Tech

Uber makes additional jobs available for its 7 million monthly supply of drivers and couriers.

Users can now search for specific spots based on descriptive queries like “things to do with friends at night.”

Instacart flexes its software muscles as it looks to digitize 87% of the grocery industry, which is still offline.

Growth indicators look strong, but questions remain about whether increasing capital expenditures for AI services will be recouped efficiently.

Supporters say the platforms are better at predicting the election than polls, but they also seem to have several potential flaws.

One place AI is seeing excellent market penetration is financial services.

Consulting firms have quietly become one of the big winners of the AI boom.

AI solves crimes, saves billions, and makes even the feds look tech-savvy.

Microsoft’s AI needs so much power it’s restarting the site of the worst U.S. nuclear accident.

Maintaining trees next to power lines is a $10B annual exercise.

What could go wrong?

How pigs could help end the shortage of organs for transplants.

AI is taking over grocery stores, starting with trade spend.

Natural gas is expected to supply 60% of the power demand growth from AI and data centers.

An expanding number of businesses are selling the promise of ending loneliness through commercialized connections.

Artists, game designers, and cybersecurity experts are teaming up to create new CAPTCHA prompts that balance user experience with bot prevention.

Tinder’s “Share My Date” feature allows users to send a link to share their date plans.

Amazon created a shell company to spy on rival e-commerce marketplaces like eBay, Shopify, and Walmart.

Hate speech continues flourishing on X – the FBI hopes criminals will tell on themselves.

Companies might falsely tout their AI technology to boost stock prices and win more customers.

A third of the global economy, roughly $30 trillion in global GDP, is subject to weather. AI could make weather forecasting more accurate.

Hedge funds are buying the legal rights to FTX-frozen accounts for pennies on the dollar.

Nvidia and Hippocratic AI’s new healthcare agents outperform nurses, costing only $9/hour.

Instagram beat TikTok in growth and downloads in 2023.

LinkedIn is the latest non-gaming platform to experiment with games to boost engagement and revenue.

Apple kills not-so-secret internal project to build an electric car.

Nvidia’s perceived monopoly on chips is actually a 15-year head start on the reinvention of computing.