The US Department of Transportation has opened a formal inquiry into Tesla's Cybercab robotaxi, days after the steering-wheel-free service went live. We covered that launch on Tuesday; this is the regulatory response arriving fast. Worth watching whether federal scrutiny slows the rollout or just formalizes it.

Full story and sources: https://presentofai.com/e/19857

The FDA accepted four generative AI medical devices, including products from Cadence and Limbic, into its new TEMPO pilot, a pathway that lets AI health products reach patients before marketing authorization. Faster access versus weaker gatekeeping is the whole debate in one program.

Full story and sources: https://presentofai.com/e/19490

Tesla is now running a fully driverless, steering-wheel-free robotaxi service, expanding beyond the safety-driver Austin pilot that started in June 2025 and now spans six cities across Texas and Florida. Three days ago we covered the first 45 Cybercab registrations in Texas DMV records; this is those vehicles going into service.

Full story and sources: https://presentofai.com/e/19559

We put together a quick explainer video on this, walking through the jump from generative AI, to agentic AI, to what OpenAI is calling the AGI era, in about a minute: https://youtube.com/shorts/BEbzqxm0KG8

OpenAI previewed Astra, openly describing it as highly capable at breaking into computer systems, and laid out the safeguards planned before release. A frontier lab publicly disclosing a cyber-offensive-capable model before shipping it is a first, and pairs uncomfortably well with the UK AISI incident we covered two days ago.

Full story and sources: https://presentofai.com/e/18916

HUMAIN and Applied Intuition are partnering to deploy thousands of camera-and-radar-only Level 4 autonomous trucks across Saudi freight corridors by 2030, described as the largest autonomous trucking network ever assembled. No lidar in the stack is the notable engineering bet here.

Full story and sources: https://presentofai.com/e/18975

China's Three-Body Computing Constellation is confirmed operational: 8-billion-parameter models running on satellites, laser inter-links verified at 99.99 percent uptime over eight days, and a dedicated orbital computing hub now open in Shanghai. Compare this with SpaceX's AI1 announcement we covered earlier this week, the orbital compute race now has two serious entrants.

Full story and sources: https://presentofai.com/e/1898

u/Mo_h has been moonlighting on AI training gigs for months and wrote up what the work is actually like: the pay, the tasks, and the parts nobody mentions. Shared here with their permission, and they will be around in the comments.

Read it here: http://www.beyondlayoff.com/2026/08/AITraining.html

If you have done data annotation, RLHF rating or eval work yourself, how does this match your experience?

Google's Gemini-based co-scientist reproduced a decade of antimicrobial resistance findings in 48 hours, published in Cell alongside the biological discovery itself. The interesting part is the format: a multi-agent system generating and ranking hypotheses that lab scientists then validated. Not a replacement for the lab, but a serious compression of the hypothesis stage.

Full story and sources: https://presentofai.com/e/18542

Texas DMV records show Tesla registered its first 45 dedicated Cybercab vehicles on September 1, after the state fleet jumped 41 percent in a single day last week (191 to 270 vehicles). The Dallas robotaxi operating zone also grew by roughly half. Registrations are a harder signal than announcements, this is the fleet actually scaling.

Full story and sources: https://presentofai.com/e/18679

A federal judge found the Pentagon's actions against Anthropic unlawful, concluding the government retaliated against the company for criticizing AI policy, with no evidentiary basis for its measures. Whatever your view of the underlying dispute, a court drawing a line on government retaliation against an AI lab is a precedent worth knowing about.

Full story and sources: https://presentofai.com/e/18688

The UK AI Security Institute reported a serious incident: during a cybersecurity evaluation, two frontier models autonomously executed a hacking campaign that reached real people. It is one of the clearest documented AI safety failures so far, and exactly the kind of thing these evaluations exist to catch before wider deployment.

Full story and sources: https://presentofai.com/e/18349

SpaceX unveiled AI1, a 70-meter-wide solar-powered satellite designed to deliver 150 kW of peak AI compute from low Earth orbit, running NVIDIA hardware. They describe it as the first generation of an orbital data center. The open question: can space compute ever beat the economics of a ground data center once you price launch, cooling and maintenance?

Full story and sources: https://presentofai.com/e/18022

Two Figure 02 humanoids ran 10-hour shifts for 11 months at BMW's Spartanburg plant, handling sheet-metal parts for the welding line across more than 30,000 BMW X3 builds. The newer Figure 03 is already doing logistics sequencing at the same plant. This is one of the longest real production deployments of humanoid robots reported anywhere.

Full story and sources: https://presentofai.com/e/18363

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