A Rest of World investigation finds that quick-commerce platforms in India, including Zomato's parent Eternal, use weather algorithms to capture surging demand during Mumbai's monsoon floods, while de…
Alta founder Jenny Wang announced a partnership with Rent the Runway (RTR) to bring AI-generated avatars and outfit styling to RTR's product pages, rolling out over the next couple of weeks. The featu…
Shift, a division of German startup Microagi, provided a free private chef meal to a reporter in San Francisco in exchange for recording the chef's hand movements as training data for robots. The comp…
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu said AI coding tools address only part of an engineer's workflow, estimating that writing code accounts for 25% to 50% of an engineer's time, while product reviews, design meeting…
The Trump administration is threatening sanctions against Chinese AI labs over alleged model theft, but American startups are already switching to cheaper Chinese models. Treasury Secretary Scott Bess…
Fremont, California, is emerging as a robotics hub as Agility Robotics opens a 60,000-square-foot engineering center for its Digit bipedal robot, joining Tesla, Meta, Zoox, Pony.ai, and DoorDash in th…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026, a 2.8-trillion-parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model that debuted at number one on Arena.ai's Frontend Code Arena. The open-weight model features a 1…
Businesses including DoorDash, Airbnb, and Siemens are experimenting with cheaper Chinese AI models from startups like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek as costs for U.S. rivals such as OpenAI, Google, and Ant…
DoorDash has released a command-line interface (CLI) for AI agents to place food orders, a move that industry observers say is necessary for the company to remain competitive as AI agents increasingly…
QCon AI Boston 2026 marked a turning point as production AI moves beyond prompts to platforms, harnesses, and evals, with OpenAI's Martin Spier emphasizing performance basics in his keynote. The confe…
DoorDash introduced a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, a command-line tool called 'dd-cli' that lets developers and AI agents order food directly from the terminal, open to U.S. and Canadian macOS develo…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released preliminary findings confirming that a Tesla driver who blamed a fatal crash on Autopilot had manually pressed the accelerator to 100 percent, …
The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed that a Tesla involved in a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, had its accelerator pedal pressed to 100% and was traveling over 70 mph when it struck a home,…
DoorDash engineers built a system using LLM juries and multimodal AI to generate and optimize food metadata, improving the accuracy and relevance of dish descriptions and attributes across its platfor…
InfoQ detailed DoorDash's 'Ask DoorDash' AI shopping assistant, which integrates a large language model with a retrieval-augmented generation system and intent classification pipeline to handle nuance…
Major US companies including DoorDash, Airbnb, and Siemens are adopting Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and Z.ai, attracted by lower costs and open-weight flexibility, according to the Financial Times…
DoorDash reported that its conversational AI assistant, Ask DoorDash, improved grocery checkout conversion by 24%, increased basket sizes by 17%, and reduced conversational turns by 7% during a seven-…
A parent in Los Angeles argues that social media, instant-gratification services like DoorDash and ChatGPT, and the influence of celebrities like the Kardashians are making teens entitled and disconne…
Block's Square integrated ChatGPT and Claude for direct restaurant orders, allowing consumers to browse menus and place orders without marketplace fees. The AI-powered ordering system uses Square's pr…
DoorDash launched an AI search feature called 'Ask DoorDash' that lets users create grocery orders by describing meals or uploading photos of recipes. A home cook who tested the feature found it usefu…