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Uber is building an autonomous vehicle empire, and here's every company it's using to do it | TechCrunch
TechCrunch · Aug 1, 2026
Uber has partnered with — and in some cases made direct investments in — about 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the past two years. Here's the list and the latest on the partnerships.
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Business Insider · Aug 8, 2026
Robotaxis are scaling now, fixing problems later
Robotaxi companies are scaling their operations as they continue to run into driving scenarios that could trip up the AI driver.
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MarkTechPost · Aug 5, 2026
NVIDIA Releases Alpamayo 2 Super
NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B open vision-language-action model for autonomous driving, under a commercial OpenMDW-1.1 license
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Semiconductor Engineering · Aug 3, 2026
Self-Driving Cars Have An Aging Problem
AI workloads are pushing automotive sensors harder, forcing engineers to rethink how long safety-critical systems can be trusted.
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49:24Y Combinator · Aug 3, 2026
Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work
Waymo’s first autonomous demo took eighteen months.
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2:01Motional · Aug 6, 2026
Engineering Tour: Motional IONIQ 5 Robotaxi
Take a step-by-step tour around the Motional IONIQ 5 robotaxi with Principal Engineer & Team Lead, Jeremy Myers.
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4:55Bloomberg Tech · Aug 5, 2026
Amazon's Zoox Robotaxi Enters the Commercial Race
Zoox is entering a new phase of its business
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2:20FOX 11 Los Angeles · Aug 6, 2026
Waymo robotaxis frustrate Los Angeles residents by taking parking spaces, blocking traffic
Waymo robotaxis are taking up parking spaces in residential neighborhoods, frustrating some Los Angeles residents.
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