DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food
By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.
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“This Is a Pretty Fancy Dinner. That Probably Means I’m Overpaying.” A Dreamforce Lesson From a Top 5 Customer
Dreamforce this year was an epic rebirth in many ways of AI for CRM, and a lot more than CRM. I’ll share more thoughts on that soon. But being back there brought up a memory from a Dreamforce years ago that I think about more than almost anything else from…
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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.
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He Was a Tech Investor Before There Was a Silicon Valley
Bill Draper began funding start-ups in the early 1960s, when the Santa Clara Valley was better known for apricot orchards than microchips. He has died at 98.
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How to use vector embeddings in AEO
A vector embedding is a numerical representation created by an embedding model. The model converts text into a list of numbers that can be compared with other vectors, helping a retrieval system find passages with similar meaning even when they use different…