Amazon announced on Tuesday that its Prime Air drone delivery service will expand to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of 2026, a sixfold increase from its current footprint, bringing drone …
Uber Chief Operating Officer Andrew Macdonald said on the 20VC podcast that the company's scale—nearly $250 billion in annualized gross bookings—makes it harder to justify new business bets, as the co…
Uber has partnered with drone startup Zipline to bring drone delivery to Uber Eats customers, with a goal of reaching one million daily deliveries by the end of 2029. Starting later this year, custome…
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…
Just Eat Takeaway is rolling out its AI voice ordering tool across Europe after launching in the UK earlier this year, expanding to Poland, Spain, Austria, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland. The company …
Google has added new agentic capabilities to its Gemini-powered Ask Maps assistant in Google Maps, enabling multi-step tasks such as ordering food for pickup, checking hotel availability, and receivin…
Google has expanded its conversational Ask Maps AI in Google Maps with agentic capabilities, including autonomous food ordering via Square and Toast integrations in the U.S., Gmail-powered personal in…
Google has launched 'agentic' food ordering in Google Maps' Ask Maps feature, powered by Gemini, which can add items to a cart via Square and Toast with Uber Eats support coming soon, but users must s…
Uber's computer vision team, led by Soumya Gupta and Jai Chopra, presented a closed-loop system to keep multimodal agents sharp in production, addressing the challenge of AI slop in food photos on Ube…
OpenAI is building a real-time voice mode for Codex that extends beyond code into a general-purpose agentic assistant, according to code strings and supporting functionality found in the ChatGPT bundl…
A new parent opened a Trump Account for their newborn daughter, receiving a $1,000 government seed investment. The account, available for children born between 2025 and 2028, grows tax-free and can be…
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…
Uber Eats launched Cart Assistant, a multi-prompt state graph system that converts shopper intents like recipes or images into draft grocery carts, using LLMs for planning and deterministic systems fo…
DoorDash launched a new AI shopping assistant on iOS in select regions that allows users to snap photos of cookbook pages or grocery lists to automatically add items to their cart. The feature, which …
DoorDash launched a new AI chatbot called "Ask DoorDash" on Thursday that allows users to order food and groceries using text prompts, recipe links, or photos instead of traditional search. The chatbo…
Uber has updated its Uber Eats recommendation system by incorporating real-time user signals and a listwise ranking approach, which evaluates multiple restaurant candidates together to optimize relati…