From the September/October 2026 issue of Car and Driver. If the sophomore slump weren't a real thing, one-hit wonders wouldn't exist. Brits call it second-season syndrome, owing to a football, er, ...

On Tuesday, Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google’s “workhorse model” that promises improved capabilities in coding, knowledge work ...

As we wait for 3.5 Pro, Google today announced Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, while providing updates on what comes next. Gemini 3.6 Flash follows the last release at I/O 2026. This update takes ...

Google DeepMind’s Gemini 3.5 Pro has encountered another delay, marking its third postponement since the original June 2026 release target. As reported by World of AI, the model has struggled to meet ...

Google DeepMind is targeting July 17 for the general availability of Gemini 3.5 Pro — now four days away — but every specific claim circulating about the launch, including the date itself, the ...

Seventeen days after the U.S. government took Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 offline in the first forced shutdown of a commercially deployed frontier AI model, a resolution is finally approaching — and it ...

Rivian shares plunged on the day the company began delivering its R2 mid-size SUV, as the first lease quotes for the model arrived well above what buyers had expected and a broad equity selloff ...

Rivian flew us out to beautiful Park City, Utah, to get a first test of the R2, its $45,000 “bet-the-company” mass market SUV that it has promised for years. Today it begins delivering these vehicles, ...

Rivian has a lot riding on its all-new 2027 Rivian R2—essentially, the future viability of the company, as it’s banking on the lower priced, all-electric midsize SUV to be a volume seller compared to ...

Rivian provided flights from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, Utah, and accommodation so Ars could drive the R2. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. This month, Rivian begins customer deliveries ...

“Iteration” is the mindset of tech companies, in contrast with legacy automakers, which generally seek to milk as much use out of the investment in a particular design as possible. Rivian displays ...