Business, technology and what comes next.
NextNow / Contributor
Reporting and analysis
DoorDash’s order volume is still growing quickly, but the more consequential shift is underneath the marketplace: a delivery network increasingly designed to choose among human couriers, robots and drones order by order.
Atlas shuts down Aug. 9 as OpenAI moves browser-based agentic work into ChatGPT and Codex. Google is embedding Gemini into Chrome while Perplexity keeps Comet as a browser. The emerging contest is less about browser chrome than who controls the agent that can act across the web.
Retailers are extending media networks into fuel pumps, store audio, mobile checkout and smart carts. The bigger change is not more screens. It is the ability to connect physical-world attention to identity and purchase data.
AI is not simply replacing software features. It is changing the unit of value from access to execution, forcing software companies to rethink architecture, pricing and what their products are actually responsible for.
Autonomous AI agents are gaining permission to act across company systems. As that authority expands, liability is becoming a practical issue in contracts, cybersecurity, insurance and product design.
A Munich court found that the AI music company needed licenses for works represented by GEMA, raising the stakes for music-model training.
Muse Spark 1.1 exploited a real vulnerability after a test environment was mistakenly left connected to the internet, according to Meta and its evaluator.
Reuters reported that the memory-chip makers have tested AMEC equipment as a possible contingency for their factories in China; Samsung disputed the report.
Revenue rose 9% as the company lifted its full-year outlook and pointed to AI products serving legal, corporate, tax and accounting customers.
Attackers used calls to try to persuade employees at major hedge funds and private equity firms to hand over access or sensitive information.
