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Yum brand running automated voice AI ordering in more than 900 U.S. restaurants.
The Vine successor from Evan Henshaw-Plath enforces its human-only rule by refusing uploads entirely. The interesting question is what that constraint costs in production and in moderation.
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Nearly 13,000 reported cases were tied to recalled iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico. Federal officials still cannot say how sewage contaminated enough food to sicken that many people.
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At $2.3bn on more than $100m of recurring revenue, the $240m Series D buys roughly a tenth of Owner, and the disclosures that would test the price, retention and location count, are the two the release skips.
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The CDC logged more than 15,000 confirmed infections since May against roughly 1,000 in the same stretch last year. Michigan alone counted 14,277, which tells you the counting is the weak part.
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Independent mystery shoppers found staff stepping in on 3% of AI orders at Bojangles, 30% at Taco Bell and 33% at Wendy's. The spread, not the rollout count, is the operator's number.
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Yum Brands rebuilt Pizza Hut's order sequencing so cooks start when a driver is nearly certain to be free. The payoff is hotter food, and a lesson in where enterprise AI money actually returns.
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