DoorDash announced ordering by text message: just write something like "order my usual," and an AI assistant will pick the restaurant, fill the cart and complete the payment in the same conversation. For now, iOS users in the US can only join a waitlist. The company also named the first location for DoorDash Air drone deliveries, in Northern California, but without a launch date. In November, it will expand doorstep pickup of returns and delivery to stores, for $7.99, to the entire US.
BBC Director-General Matt Brittin said at the Royal Television Society conference in London that he recently received a 50-minute "Doctor Who" episode generated entirely by AI, and called it "pretty good." He stressed that AI "won't replace people," but added that anyone can now create content "almost at the level of a Hollywood studio."
According to Bloomberg, the smart glasses worn by Amazon delivery drivers will photograph everything in the driver's field of view, including people and private properties. The company plans to upload the photos, up to several thousand per shift, to an AI platform called Wellspring. Customers will not be able to see the photos or request their deletion. Asked whether people will be able to refuse to be photographed, Amazon's Viraj Chatterjee replied: "We haven't thought about that." Amazon says its systems will blur people and license plates before the photos reach the staff who review them.
The WeatherNext Cyclones model developed by Google DeepMind predicts the track and intensity of tropical cyclones, as well as the extent of their winds, as accurately as leading operational models, but at least a day earlier on average, according to a paper published in Nature. Gizmodo honored it in its Science Fair 2026 competition. The model is used by the US National Hurricane Center and the UK Met Office, among others. The code is available on GitHub, and running the model doesn't require a supercomputer.