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Travis Kalanick is trying to buy Pony AI — and Uber might help


Uber is reportedly in talks to help fund Travis Kalanick's potential acquisition of Pony.ai, which has a market cap of around $4.5 billion.

Kalanick’s replacement, Dara Khosrowshahi, ultimately sold Uber’s self-driving division to autonomous trucking startup Aurora. Sean O’Kane is a reporter who has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the transportation industry, including Tesla and the many startups chasing Elon Musk. He previously worked at The Verge, where he also covered consumer technology, hosted many short- and long-form videos, performed product and editorial photography, and once nearly passed out in a Red Bull Air Race plane.

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