{"id":783597,"date":"2026-07-25T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783597\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:15:18","slug":"waymo-reportedly-mulling-a-breakup-with-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/783597\/","title":{"rendered":"Waymo reportedly mulling a breakup with Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waymo is reportedly looking for a way out of its deal with Uber, which has made the Alphabet-owned company\u2019s robotaxis available on the ride-hailing giant\u2019s network in Austin and Atlanta, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9dcb5d72-13aa-4f9c-ac6d-e022860df5ea?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according<\/a> to the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waymo already told Uber that it intends to offer robotaxis on its own app in those markets starting in January 2028 and alongside the existing offering, the ride-hail giant told TechCrunch on Friday. Uber said the contract with Waymo that covers Austin and Atlanta ends in May 2028. The two companies already split in Phoenix earlier this year, as <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/29\/waymo-and-uber-quietly-part-ways-in-phoenix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">TechCrunch first reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waymo didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This all follows months of rising tensions between Waymo and Uber. Earlier this year, Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli posted a video of what he thought was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/praveenTweets\/status\/2049529681813344695#m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">unsafe and \u201cscary\u201d behavior<\/a>\u00a0of a Waymo robotaxi. In May, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi lightly criticized the behavior of Waymo\u2019s robotaxis in school zones and emergency situations during an earnings call, though without naming the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waymo, meanwhile, has wound <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/07\/13\/ubers-robotaxi-lobbying-effort-has-put-it-on-a-collision-course-with-waymo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">up opposite Uber<\/a> in a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ubers-autonomous-vehicle-strategy-slow-their-adoption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">fresh policy fights<\/a> over robotaxi regulations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waymo is reportedly looking for a way out of its deal with Uber, which has made the Alphabet-owned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,15879,38687,27958],"class_list":["post-783597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-in-brief","tag-uber","tag-waymo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}