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2027 BMW iX3 spotted on a carrier in Georgia (Source: Peter Johnson/ Electrek) BMW can’t build the new iX3 fast enough, with over 100,000 orders and production now running around the clock. Some in the US may get a chance to get theirs early. 2027 BMW iX3 deliveries begin in the US If you haven’t heard the hype yet, BMW’s new electric SUV is off to a pretty good start. The iX3 has received over 100,000 orders, and the company is now working overtime to meet the demand. BMW recently added a third shift at its new manufacturing plant in…

In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn’t disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model’s cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI.According to WSJ, Google didn’t disclose the hack because it didn’t consider it to be an “example of model misalignment.” The company said that it was an instance of “mistaken identity,” and once the model realized it had brute-forced its way into a real company by guessing a password, it stopped.…

You might not want to keep your old tapes in the attic. Sabphoto/Shutterstock If you grew up in the 1980s, chances are you had a collection of cassette tapes. Remember those? The media format, about the size of a large stack of credit cards, was the primary way we listened to music in the ’80s before being overtaken by CDs in the ’90s and eventually streaming services like Spotify. If you’re like me, you may still have many of them stored in a shoebox. But how long are these tiny tapes expected to last? The general belief is…

Pour one out, it’s the end of the line for the Volkswagen Touareg. The automaker has confirmed that production of the German SUV ends in 2026, closing an often dramatic and sometimes tumultuous 24‑year run for the only mass-market branded SUV with the bones of a Porsche. After 1.2 million units sold globally, the Touraeg evolved through three generations, became one of the only SUVs ever powered by a V10 engine, pulled a Boeing 747, and put multiple Dakar Rally wins under its belt, all with a lineage tied directly to a premium push by Ferdinand Piëch himself. Here’s Why…

If you want straightforward, accessible performance without having to spend an absolute fortune to secure the privilege of experiencing it, there are few better tools for the job than the Ford Mustang GT. Sporting a reliable and potent 5.0-liter V8 engine, which is connected to an engaging six-speed manual gearbox or 10-speed automatic that sends the grunt to the rear wheels, the Mustang GT allows you all the freedom and firepower needed to make a mess of your rear tires. For far less than a new Mustang GT, though, you could secure a rarer example that was upgraded to leave…

The Drive 🤝 your inbox. Every weekday The Daily Brief wraps up the biggest stories and our exclusive reporting on the auto industry and car culture. The Escalade has been Cadillac‘s de facto flagship for the past two decades. And while it’s trying to change things up with the all-electric, deliciously extravagant Celestiq, Cadillac is also exploiting the Escalade’s status by letting prices creep up well into the territory of more traditional luxury flagships. Cadillac recently launched the 2027 Escalade configurator, and as Autoblog pointed out, you can now spend nearly $200,000 on one of these full-size SUVs. That’s assuming…

In a move that challenges Orange Juicer and Buick Electra for the highly coveted Best Name in the EV Business title, a new venture between CATL and Octopus Energy called “Swaptopus” has been formed to build out a European battery swap network for commercial trucks. First announced at Octopus Energy’s Energy Tech Summit back in June, the Swaptopus concept got a bit of a boost at last week’s IAA Transportation event in the form of TECTRANS II, a next-generation commercial vehicle battery solution built specifically to serve as a modular, universal electric truck platform that promises to eliminate long charge…

Meta’s Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that’s a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn’t actually know how to describe itself. Jason Aten, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine, posted on Threads screenshots of an interaction he had with Muse in which the assistant asks him some questions about a conversation he was having in Messages.The problem is that Aten says he didn’t give Muse access to his messages. When asked how it knew about the contents…

There’s a glaring paradox regarding the Trump administration’s stance on EV adoption. On the one hand, Republicans scrapped electric vehicle tax incentives, scaled back on charging infrastructure programs, and adopted more lenient emissions standards. But then there is the other side of the coin, which has to do with the ongoing US – Iran conflict. Unrest in the Middle East is taking an increasingly heavy toll on fuel prices, and it seems unlikely that hostilities will cease very soon. Meanwhile, diesel climbed way above $6 at the pump and the national average for regular gasoline currently sits at just over…

It will also be the first time the company is adding V3 satellites to the Starlink constellation. SpaceX The next time SpaceX’s Starship rocket launches, it will orbit our planet and add Starlink V3 satellites to the company’s internet satellite constellation for the first time. SpaceX has now revealed that it’s targeting September 28 for the rocket’s 14th flight, with a 75-minute launch window opening at 8:15AM Eastern Time. The company was originally planning a September 22 launch, but it announced the new date without an explanation on X, where it also said that it’s still pending…