Depuis l’annonce de leur collaboration lors du GTC 2026, NVIDIA et Bolt ambitionnent de transformer la mobilité urbaine européenne. À travers ce partenariat, la société de VTC accède à une panoplie d’outils d’intelligence artificielle et de calcul haute performance signés NVIDIA. De son côté, le géant américain met la main sur un flux conséquent de données issues des trajets réalisés par les véhicules Bolt, un atout non négligeable pour faire progresser ses propres modèles.

Derrière ces avancées se dessine une nouvelle donne : celle d’une clientèle plus autonome, capable de résoudre ses problématiques sans solliciter systématiquement un interlocuteur humain. Selon les chiffres avancés par CaixaBank, cette évolution pourrait augmenter jusqu’à 40 % la fidélisation des clients et réduire de 28 % les abandons lors du processus d’achat. Ainsi, c’est tout le modèle du commerce qui se trouve réorienté vers davantage de personnalisation, d’efficacité et surtout, un recentrage permanent sur les véritables attentes du client.

I’m not exaggerating: “Robotic AI Radio” is the exact phrase Jensen used during GTC 2026. What we are witnessing is a fundamental rewiring of how the world computes, and this groundbreaking development was showcased alongside 120 different robots at GTC 2026 today. This deployment is the first fruit of the partnership between Nokia and NVIDIA for building their Aerial RAN product. It is a massive architectural shift that incorporates GPUs directly into the RAN (Radio Access Network) for two critical purposes: improving RF signal processing and, crucially, enabling physical AI inference right at the edge. Although we are really early in the game, it is abundantly clear that AI has left the central datacenters and training labs. It is now all about the physical world and inference, where telcos can play a big role.

Uber has already partnered with major players in the space, including Baidu, Amazon’s Zoox, Nissan and British startup Wayve, and said it will invest more than $100 million to develop autonomous vehicle charging hubs as the sector races to commercialize driverless mobility at scale.

Le constructeur fait le ménage dans ses comptes et acte son coup de frein dans le tout-électrique. Tout comme Ford ou General Motors avant lui… Le titre a plongé de 25% à la Bourse de Paris.

The technology physically separates the terminals (electricity) from the pressure relief channels (fire). In essence, the pathways that carry electricity are isolated from the routes designed to vent heat, flames and gases during a failure. The design is intended to manage thermal runaway, a dangerous chain reaction in lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries where rising heat overwhelms the cooling system and can lead to fire. Keeping these two systems apart also blocks hot gases from spreading toward the passenger cabin in the event of a battery malfunction.

Chinese car companies make more vehicles than anyone else on Earth and export more as well. But high tariffs and hostile US-China trade relations have kept them out of the American market.
That’s likely to change, according to experts, with Chinese autos hitting US showrooms in the next five to 10 years.

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Waymo will begin fully autonomous operations with its 6th-generation Driver —an important step in bringing our technology to more riders in more cities. This latest system serves as the primary engine for our next era of expansion, with a streamlined configuration that drives down costs while maintaining our uncompromising safety standards. Designed for long-term growth across multiple vehicle platforms, this system’s expanded capabilities allow us to safely broaden our footprint into more diverse environments, including those with extreme winter weather, at an even greater scale.

Waymo announces its sixth-generation autonomous driving technology will eliminate steering wheels and pedals entirely, deploying purpose-built robotaxis with Geely in a bold move that could reshape transportation economics and accelerate the driverless future.

In late January, an Alphabet-owned Waymo self-driving car was cruising near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California, when a young child suddenly darted into the street. Waymo’s LiDAR sensors detected the student, who had just emerged from behind a parked SUV, but it was too late. Despite slamming on the brakes and slowing from 17 to six mph, the driverless car struck the child, knocking them to the pavement. Luckily, reports show that the child only suffered minor injuries, but that’s likely little comfort to parents whose children live in the growing number of cities where driverless cars operate.

Ce mouvement, révélé par une enquête de Reuters publiée le 13 février 2026, marque une nette inflexion par rapport à l’ambition tous-électriques affichée ces dernières années et s’inscrit dans un contexte de retrait progressif des investissements massifs en véhicules à batterie. Depuis fin 2025, le groupe a discrètement remis au catalogue des motorisations diesel sur plusieurs véhicules, allant des utilitaires légers aux berlines compactes et premium.

