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Matternet has developed a new last-mile delivery system called M3, featuring a drone capable of carrying up to 11 pounds of cargo and cheaper, simplified dock stations. The company plans to deploy the system commercially in the second half of 2027, with food delivery—including fried chicken—cited as an early use case.
Truemetrics, a Y Combinator-backed startup that maps courier delivery routes via smartphone data, is hiring a founder's associate to work directly with its two founders. The company says it is profitable, has surpassed €1.5M in annual recurring revenue, and sells to enterprise carriers including GLS, DPD, and PostNord across several European countries plus Qatar. The new hire would help run and scale the company's outbound sales engine as it targets growth from roughly €1M to €10M+.
Amazon plans to equip 5,000 delivery drivers with AI smart glasses by the end of 2026, scaling to over 20,000 by 2027, according to a Bloomberg report citing Amazon executive Viraj Chatterjee. The glasses capture frequent static images of everything in a driver's view while on foot, including recipients and bystanders, which are reviewed by Amazon staff and fed into its Wellspring AI mapping platform. Amazon disputes characterizations of the system as surveillance, while confirming no customer opt-out option currently exists.
DoorDash revealed its new drone aircraft at its Dash Forward 2026 event, built by DoorDash Labs, the team behind its sidewalk robot Dot. The company says it designed ground logistics, packaging and its Autonomous Delivery Platform software before finalizing the drone itself, sizing the system using historical order data on weight and delivery distance. The drone service, called DoorDash Air, follows a Part 135 air carrier certification the company received from the FAA and announced in July.
DoorDash unveiled an AI agent that lets customers order food by texting through Apple Messages, understanding prompts like 'order my usual' or requests for specific dishes and recommendations. The agent can suggest carts with photos, handle group orders with mixed dietary needs, and is currently available via a U.S. waitlist. DoorDash also said it will begin testing delivery drones with select restaurants in Northern California.
DoorDash is rolling out its drone delivery program, DoorDash Air, starting in Northern California with Chipotle and Popeyes as launch partners. The company says its six-propeller drone is quiet at delivery altitude and that early tests showed restaurant-to-door delivery times averaging under five minutes for eligible orders.
Bloomberg reports that Amazon's new smart glasses for delivery drivers will take several thousand photos during a typical shift, feeding them into Amazon's AI Wellspring platform. Amazon executive Viraj Chatterjee said faces and license plates will be blurred before human review, but confirmed the company hasn't considered letting customers opt out, and images could be obtained with a warrant. Amazon plans to deploy 20,000 more pairs of the glasses by the end of 2027, after a pilot program that has logged over 275,000 deliveries.
Amutable has introduced Quarry, a software delivery system designed to distribute the immutable OS images built with its earlier tool, tine. The design shifts all logic to the client side, serving update payloads and metadata as static blobs from simple, 'dumb' hosting rather than requiring a server capable of generating dynamic responses.
Airbnb's fall product update adds an AI search toggle letting users search listings by text or voice, with dynamic filters and AI-generated property summaries and comparisons. The update also expands in-app services like meal delivery, laundry, baby gear, grocery delivery, and ski/boat rentals in select locations, alongside new social features encouraging bookings for experiences like food tastings and workshops.
DoorDash announced a text-message ordering feature built on its Ask DoorDash chatbot, letting users request food and complete checkout entirely within a text thread. iOS users in the US can now join a waitlist for the beta, with no confirmed launch date or Android availability yet. The company also revealed northern California as the first test site for its DoorDash Air drone delivery service, working with Chipotle and Popeyes, and said it will expand its paid retail-returns service nationwide in November.
A group of neighbors discovered their homes fell within range of Wing's drone-delivery partnership with Walmart, which can drop items from a catalog of over 2,000 products onto a lawn within about 25 minutes. Rather than order household goods, several neighbors began sending each other single potatoes and bottles of water via the delivery drones, which carry up to 2.7 pounds and fly a roughly six-mile radius.
Apple confirmed shoppers can begin its 'Get ready' process for the iPhone Duo on Monday, October 12, letting buyers pre-select color, storage, carrier, and payment method ahead of time. Actual pre-orders open Friday, October 16 at 8:00 a.m. ET / 5:00 a.m. PT, and completing the setup early is meant to speed up checkout that morning.