Topic: food delivery
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Uber Eats taps Zipline for drone delivery service
Uber and Zipline are partnering to launch drone-based food delivery via Uber Eats, starting in Dallas-Fort Worth later this year, with a goal of one million daily deliveries by 2029. Uber is making a strategic financial investment in Zipline, which has operated drone routes in Texas since 2025, a...
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DoorDash secures FAA approval for its own drone delivery program
DoorDash received FAA approval to operate its own delivery drone fleet, launching the internal DoorDash Air program on July 29, 2026. The new program uses a proprietary drone design, marking a shift from relying solely on third-party partners for aerial deliveries. The company clarified that the ...
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DoorDash’s AI chatbot takes orders via text prompts and photos
DoorDash launched "Ask DoorDash," an AI chatbot that lets users order food and groceries through text prompts, photos, recipe links, or mood descriptions, reducing the need for manual searching. The chatbot can automatically populate carts from photos of grocery lists or recipes, suggest items ba...
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Indian Uber rival Rapido hits $3B valuation with $240M raise
Rapido raised $240 million in new funding, led by Prosus with support from WestBridge Capital and Accel, increasing its valuation to $3 billion as part of a larger $730 million financing package. The company plans to use the capital to expand into high-growth markets, strengthen its driver supply...
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Uber stock jumps 10% after revenue miss as Wall Street recalibrates
Uber’s stock surged 10% despite a revenue miss, as investors now value the company primarily as a platform for autonomous mobility rather than a traditional ride-hailing operator. The market focused on accelerating demand for autonomous vehicle services and strong growth in Uber’s self-driving pa...
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Pokemon Go Data Now Powers Food Delivery Robots
The vast dataset of over 30 billion real-world scans collected by players of Pokémon Go and Ingress was repurposed by Niantic to train its Visual Positioning System (VPS), a technology now used by Coco Robotics to guide autonomous delivery robots. These player scans, which captured detailed photo...
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Master ChatGPT's New App Integrations: DoorDash, Spotify, Uber & More
Connecting apps to ChatGPT transforms it into a proactive assistant that can manage tasks across services, initiated by typing an app's name in a prompt or via Settings. Linking an account shares specific data to enable personalized functions, requiring a review of permissions, but users retain f...
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Gemini's Task Automation: The Future Is Here
Google's Gemini assistant introduces task automation, allowing it to interact with apps in a virtual environment to complete real-world actions like booking rides or ordering food based on voice or text prompts. The system operates with user oversight, autonomously navigating apps but halting bef...
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Uber Engineers Create AI Clone of Their Boss
Uber has created an internal AI chatbot modeled after CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, used by teams to rehearse and refine presentations by anticipating his questions. Approximately 90% of Uber's software engineers now use AI daily, with 30% as "power users" fundamentally reshaping the company's technolog...
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Uber Acquires Getir's Delivery Business in Turkey
Uber has acquired Getir's food delivery operations for $335 million and taken a $100 million stake in its remaining grocery and retail business, marking a strategic expansion in Turkey. Getir, once valued at $12 billion, is retreating from global markets to focus on Turkey after pandemic-driven g...
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Drone Delivery: The Future of Burritos?
Zipline, a drone delivery company, has completed millions of deliveries since 2016, ranging from consumer goods in the US to critical medical supplies in Africa, with its reach expanding significantly. The company operates two drone systems: the fixed-wing P1 for long-range medical deliveries in ...
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Viral Reddit Food Delivery Scam Was AI-Generated
A viral Reddit post accusing a major food delivery service of unethical practices has been debunked as a probable AI-generated fabrication, exploiting public concerns about the gig economy. The post's key evidence, an alleged employee badge, was discredited by AI detection tools and Uber's confir...
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Uber & Avride Launch Robotaxi Service in Dallas
Uber and Avride have launched a commercial robotaxi service in Dallas, initially with a human safety driver in a limited zone, with plans to expand and eventually remove the driver. This launch is part of Uber's strategy to integrate autonomous vehicles, with 20 partnerships already and a goal to...
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How Finland Delivers Food by Drone
A partnership between Manna, Wolt, and Huuva is using drones to deliver restaurant meals in Espoo, Finland, enhancing access to quality food in suburban areas with fewer dining options. The drone delivery system offers significant speed and cost benefits, reducing delivery times by avoiding traff...
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Accel Invests in Uber Rival Rapido as Prosus Increases Stake
Venture capital firm Accel has made a strategic investment in Indian ride-hailing service Rapido, with Prosus increasing its stake, facilitated by TVS Motor's full divestment of its shares for approximately $32 million. TVS Motor achieved a return on investment exceeding 152% over three years, ha...
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Tech's Next Target: The Scraps Teens Fight Over
Automation is rapidly replacing the entry-level jobs traditionally held by teenagers, such as retail and food service roles, with advancements in AI and robotics making this shift inevitable. Teen labor force participation has significantly declined, dropping from over half in 2000 to just 34.8% ...
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ChatGPT Apps Are Here: Try the First Wave Now
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT-integrated applications, enabling users to control services like Spotify and Zillow directly within the chat interface without interrupting their conversation. Initial integrations include Spotify for music playlists, Canva and Figma for design tasks, Zillow for real e...
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Doorstep Secures $8M to Solve Missing Food Deliveries
Doorstep, a startup tackling the problem of undelivered food orders, has secured $8 million in seed funding to scale its technology that provides clarity in the final delivery stage. The company's software integrates with delivery apps like Uber Eats and uses smartphone sensors to track a driver'...
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Meituan Open-Sources AI Model to Challenge Alibaba and DeepSeek
Meituan has launched a new open-source AI model, positioning itself to compete with major players like Alibaba and DeepSeek in China's AI market. The model, LongCat-Flash-Chat, features 560 billion parameters and uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture for efficient task handling. This move reflec...
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