I drive for Uber and Lyft as a medical student. It's not the profitable side hustle I expected it to be.

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Technology
Medical student Porshaye Watkins poses on a walking path with a forest in the background. She is wearing a white medical coat a dress with a blue pattern, and a stethoscope around her neck.
Porshaye Watkins drives for Uber and Lyft as a side hustle.

Porshaye Watkins

Uber headhunted PhDs to join 'Project Sandbox.' After a month, it said that their AI training contracts were over.

Tech Insider : Business
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi speaks at a conference while wearing a light grey suit, light blue dress shirt, and crossing his two pointer fingers.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has pointed to AI training as an example of the company becoming a "platform for work."

Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Concordia Annual Summit

Uber and DoorDash now disclose when algorithms set prices. There's still one big question.

Tech Insider : Economy, Business
An Uber Eats gig worker rides a bike along a body of water while wearing a black hat and a green backpack.
A new law in New York requires businesses, including Uber and Lyft, to disclose when they're using algorithms to set prices.

Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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

Tech Insider : Economy, Business
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.

Illustration by Emily Dulla/Getty Images for DoorDash

Uber is offering AI gigs for PhDs as it becomes a 'platform for work,' CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says

Tech Insider : Economy, Business
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi

Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Concordia Summit

Lyft's CEO explains why he prefers 'Falcon Mode' to being a hands-off CEO

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Style
Lyft CEO David Risher standing in front of a gray wall with a white Lyft logo behind him.
Lyft CEO David Risher, who recently said the company is preparing for the changes to the industry that self-driving cars will bring.

Michael Liedtke/The Associated Press

The new gig for Uber drivers? Training AI.

Tech Insider : Business
An Uber light sits on the dash of a car behidn a windshield.
Uber will start offering Digital Tasks to some of its gig workers in the US.

Nam Y. Huh/AP

The free-for-all that's upending America's side hustle industry

Tech Insider : Business, Crypto, Economy
Two hands holding stacks of cash and one of them dissapearing pixel by pixel

Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI

Uber's CEO says robotaxis could displace drivers in 10 to 15 years and create 'a big, big societal question'

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Waymo parked in the rain
A Waymo parks in the rain in Austin.

Ethan McKanna

After 20 years in sales at companies like Tesla and Wells Fargo, I'm DoorDashing to support my daughters

Tech Insider : Business
Ilya Brunshteyn with two daughters
Ilya Brunshteyn, a former salesperson, has two daughters.

Ilya Brunshteyn

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