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🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A baby was born in a Waymo this week, and it wasn't even the first one. What started as a novelty story quickly became a reminder of how autonomous vehicles have quietly become part of everyday life, complete with all the messiness that entails. The real coming-of-age story this week, however, wasn't happening in San Francisco's robotaxis. It was playing out in Hollywood, where Netflix made an $82 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming and studio business. Today on TechCrunch's Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec and Anthony Ha discuss what happens when the startup that used to mail you DVDs grows up and tries to buy a legacy entertainment empire as well as the other headlines that caught their eye. Listen to the full episode to hear about: How Boom Supersonic is selling jet engines to data centers to fund its supersonic flight dreams Why Hinge's CEO is leaving to start an AI dating app, and whether AI can actually fix dating The rise of AI circular deals and what CoreWeave's CEO says about companies investing in their own customers A fertility startup using AI-designed antibodies to expand beyond ovulation tracking Subscribe to Equity on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.3	back to Equity TechRunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups. Today is Friday,
0:34.9	December 12th. I'm Kirsten Koresek Transportation Editor, and I'm joined
0:39.2	by my co-host, Anthony Ha, weekend editor. Hi, Anthony.
0:43.0	Hello. I want to talk about Waymo's and babies. And I'm wondering if you saw what happened,
0:49.0	actually on Monday, in which a baby was a woman delivered a baby while her Waymo was en route to a hospital in San Francisco.
0:59.7	I did see about that. It seems like, you know, everything went well as far as I can tell.
1:04.5	And I think what was kind of striking to me about it was, you know, in the midst of all this excitement, people were pointing out, this isn't even the first baby that's been born in a Waymo. There was another that was born in Phoenix. I guess
1:16.1	maybe it didn't get sort of the same amount of press coverage, but Waymo did point out this isn't
1:19.7	actually the first time. Yeah. One of the things that was pointed out is that there have been
1:25.1	incidents as new technology comes and intersects with like normal human
1:30.0	daily life that these types of things happen. And in there was a time when there were babies,
1:36.3	it was news when babies were being born in Uber's. And, you know, there's a kid walking around
1:41.0	today, apparently with the name Uber because of that. I'm, I'm kind of wondering if this child is going to be named Waymo.
1:48.2	I really hope not.
1:49.4	Don't name your kid name Waymo.
1:50.9	The line that got me was that a spokesperson said that the vehicle was like thoroughly cleaned right afterwards, which I was like, oh, good.
2:00.2	Thanks.
2:01.5	Thanks for that. You know, you, good, thanks. Thanks for that.
2:04.8	You know, you read the story and you're like that. You feel warm and fuzzy. And then you probably think, well, I may not want to be the one in the car immediately after. So it's good they clarified
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