Waymo, the autonomous rideshare operator owned by Alphabet Inc., has begun building its own AI chips to better optimize sensor data, according to Bloomberg. The move aims to bring more of the company'…
Waymo announced on Aug 20, 2026, that its Ojai self-driving cars now integrate Gemini, allowing passengers to control music, cabin temperature, request neighborhood information, or ask the car to pull…
Abundant, an AI training data company founded by former Waymo, Google, Mercor, and AWS engineers, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Research Intern for Winter 2027 in San Francisco, offering $10k…
Chinese automakers are bypassing US tariffs by targeting Southeast Asia and Latin America, with record EV imports and local factory construction, threatening legacy automakers' survival. Google's anal…
Chinese robotaxi operators are seeing a more open regulatory environment in Europe, which will help them commercialize self-driving technology globally, according to Pony AI CEO James Peng. Pony AI pl…
Sebastian Thrun revealed Dulo, a small stealth robotics startup, during an August 18 keynote at the Actuate robotics conference in San Francisco. Dulo's first-party Stanford-hosted page says the team …
Waymo has received approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service to cover much of California's major urban areas, including cities in Northern …
Pony AI's robotaxi revenue hit a quarterly record of $12.1 million in Q2 2026, a 691.2% year-over-year increase, now accounting for 33% of total revenue. Total revenue rose 68.8% to $36.2 million, dri…
Uber Chief Operating Officer Andrew Macdonald said on the 20VC podcast that the company's scale—nearly $250 billion in annualized gross bookings—makes it harder to justify new business bets, as the co…
Waymo received approval from the California Public Utility Commission to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service across the Bay Area, adding Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Marin, Sonoma, and Solano c…
Chinese-made cars will enter the U.S. market sooner rather than later, driven by consumer demand for affordable EVs and the presence of BYD vehicles in Mexico and Waymo's import of Zeekr Ojai minivans…
Waymo unveiled the Ojai in-car experience for its ride-hailing service, featuring Gemini in Waymo, a conversational AI assistant powered by Google's Gemini that lets riders control cabin settings and …
Bedrock Robotics, founded by Boris Sofman, Kevin Peterson, Tom Eliaz and Ajay Gummalla, has deployed operatorless excavators at three commercial construction sites in Texas and Nevada, including a wat…
San Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics said Monday that excavators equipped with its autonomous AI system are now working without human operators on three commercial sites in Texas and Nevada, including…
A study of Perplexity's Comet browser found that 55% of agentic actions were personal, 30% professional, and 16% educational, based on hundreds of millions of anonymized interactions from July to Octo…
Waymo has won approval from California regulators to expand its robotaxi service across 18 new counties, a move the company says will enable it to surpass one million paid rides by the end of the year…
Sarah Guo's venture firm Conviction has raised close to $1 billion across three funds to bet that the largest AI labs will not capture all the value, even as Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Waymo absorbed…
Waymo received final approval from the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Department of Motor Vehicles to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service to the entire Bay Area, Sacr…
Uber and Chinese self-driving company Pony.ai announced on August 14, 2026 that they are expanding their robotaxi partnership to deploy more than 2,000 autonomous vehicles across Europe and the Middle…
Halluminate, an applied AI and data company that graduated from Y Combinator (S25), is hiring a Founding Member of Technical Staff - Finance Researcher in San Francisco with a base salary of $180k–$22…