The DoorDash Deep Throat scam lays bare our new era of untruthiness

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Photo collage featuring an AI chat, a Doordash delivery driver, and an anonymous person on a computer

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Your guide to gig work, whether it's your side hustle or main source of income

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A bicycle courier from Uber Eats rides his bicycle during the heatwave in Utrecht
Delivering food or driving passengers for Uber isn't the only type of gig work anymore.

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Gig work has never been more widespread — and more challenging.

The biggest winners of our current economy: Middlemen

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A business man on an American pedestal with money bags and a stock arrow

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Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash say self-driving tech is the future — and they'll need to spend big to make it happen

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One of DoorDash's Dot robots, which features a red exterior, cameras and other sensors in front of and above it, four wheels, as well as two eye-like lights in the front, sits in a conference room at a company office.
Autonomous technology, such as Dot, DoorDash's delivery robot, will take investment to roll out broadly.

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DoorDash makes its corporate staff moonlight as delivery workers. It's led to big changes to the app.

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A man walks past a house's garage while wearing a black coat and carrying a red DoorDash bag
DoorDash corporate employees make deliveries through the company's WeDash program.

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DoorDash's plans to spend big on tech upgrades and delivery robots in 2026 are spooking Wall Street

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A large sculpture of a red DoorDash delivery bag sits on a sidewalk in Los Angeles as people walk by.
DoorDash said its spending on new initiatives in 2026 will be significantly more than this year.

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Waymo's robotaxis have a new job: Delivering your food

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Waymo car on road
Waymo is partnering with DoorDash to bring food deliveries via robot taxis.

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I'm 81 and live in my RV for half the year. I didn't save enough for retirement, so I stay afloat by 'work camping' and DoorDash driving.

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Richard Smith
Richard Smith work camps for half of the year in New Hampshire.

Richard Smith

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Richard Smith, 81, who works part-time for the campground where he lives for half of the year and part-time driving for DoorDash. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

Serve Robotics' CEO explains why delivery could be a bigger opportunity than robotaxis

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A woman holds a paper shopping bag above one of Serve's four-wheeled delivery robots, which has a white body with a red, triangular flag above it.
Serve Robotics is launching a partnership with DoorDash.

Serve

DoorDash says its new self-driving delivery robot has a special feature: Cuteness

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Dot, DoorDash's self-driving delivery robot, with a red outer shell, four black wheels, and two LED lights on its front that look like eyes, drives along a road.
Dot, DoorDash's autonomous delivery robot.

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