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Uber’s gig-worker drivers have some stiff competition from self-driving cars when it comes to productivity. So far, Uber has started offering rides in Waymo‘s autonomous vehicles in Atlanta and Austin. “In both cases, the average Waymo is busier than 99% of our drivers in terms of completed trips per day,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said during the company’s earnings call …

Lyft shares struggle to keep up with Uber following mixed results. ‘Comparison is the thief of joy,’ analyst says.  MarketWatch Lyft misses quarterly revenue estimates on competition, weak US travel demand  CNBC Lyft Shares Slide on Weak Sales, Disappointing Ride Totals  Bloomberg.com Lyft breaks records, but soft revenue weighs on shares (LYFT:NASDAQ)  Seeking Alpha Lyft Stock Drops on Revenue Miss  Barron’s Source link

Uber Stock Gains After Earnings. It’s Brushing Off the Robo-Taxi Threat.  Barron’s Uber beats on revenue, announces $20 billion stock buyback  CNBC Uber touts bookings growth and $20 billion buyback, and its stock rises  MarketWatch Uber Boosts Buybacks by $20 Billion After Upbeat Forecast  Bloomberg.com Uber launches $20bn share buyback  Financial Times Source link

Stocks were set to rebound on Wednesday as investors looked past President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats and more data that pointed to U.S. economic weakness. Futures tracking the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 169 points, or 0.4%. S&P 500 futures were up 0.3%, and contracts tied to the Nasdaq 100 climbed 0.2%. All three of the blue-chip indexes finished …

If you’re a “phone eats first” type of person, then your foodie photography skills could earn you a few bucks the next time you order on Uber Eats. On Thursday, the food delivery giant announced new initiatives it was rolling out to better support its restaurant partners, including new AI tools to help elevate menu descriptions and photos. The company …

Uber Eats has added a slate of designed to, theoretically, help merchants earn new customers and ease the shopping experience for users. AI-enhanced food images are intended to make dishes more appealing by improving photos uploads. In the , Uber Eats shows an example in which pictures captured very close to the food are transformed into wider field-of-view shots of …

Uber Eats announced on Wednesday that it will now allow restaurants and merchants to chat with customers to help prevent issues with orders. The app is also introducing new AI tools for merchants, and is inviting users to submit photos of their orders if the item doesn’t yet have a menu image. With the new “Live order chat” feature, merchants …

The menus on your next Uber Eats order may be embellished using generative AI. The food delivery service is rolling out new features that aim to help businesses advertise and communicate with customers, which include AI additions to menu descriptions, food photos, and review summaries, along with a live chat tool and payments for user-submitted photos. The AI tools can …

Six years ago, Uber launched a feature in Saudi Arabia that let women drivers on its ride-hailing app ask to be connected to female riders. Since then, the “women preferences” feature has rolled out to 40 countries, from Argentina and Brazil to Canada, India, and Mexico. In a few weeks, this feature will finally make its way to the United …

US | 5 hours agoWritten byCamiel Irving, VP of Operations, US & Canada At Uber, we believe that when we make our platform better for women, we make it better for everyone.  Across the US, women riders and drivers have told us they want the option to be matched with other women on trips. We’ve heard them—and now we’re introducing …