No More Humans

Uber Eats adds sidewalk delivery robots, Amazon tests dine-in payments, Portal launches a productivity Mac app

May 31, 2023

Good morning! A YouTube video that plays a blank screen for 24 hours has officially hit 40 million views. Gotta love collecting ad revenue for nothing 💵

🌶 Highlight of the day 🌶

Serve Robotics is partnering with Uber to deploy 2,000 sidewalk delivery robots on Uber Eats. A cohort of Uber Eats users in LA will receive their order via an autonomous robot, with users able to unlock the robot through location-based functionality 🌎

Just a week after Uber and Waymo announced the addition of Robotaxi’s to the Uber app, the Serve Robotics partnership reinforces Uber’s long-term goals of adding autonomy to its platform 🤖

♨️ Hot off the press launches

Big tech

Uber One drops ride discounts in favor of cash back
Twitter adds crowdsourced fact checks to images
Apple launches its classical music app on Android
Amazon tests dine-in payments in India
Instacart lets users ‘favorite’ shoppers for future orders

General and early-stage

MyHeritage ships an AI app for improving old photos
Web Roulette launches a swipeable web browser
UpCodes introduces an AI assistant for building regulations
Portal launches a Mac app for improving productivity
Wellplaece ships a dentist supply procurement marketplace

🔍 Other good finds

A Trap. Optimizing for payback period instead of CAC
Roger That. The slow push of New York Times into gaming
No Rocket. Twitter has lost ~80% of its value since acquisition

🧈 Twitter nugget

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