DoorDash has agreed to buy the UK-based food delivery service in a deal worth around $3.9 billion. It adds nine new countries to DoorDash’s global reach, which will now stand at over 40 countries and 50 million monthly active users.
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A UK court has ordered it to pay patent troll Optis $502m — just a little up from the $56m set in 2023, before Optis appealed. Apple will appeal too, of course, but already paid the same company $300m in a related case in Texas.
It’s been a rough week in a rough year for Apple, with a legal blow to its App Store income and a $900m tariff bill to boot.
The company is busy building its lineup of Nova AI models, which includes video and voice generation and an agentic shopping tool. The latest launch is Premier — first teased when the Nova line made its debut — and it’s the most powerful yet, though it’s not a reasoning model. Instead, it’s designed for multistep tasks and training other models via distillation.
The company says it’s the first in the world ready to mass produce OLED panels with blue phosphorescence, a project 20 years in the making. It calls it “the final piece of the ‘dream OLED’ puzzle.”
Following reports it had developed the tech last year, LG now says it’s ready to manufacture tandem panels that use both fluorescence and phosphorescence, reducing power consumption by 15 percent, starting with smartphones and tablets.
