DoorDash Launches Retail Returns Service, Self-Designed Drones
DoorDash says the text-ordering preview is in beta for iOS users in the U.S., while drone delivery and retail returns expand its local service.
- On Wednesday, DoorDash announced an AI-powered text-to-order agent for Apple Messages, allowing U.S. customers to join a waitlist to place food orders by texting prompts without opening the app.
- Building on the Ask DoorDash chatbot introduced in June, the agent learns individual preferences, remembers recurring orders like "order my usual," and manages complex group requests with mixed dietary needs.
- Separately, DoorDash will test delivery drones at select Northern California restaurants including Chipotle and Popeyes, claiming around 80 percent of typical orders are "light and small enough for the aircraft to carry safely."
- During a Tuesday media event in San Francisco, DoorDash co-founder Andy Fang launched the DoorDash MCP to automate corporate office restaurant orders and supply restocks on autopilot.
- Starting in November, DoorDash will expand a returns feature across the U.S. where customers can pay $7.99 to have couriers collect items from their door for return to local retailers.
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Ordering food through DoorDash is probably one of the biggest examples of how modern life has grown incredibly convenient, but apparently, there are still some people who think scrolling through an app is too much work. Now, you'll be able to just text DoorDash and have it order food for you without needing to figure out what, exactly, you feel like eating.
DoorDash launches a text-to-order AI agent that runs inside Apple Messages
DoorDash has opened an American waitlist for an AI agent that takes food orders inside Apple’s Messages app, using your order history and stored payment method. Bloomberg’s testing found it giving prices that differed from the app, which in Europe is a consumer law question rather than a bug. DoorDash has built an AI agent […] This story continues at The Next Web
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