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DoorDash CEO Tony Xu is pushing back against the prevailing Silicon Valley narrative. While he acknowledges AI has made his engineers meaningfully faster, he's drawing a clear line — productivity gains alone are not reshaping DoorDash's workforce structure. Unlike peers who've used AI efficiency as cover for headcount reductions, Xu is focused on making every employee AI-capable rather than replacing them outright. That's a notable divergence in how tech leadership is framing the moment.
Shifting to defense and aerospace, DARPA confirmed its experimental XRQ-seventy-three stealth drone completed its first flight in California last April. The aircraft blends electric and jet fuel propulsion in a hybrid system designed for efficiency and low acoustic signature. Its planform mirrors the B-two Spirit and the RQ-one-seventy Sentinel — a deliberate design choice that minimizes radar return. This is early-stage, but the hybrid propulsion angle is drawing serious attention from defense analysts.
And on the investing side, the Financial Times takes a long look at Apple and Berkshire Hathaway through the lens of patience as a strategy. The piece argues that waiting for genuinely outstanding opportunities has historically rewarded disciplined investors handsomely — but in today's compressed, algorithm-driven market environment, that kind of restraint is becoming structurally harder to sustain.
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