fixed categories. The model supports 12 languages, runs on a single 16GB GPU, and matches the performance of larger open guard models on text evaluation.