TNB Tech Minute: Tesla to Double Robotaxi Fleet in Austin Next Month

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: Italy’s competition regulator expands its probe into WhatsApp-owner Meta over its AI chatbot policy. And Alphabet shares rose in premarket trading, while shares of Nvidia and AMD fell. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.5	Here's your morning, TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday, November 26th.
0:35.7	I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Tesla will roughly
0:39.4	double the number of its robotaxies in Texas next month. That's according to a post on X today by
0:44.6	CEO Elon Musk. The move comes less than six months after the company launched the service. Tesla began
0:51.2	its self-driving taxi service in Austin and June with safety drivers.
0:55.2	The company aims to remove safety drivers in parts of Austin, as well as operate robo-taxies
0:59.8	in 8 to 10 metro areas by the end of the year.
1:03.4	Italy's competition regulator has expanded its probe into WhatsApp owner meta platforms over its AI chatbot policy.
1:10.5	The watchdog said it's now scrutinizing a
1:12.6	policy WhatsApp introduced in October, excluding rival chatbots from its messaging service and the
1:17.9	company's integration of its own AI features into the messaging platform. The authorities said
1:22.8	WhatsApp's policy change could limit production, market access, or technical developments in the AI chatbot services market.
1:29.6	It added that META may be breaching European Union rules that seek to prevent dominant companies from abusing their position in the market.
1:36.7	A spokesperson for META said it strongly rejects the regulator's claims.
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