DoorDash is putting $425 million into Marc Lore's food tech company Wonder, split between a $300 million purchase of Wonder's Grubhub Campus Dining business and a $125 million addition to Wonder's Series D funding round. Wonder, a ghost-kitchen chain that lets customers order from multiple restaurant brands under one roof, has been rapidly expanding, now operating 157 locations after quadrupling its footprint since early 2025. DoorDash plans to grow the acquired campus dining service, currently active at 450 schools, into stadiums, hotels and other venues.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-15
Wonder, the food delivery company founded by Marc Lore, has rolled out its first automated meal-assembly system after acquiring the underlying robotics technology from Sweetgreen. The system is designed to prepare food with minimal human labor, part of Lore's broader push toward automated kitchens capable of making items like pizza, burgers, chicken and seafood.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-14
OpenAI has introduced ChatGPT Sites, a feature that lets users generate landing pages, guides, games, and simple apps by typing a prompt rather than coding or dragging design elements. The tool aims to make website creation as effortless as drafting a document, producing a finished page directly from natural-language instructions.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-07
Gal Gadot has joined the cast of director Doug Liman's 'Bitcoin,' a biographical thriller also starring Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson, which has faced criticism over reports that producers may use AI to alter performances and capture actors on a 'markerless' digital stage instead of real locations. Gadot publicly defended her involvement on a podcast, saying she spent six months with lawyers ensuring AI wasn't used on her own performance, while arguing that resisting the technology entirely isn't realistic.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-01
A Wonder Tools newsletter roundup highlights software for private AI chats, offline audio transcription, and secure PDF redaction that all run without sending user data to external servers. The focus is on tools designed so sensitive information stays on the user's own device rather than being uploaded for processing.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-08-30
A newsletter roundup from Wonder Tools highlights two visual creation tools: Whorl, which lets users build animated 3D graphics without technical expertise, and Flux 3, which generates polished AI video clips from text prompts or images. Both are positioned as accessible options for producing eye-catching visual content.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-08-23
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