
Travis Kalanick's Atoms eyes robotaxis after $1.7B raise
The Uber founder's AI startup is in talks with his old company to supply autonomous vehicle tech, following a $1.7B round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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The Uber founder's AI startup is in talks with his old company to supply autonomous vehicle tech, following a $1.7B round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

The pair will expand beyond their Zagreb launch to four more European cities and enter the Middle East, chasing Waymo's 5,000-vehicle lead.

Andreessen Horowitz leads a $1.7B round for the ex-Uber CEO's robotics play, with Uber itself joining nine years after pushing him out.

Instagram head says a strong engineer's AI burn rate could match their salary within one to two years, forcing per-head caps.

Chief product officer Sachin Kansal says Uber One hit 51M members and AV Labs will gather millions of miles of driving data for partners.

The UK self-driving startup's second liquidity event lets staff cash out at the Series D price set in February.

The first market for the partnership shuts down with just over a dozen vehicles, while Austin and Atlanta scale to hundreds.

Uber blew its annual AI budget in months, Meta killed an internal leaderboard, and CFOs are asking what tokenmaxxing actually bought.

Companies are cutting workers at 974 per day while a handful of AI insiders mint billion-dollar fortunes — and the gap is widening.

Uber, Foxconn, VinFast and HUMAIN sign on to DRIVE Hyperion as Nvidia pitches a safety-certified OS for autonomous fleets.

Microsoft's move to charge per token instead of a flat rate exposes the gap between AI's true cost and what customers will pay.

The ridesharing company now meters Claude Code and Cursor usage on an internal dashboard after blowing through its AI budget.

The company exhausted its annual AI budget four months into 2026 with no clear link between token usage and feature delivery.
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