Sysco, one of the world's largest foodservice distributors, has added two board members with artificial intelligence and industry expertise to accelerate its AI-driven transformation, the company anno…
Braintrust, an AI evaluation infrastructure company, raised an $80 million Series B in February 2026 at a reported $800 million valuation, building its product around turning production traces into re…
Dogfooding, the practice of using one's own products internally to improve them, is often conflated with performative loyalty and has a limited usefulness for product teams, according to the Nielsen N…
Voice AI is rapidly expanding in US fast-food drive-thrus, with 6 percent of locations now using the technology, up from 5 percent in 2024, according to Intouch Insight's annual Drive Thru Survey. Tac…
Google's Flow Sessions fourth cohort showcased short films made with its AI video generator, with filmmaker Andrew Nethery's 'Nothin' Beats a Cheeseburger' blending live-action and AI-generated elemen…
A new concept for an AI-agent-only trade show could unlock revenue-generating partnerships by enabling agents to exchange semi-private information on a silicon chip, according to a business developmen…
Fast-food chains like McDonald's and Wendy's are accelerating AI adoption for drive-through ordering, but recent surveys show about 80% of consumers still prefer human interaction, revealing a disconn…
Anthropic and OpenAI are on track to generate a combined $120 billion in annual revenue, surpassing the projected $66.8 billion of Starbucks and McDonald's combined, according to data from AI investme…
OpenAI and Anthropic are on track for a combined annual revenue rate of about $120 billion, according to data from AI investment research platform Funda cited by 'Key Context' author Tae Kim. Anthropi…
Most founders shipping AI agents lack systematic evaluation methods, leading to public failures like Chevrolet's chatbot agreeing to sell a car for $1 and McDonald's AI drive-thru adding bacon to ice …
AI jailbreaks and prompt injections are increasingly common, with examples including a McDonald's customer support bot solving Python puzzles and xAI's chatbots providing bomb-making instructions. The…
Stanford University's BurgerAI system, trained on 2,216 recipes, designed burgers that beat the Big Mac in a blind taste test of 101 diners in San Francisco. Two AI-generated recipes scored higher on …
Singapore graduates are accepting government-funded traineeships paying half the median starting salary as AI adoption and a hiring freeze erode entry-level jobs. The GRIT program offers S$1,800–S$2,4…
Ford rehired 350 veteran engineers after AI quality inspection tools failed to preserve institutional knowledge and develop junior staff, leading to a quality crisis. The move helped Ford win the 2026…
Major companies including Starbucks, Klarna, and McDonald's are reversing AI deployments that replaced human workers, citing failures in customer satisfaction and operational accuracy. The rollback hi…
Generative AI has transformed code production, but organizations building multiple applications face a challenge: AI methods guarantee a generic state of the art, not the organization's own contextual…
McDonald's is bringing back its fried apple pie for a limited time starting June 23 to celebrate America's 250th birthday, marking the first time in over 30 years the dessert has been available in mos…
AI startup Aaru, cofounded by 21-year-old Ned Koh, accurately simulated nearly 2 million New York voters in the city's primary mayoral election, coming within 2,000 votes of the final count. The compa…
A browser extension called Kickbacks pays users $1 per agent per hour to view ads during Claude Code processing delays, with Varda Space Industries' Andrew McCalip reporting $250,000 in ad spend in si…
McDonald's unveiled a Google-powered drive-thru ordering system called ArchIQ at its Worldwide Convention in Las Vegas, now piloting at five U.S. locations. The system has processed over 1 million tra…