Uber is now banned in Italy for unfair competition

 While Uber is fighting Waymo at home, the American company is also having issues abroad. As…

Uber denies Waymo theft claims on grounds it never used custom LiDAR

 Acknowledging that its technology is second-best is a rare move for a competitive startup, but as Uber faces…

Uber responds to the New York Times article about how it psychologically manipulates drivers

 Uber is on the defensive after the New York Times claimed that it manipulates drivers using…

ffVC and NYU are mixing researchers with investors in the name of machine intelligence

 The timing was perfect. Just as startups were settling into NYU and ffVC’s new brains-meet-money accelerator,…

Uber finds one allegedly stolen Waymo file – on an employee’s personal device

 Uber admitted today that it had found one of the documents Waymo alleges was stolen by…

Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects long before Otto

 Newly-released documents from Google’s October arbitration against Anthony Levandowski, one of the leads of its self-driving…

Uber adds post-request pickup fixes and more driver-side support

 Uber talked about a few of the changes coming to help improve its relationship with drivers…

Waymo pursued arbitration with Anthony Levandowski before it sued Uber

 Google’s self-driving car unit, Waymo, pursued arbitration against one of its star engineers last fall before…