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McDonald’s is ending a two-year-old partnership with IBM to test AI’s ability to replace drive-thru workers at more than 100 restaurants, according to Restaurant Business. The world’s largest fast-food company is reportedly pulling the technology later in July.

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Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days, but the fundamentals of how this influential new technology works can be difficult to wrap your head around. Two of the most important fields in AI development are “machine learning” and its sub-field, “deep learning,” although the terms are sometimes used…

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Apple apologized on Thursday for a new iPad Pro commercial that featured several creative objects—including a piano, video cameras, and cans of paint—being destroyed by an industrial crusher, telling Ad Age that it “missed the mark.” The ad was met with fierce backlash from people who thought Apple’s ad w

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In March, a software bug threatened to derail large swaths of the web. XZ utils, an open-source compression tool embedded in myriad software products and operating systems, was found to have been implanted with a backdoor.

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IBM employees are using in-house generative AI to produce quicker quality results for clients, says marketing chief Jonathan Adashek.