DoorDash reported its “best quarter ever” since its IPO in a number of key categories on Wednesday, which it says was driven partly by efficiency and customer demand as summer ended.
The delivery giant posted revenue of $2.2 billion for its third quarter, which is up 27% from the same quarter a year ago. Analysts were expecting sales of $2.09 billion for the quarter.
“The business is firing on all cylinders both on the top line as well as the bottom li
We’re breaking the web and it’s unlikely we can fix it. Websites work, but their underlying data management doesn’t seem to work all that well. This didn’t happen suddenly.
Over time, the web has built on top of itself, and with the relatively recent addition of more automation-controlling functions, it seems to have gotten a lot worse. While some believe that the web will eventually eat itself from perpetual “AI learning from AI,” the news
Our solar system was a violent place 4.5 billion years ago. As planetesimals were forming out of a disk of gas and dust surrounding our sun, they began to collide. This process led to the formation of the larger protoplanets that would become our solar system.
During this chaotic period in our local neighborhood, Theia, a Mars-sized protoplanet, may have struck the Earth with such force that impact debris from this collision created the moon. Now, scientists think that pieces of The
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Assessing Biden’s executive order on AI
President Biden released on Monday a sprawling executive order designed to help the federal government ensure AI systems’ safety. AI companies have for mont
The U.K.’s landmark AI Safety Summit, a conclave of around 120 representatives from leading AI companies, academics, and civil society representatives taking place at Bletchley Park this week, has encountered an unexpected wrinkle thanks to an urgent letter by nearly a dozen participants who believe the summit is targeting the wrong issues.
Representatives from 11 civil society groups, all of which are included on the government’s official guestlist for the event, have
WeWork stock is plunging in pre-market trading on Wednesday after reports said the company is on the cusp of filing for bankruptcy. News of its impending bankruptcy announcement sent WeWork shares to an all-time low. Here’s what you need to know.
- What’s happened? Yesterday The Wall Street Journal reported that WeWork plans to file
LinkedIn is rolling out a new premium experience that uses generative AI to help job seekers find new positions.
The features are powered by large language models in combination with a massive knowledge graph containing information and insights about 67 million employers and a billion professionals. Starting with a limited group of premium users, the platform will help job seekers research industries and opportunities, and help them generate content they’ll need to pursue op
On September 15, 2022, Adobe made an announcement that took the tech world’s breath away, yet somehow had a whiff of inevitability to it. The software behemoth, long known for its acquisitiveness, had agreed to buy Figma, the wildly popular web-based platform for interface design, for $20 billion. The merger faced immediate resistance from Figma fans, who worried about the product’s fate as an arm of Adobe. Many on Wall Street were doubtful for their own reasons, finding the pri
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How do you celebrate your 50th birthday? is a question that’s been on my mind as I prepare to exit my forties. Maybe a big party with lots of food and an iPhoto-esque slideshow of my “greatest hits” going back to Halloween costumes in elementary school, bizarre hair styles from my teens, up to and including high school and college graduations, plus marriage, my own children, and holiday memories.