According to TheRundownAI, Sam Altman funds a stealth robotics startup, BYD plans humanoid sales, robotaxis miss traffic cuts, and Serve adds laundry.

According to TheRundownAI, Microsoft debuts an AI-native laptop as Apple delays AI glasses to 2027 and BYD pledges crash coverage for self-driving.

According to Sawyer Merritt on X, NVIDIA announced that BYD, Geely, Isuzu, and Nissan will adopt the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion platform to develop Level 4 autonomous vehicle programs, signaling accelerated OEM consolidation around NVIDIA’s end to end AV stack. As reported by Sawyer Merritt, NVIDIA also introduced Alpamayo 1.5, an upgrade that expands NVIDIA Alpamayo—an open portfolio of AI models and simulation—aimed at speeding development, validation, and deployment of autonomous driving. Business impact: According to Sawyer Merritt, multi OEM adoption of DRIVE Hyperion can reduce integration time and cost for sensor fusion, perception, and planning, while Alpamayo 1.5 expands synthetic data generation and scenario coverage for safety cases—key levers for faster SOP and lower validation spend.