While selling private LTE and 5G networks, I visited an automotive manufacturing plant. The COO stopped the line and told me that one minute of downtime costs US$30,000 to US$40,000. Their production depends on synchronized robotics, AGVs, and real-time quality inspection running over an on-site private network. When connectivity is lost, even briefly, the line desynchronizes, and restarting can take minutes. The business impact is immediate and measurable.
That is why selling private networks was easy; The ROI conversation was trivial, but the problem was the economics. In 2026, the market counted 6,500 private networks globally with a total value of only US$2.5 billion, or roughly US$350,000 per network per year. For infrastructure that protects tens of millions in industrial value, telecom connectivity captures almost nothing. Private networks clearly work. Telecom business models do not.

L’Usine Nouvelle a réuni Sébastien Martin, le ministre délégué à l’Industrie, et Sophie Binet, la secrétaire générale de la CGT, pour débattre de la situation industrielle en France et confronter leurs solutions. Une rencontre inédite.

De la Corée du Sud au Brésil, le constructeur chinois Geely apporte au français des économies d'échelle dans ses usines et des modèles pour enrichir son offre. Un rôle que jouait jadis Nissan chez Renault.

Emanuele Cappellano, le patron Europe de Stellantis, appelle la Commission européenne à agir, sous peine de voir l'industrie automobile européenne décliner inexorablement.

Les salariés d'Ampere, la branche électrique mise sur pied par l'ancien patron Luca de Meo, sont revus drastiquement à la baisse. L'échec de l'introduction en Bourse de la filiale, début 2024, rendait inéluctable cette remise à plat.

Deploying and commercializing fully autonomous vehicles have been harder than expected with high investments to ensure the technology is safe and public outcry after collisions forcing many to shut shop. Following a high-profile accident in 2023 when a robotaxi from General Motors’ GM.N Cruise dragged a pedestrian, regulators revoked its permit, eventually leading the company to cease operations.
But robotaxis have returned to the spotlight with Tesla rolling out its service in Austin, Texas earlier this year and CEO Elon Musk promising rapid expansion. Waymo, which has grown slowly and steadily over the years since its launch as Google’s self-driving project in 2009, has also accelerated expansion.

Waymo said the self-driving system in its robotaxis treats dead stop lights as four-way stops, just like humans are supposed to. That should have allowed the robotaxis to operate normally in spite of the massive outage.
Instead, many of the vehicles requested a “confirmation check” from Waymo’s fleet response team to make sure what they were doing was correct. All Waymo robotaxis have the ability to make these confirmation checks. With such a widespread outage on Saturday, there was a “concentrated spike” in these confirmation requests, Waymo said, which helped create all the congestion caught on video.

A Zoox spokesperson told TechCrunch the company identified some instances in which its vehicles made maneuvers that, while common for human drivers, didn’t meet its standards. For example, in an effort to avoid blocking certain intersections at a red light, the robotaxi might stop in a crosswalk. In other instances, the robotaxi made a late turn, resulting in a wide turn, according to a spokesperson’s emailed statement.

Uber said it is teaming up with Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicle service to take part in a pilot program for self-driving taxi services that the British government is planning for next year. Testing is expected to start in the first half of 2026, the two companies said in social media posts.

Elon Musk, a déclaré dimanche que les robotsaxis de l'entreprise n'avaient pas été affectés par une panne d'électricité à San Francisco. "Les robotsaxis de Tesla n'ont pas été affectés par la panne de courant à San Francisco", a déclaré Elon Musk dans un post sur X.

L’incident, sans gravité et sans dommages humains et matériels, démontre s’il en était besoin que les véhicules autonomes n’en sont encore qu’à leurs débuts et qu’en cas d’imprévus, leur comportement n’est pas toujours à la hauteur de celui d’un conducteur humain. Du moins pas tant que cet imprévu n’a pas été intégré à leur système. C’est d’ailleurs la raison pour laquelle Elon Musk, concurrent de Waymo avec son système de Robotaxi chez Tesla, s’est empressé de tweeter que son service de voitures autonomes n’a pas été affecté par la panne d’électricité à San Francisco.

Ce samedi, San Francisco a été frappée par une panne d’électricité massive qui, selon Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a touché près de 130 000 clients. Cet événement a mis en relief un défi majeur rencontré par les taxis autonomes de Waymo, qui se positionnent comme les pionniers dans ce domaine : en cas de coupure de courant, les robotaxis se retrouvent immobilisés.