DoorDash launches a text-to-order AI agent that runs inside Apple Messages

DoorDash has built an AI agent that takes food orders inside Apple’s Messages app. Typing “ order my usual protein bowl to the office ” is meant to be enough.

An American waitlist opened on Wednesday.

It matches a phone number to a DoorDash account, reads the order history and charges the stored card, as Bloomberg reported. It also suggests recipes from a photograph of a fridge.

Bloomberg tested an early version and found errors. It gave prices that differed from the app, and photographs that did not match what it recommended.

DoorDash says waitlist users get a newer version.

In America that is a…