Voice AI in the drive-thru is becoming less of an experiment and more of an operating decision for quick-service restaurants. Food On Demand recently reported that Taco Bell has expanded its voice AI technology to more than 890 U.S. restaurants across 38 states, deepening its partnership with Omilia. The deployment follows a broader wave of […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
Two new AI labs want to reinvent the foundations of AI development: Flapping Airplanes is raising 180 million dollars, Core Automation is looking for up to a billion. Both believe that AI development needs fundamental new impetus.<br /> The article Two startups want to replace how AI learns: one just raised $180M, another is seeking up to $1B appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
Anthropic took its flagship Claude services offline for roughly 36 minutes on August 16, 2026, after an issue that began with users unable to authenticate spread into degraded performance across five products: claude.ai, Claude Console, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. The company's status page logged the first notice at 21:58 UTC and marked the incident resolved at 22:34 UTC. [...]
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