A long list of tech companies are rushing to give themselves the right to use people's data to train AI

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Sun Valley conference this year.

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I'm an Instacart shopper — here are 4 ways you can make your grocery delivery experience better and cheaper

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The $128 billion retail media industry is the hottest space in advertising right now — and its growth tear is coming at the expense of Google and TV

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TikTokers are calling out DoorDashers using others people's accounts. 'You open the door for Ebony, and Ebony actually happens to be Steve, that's not okay!'

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Some gig delivery drivers aren't who they appear to be.

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Instacart's profitability relies in part on batching orders together — something that its gig workers hate

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Instacart has gotten its shoppers to deliver more orders at a time for the same or less pay over the last few years.

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It's the return of the tech IPO. Instacart says it's profitable — and this may be the necessary secret ingredient for a hot market debut in 2023.

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Fidji Simo from France is the new CEO of Instacart.

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Instacart just filed for its IPO and revealed a plan to sell $175 million in stock to PepsiCo

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Instacart filed a prospectus, a document outlining its business and planned IPO, on Friday afternoon.

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Some Instacart customers are losing hundreds of dollars to scammers after connecting bank accounts or Paypal to the app

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Some Instacart users are reportedly out hundreds of dollars after placing orders on the grocery delivery app that never arrived.

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Instacart is going public. For real, this time.

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Instacart is reportedly targeting an IPO as soon as September. It's not the first time the grocery delivery company has tried to go public.

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Gig workers are tracking customers who reduce tips after delivery by marking their homes on Google Maps

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Workers for Instacart and other gig services are tracking which houses tip bait, including by marking offending addresses on Google Maps.

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