DoorDash is overhauling its Dasher onboarding system in 2025 with a unified, composable workflow platform that replaces fragmented, country-specific legacy architecture, rolling out across the US, Australia, Canada, Puerto Rico, and New Zealand with plans for dynamic configuration and regional flexibility without code deployments.
A new Anthropic study warns that AI can already handle up to 94% of tasks in fields like law, finance, and software development, but adoption lags far behind capability — and when it catches up, a 'Great Recession for white-collar workers' could follow, with early signs already emerging in declining …
AI is supercharging developer productivity, but at a steep cost — longer hours, a 19.6% surge in after-hours coding, rising software instability, and a growing skills gap as junior developers score 17% lower on knowledge tests when relying on AI tools.
Anthropic launches an early-warning index to track AI-driven job displacement before it hits crisis levels, identifying computer programmers, customer service reps, and data entry workers as most at risk, while economists warn the full labor market disruption could take years to appear in official data.
A new ECB survey of 5,000 European firms finds AI is boosting hiring at small businesses in the short term, with AI-intensive firms 4% more likely to add staff, but experts warn the long-term employment impact remains uncertain as the technology has yet to fundamentally reshape core production processes.
Google rolls out Canvas in AI Mode to all U.S. users, a powerful new Search feature that lets people build real-time prototypes, interactive tools, and custom dashboards directly within Search using live web data and conversational follow-ups.
Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, a blazing-fast AI model delivering 2.5x faster response times and 45% higher output speed than its predecessor, priced at just $0.25 per million input tokens, now available in preview via the Gemini API.
Vercel's new AI 'Community Guardian' agent is transforming developer support by automatically triaging posts, detecting duplicates, and reviving unanswered threads — successfully re-engaging 1 in 8 dormant conversations and logging over 1,400 agent runs across 281 users in just 23 days.
Anthropic and OpenAI are battling for control of the agentic AI stack, forcing SaaS giants like Salesforce, Microsoft, and ServiceNow to abandon traditional per-seat licensing in favor of consumption-based pricing models as AI agents reshape how businesses buy and use software.
Investors are pulling back from shallow AI SaaS startups lacking depth, as capital rapidly shifts toward data-rich, mission-critical platforms with proprietary assets and flexible pricing, leaving generic workflow tools and API wrappers vulnerable to extinction by AI-native competitors.