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Waymo opens three-city robotaxi service; Samsung raises foundry prices 15%
Autonomy goes public at California scale, semiconductor pricing power flips to the foundries, and the hardware layer of spatial computing hits the limits of physics.
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Waymo opens Ojai robotaxi service across three California metros
Waymo's new Ojai robotaxi is now available to the general public in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, marking the first time a self-driving taxi service has scaled beyond tightly controlled pilot zones into the chaotic urban geography where most Americans actually live. The vehicles are sleeker, cheaper to build, and designed to handle the unpredictable density of major metros. If the rollout succeeds, it validates a decade of autonomy investment and rewrites urban mobility economics. If it stumbles, the industry faces a sobering reset on how long mass-market autonomy will really take.
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