It turns out Tesla's camera-vision-only approach to self-driving is no match for a Wile E. Coyote-style fake wall. Earlier this week, former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober posted a video where he tried to see if he could trick a Tesla Model Y using its Autopilot driver-assist function into driving through a Styrofoam wall disguised to look like part of the road in front of it. The Tesla hurls towards the wall at 40 mph and, rather than stopping, plows straight through it, leaving a giant hole. "It turns out my Tesla is less Road Runner, more Wile E. Coyote," Rober says as he inspects the damage on the front hood. The video, posted only a couple days ago, had racked up over 20 million views by Wednesday morning.

The skill to drift a car--i.e., operate in a state of controlled oversteer like professional drivers--could give future autonomous cars maximum flexibility when they need to retain control in adverse conditions or avoid collisions. We investigate real-time drifting strategies that put the car where needed while bypassing expensive trajectory optimization. To this end, we design a reinforcement learning agent that builds on the concept of tire energy absorption to autonomously drift through changing and complex waypoint configurations while safely staying within track bounds. We achieve zero-shot deployment on the car by training the agent in a simulation environment built on top of a neural stochastic differential equation vehicle model learned from pre-collected driving data. Experiments on a Toyota GR Supra and Lexus LC 500 show that the agent is capable of drifting smoothly through varying waypoint configurations with tracking error as low as 10 cm while stably pushing the vehicles to sideslip angles of up to 63{\deg}.

Lexus showed off a pair of EV concept cars at the Tokyo Mobility Show designed to highlight its electrified future. The first is the LF-ZC concept designed to go into production next year and includes wild features like using the steering wheel for racing games. The other is the LF-ZL flagship that represents the "future vision" of the brand, Toyota said in a press release. The luxury Toyota sub-brand is committed to becoming fully electric by 2035, and the LF-ZC will be a big part of that with a market launch by 2026. Unlike Honda's Prelude concept that looks nearly production ready, however, the LF-ZC looks more like a showcase for ideas than a real car.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the nature of advertising. AI is transforming the advertising industry from ad creation and testing to audience targeting to ad buying. The context of advertising is affected intensively and the AI driven advertising has become promising in leading industries such as retail, automotive, entertainment, healthcare and pharmaceutical, telecommunications, and financial services. The concept of AI driven advertising is gaining popularity. Advertising research develops the understanding of the efficiency, effectiveness, and safety of how and why AI operates in advertising.

A series of senior European MPs have been approached in recent days by individuals who appear to be using deepfake filters to imitate Russian opposition figures during video calls. Those tricked include Rihards Kols, who chairs the foreign affairs committee of Latvia's parliament, as well as MPs from Estonia and Lithuania. Tom Tugendhat, the chair of the UK foreign affairs select committee, has also said he was targeted. "Putin's Kremlin is so weak and frightened of the strength of @navalny they're conducting fake meetings to discredit the Navalny team," Tugendhat posted in a tweet, referring to the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. "They got through to me today. They won't broadcast the bits where I call Putin a murderer and thief, so I'll put it here."

The world watched in wonder in February as NASA's robotic rover Perseverance successfully landed on the surface of Mars with the goal of searching for evidence of past life on the red planet. The technology itself was, of course, astounding. But what really captivated the public was the video taken by a couple of miniature cameras from consumer-grade smartphones that were attached to the landing module. The idea came from NASA deputy program manager Matt Wallace, who was inspired when his daughter showed him a video she made by attaching a camera to her body during gymnastics. "I felt for a moment I had a glimpse into what it would be like if I could do a back flip," he told The New York Times.

Like a lot of industries, artificial intelligence (AI) is changing advertising right before our eyes. Today, AI is getting attention for writing emotive TV scripts, targeting smart ads and using facial recognition to recommend products based on personal preferences. In each of these scenarios, it's helping advertising professionals do their jobs with intelligence backed by solid data; much more than humans have the time or capacity to analyze. And while there's some debate over how far some of these technologies should go and whether they violate privacy and keep customer data secure, there's a lot of excitement over its potential. So how is AI making an impact on the television advertising industry – and the people in it – today?

Like a lot of industries, artificial intelligence (AI) is changing advertising right before our eyes. Today, AI is getting attention for writing emotive TV scripts, targeting smart ads and using facial recognition to recommend products based on personal preferences. In each of these scenarios, it's helping advertising professionals do their jobs with intelligence backed by solid data; much more than humans have the time or capacity to analyze. And while there's some debate over how far some of these technologies should go and whether they violate privacy and keep customer data secure, there's a lot of excitement over its potential. So how is AI making an impact on the television advertising industry – and the people in it – today?

With the right combination of resources and perspectives, there are few areas that artificial intelligence (AI) cannot enter, and even thrive within. The technology is behind the creation of sophisticated works of art, and even a pretty decent black metal album. Now, the stakes are even higher, with luxury carmaker Lexus unveiling a one-minute advertisement with a script created entirely by AI for the release of its ES executive sedan. And as a symbol of the growing influence of AI, Academy Award winner Kevin McDonald agreed to lend his directing talents to the project. In order to ensure that a completely original story was produced, the AI underwent a training period that involved car and luxury advertisements from a 15-year period, all of them past winners in the Cannes Lion International Festival of Creativity.

Automakers are obsessed with promoting high-tech concepts in an effort to prove to investors and the general public that they aren't falling behind the times. While artificial intelligence remains the gold standard, what constitutes A.I. can get a little foggy. However, in the present, the term can be used to describe any machine that effectively mimics cognitive behaviors, like the ability to learn or create. Car manufacturers want to fine tune specific A.I. examples to be implemented in autonomous driving hardware and high-end, modern infotainment systems. For example Mercedes-Benz wants to use the technology to build a more serious relationship between drivers and its cars by allowing future vehicles to "learn" about the driver.