Restaurant employees, meet your new AI coworker: It has every recipe memorized and may tattle to your boss

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A Starbucks logo appears on a phone in front of an illuminated illustration of AI.
Starbucks' Green Dot Assist is one of many AI "assistants" designed to help in-store staff with recipes, policies, and guest interactions.

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AI made me a data center rap. Humanity may never recover.

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Sir Mix-A-Lot performs in California.
Sir Mix-A-Lot performs in California.

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The new CEO flex: Bragging about how much AI code your company shipped

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Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg predicted that 2026 would be the year AI dramatically changed how people work.

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The University of Michigan may have landed the steal of the AI era

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A University of Michigan flag is waved at an athletic event.
A University of Michigan flag.

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Claude, brought to you by Elon Musk

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Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., inside the federal court in Oakland, California, US, on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Microsoft Corp. over claims that the startup abandoned its founding mission when it took billions of dollars in backing from the software stalwart and planned its restructuring.

Wonder's Marc Lore says AI has been choosing all his meals for the past year — based on a blood test

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Marc Lore sits in a white chair on a conference stage wearing a dark grey blazer, grey t-shirt, blue jeans and a microphone while listening to a presenter.
AI-powered meals are in the future for Marc Lore's Wonder food halls, he said.

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Forget tracking AI use. Goldman's tech boss cares about this instead.

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Marco Argenti
Marco Argenti is Goldman Sachs' chief information officer.

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Internal Microsoft document spells out the company's buyout offer

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Satya Nadella
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

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Target built a trend-spotting tool that's speeding up the time it takes to get new fashions to store shelves

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A display of Target apparel with a Western theme.
Target's Western-themed collection was inspired by the company's new AI trend-spotter.

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Consuming too much AI can be a bad idea. New data on 'tokenmaxxing' reveals a better approach.

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Nathan's Hot Dog Eating champion Joey Chestnut eats an olive burgers before the Lugnuts game against the TinCaps at Jackson Field in Lansing. Chestnut set a record with 13 olive burgers eaten in 5 minutes.
Consuming too much is sometimes not good. Burger consumption is shown above. AI token consumption is discussed below.

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