Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub, becoming the shared robot layer for US food delivery
Serve Robotics partners with Grubhub, becoming the shared robot layer for US food delivery

Serve Robotics, the sidewalk-delivery company that spun out of Uber, has added Grubhub to its roster of partners, a move that quietly turns it into something close to the neutral plumbing of America’s food-delivery robot business. Through a deal with W…

Health Insurer Centene’s Chief Financial Officer To Step Down

Centene, one of the nation’s largest providers of Obamacare, said chief financial officer Drew Asher plans to step down as chief financial officer in December.

Jamie Oliver’s New Vertical Comedy Shows What Brands Are Buying Now

Jamie Oliver’s new vertical comedy, created by Baby Teeth with Life360, shows how brands can use entertainment to reach established audiences.

The Cost Of DOGE: America’s Environmental Intelligence Is Going Stale

Elon Musk’s DOGE gutted staffing and budgets at NOAA and the National Weather Service early last year. It left fishing fleets, farmers and insurers exposed to the fallout

America Should Reward— Not Penalize—Better Medicines

It would be medical malpractice to continue—and indeed expand—a particularly bad Biden-era healthcare initiative.

SafePal breach leaks the addresses but not the crypto, which may be the bigger problem
SafePal breach leaks the addresses but not the crypto, which may be the bigger problem

SafePal, the Binance-backed maker of hardware and software crypto wallets, has disclosed a data breach affecting roughly 39,798 customers, all of whom placed orders between 2 March 2025 and 11 April 2026. The exposed records cover order information, na…

Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI
Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI

The Chinese giant is offloading a profitable gaming studio to private equity so it can pour every spare yuan into Qwen and its data centres, though the buyers and sellers cannot agree on what the studio is worth. Alibaba is selling its gaming subsidiar…

Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, the AI model router, for over $7bn
Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter, the AI model router, for over $7bn

Stripe has, according to Bloomberg, finalised a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than $7bn. The payments giant declined to comment, and the sum is not officially confirmed, but the reported number tells its own story about where the smart money in AI no…

Trapping Malicious AI Knowledge Into On/Off Switchable Modules Gets Underway

New research is adding modules to traditional LLMs to increase AI safety. Maybe this will do the trick. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Today’s Wordle #1885: Hints And Answer, Monday August 17

Looking for help with today’s New York Times Wordle? Here are some expert hints, clues and commentary to help you solve today’s Wordle and sharpen your guessing game.