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Delivery platform named among the top employers by workers receiving SNAP benefits in 2025.
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Amazon says drone delivery reaches nearly 500 US cities and towns by end-2026, from 11 sites today. Uber and DoorDash are now committing too, on volumes that remain rounding errors.
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The Rivian spinout's Series D takes it to $455 million and past a $1 billion valuation. The only product shipping is a $4,500 e-bike that arrived months late.
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The sixfold expansion moves drone delivery out of pilot mode. It does not move the payload limit, the 7.5-mile radius, or three open crash investigations.
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Serve Robotics lost Uber Eats, cut next year's revenue guidance by roughly two thirds, and is now renting demand from DoorDash and Grubhub. The fleet did not shrink. The order flow did.
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The Zipline partnership repeats the robotaxi playbook: invest in every provider, build none of them. The stated target of a million deliveries a day by the end of 2029 is the testable part.
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With Uber Eats, DoorDash and now Grubhub all able to summon the same robots, Serve is betting the fleet is the asset. The unit economics are still unproven.
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A GAO count puts DoorDash, Lyft and Uber ahead of Walmart and McDonald's on workers drawing food aid. The durable number here is the ranking, not the sentiment survey attached to it.
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