DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business

DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States.

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls

The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.

Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches an AI browser aimed at knowledge work

Polar has come out with an AI-first browser aimed at knowledge workers, and it has now raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona.

Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners

AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a…

Elon Musk’s X settles multiyear legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers

X sued the WFA in 2024 for conducting what it called a “systematic illegal boycott” of the platform after it saw a decline in advertising revenue following Musk’s $44 billion…

Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?

Imagine you’re an X user who’s actually excited to make the app your primary payments app after X Money finally launched Monday, after years of delays, for US Premium and…

Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI disinformation

The scale of AI-generated media can be hard to grasp. Starling Lab, a research collaboration from Stanford University and the University of Southern California, estimates that it took until 1975—149…

What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

Every ancient language that has ever been deciphered needed an anchor. Usually that’s a bilingual text, like the Rosetta Stone, or a known relative to compare it to. Linear A,…

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 feels like the future

A short king. Is this the future of foldable phones? Samsung clearly thinks so. The company has given its new wide foldable the “Z Fold 8” name, positioning the phone…

The Nothing Ear 3A look great… and sound good enough

Nothing has had a strong visual identity since the Ear 1 were released in 2021 for $99 and challenged the notion that a highly featured headset requires a high price.…