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Uber beats Waymo as first to launch robotaxis in London

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Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city’s first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone for Uber, which has been plotting a UK launch with Wayve for several years. […]

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Uber is letting parents check in on their teens through drivers’ selfie cameras

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Uber is updating its teen account feature to allow parents to use the selfie cameras on Uber drivers’ phones to check in on their teenage children during ridehail trips. Since first launching teen accounts in 2023, Uber has touted the myriad ways parents can keep tabs on their children, from PIN verification to live GPS […]

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Uber partners with Zipline on Eats drone deliveries

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Uber is teaming up with drone company Zipline to start airborne takeout deliveries later this year, with the goal of reaching 1 million daily drone deliveries by 2029. Uber also said it was making a strategic investment in Zipline, a California-based company that has been orchestrating drone deliveries in Texas since 2025. The news comes […]

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Uber CEO brushes off reports of a Waymo break-up

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After Uber and Waymo ended their partnership in Phoenix earlier this year, experts and robotaxi watchers wondered whether the companies’ improbable bromance was fraying. Not so, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said today. The two companies are committed to continue working together in Atlanta and Austin, and the partnership remains “very strong.” “Waymo is a very […]

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People are leaving a lot of weird stuff in their robotaxis

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A unicorn Beanie Baby. A 15-pound green bowling ball. A pair of dentures. These are just some of the items left behind in robotaxis in the past year, according to Uber’s annual Lost and Found Index. For the first time, the company is expanding its annual of accounting of things forgotten in Uber vehicles to […]

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Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’

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After reportedly exhausting its annual AI budget just four months into 2026, Uber is now questioning whether it’s actually seeing meaningful returns on its investments. In an interview with Rapid Response, Uber president and chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald said the company isn’t seeing a connection between rising token consumption for Claude Code and more […]

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Uber is deploying its own self-driving cars again, just not as robotaxis

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Uber is putting its own autonomous vehicles back on the road as part of its new AV Lab project to collect data for its dozens of robotaxi partners. The cars will be fitted with all the sensors typical of self-driving cars, like cameras, lidar, and radar. But notably the vehicles will not be operating as […]

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Dara Khosrowshahi on replacing Uber drivers — and himself — with AI

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Today, I’m talking with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. It’s become something of an annual tradition to have Dara join us in the studio when he comes to New York for Uber’s big GO-GET event every year, and it’s always a lot of fun. The big news this year is that Dara is really starting to […]

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Uber adds hotels to its app in big travel swing

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Open Uber’s app and you’ll see options to hail a car, order some food, or go grocery shopping. And starting today, you’ll see something new: hotels. In a major expansion into the world of travel accommodations, Uber says that it’s adding the ability to book and pay for a hotel room to its app. The […]

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Uber expands its $4,000 ‘Go Electric’ grant to drivers nationwide

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Since last year, Uber has been offering drivers in a handful of locations – California, Colorado, Massachusetts and New York City – $4,000 to swap their gas guzzlers for electric vehicles. The company must have liked the results because today it announced that it would be expanding eligibility for its “Go Electric” grant to drivers […]

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