InDrive has big plans to become a global ‘super app’ where others have failed
InDrive plans to expand into multiple verticals over the next 12 months across its top markets, starting with grocery deliveries in Kazakhstan.
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined…
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Uber and Momenta to test autonomous vehicles in Germany in 2026
Momenta is one of 20 global AV partners that Uber has scooped up across its ridehail, delivery, and freight businesses. Uber says those partnerships have already generated an annualized rate of 1.5 million mobility and delivery.
Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?
How can a chatbot be so wrong — and sound so confident in its wrongness?
Koah raises $5M to bring ads into AI apps
One investor says Koah is “building the essential monetization layer for consumer AI.”
Hyundai’s eVTOL startup Supernal pauses work following CEO and CTO departures
The shakeup comes as the startup was still struggling to get its test vehicle off the ground — literally. The first flight was only in March.
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Microsoft says Azure affected after cables cut in the Red Sea
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Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?
This is a bad idea.
EU fines Google $3.5B over adtech ‘abuse’
This is the EU’s largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to “nullify” it.