A safety monitor rides in the front passenger seat as a Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin (Jay Janner/Getty Images)

Tesla finally reported un-redacted information about its Robotaxi crashes

There have been a total of 17 crashes so far among its Texas Robotaxis. Read about them all here.

5/15/26 3:07PM

Since launching last summer in Austin, Tesla’s Robotaxis have been involved in 17 crashes in the city, according to its latest filings with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Unfortunately for reporters, heretofore Tesla hadn’t revealed much, as the narrative section of the reports were completely redacted. Until now.

TechCruch’s eagle-eyed Sean O’Kane reported today that for unknown reasons, in its last dispatch on the crashes, Tesla has for the first time published the details.

It appears that the Tesla Robotaxi was at fault in about seven of the 17 crashes; a human safety monitor was present in the vehicle for all of them. In two of the incidents, the crash happened after Tesla’s remote operator took over. In the vast majority, no one was hurt, with just two minor injuries and one hospitalization, in an incident where the Robotaxi was rear-ended by an SUV.

Typically the crashes resulted in damaged property. One involved a dog that “made contact with the bottom of the Tesla ADS’s [automated driving system’s] front right bumper which caused the dog to be pushed to the right, into the lane and path of an approaching van.” The report said the dog was seen running away from behind the van.

On the company’s earnings call in April, CEO Elon Musk incorrectly said that there hadn’t been a single Robotaxi accident. Rollout of the service itself has also been much slower than Musk originally advertised. In San Francisco and Austin, there are still safety monitors in the front seat. The company’s recent driverless expansion to Houston and Dallas includes only a handful of vehicles, and a recent Reuters report on those found them to be struggling. In one instance, what should have been a 20-minute trip took two hours.

We’ve put together a table of the 17 crashes so you can read the narrative details in full:

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While gaming industry groups may not like it, there’s been a huge change in the methods people are using to put money on the big games, with everyone from fortunate NYC bar owners, to a far less fortunate Spanish supporter, turning to prediction markets to try and turn their sports know-how into cold, hard cash.

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Anthropic pulls Fable and Mythos access worldwide after Trump administration bars their use by foreign nationals

Only days after releasing two versions of its next-gen AI model, Anthropic has disabled them for users worldwide.

Anthropic says it received a Friday night order from the Trump administration to suspend access to the models for any foreign national (anywhere in the world) — a group that included some Anthropic employees. In response, the company turned off access to everyone.

Last week, the company released to the public its much-anticipated Claude Fable 5 model (and its restricted version Claude Mythos 5, which is still being tested with trusted partners). Anthropic said in a blog post announcing the action that officials cited national security concerns with the new models, while offering few specific details.

The post said that the government gave the company “verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak” of the public Fable 5 model. A jailbreak is a means by which users can evade restrictions built into the code to unlock prohibited functionality. Anthropic downplayed the significance of the attack, and said other major models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, could also be affected by the technique described.

Fears of these first Mythos-class models being misused are running high, after Anthropic warned the cybersecurity world in May that the advanced cyber capabilities of Mythos have rapidly discovered thousands of vulnerabilities in ubiquitous software, leading to the decision to restrict the full version of the model to a close group of trusted partners for testing.

This morning, Axios reported that Anthropic technical staff have flown to Washington to meet with White House officials to resolve the issue.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump administration’s decision to take action against Anthropic was prompted by discussions that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had with officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. According to the report, Amazon researchers said they had been able to evade some of Fable 5’s security restrictions using specific prompts. Amazon is a major investor in Anthropic.

Anthropic is currently suing the US government to fight the Pentagon’s blacklisting of the company on national security grounds.

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5