Aurora has offered about 75 per cent of Uber’s Advanced Technology Group (ATG) staff jobs at the self-driving-car unit’s new parent company. Toronto employees, which operate the unit’s R&D faction, will not join the new team. Uber agreed to sell ATG to rival startup Aurora Innovation earlier this month. (TechCrunch, The Logic)

Talking point: As BetaKit first reported, none of Uber’s Toronto staff have been officially laid off; the firm has given them 60 days to apply for different positions within Uber. If approved, the Aurora deal will see Uber invest US$400 million and take a 26 per cent stake in the Pittsburgh-based firm. It marks the end of a short-lived partnership between Uber and the University of Toronto. In 2018, U of T researcher Raquel Urtasun joined Uber’s self-driving unit as its chief scientist, and the company committed $200 million for self-driving R&D at its Toronto outpost. The company’s self-driving ambitions have been rocked by several lawsuits, including one involving the death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous test car and another involving a trade-secret dispute with Alphabet subsidiary Waymo.