Natalie Lung

It is a big deal because it can cut down trip time for a lot of customers.

Right now, before freeway access was available, Waymo had to plan routes avoiding the highways and navigating the narrow city streets and lengthening trip times a lot.

So opening the freeway access would connect some of Waymo's existing markets like SF down south, down all the way to San Jose and even to the airport.

And so this would make them very competitive against traditional taxis and Ubers and Lyfts and make it, you know, not different from regular ride hailing.

And compared with Tesla, which currently still have safety monitors in the cars, whether it's within city limits,

trips or freeway trips.

So Waymo is really the first one that's offering like a fully driverless experience for customers.

Yes, so Airbnb is piloting this kitchen stocking service with Instacart, where hosts can receive your Instacart order and then pre-stock your Airbnb so you can make use of that kitchen while you're in a short-term rental.

And so this is a three-month pilot that will start next year, and Airbnb is incentivizing hosts to provide this service by giving them some cash incentives.

We have fun, we get weird, and we want you to join us.

So Instacart is building this AI chatbot as a white label service for groceries.

So they can actually have a chatbot within, let's say, Kroger's own iOS app or the Sprouts website app.

Yes.

So Uber sort of reported some disappointing operating income and adjusted EBITDA this morning out of the third quarter as well as some disappointing forecast earnings forecast for the 4Q.

And so it's the profit has not been catching up with

the some of the growth recovery we're seeing their growth we accelerated to more than 20 percent on the top line growth spokane's metric and this is sort of a testament to their strategy to go into new products some of which may not be probable at the beginning such as autonomous investments which they have been doing a lot of recently