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Uber Partners with Drone Company Zipline - DTH

Aug 17, 2026 · 5m

Summary

This episode covers Uber’s drone delivery partnership with Zipline and Stripe’s $7 billion acquisition of OpenRouter. It highlights AI controversies, including hallucinated sources in an Australian age-verification report and Amazon’s bulk book scanning for training data. Other stories include OpenAI’s new Computer History feature, SpaceX’s $60 billion purchase of Cursor, and a German regulator ordering Apple to fix its app-tracking prompts.

Topics discussed

Sponsors: Capital One and ChatGPT Work Mode Uber partners with Zipline for drone deliveries AI hallucinations found in age verification report Stripe acquires AI router OpenRouter for $7B OpenAI launches local Computer History feature OpenAI signs 10GW data center deal in Ohio Amazon warehouse found shredding books for AI Expert witness used AI to fabricate trial report SpaceX completes $60B acquisition of Cursor Germany orders Apple to change app tracking prompts
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