FORT Robotics, a company focused on physical AI safety with customers including Google DeepMind and DoorDash, is going public via a SPAC. Founder and CEO Sam Reeves discussed the technology and the co…
DoorDash is hiring a Staff Machine Learning Scientist for Applied Causal Inference to build causal ML systems for its New Verticals business, with a salary range of $204,000 to $299,000 per year. The …
Chinese AI platforms from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba are undercutting US rivals with API prices as low as $0.14 per million input tokens versus over $5 for Claude Opus, a 35x difference, promp…
Serve Robotics is partnering with Grubhub to deploy its sidewalk delivery robots in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Alexandria, a move that comes days after its Uber Eats partnership collapsed. Serve CEO Al…
DoorDash's Head of Machine Learning & AI for New Business Verticals, Sudeep Das, presented at QCon AI on shifting from legacy one-shot predictions to an agentic recommendation platform, leveraging lan…
Photoroom, a Y Combinator 2020 cohort company founded in 2019, is hiring a Product ML Engineer in Paris with a salary of €10k/yr, offering a hybrid work model. The role involves owning ML projects end…
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 at half the price of its flagship, topping benchmarks, but developers on Hacker News are asking for the older Opus 4.8 back, citing that the new model stops asking cla…
A new study from Circana and Ibotta Inc. shows that promotions can deliver measurable incremental business outcomes, with Ibotta's Chief Revenue Officer Chris Riedy emphasizing that promotions should …
On July 31, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) dropped stateful sessions in favor of stateless HTTP, invalidating much of the existing agent architecture built on MCP. Three days later, DoorDash publish…
ClearJet, an Austin logistics technology company founded by Chris Guggenheim in 2022, raised $12.35 million in Series A funding on May 28, 2024, according to CB Insights, to build a parcel network tha…
Observe.AI, an AI agents platform for customer experience, is hiring an AI Agent Engineer, Client Facing, offering $170k/yr, based in Redwood City, CA (Hybrid). The role involves building and deployin…
Congress is pressing DoorDash to disclose its use of Chinese AI models, including Moonshot AI's Kimi, after co-founder Andy Fang said the company routes lower-level engineering work to Kimi K2.6. Hous…
AI News Digest for August 2 covers 29 stories, including Kimi K3 on MI355X offering better performance per dollar than B300, Figure AI's F.03 ladder climb raising autonomy or OSHA concerns, and Google…
DoorDash Inc. reportedly evaluated or adopted AI models from Chinese providers for parts of its operations, including recommendation engines and customer service, prompting a House probe into data pri…
House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY) sent a letter to DoorDash co-Founder and CEO Tony Xu as part…
U.S. lawmakers have requested information from DoorDash regarding its use of Chinese AI models, according to a CNBC report dated July 31, 2026. The request signals heightened scrutiny over the food de…
In 2025, the four largest American technology companies spent more than $380 billion on AI compute and data centers, yet only 1.4 percent of U.S. working hours are saved by AI, according to a National…
US lawmakers are investigating DoorDash's use of Kimi K2.6, an open-weights large language model from Chinese vendor Moonshot AI, focusing on whether the company adequately vetted the model for data g…
US lawmakers are investigating DoorDash's use of Chinese AI models after co-founder and CEO Tony Xu disclosed experimenting with a model from Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models. Representatives…
The House Committee on Homeland Security and the House Select Committee on China have launched a joint investigation into American companies using AI models built by Chinese firms, including DoorDash,…