The car industry is embracing AI – this is what it looks like

The cars that are coming off the production lines right now have old ideas. From start to finish, building a new car can take five years or more — plenty of time for many tastes, politics, and gas prices to change. This is one reason why car manufacturers exist very excited about the potential of AI helping to speed up other parts of the process, from prototype development to wind turbines. LLMs may be ready to change our approach.

Get started this part of The Vergecastautomotive and technology reporter (and frequently On the edge assistant) Tim Stevens he explains how the automotive industry is adopting AI, and why speeding up development can be a big deal. He also tells us why, even though the car industry has vowed that it is not planning to replace humans with AI, we should be concerned about what happens to the car industry instead of humans with AI. At the end of this revolution, will AI models decide which cars we drive? So what can they choose? That future is an escape route, but it’s better to think about it now.

After that, Seaside‘s Hayden Field joins the show to get a bunch of the biggest stories in AI. Claude Code and Codex competing for AI coding supremacy; Anthropic whether it is or not return by the US government, and it is not clear how important it is; the vibes at OpenAI are slightly better but not great; AGI is deadperhaps. Nothing about the AI ​​industry is static, so we have a lot to talk about.

Finally, Hayden is available to answer questions from the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com!)Actions of AI” as the reason.

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