Samsung has been given the go-ahead to start testing its autonomous vehicles on the roads in South Korea. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport approved Samsung’s test plans, which according to the Korea Herald, will use a customised Hyundai car. Samsung has previously denied the company has any intention of making its own vehicles [...]

Ride-sharing firm Uber and Google’s Waymo are set to face each other in court over accusations of ‘trade secret’ self-driving car technology theft. According to the BBC, the case which is set for a San Francisco court, will see the judge consider granting a preliminary injunction that would force Uber to immediately suspend use of [...]

Volkswagen Group (VWG) has started fiscal year 2017 on a ‘strong footing’ with group sales revenue up by 10.3% in the first three months to €56.2bn. VWG posted increased operating profits of €4.4bn which ‘significantly exceeded expectations’. It claimed the results were due to volume- and mix-related factors, positive exchange rate effects and product cost [...]

Chinese technology giant, Tencent Holdings is set to open an artificial intelligence (AI) research facility in Seattle in the US, headed by former Microsoft scientist Yu Dong. Shenzhen-headquartered Tencent, which owns WeChat, is one of Asia’s most valuable companies with a market capitalisation of nearly $300bn. WeChat has more than 889 million monthly active users. [...]

Autonomous car start-up, Zoox has appointed ex-Ferrari executive Corrado Lanzone, former operations director of Ferrari SpA’s racing division. Corrado, vice president of manufacturing operations at the California-based company, has been hired to help Zoox ‘execute on our ambition to deliver autonomous mobility, without compromise.’ Corrado previously spent two-decades at Scuderia Ferrari, where he oversaw manufacturing, [...]