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Raquel Urtasun, Waabi, attends The Grove by Village Global 2025 at Carneros Resort and Spa on December 12, 2025 in Napa, California.

How Waabi’s Raquel Urtasun Is Building One A.I. Brain to Drive Trucks and Robotaxis

Raquel Urtasun explains how Waabi is training its autonomous trucks and Uber robotaxis without relying on billions of miles of driving data.
By Sissi Cao

Inside Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun’s Bid to Make Driverless Trucks a 2025 Reality

Waabi founder and CEO Raquel Urtasun challenges the industry’s “bigger is better” approach to A.I., arguing that brute-force scaling of compute and models is unsustainable and ultimately ineffective. Waabi’s interpretable end-to-end A.I. represents a breakthrough for autonomous trucking, enabling safer, faster and more scalable deployment.
By The Editors

100 Leaders Shaping the Future of Artificial Intelligence

They write the script that the rest of us follow.
By The Editors
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Geoffrey Hinton Warns Current A.I. May Soon Grow Past Its ‘Cute Tiger Cub’ Phase

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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Canadian Startup Waabi Is Bringing Self-Driving Trucks to Texas: CEO Interview

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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‘Godfather of A.I.’ Geoffrey Hinton Wins the Nobel Prize in Physics

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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A.I. Godfather Geoffrey Hinton ‘Made Up a Meeting’ to End a Call with Elon Musk Early

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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Science Confirms the Search for a Soulmate May Prevent True Love

By Francesca Friday
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY - MAY 23: Students attend the Vassar College 2010 commencement at Vassar College on May 23, 2010 in Poughkeepsie, New York.

The 40 Worst Colleges for Jewish Students

By Abraham H. Miller
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‘Cyborg Attack’ in Parisian McDonald’s Does Not Bode Well for Google Glasses

By Jessica Roy
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