TNB Tech Minute: Pony AI and Stellantis to Deploy Robotaxis in Europe
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🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the Premier League, everyone pushes their hardest to win. And now it's your turn. With their EPL fantasy challenge, Coca-Cola are giving you a chance to win big by beating the best. All you have to do is build a team based on rules set by an icon. And to help you on your way, I've got a tip to help you build your team. Make sure you keep an eye on fixtures. Who are the players up against next? Sometimes it's not about form. |
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| 0:31.8 | a Coke and scan the code on the pack. Just by playing, you get a chance to win Coke swag or |
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| 0:38.9 | who set the rules, you could win vintage Coca-Cola jerseys, Premier League tickets, and more. So go |
| 0:45.0 | ahead and get involved. Grab a Coke, drink it in. Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Friday, |
| 0:52.5 | October 17th. I'm Zoe Colkin for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:56.8 | The Chinese autonomous driving company, Pony AI, is collaborating with Dutch electric vehicle manufacturer, Stalantis, to deploy robo-taxies in Europe. |
| 1:05.9 | The plans add fuel to the already hot competition among Chinese robotaxy companies globally. In the coming |
| 1:11.8 | months, the two companies plan to launch test driverless vehicles in Pony AI's European Division |
| 1:16.8 | home base of Luxembourg, and they'll gradually roll out Robotaxy services across European |
| 1:22.3 | cities starting next year. The auto industry is panicking about a new and potentially damaging supply chain disruption |
| 1:29.6 | from Dutch chip manufacturer, Nexperia, a small company with big influence on how cars and trucks are |
| 1:35.6 | made. After the Dutch government took control of the company from its Chinese owners last week, |
| 1:40.6 | customers were notified that Nexperia would be stopping shipments of parts. That's |
| 1:44.9 | according to people familiar with the matter. This disruption led car companies and parts makers |
| 1:49.5 | to race to understand their exposure and find alternative sources of chips, saying that if |
| 1:54.6 | Nixperia can't ship, then their vehicle production could be affected. BMW, Toyota, and Mercedes-Benz are just a few of the automakers that use |
| 2:02.8 | parts from Nixperia. And a teenage girl in New Jersey who alleged that a classmate altered |
| 2:08.0 | a real photo of her into at least one fake nude image is suing the developer of Clothoff, |
| 2:13.5 | the Clothes Removal software that was used to create the image. A Yale Law School professor, |
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