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Uber Eats adds AI assistant to help with grocery shopping

Uber announced a new AI feature called "Cart Assistant" for grocery shopping in its Uber Eats app. The new feature works a couple different ways. You can use text prompts, as you would with any other AI chatbot, to ask it to build a grocery list for you. Or you can upload a picture of […]

AI could transform the economy by year’s end

It’s February 2020 again.  An exponential process is in motion — one that will inevitably shake the world to its core — and upend our economy, politics, and social lives. Yet most people are still going about their business, oblivious as dinosaurs to a descending asteroid.  This is what many in and around the AI […]

Investigation: as Ford pushes its BlueCruise driving system, some drivers found it confusing to use, misunderstood its limitations, and didn't heed its warnings (Ryan Felton/Wall Street Journal)

Ryan Felton / Wall Street Journal:
Investigation: as Ford pushes its BlueCruise driving system, some drivers found it confusing to use, misunderstood its limitations, and didn't heed its warnings  —  NHTSA investigates Ford's product after deadly crashes; company research during development showed technology can be misunderstood

Researchers find Kalshi and Polymarket bettors can more accurately predict economic data, earnings, and political events than analysts, likely due to incentives (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)

Lydia DePillis / New York Times:
Researchers find Kalshi and Polymarket bettors can more accurately predict economic data, earnings, and political events than analysts, likely due to incentives  —  Economists at top banks and investment firms who command high salaries to divine the direction of the economy expect …

A profile of South Korea's SK Hynix, a once unloved memory chipmaker that now enjoys 58% operating margins and a $438B market cap amid the global HBM shortage (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)

Daniel Tudor / Financial Times:
A profile of South Korea's SK Hynix, a once unloved memory chipmaker that now enjoys 58% operating margins and a $438B market cap amid the global HBM shortage  —  Once unloved SK Hynix is enjoying 58% operating margins amid a global shortage of memory chips