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TIER IV publishes an open autonomous-racing reference stackThe reference design was used by 240 teams and approximately 600 participants in the 2026 Autonomous Driving AI Challenge. Developers can use the common platform to test algorithms from simulation through real vehicles.→Uber and Wayve begin supervised autonomous passenger rides in LondonThe companies began carrying passengers in fewer than 20 vehicles, with Transport for London allowing up to 15 cars in a one-year trial. The vehicles are licensed as private-hire vehicles, so removing the safety driver would require a separate automated-passenger-services permit that neither company yet holds.→Alibaba’s Amap releases ABot-Recon for long-horizon real-time 3D reconstructionABot-Recon uses a fixed local context window and incremental composition rather than maintaining long-range memory anchors. Amap reports 24.45 frames per second on KITTI-02, lower trajectory error on Oxford Spires, and peak memory use of about 6.71GB.→TIER IV joins OIN 2.0 to reduce patent risk for autonomous-driving softwareTIER IV said OIN 2.0 participation will reduce patent risk for automakers, suppliers and semiconductor companies building on Autoware and related open-source software. The move extends open-source governance beyond code licensing into patent protection for vehicle compute and autonomy ecosystems.→