Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash (Published 2018)

How Uber uses AI for development: inside look

How Uber built Minion, Shepherd, uReview, and other internal agentic AI tools. Also, new challenges in rolling out AI tools, like more platform investment and growing concern about token costs

Uber’s Path of Destruction - American Affairs Journal

Since it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share of the urban car service market. But the widespread belief that it is a highly innovative and successful company has no basis in economic reality. An examination of Uber’s economics suggests that it has no hope of ever earning sustainable urban car service profits in competitive markets...

The Handoff Problem (Updated)

Source Around twelve years ago, Google figured out the fundamental problem facing Tesla's Fake Self Driving. Almost nine years ago in Robot...

Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs

I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would have set that budget in 2025, …

Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in 4 months | TechCrunch

Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.

Super pumped: the battle for Uber

"A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley. In the tradition of Brad Stone's Everything Store and John Carreyrou's Bad Blood, award-winning investigative reporter Mike Isaac's Super Pumped delivers a gripping account of Uber's rapid rise, its pitched battles with taxi unions and drivers, the company's toxic internal culture and the bare-knuckle tactics it devised to overcome obstacles in its quest for dominance. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history"--

Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?

Silicon Valley was built on job-hopping. But when a leader of Google’s self-driving-car unit joined Uber, Google filed suit. Now the Feds are on the case.

Tesla Accused of Shutting Off Autopilot Moments Before Impact

In 16 separate Tesla crashes, records showed that the self-driving feature had suspiciously "aborted vehicle control" just before impact.

The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought

Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct. So how did it all go wrong at Uber?

Uber’s Bundles

Uber had a good strategy, but its crisis meant Lyft had new life and the strategy was no longer workable. Now the company is pursuing something new, even though it is more complicated.

AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer | Andreessen Horowitz

watch time: 45 minutes “One person, in a literal garage, building a self-driving car.” That happened in 2015. Now to put that fact in context, compare this to 2004, when DARPA sponsored the very first driverless car Grand Challenge. Of the 20 entries they received then, the winning entry went 7.2 miles; in 2007, in...

Self-driving infrastructure

At Vercel, we’re building self-driving infrastructure, a system that autonomously manages production operations, improves application code using real-world insights, and learns from the unpredictable nature of production itself.

Google Cabs And Uber Bots Will Challenge Jobs 'Below The API'

Working "below the API" is a dead end. Uber drivers, Amazon Mechanical Turk workers, 99design contestants, TaskRabbit taskers and HomeJoy cleaners are all targets for further automation.

Autonomous Driving: Self-Driving Technology | General Motors

General Motors is leading the advancement and safe deployment of autonomous vehicles so more people can experience a safer, more relaxing hands-free drive.

Report Showcases How Elon Musk Undermined His Own Engineers And Endangered Public Safety

For a long time now, it’s been fairly clear that consumer safety was an afterthought for some of the more well known companies developing self-driving technology. That was made particularly c…