Flink lands $100M to advance targeted expansion
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Berlin-based Flink, a quick commerce operator active in Germany and theNetherlands, has secured around $100 million in new growth capital. The roundwas led by Prosus and other existing investors, with...
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Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to tackle potato late blight in Europe
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Mycoverse, an agritechspin-out from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) developing fungal-basedbiological crop protection, has raised €2.4 million in pre-seed equity funding.The round was co-led...
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Burger King AI Assistant Frees Managers From Back-Office Tasks
PYMNTS / pymnts - Burger King has equipped managers and employees with an artificial intelligence-powered tool called BK Assistant. BK Assistant providers staffers with access to operational guidelines, inventory management and compliance tracking, “enabling them to focus …
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Burger King rolls out AI headsets that track employee 'friendliness'
bbc - The fast-food chain is testing OpenAI-powered headsets that monitor staff interactions with customers.
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London-Based Alpa Raises $3.5M In Pre-Seed Funding Led by Daphni
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based fintech startup Alpa has raised $3.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Daphni, with participation from True Capital, 2100 Ventures, Firedrop, Oprtrs Club, Kima Ventures, and Sonorcap. Angel investors include Alexandre Yazdi (Voodoo founder) …
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Slang AI Raises $36M to Scale Hospitality Voice AI
Ekemini / ventureburn - Slang AI has secured $36 million in Series B funding to accelerate the growth of its AI solutions for the voice communication segment of the hospitality industry. This funding roundThe post Slang AI Raises $36M to Scale Hospitality Voice AI appeared first…
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Apple TV Brings Live F1, MLS, and MLB to Sports Bars Nationwide in EverPass Deal
iclarified - Apple is expanding the reach of its live sports broadcasts through a new distribution agreement with EverPass Media. The deal brings Apple TV's live sports portfolio to commercial venues across the United States, giving bars, restaurants, hotels, and gyms…
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London’s Mondra And Vienna’s Inoqo Announce Strategic Merger
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based AI supply chain intelligence platform Mondra and Vienna-based sustainability intelligence platform inoqo have announced a strategic merger. The combined entity aims to accelerate decarbonisation and enhance resilience across the global food s…
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simmetry.ai expands AI training platform following €330K funding
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - simmetry.ai, asynthetic data company working across agriculture, food and industrial sectors,has secured €330,000 from NBank, the investment and development bank of theGerman state of Lower Saxony. Th...
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Snap, Shop, Done: Uber Launches AI Cart Assistant for Groceries
Aminu Abdullahi / eweek - Uber Eats’ new Cart Assistant uses AI to build grocery carts from text or photos of handwritten lists, factoring in inventory, prices, and past purchases.The post Snap, Shop, Done: Uber Launches AI Cart Assistant for Groceries appeared first on eWEEK.
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Uber Eats’ new Cart Assistant feature is an AI hack for your grocery shopping
Matt Tate / engadget - If there’s any area of your life that you might be willing to introduce more AI into, it’s likely something as mundane as grocery shopping. That’s what Uber is betting on with its new AI-powered feature in the Uber Eats app.Cart Assistant lets you "build …
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Uber to buy delivery arm of Turkey’s Getir
Ram Iyer / techcrunch - The deal will see Uber paying $335 million at the outset to purchase Getir's food delivery business. Uber will also pay $100 million for a 15% stake in Getir's grocery, retail and water delivery business.
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Amazon To Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores
msmash / slashdot - Amazon is closing all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores in a shift to focus on its online same-day delivery service and new big-box retail stores. From a report: The e-commerce giant said Tuesday that some of its shuttered Amazon-branded b…
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Klearly raises €12M from PayPal Ventures to fix restaurant payments chao
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Restaurants, bars, and clubs face a persistent challenge: legacy systems that stutter during peak service hours, disrupting operations…
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Wing's drone deliveries are coming to 150 more Walmarts
Jackson Chen / engadget - Don't be surprised if you see even more drones delivering groceries across the US since the Alphabet-owned Wing announced another service expansion with Walmart over the next year. The partnership said that drone delivery services will be available at 150…
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Viral Reddit Post About Food Delivery Apps Was an AI Scam
BeauHD / slashdot - A viral Reddit "whistleblower" post accusing a major food delivery app of systemic exploitation is "most likely AI-generated," reports the Verge. From the report: The original post by user Trowaway_whistleblow alleged that an unnamed food delivery company…
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NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces
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DoorDash Integrates App With OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Facilitate Grocery Shopping
PYMNTS / pymnts - A growing number of consumers will be able to shop for groceries in OpenAI’s ChatGPT, check out on DoorDash, and have their orders delivered from local grocery stores in as little as an hour. This experience is enabled by the new DoorDash app in ChatGPT, …
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Amazon Grows Same-Day Fresh Grocery Delivery to 2,300 Communities
PYMNTS / pymnts - Amazon says its same-day perishable grocery delivery service has reached 2,300-plus communities. Now, Amazon is planning additional growth in 2026 as it finds itself on track to deliver at its fastest speeds ever for Prime members worldwide for the third …
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ChatGPT / Instacart / Stripe integration for agentic commerce:
@gdb / x - ChatGPT / Instacart / Stripe integration for agentic commerce:— Greg Brockman (@gdb) Dec 8, 2025
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