You’ll soon be able to order DoorDash by text message

DoorDash is also expanding its Dasher returns feature nationwide in November. | Image: DoorDash / The Verge DoorDash is launching new ways to use the local delivery platform, including text message ordering, drone deliveries, and retail returns. The new message ordering feature builds on capabilities that the Ask DoorDash AI chatbot introduced to the DoorDash … Read more

Potato by air

Artist’s rendition | Image:The Verge, Getty Images The Wing Hummingbird 7000W-B delivery drone weighs less than 15 pounds. It has 16 propellers – four for horizontal movement and 12 for vertical – a top speed of 60 miles per hour, a carrying capacity of up to 2.7 pounds, and a delivery radius of about six … Read more

The Sonos Ace Ultra are the headphones Sonos should have made the first time

The Ace Ultra look like the Ace, but they’re better on the inside. The original Sonos Ace headphones should have been a triumphant entry into a new product category. Instead, they were overshadowed by Sonos’s disastrous app redesign. And while the original Ace are well built, sound good, and are incredibly comfortable, they weren’t good … Read more

Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal

Anyone else getting “The Last Supper” vibes from this photo taken at the White House tech gathering? | Photographer: Tierney L. Cross/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images We now have the full details of the “morally binding” AI safety deal announced by President Trump yesterday, in which top executives agreed to self-regulate their artificial intelligence … Read more

Why a 40-Year-Old Database Is Still Winning in the AI Era

There are still some fundamental truths that won’t change. LLMs are making it dramatically easier to build software, so yes, we’re going to have more applications, more agents, more workloads, and more data. But here’s one thing that won’t change: developers want to build on trusted foundations. They don’t want to stitch together fragile, Rube … Read more