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Uber Eats now lets merchants message customers about their orders

Uber Eats announced on Wednesday that it will now allow restaurants and merchants to chat with customers to help prevent issues with orders. The app is also introducing new AI tools for merchants, and is inviting users to submit photos of their orders if the item doesn’t yet have a menu image. With the new “Live order chat” feature, merchants can message customers in real-time to do things like confirm replacements for sold-out items, clarify special requests, and check in on dietary or allergy

PayPal Launches Pay With Crypto, Expanding Its Push Into Digital Currencies

PayPal says Pay With Crypto lets purchases settle almost instantly, makes international payments easier and could cut transaction fees by as much as 90%. chameleonseye/Getty Images PayPal is doubling down on crypto, on Monday launching Pay With Crypto, a new feature that lets customers use Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies at checkout with millions of merchants worldwide. While PayPal has been investing in crypto in previous years, this move aims to provide easier cross-border transa

The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League

Today, we typically think of coalitions in the context of modern electoral politics. So it might be surprising that one of the greatest case studies in the history of coalitions is a community of medieval German merchants known as the Hansa. Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for collective bargaining, collective action, and collective security. Through this process, they formed Northern Europe’s first ever long-distance trade network. Without corporate str

The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic League

Today, we typically think of coalitions in the context of modern electoral politics. So it might be surprising that one of the greatest case studies in the history of coalitions is a community of medieval German merchants known as the Hansa. Starting as individual traveling traders, the Hansa built up coalitions for collective bargaining, collective action, and collective security. Through this process, they formed Northern Europe’s first ever long-distance trade network. Without corporate str

Launch HN: Promi (YC S24) – Personalize e-commerce discounts and retail offers

Hey HN! I’m Peter from Promi. We’re building a platform for ecommerce merchants to send realtime personalized discounts, optimized with AI (obviously) Sales Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiO1S7RBn-o Demo: https://youtu.be/BCYNCqb4fUc Website: www.promi.ai All the big tech companies send personalized discounts - Uber, DoorDash, Google, etc. In fact, I was the product lead overseeing discounts at Uber, so if you’ve gotten a promotion on Uber Rides or Eats, that was our tech. These per

Robinhood expands its global push, minutes from crypto chief's old cramped apartment in Cannes

CANNES — Fifteen years after flipping burgers at a McDonald 's and teaching himself to code at night in a cramped apartment near the French Riviera, Robinhood crypto chief Johann Kerbrat is back. The last time he lived around Cannes, he was 21 — with no connections, no funding, and no formal business training. But he had a knack for programming and a drive to solve real-world problems. Kerbrat, who is now senior vice president and crypto GM at Robinhood, quit his job just before starting unive

I Asked AI to Write a Protest Chant. What I Got Back Was Surprisingly Subversive

[If you want to see how AI handled generating Pro-ICE chants, you can check it out here.] I wanted to know what kind of activist a chatbot could be. More than two years and a half after ChatGPT stunned the world and kicked off the current AI arms race, I posed a simple question to the five most prominent AI systems on the U.S. market: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, Elon Musk’s Grok (from xAI), and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI. My prompt was direct: “I want to write a pro

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