TechCrunch AI
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3 hours ago
DoorDash introduced dd-cli, a command-line tool that allows developers to order food directly from AI agents by searching stores, finding deals, and checking out. The tool is available in limited beta to U.S. and Canadian macOS developers via waitlist starting July 15, 2026. This enables agentic commerce where developers can build custom ordering tools or integrate DoorDash functionality into their own software and services.
TechCrunch AI
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3 hours ago
OpenAI released a $70 ChatGPT basketball alongside a $230 keyboard and merchandise as part of a "Pause. Play. Prompt." campaign to encourage offline creativity. The basketball is made of 100% rubber designed for outdoor weather resistance. The article critiques the unclear market appeal of branded sports equipment and broader issues with AI companies' product-market fit decisions.
Sakana AI
Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based AI lab, is hiring across multiple roles including researchers, engineers, product managers, and business development specialists to work on AI products like Sakana Chat, Marlin, and Fugu, as well as autonomous agent and multi-agent LLM systems. The company is recruiting for infrastructure, applied research, enterprise solutions, product, sales, marketing, and operations positions to scale its business globally. Open positions span full-stack ML infrastructure, security controls for AI applications, product vision leadership, and go-to-market strategy development.
TheSequence
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8 hours ago
Meta launched Spark 1.1, a proprietary frontier model with pricing at $1.25 per million input tokens, marking a shift from the company's three-year commitment to open-weights AI. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the model publicly after a three-year absence from social media, while Meta simultaneously introduced the Spark Image model and began building Meta Compute, a cloud service to sell surplus AI infrastructure. Meta is now assembling a complete vertical stack including custom chips, datacenters, cloud services, and models, positioning itself to compete directly with frontier AI labs, though structural advantages favor the company in end-user applications rather than model development.
