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A recent delivery dealmaking frenzy in Europe has kicked off a race between DoorDash, Uber and investment firm Prosus, as the three firms aim to grab more business in the already fiercely competitive market.
Some of that has been playing out publicly, with a series of rapid-fire announcements. But behind the scenes, U.S. delivery archrivals DoorDash and Uber have also been fighting over some of the same deals. DoorDash made overtures to Trendyol Go, a Turkish delivery service Uber wound up agreeing to buy.
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Canada would bear the brunt of Trump's tariffs in terms of economic contraction, says The Budget Lab of Yale. Read more ›
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OpenAI's deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees and bring them onto the Google DeepMind team, Google and Windsurf announced Friday. Mohan and the Windsurf employees will focus on agentic coding efforts at Google DeepMind and work largely […] Read more ›
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The 'Foundation' fan favorite joins an expanding cast of faces familiar and new—including Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest, who'll reprise their roles from the 1998 film. Read more ›
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If you need to replace your [insert Apple product here], this Amazon Prime Day is a chance to snag it at a significant discount. Read more ›
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Six Republican Congress members callously urged Canada to take “proper action” to mitigate smoke wafting into the U.S. Read more ›
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Ivanka Trump's street style is consistently fashionable, but her looks for political events can be hit or miss. Read more ›
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Season one ended on a poignant note that proved extra-emotional for the Apple TV+ series star. Read more ›
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From the beginning, Elon Musk has marketed Grok, the chatbot integrated into X, as the unwoke AI that would give it to you straight, unlike the competitors. But on X over the last year, Musk’s supporters have repeatedly complained of a problem: Grok is still left-leaning. Ask it if transgender women are women, and it […] Read more ›
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Senior staff at Erebor, a tech-focused banking startup, have worked at Palmer Luckey's family office, in tech startups, and at other banks. Read more ›
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Bizarre query results have come up when researchers ask the new chatbot what it's thoughts on Israel are. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's xAI faced internal backlash after Grok's antisemitic posts. Workers demanded answers — and one said they would quit. Read more ›
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Justin Bieber uses his new album "Swag" to address his "struggles as a human" and his latest controversies around his marriage and behavior. Read more ›
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Stanford researchers have developed a blood-based AI tool that calculates the biological age of individual organs to reveal early signs of aging-related disease. The Mercury News reports: The tool, unveiled in Nature Medicine Wednesday, was developed by a research team spearheaded by Tony Wyss-Coray. Wyss-Coray, a Stanford Medicine professor who has spent almost 15 years fixated on the study of aging, said that the tool could "change our approach to... Read more ›
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The same report also says Warner Bros. tried to lure Marvel boss Kevin Feige to join DC Studios as part of its restructuring process. Read more ›
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Apple is working on a set of smart glasses that will rival Meta's popular AI-equipped Ray-Bans, offering many of the same features. Rumors about Apple's work on the glasses have been picking up, and we've gathered all of the information we've heard in the guide below. Overview There have been persistent rumors about Apple's work on augmented reality smart glasses, but true, lightweight augmented reality glasses are still years away.... Read more ›
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The most important cryptocurrency bill in history could become law next week, but its immediate effect on everyday Americans will be negligible. Instead, the biggest impact will occur overseas, where it will boost both crypto and the dollar in the global economy. The law will bolster confidence in stablecoins, cryptocurrencies pegged to a traditional asset, generally the U.S. dollar. Individuals and businesses across the world—from Argentina to Turkey—have embraced stablecoins... Read more ›
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The term “agent” or “agentic” has become so ubiquitous in the business world that it can now seem to mean everything or nothing at all. In its simplest form, an agent is artificial intelligence that handles multistep tasks without requiring a human to steer it the whole time. In other words, an agent goes beyond what the basic version of ChatGPT can do. In the past year, AI firms have... Read more ›
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Dead billionaires have piled up in modern pop culture to an almost absurd amount. Surely some Pacific Heights morgue is overflowing by this point. Well, “Dead Money” adds one more to the examiner’s table: Trevor Canon, the uber-wealthy founder of Journy, an Uber-like startup worth mega billions. His death throws his company’s future into doubt through what debut novelist Jakob Kerr calls a “dead money provision,” some legalese that freezes... Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said late Friday that the U.S. was close to a deal for the American operations of TikTok and his administration would start talking to the Chinese government on Monday or Tuesday about the plan. “I think the deal is good for China, and it’s good for us,” he told reporters ... Read more ›
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Over the past month, Meta Platforms has overhauled its stumbling efforts in artificial intelligence by making a head-spinning series of hires of leaders and researchers from outside the company. But a key question has lingered: Why has Meta struggled so badly in AI that it’s injecting so much fresh blood into the company to lead a turnaround? One outgoing research scientist from Meta’s generative AI group has come up with... Read more ›
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Elon Musk’s xAI launched Grok 4, the latest generation of its AI models, intensifying its competition with rivals OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. In an hourlong livestream Wednesday night, Musk said Grok 4 is the “smartest AI in the world” and “smarter than almost all graduate students in all ... Read more ›
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Cybersecurity startups are busy touting their next big opportunity: safeguarding companies from the threats generated by artificial intelligence. That’s led to surging revenue for some of them. But previously unreported financial details for others—particularly young startups focused on safeguarding AI models—show corporate IT buyers have been slow to pay for this protection. Three-year-old HiddenLayer, which sells software to protect AI models from attacks that hurt their performance or accuracy, is... Read more ›
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Several startups offering computing power for artificial intelligence are embracing the “borrow big to grow fast” strategy pioneered by CoreWeave, loading up on debt backed by their stocks of high-powered chips. For instance, London-based cloud startup Fluidstack has gotten approval from Macquarie and other lenders to borrow more than $10 billion leveraging its holdings of Nvidia AI chips, or graphics processing units, as collateral, said people familiar with the company’s... Read more ›
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Tesla shares closed down 6.8% at $293.94 on Monday after CEO Elon Musk said over the weekend that he was forming a new political party and continued to spar with President Donald Trump. Musk said in a Saturday X post that he would launch the “America Party” that would support congressional ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has signaled it will hike pay for some employees in the wake of a raid by Meta Platforms on its artificial intelligence researchers. That could mean a significant increase in the billions of dollars in stock awards it already accounts for, threatening to further dilute investors after a planned corporate restructuring. The San Francisco startup has told investors stock-based compensation jumped more than five times last year, to $4.4... Read more ›
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