American companies pour billions into a fledgling industry, promising to dominate the future. The hype cycle gets investors and consumers excited, only for competition from China to come along and shake up the entire game. Everyone panics. Am I talking about the AI industry, or the EV industry? It could be either, as Patrick George explains in his latest feature on the rise of DeepSeek and Chinese EVs. Western companies really have to stop acting like tech leadership is a given. At least GM's Super Cruise bet seems to be paying off, though, as Suvrat Kothari explains. That's not the only autonomy news: Tesla now says its cars drive themselves off the line at the factory and into the loading area. Finally, VW's long-delayed ID7 has finally been cancelled for the U.S. market. We hardly knew ye. —Mack Hogan, Deputy Editor | 
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