Uber
Company www.uber.com ● Covered in 36 stories + Follow ✴ AI Graph LinkedIn
Uber is using open AI models and has reported reducing its cost per AI request by 34% and cost per AI session by 52%, citing model routing, benchmarking, and prompt/request optimizations while keeping March costs flat despite higher usage. In parallel, Uber has expanded supervised robotaxi services in London with Wayve—launching robotaxis in-app with safety drivers and additional vehicles licensed to operate in the city—while also announcing workforce reductions to simplify its organization and redirect spending toward priorities including AI.
Updated 14 September 2026
Signals
13 stories (+8%)
Media momentum
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Visible stories in the last 30 days, compared with the 30 days before.
22 sources
Source diversity
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Distinct publications behind this entity's visible coverage.
1 event
Release activity
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Model, product and open-source release events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.
4 events
Funding signals
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Funding and acquisition events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.
Feb 2021 → Sep 2026
Coverage span
As of 17 Sep 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.
Management
updated 2 Sep 2026-
Dara Khosrowshahi
CEO
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Susan Anderson
SVP, Delivery
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Praveen Neppalli Naga
Chief Technology Officer
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Prashanth Mahendra-Rajah
CFO
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Sachin Kansal
Chief Product Officer
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Andrew Macdonald
Senior Vice President, Mobility and Business Operations
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Jill Hazelbaker
President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
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Tony West
SVP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
- Joshua Rapaka Executive
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Madhu Kannan
Chief Business Officer
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V V Suneetha
Chief of Staff
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Bryan P.
Chief Of Staff
+ 11 more tracked
Recent changes
- Tony West SVP, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary → SVP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
- Andrew Macdonald President & Chief Operating Officer → Senior Vice President, Mobility and Business Operations
Latest developments
Wonderful raises $550M, Mykhailo Fedorov's new defencetech investment fund, and Londoners can now hail AVs (with safety drivers)
Tech.eu · 1 week ago ·
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Fortune Tech: Uber layoffs, Google dodges antitrust bullet, Anthropic rogue agents
Fortune ·
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Londoners can now hail Wayve autonomous vehicles through Uber
Tech.eu · 2 weeks ago ·
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Uber launches UK's first robotaxis with a driver - here's what it's like to ride in one
BBC News · 2 weeks ago ·
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Q3 2026
US NSA, CISA, and FBI issued an advisory accusing six Chinese AI firms of bulk distillation of capabilities from US frontier models Security issue
Nvidia releases Personal AI Router (PAIR), an open-source tool that pools compatible idle PCs and Macs to run local AI inference and agent workloads Open source release
Uber and Wayve announce a partnership Partnership
Wonderful raises $550 million in a Series C funding round at a $5 billion valuation Funding
HappyRobot raises $150M in Series C at $1.2B valuation Funding
Major tech companies implement AI token spending controls and shift focus to efficiency over consumption Policy change
HappyRobot raises $150M Series C funding at $1.2B valuation, achieves unicorn status Funding
HappyRobot raises $150M Series C funding at $1.2B valuation Funding
AI Token Costs Drop Dramatically, Shifting Focus to Optimization and Deterministic Task Efficiency Other
- Tech companies move to open AI models
- Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies
- Nearly 130,000 tech jobs vanished in 2026 amid AI-driven restructuring
- Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business
- Wonderful raises $550M, Mykhailo Fedorov's new defencetech investment fund, and Londoners can now hail AVs (with safety drivers)
- Fortune Tech: Uber layoffs, Google dodges antitrust bullet, Anthropic rogue agents
- Londoners can now hail Wayve autonomous vehicles through Uber
- Uber launches UK's first robotaxis with a driver - here's what it's like to ride in one
- Uber beats Waymo as first to launch robotaxis in London
- Cash in on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute
- Fortune Tech: Amazon alleged overcharging, Nissan-Honda software collab, EU ChatGPT designation
- The end of the driver's license: Uber exec calls car ownership 'the most inefficient asset' and says no one will need one in 15 to 20 years
- Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber
- Uber ups robotaxi offensive in Europe, with partnership expansion
- After blowing its entire 2026 AI budget in months, Uber CTO says ‘We’re coming to the end of the so-called 'tokenmaxxing' era’
- The blank-check AI coding era is dead. Here’s what comes next.
- Anthropic recommends a git worktree per agent. Your runtime infra makes that a problem.
- HappyRobot hits $1.2Bn valuation as it raises $150M
- HappyRobot raises $150M at $1.2B valuation to bring AI agents to critical enterprise work
- HappyRobot Reaches Unicorn Status – Vienna-Based Investor WaVe-X also on Board
- A16z backs HappyRobot at $1.2bn valuation
- HappyRobot lands $150M Series C to scale agentic AI for enterprise operations
- Fireworks AI Releases Fireworks Nexus: A Drop-In Routing and Cost-Control Layer That Moves Routine Coding Work to Open-Weight Models
- Exclusive: CollectivIQ targets AI costs with control platform
- New trend - concern about massive increase in code review load
- Uber and Waymo Are Sparring. The Robotaxi Future Has Arrived
- How to Squeeze AI Tools to Get the Most Out of Every Dollar
Q2 2026
Research Report Released on State of AI Economy and Compute Growth Trends Research publication
Anthropic Files Confidentially for IPO with ~$50B Annualized Revenue Run Rate Other
- The State of AI, 2026
- The AI Industry Is Running Out of Time
- 💸 You’re paying for tokens. Now what?
- Uber uses OpenAI to help people earn smarter and book faster
- Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz
Q1 2025
- Uber enables outstanding on-demand experiences with AI
- Adebayo Ogunlesi joins OpenAI’s Board of Directors
Q2 2023
Q1 2021
Relationships
Partnerships
Products & technology
- Deploys London · 2 sources
- Integrated with OpenAI · 1 source
- Deploys OpenAI · 1 source
- Deploys Trainium · 1 source
- Integrated with NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion · 1 source
- Deploys autonomous vehicles · 1 source
- Deploys Ford Mustang Mach-E · 1 source
Competition
People
- Employed by Andrew Macdonald · 1 source