Audio Briefings

Intelligence, in conversation.

Audio companions to our research, refreshed twice a week. Each briefing is produced with Google NotebookLM from a curated source set, reviewed by Alice Ventures before publication, and published with its full source list.

Episode 2
July 2026
21 min

Securing Wireless Software Updates for Cars

Two AI hosts examine how over-the-air software updates actually reach a vehicle, what it takes to secure them, why legacy automakers still struggle to ship them, and the hardware and architecture requirements that separate full OTA capability from the rest.

0:0021:19

Produced with Google NotebookLM. Reviewed and approved by Alice Ventures before publication.

Sources cited in this briefing (9)
  1. AN229058: Secured Firmware Over-the-Air (FOTA) Update in TRAVEO T2G MCU · Mouser Electronics
  2. Cybersecurity of Firmware Updates · NHTSA
  3. EB cadian Sync: Software Updates Over the Air · Elektrobit
  4. Explanation of Firmware Over-The-Air · AUTOSAR
  5. Ford CEO: Why Legacy Automakers Struggle with OTA Updates · Green Car Reports
  6. How to Design Robust OTA Systems Using TI Processors · Texas Instruments
  7. Tesla's Over-the-Air Software Updates: Rewriting the Rules of the Automotive Industry
  8. The Role of Phase-Change Memory in Automotive OTA Firmware Upgrades · Embedded
  9. Why Full OTA Updates Are Still Rare: Hardware and Architecture Requirements
Episode 1
July 2026
22 min

The End of Physical Miles

Two AI hosts walk through why the physical-fleet data moat is depreciating, how NeRFs and World Models generate the edge cases reality withholds, and what the shift means for automotive capital allocation.

0:0021:40

Produced with Google NotebookLM. Reviewed and approved by Alice Ventures before publication.

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Sources cited in this briefing (21)
  1. The Generative AI Simulation Paradigm in Autonomous Driving · Deep research report
  2. Advancing Generative AI for Autonomous Driving with a New Simulation Framework
  3. Are NeRFs Ready for Autonomous Driving? Towards Closing the Real-to-Simulation Gap
  4. Scenario Dreamer: Vectorized Latent Diffusion for Generating Driving Simulation Environments · CVPR
  5. Deep Dynamics: Vehicle Dynamics Modeling with a Physics-Constrained Neural Network for Autonomous Racing · arXiv
  6. Demonstrably Safe AI for Autonomous Driving · Waymo
  7. Diagnosing the Long Tail: How Mobileye Turns Edge Cases into Targeted Training · Mobileye
  8. Driving to Safety: How Many Miles of Driving Would It Take to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicle Reliability? · RAND Corporation
  9. Introducing Waymo's New Reference Model for Human Collision Avoidance · Waymo
  10. Neural Radiance Field in Autonomous Driving: A Survey · arXiv
  11. Neural Rendering for Autonomous Driving · Chalmers University of Technology
  12. Neural Rendering for Autonomous Driving: Scenario Diversity, Sensor Realism, and Validation Cost · PatSnap Eureka
  13. S-NeRF++: Autonomous Driving Simulation via Neural Reconstruction and Generation · arXiv
  14. Sensor Simulation for Autonomous Vehicles: Diffusion-Based Image and Depth Generation for Driving Scenes · MIT DSpace
  15. Tesla VP Ashok Elluswamy: Why End-to-End AI Is the Future of Self-Driving · Tesery
  16. Tesla's 'World Simulator' Arrives: 1 Day of Learning Equals 500 Years of Human Driving Experience · Moomoo
  17. The Future of Autonomy Testing: Sensor Simulation, Mixed Reality, and Generative World Models
  18. The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier for Autonomous Driving · Waymo
  19. UniSim: A Neural Closed-Loop Sensor Simulator · Waabi
  20. What Are World Models, and Why AI's Biggest Minds Say They're the Future Beyond ChatGPT · The Times of India
  21. Controllable Latent Diffusion for Traffic Simulation · arXiv 2503.11771