Chick-fil-A is among a growing list of restaurants and restaurant-adjacent businesses, including El Pollo Loco, Chili's and C3, that have been trialling technology like drones and bots to reduce the cost of delivery.
IBM says it is rolling out its natural language processing software to a larger number of McDonald's drive-thrus months after buying the automated ordering technology unit from the fast-food chain, along with the team that developed it.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/30/ibm/
A White House-led task force outlines its vision to make artificial intelligence research tools and data more accessible to a broader research community.
Sometime in the last two weeks, Google quietly changed the terms of service for its Colab users, adding a stipulation that Colab services may no longer be used to train deepfakes.
https://www.unite.ai/google-has-banned-the-training-of-deepfakes-in-colab/
Convenience store retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. says it will deploy more than 10,000 touchless self-checkouts at over 7,000 Couche-Tard and Circle K stores within three years.
