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DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create websites based on their app listings. The onboarding tool works similarly to the one Amazon launched in 2024. Merchants can point the tool to their website, from which it will automatically fetch information such as photos, store hours, and menu items to create a listing on the app. Merchants can review and edit all of this information before publishing the listing. DoorDash has also revamped its video library. The library now lets merchants tag dishes in videos so…
Elon Musk asked OpenAI’s Greg Brockman to settle days before his civil trial was due to start, and when the OpenAI president said no, Musk shot back with a warning, a new document says. Loading audio narration… “On or about April 25, 2026, two days before trial began, Mr. Musk sent a message to Mr.Brockman to gauge interest in settlement,” lawyers for Altman and Brockman wrote in a filing on Sunday.Brockman responded with a suggestion that both sides drop their respective claims, to which Musk responded, “By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated…
If you’re a parent trying to AI-proof your kids’ futures, entrepreneur-turned-professor Scott Galloway says your focus should be on helping them develop durable skills like storytelling and relationship-building. Loading audio narration… In an episode of the “The Diary of a CEO” podcast released on Monday, host Steven Bartlett asked Galloway which skills will matter most in the future.Galloway said that a decade ago, private schools were heavily investing in Mandarin and computer science, believing those would give students an edge. “How’s that worked out?” Galloway said. “‘Thank god my kid knows Mandarin,’ said nobody right now.”Instead, the next generation should…
You’ve seen this comic before: An anthropomorphic dog sits smiling, surrounded by flames, and says, “This is fine.” It’s become one of the most durable memes of the past decade, and now AI startup Artisan seems to have incorporated it into an ad campaign — an ad for which KC Green, the artist who created the comic, said his art was stolen. A Bluesky post seems to show an ad in a subway station featuring Green’s art, except the dog says, “[M]y pipeline is on fire,” and an overlaid message urges passersby to “Hire Ava the AI BDR.” Quoting that…
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors. The study was published this week in Science and comes from a research team led by physicians and computer scientists at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The researchers said they conducted a variety of experiments to measure how OpenAI’s models compared to human physicians. In one experiment, researchers focused on 76 patients who came into the Beth Israel emergency room, comparing the…
Big Tech’s titans go toe-to-toeThe high-stakes legal battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is entering its second week in the courtroom. Loading audio narration… My colleague Katherine Li has been on the scene in San Francisco, chronicling the ins and outs of a trial that is pitting two of the most powerful tech titans against each other.I spoke with Katherine about the atmosphere inside the room and what to expect in the days ahead.What’s the vibe been like in and around the courtroom?It’s clear that the courthouse is working hard to grapple with the immense public interest. I have…
When Sam Altman needed someone to beat Elon Musk in court, he hired a lawyer who had done it once before: William Savitt. Loading audio narration… Savitt was a natural choice to take the case. For decades, he’d occupied the upper echelons of corporate litigation. He represented Twitter in 2022, suing Musk to force him to go through with his purchase of the platform. His law firm, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, worked on the complex restructuring of OpenAI’s for-profit arm.Savitt is now leading Altman’s and OpenAI’s legal team in a blockbuster trial currently unfolding in an Oakland federal courtroom.Musk…
Your refrigerator is becoming a personal shopper with artificial intelligence. Loading audio narration… Samsung is rolling out a new wave of AI features that can recognize your voice, update your shopping list, and keep track of your ingredients. The company is trying to make the future once captured on the big screen a reality by allowing people to talk to their appliances.The features coming to its new wave of appliances this year include software that can recognize food in your refrigerator, suggest recipes based on what’s available, and add any missing ingredients to your Instacart shopping list.The technology, called Vision…
Tokenmaxxing isn’t just a trend; it’s bona fide advice from Silicon Valley’s leading startup accelerator. Loading audio narration… In a new episode of Y Combinator’s “Startup School,” partner Diana Hu instructs founders how to build an AI-native company. Hu was a YC-backed founder herself, building augmented reality company Escher Reality, which was acquired by Niantic.”Maximizing token usage, not head count, will be the critical shift,” Hu said. “The best companies will be the ones that are tokenmaxxing.”Tokens measure the cost of AI computing. The more tokens spent, the more an individual employee or developer has used their AI tools. (Importantly,…