Alex Kendall

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Bloomberg Tech · AI Spending Ripples Across Tech Stack; Nvidia Acquires Hugging Face · 3 Sep 2026 podcast

It's amazing.

One thing people might not realise is that earlier this year the UN published a technical regulation that allows for a global framework for uh higher levels of autonomy in consumer vehicles and robo taxis.

And many countries around the world UK, Europe, Japan, um uh all sign up to these regulations and they also provide a basis uh for in the US as well.

Uh so this is fantastic.

And then the UK itself has been adopting these.

Uh there was an act passed in twenty twenty-four and we've been working with Transport for London and and government here to bring this into fruition.

So, you know, we're pretty happy with how this is growing.

And London is one of Uber's five largest markets by revenue.

So it's a really important market uh to bring autonomy into.

I think Londoners are gonna love this service, and what we've got is a um uh

uh you know it's a safe and responsible plan to to bring this technology, introduce it to Londoners uh and people through the UK with regulators.

We will be bringing it globally, including to the US.

We haven't announced any other specific cities yet, um, but stay tuned.

I'll give you a call when we do, Ed.

Yeah, we're we're well funded.

Uh we've got um uh we've raised almost three billion of cash.

We just uh did our second employee liquidity round.

We've got a great global team.

And actually, um, you know, one of the things I think we're well set up to do is, you know, to really continue with our frontier embodied AI science.

We've been the first team to build vision language action models and world models for for robotics, uh, and now bring this new contrarian approach to the technology to

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