16 September 2026
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Articles about Waymo from podcasts, articles and papers, with links to the original sources.

Uber's drone deal asks whether owning demand beats owning the robots

Uber is investing in Zipline and putting drone delivery into Uber Eats, with a target of one million deliveries a day by the end of 2029. On Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, the panel treated it as the clearest test yet of Uber's strategy of aggregating customers while other companies build and fly the machines — and of what happens if those suppliers decide to sell direct.

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How Waymo's own chip changes the robotaxi cost math

On Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, the panel walked through Waymo's sixth-generation driver: a purpose-built 5-nanometer chip, fewer but sharper cameras, and an autonomous-hardware estimate falling from $115,000 to $20,000. Peter had ridden in the new vehicle; Alex objected that the West is now white-labeling Chinese hardware, and argued Waymo is heading for full vertical integration.

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