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Amazon announces partnership with Uber Eats offering Prime members $0 delivery

Subscribers can place restaurant orders through Amazon's platforms and receive $0 delivery fees under the partnership. Amazon says members could save more than $175 a year through the offering, while Bloomberg reports that the announcement comes a week after DoorDash agreed to acquire Instacart.

  • Uber Eats becomes Prime's official US restaurant delivery partner.
  • The partnership replaces Grubhub, according to TechCrunch.
Financial Times · Updated

China blocks SoftBank’s $5.4bn takeover of ABB’s robotics division

China's state planner told SoftBank it would not permit the acquisition, ABB said, according to the South China Morning Post. SoftBank agreed to buy the business in October last year, The Economic Times reports, as CEO Masayoshi Son sought a central role for the company in artificial intelligence.

  • ABB's robotics unit focuses on China and has a Pudong mega-factory, according to the Financial Times.
CNBC · Updated

Nintendo Switch 2 sales plunge 41% as price hikes and memory crunch bite

CNBC reports that the hardware decline came in Nintendo's fiscal second quarter amid soaring memory costs. Bloomberg reports a surprise quarterly profit drop, citing limited major game releases and rising component costs.

Financial Times ·

A&O Shearman invests $1.1bn in AI

The ‘magic circle’ firm has told lawyers each practice area must commit at least 3% of billable time to creating AI tools

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Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM

Discord is finally giving up on Electron, the cross-platform framework that lets developers build desktop apps using web technologies.

The Verge ·
Ocient Raises $100M Series C to Accelerate OcientAIQ Delivery 2 sources covering Ocient Raises $100M Series C to Accelerate OcientAIQ Delivery

The Series C was co-led by BOKA Capital and OCA Ventures and brought total funding to $260 million, according to Unite.AI.

Unite.AI ·
Micron Pauses Work on $4.5 Billion Taiwan Plant After Labor Spat 2 sources covering Micron Pauses Work on $4.5 Billion Taiwan Plant After Labor Spat

A prolonged labor dispute prompted the suspension, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter, leaving uncertainty over a production base for AI components.

Bloomberg ·
Report: Apple reduces employees’ AI token allowances as Ternus moves to cut costs 9 sources covering Report: Apple reduces employees’ AI token allowances as Ternus moves to cut costs

Some engineers previously had daily allowances of $300, with further reductions planned across multiple teams, according to Bloomberg.

9to5Mac ·
Microsoft rejects option to more than double Nscale Texas contract ahead of $35B IPO 3 sources covering Microsoft rejects option to more than double Nscale Texas contract ahead of $35B IPO

The option would have more than doubled the computing capacity Microsoft rents at Nscale's Barstow data centre, according to the Financial Times.

RuntimeWire ·
GhostMap Android flaw lets malicious app trigger persistent boot loop 2 sources covering GhostMap Android flaw lets malicious app trigger persistent boot loop

A specially crafted app can exploit the Android flaw to leave a device repeatedly crashing and restarting.

BleepingComputer ·
Privacy Concerns Over Ad Tech Giving Police Greater Power to Track Phones

Penlink’s Webloc is sold to police in the US, UK and worldwide.

Bloomberg ·
Best Wireless Chargers (2026): My Picks After Testing 100+

Stop fumbling for cables in the dark.

Wired ·
AI’s Next Trick? Speaking Dolphin

Denise Herzing, the founder and director of the Wild Dolphin Project, is using AI to help understand audio and video footage of the marine mammals.

Wired ·
Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying?

Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly-traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.

TechCrunch ·
Mercedes Gives Its Cars an AI Upgrade

The automaker is working with Liquid AI, a startup that spun out of MIT, to run AI models directly in the car, rather than the cloud.

Wall Street Journal ·
Can an AI Agent Be Your Next CMO? At Some Small Startups, It Already Is.

Businesses with lean head counts are using specialized agents to operate as heads of growth and design—at least for now.

Wall Street Journal ·
He Trolls AI Labs for a Living. Now They All Want to Work With Him

OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXSI have all reached out to Husk, an influencer who regularly goes viral by exposing the shortcomings of chatbots.

Wired ·