McDonald's launched AI across 43,000 restaurants.

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McDonald

🍔 McDonald’s Goes AI : Smarter, Faster, and More Personalized

McDonald’s is flipping the script on fast food with AI-powered restaurants. The fast-food giant is rolling out cutting-edge tech across its 43,000 locations, bringing AI-driven automation to everything from kitchen maintenance to personalized promotions.

What’s cooking?

🔥 Real-time AI analytics – Partnering with Google Cloud, McDonald’s is installing edge computing systems that process data on-site for lightning-fast insights.
🍳 Predictive maintenance – AI will detect and prevent kitchen equipment failures before they disrupt operations.
👀 Computer vision for order accuracy – Smart cameras ensure your order is right, every time.
🧠 AI-powered virtual manager – A generative AI system will help staff navigate the chaos of multiple ordering channels like drive-thru, delivery, and in-store orders.
🍦 Personalized promotions – AI will analyze customer preferences to offer deals, like a discounted McFlurry on a hot day.

Why it matters

With 70 million daily customers, even small inefficiencies add up. AI is McDonald’s secret sauce to speed up service, reduce mistakes, and optimize operations. As Taco Bell, Wendy’s, and others embrace similar tech, AI-powered fast food might soon become the industry standard.

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🦊 Foxconn’s ‘FoxBrain’ AI Built in 4 Weeks

Foxconn, the giant behind iPhones and electronics, just pulled off an AI feat. In just four weeks, it built FoxBrain, a powerful reasoning AI—running on Nvidia’s tech.

The details:
🔹 Trained on 120 Nvidia H100 GPUs using Taiwan’s largest supercomputer, Taipei-1.
🔹 Built on Meta’s Llama 3.1 and optimized for Traditional Chinese.
🔹 Handles data analysis, math, reasoning, and code generation, rivaling top AI models (but still behind DeepSeek).
🔹 Foxconn plans to open-source it and use it to revolutionize manufacturing and supply chains.

Why does this matter?
If Foxconn can develop an advanced AI in a month, what’s Apple waiting for? Jokes aside, every major player seems to be crafting its own AI. And for Foxconn, AI-driven manufacturing and logistics could be the next big industry shake-up.

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• OpenAI’s new research on AI models’ chain-of-thought reasoning revealed that models like o3-mini can ‘reward hack’ or cheat on tasks — and attempts to stop them from thinking about cheating only make them hide their true intentions.

• Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf is pushing back on Dario Amodei’s AGI predictions. He thinks that while LLMs will be able to help with practical tasks within the next few years, we shouldn’t expect them to make scientific discoveries anytime soon. For that to happen, we first need benchmarks that reward LLMs “who see and question what everyone else missed” — instead of just being “scaled-up good students.”

• Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid is gearing up for real-world use cases, starting with part sequencing at Hyundai facilities. Using Reinforcement Learning and Foundation Models, Atlas can now pick, carry, and place objects with minimal human input — a major shift from flashy parkour stunts to practical industrial automation. The humanoid adapts on the fly, minimizing errors and reducing human strain.

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