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CCybersecurity #autonomous-vehicles#red-teaming#robotics#techcrunch-disrupt

Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars in simulation

Stress-testing physical AI before it ships, from researchers whose method made the cover of Nature.

Ann Arbor startup Laplace Intelligence, founded a year ago by Howie Sun and his former University of Michigan PhD adviser Henry Liu, builds high-fidelity simulations reconstructed from the real world plus an AI agent that hunts for failure points in robots and autonomous vehicles. Their 2023 paper on the approach was a Nature cover story. The company says it already earns revenue, mostly from autonomous driving customers such as trucking firm Bot Auto and a major Japanese carmaker, and is running a smart-city traffic pilot in San Jose with Nvidia and T-Mobile.

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UndertowBenchmark scores can overstate real-world reliability

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Laplace stress-tests robots in simulations reconstructed from the real world. Sun himself says "no one knows what the edge cases will be in the real world"; passing a simulated test suite is evidence, not proof.

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MMMarket Movers #autonomous-vehicles#regulation#tesla

Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to "Assisted Driving" in Europe

Shows why the name change matters less than the speeding question regulators are stuck on.

Tesla's European websites now call its driver-assistance software "Tesla Assisted Driving" instead of Full Self-Driving, days after Germany's transport ministry said the old name was misleading because the system never takes over the driving task, The Next Web reports. The U.S. site still sells Full Self-Driving (Supervised). Electrek found the new German page is otherwise a translation of the U.S. one. The bigger obstacle to EU approval is speed tolerance: Germany wants a cap at 10% over the limit.

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MMMarket Movers #autonomous-vehicles#debt#waymo

Waymo closes a $5 billion term loan, its first debt financing

Lenders signing on is a signal that robotaxis are being treated as an operating business.

Waymo closed a $5 billion term loan, its first debt financing, with PIMCO, Blackstone and Sixth Street as lead lenders and Goldman Sachs as sole bookrunner. Earlier this year it raised $16 billion in equity. Waymo says the money will speed expansion of its driverless ride-hailing service in the U.S. and abroad; it launched in its fifteenth U.S. city last month.

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