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DoorDash has a robot that can traverse sidewalks and roads to deliver dinner to your door.Importantly, the company says, it’s also cute.On Tuesday, DoorDash unveiled Dot, its latest self-driving delivery robot. The vehicle sports a red exterior, can carry up to 30 pounds of cargo, and is roomy enough to fit up to six pizza boxes at once. Dot also includes lidar sensors and cameras that are already helping it navigate streets and sidewalks in parts of Phoenix as it makes deliveries from restaurants and Dashmart.Dot has LED lights that look like eyes and the ability to greet restaurant workers…

Rental company Hertz said Tuesday it is updating its online shopping website to allow customers to secure financing, get a trade-in offer and do just about everything else a buyer would need to purchase a vehicle.The move is a significant step for Hertz’s online retail presence. Previously, the company’s HertzCarSales.com website had only offered listings of vehicles. Most of the purchasing process happened at Hertz’s retail locations, of which there are 45 in the United States.”Our new e-commerce platform marks a major step forward in modernizing how we serve our customers with a seamless journey from browsing to ownership,” said…

Coaches and staff use the Scorability recruiting dashboard to discover, evaluate, and engage with recruitsScoreabilitySports tech platform Scorability has raised $40 million in fresh funding as the company looks to modernize college sports recruiting, the company announced on Tuesday.The funding round was led by Bluestone Equity Partners, with participation from sports merchandising giant Fanatics. Luther King Capital Management also joined the round, alongside returning investors Silverton Partners, Next Coast Ventures and Scorability’s co-founder Brian Cruver.The raise comes as the college sports landscape undergoes a seismic shift following a $2.28 billion NCAA antitrust settlement that paved the way for student-athletes to…

Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. speaks during an event honoring local construction workers who helped build the firm’s new headquarters at 270 Park Avenue, in the Midtown area of New York City, U.S., Sept. 9, 2025. Shannon Stapleton | ReutersDeep within the bowels of JPMorgan Chase’s data centers and cloud providers, an artificial intelligence program crucial to the bank’s aspirations grows more powerful by the week.The program, called LLM Suite, is a portal created by the bank to harness large language models from the world’s leading AI startups. It currently uses models from…

Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., speaks to a reporter after a House Republican caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 25, 2025, in Washington. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images With just hours left before the deadline for Congress to approve a spending plan and prevent the government from shutting down, Republicans and Democrats remain locked in a bitter standoff. Democrats met with President Trump on Monday, but the meeting ended without a deal. No new talks were scheduled ahead of the midnight deadline. A lapse in funding would mean furloughs for hundreds of thousands of…

Your boss in the corner office may be telling you to use AI — but are they using it the same way you do?Business Insider spoke to seven executives about how they use AI in their professional lives. While some said they use it to polish their communication, others said they find it helpful for improving their public speaking or navigating challenging conversations.Read on to learn more about how top leaders, like Box’s CEO and Walmart’s EVP of Global Tech platforms, are using AI on the job:Box CEO Aaron Levie Aaron Levie said he uses a variety of AI tools.…

Wall Street’s M&A rebound got a boost on Monday with the biggest take-private buyout in years, but experts are warning that the hiring landscape isn’t showing the same signs of revival.Video game producer Electronic Arts on Monday said it would be sold for $55 billion in a transaction hammered out by bankers at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. The price tag marks it the biggest take-private deal since the M&A boom in 2007 that preceded the global financial crisis. Though that’s welcome news for everyone’s league tables, it doesn’t stand to do much for their job boards, insiders said.”Even a deal…

Annual revenue at Big Four firm Deloitte UK has declined for the first time in 15 years,The Big Four professional services firm released annual results on Tuesday, reporting annual revenue of £5.68 billion ($7.6 billion) in the year ending 31 May 2025 — a 1% decline on the previous year. The results include the firm’s Switzerland office.Growth at Deloitte UK has slowed in recent years, falling from 14% to 2.4% in its 2024 financial year, but this is the first time revenue has registered a drop since the Great Recession years of 2009 and 2010.”Geopolitics and continued economic headwinds meant…

Working for MrBeast, YouTube’s top creator, is a dream job for many. But moving to his headquarters in Greenville, North Carolina? That can be a harder sell for media workers accustomed to big-city living.It’s “the polar opposite of where anyone working in the entertainment industry would expect to live,” a former MrBeast creative said.Greenville, with around 90,000 residents, is a college town at its core. Many of its bars, restaurants, and clubs are tailored to the 27,000 students at East Carolina University. This can be an adjustment for Angelenos used to $20 collagen-peptide smoothies at Erewhon or dining on truffle…

Pop Mart has Disney-sized ambitions for Labubu, and one of its top executives has outlined a road map to ensure that the furry dolls don’t become a one-hit wonder.The Chinese toy giant is trying to keep its viral Labubu doll and other intellectual property characters relevant in the long term, much like Disney had managed to do with Mickey Mouse.Si De, Pop Mart’s COO and executive director, told Reuters in an interview, released Monday, that Pop Mart had “learned from Disney for a long time.””In fact, Disney’s great value lies in its ability to operate IP over the long-term, even…