On October 22, Uber and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership, with all of Uber's roughly 30,000 employees worldwide set to use ChatGPT Work. The move follows a pilot with 1,000 employees, 80% of whom were non-engineers, and is now being extended company-wide.
Uber and Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai announced an expanded partnership to launch a robotaxi service in London, with testing of Pony.ai's Gen-7 robotaxis slated to begin in the coming weeks. The companies first partnered in May 2025, starting in the Middle East and later expanding to Europe, planning to deploy 2,000 robotaxis. In August 2026, they launched an autonomous ride-hailing service in Zagreb with partner Verne.
Uber laid off about 3,300 employees globally earlier this month. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the cuts were mainly to flatten management layers and reduce teams where managers oversee only one or two people. Several laid-off employees said AI has heavily permeated daily work, including the use of tools such as Gemini, ChatGPT, Genie, and Glean.
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