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Starbucks deploys AI tablets to count oat milk and caramel drizzle at 11,000 stores. Because apparently humans can't count inventory—or can they? A reality check on automation necessity.

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Starbucks Deploys AI Tablets to Count Inventory at 11,000 Stores

There's something beautifully absurd about using "3D spatial intelligence, computer vision, and augmented reality" to count how many bottles of caramel drizzle sit on a shelf. Starbucks just announced they're rolling out AI-powered inventory...

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Trump White House partners with PragerU to create AI-generated Founding Fathers videos that blur fact and fiction. When algorithms write history, who controls the narrative?

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The AI History Factory: When PragerU and the White House Rewrite the Past

There's something profoundly unsettling about watching an AI-generated John Adams declare "Facts don't care about your feelings"—a phrase that...

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Judge's Google ruling keeps Chrome intact while imposing data-sharing requirements that sound tough but preserve the search monopoly. Antitrust enforcement just became performance art.

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Google's Antitrust Victory Lap: When "Remedies" Become Regulatory Theater

Sometimes the most revealing thing about a court ruling isn't what it orders—it's what it carefully avoids ordering. Judge Amit Mehta's decision to...

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Trump's conflicting claims about White House video—calling it AI despite staff confirmation—reveals how

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Trump's Conflicting Claims About White House Video

We just witnessed the birth of democracy's most dangerous phrase: "Just blame AI." President Trump's contradictory statements about a White House...

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Intuit's AI transformation from chatbot disaster to agentic success reveals the enterprise playbook everyone's been waiting for. Here's how they burned the boats and built something useful.

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Intuit's $200B Lesson: How to Kill the Chatbot and Build AI That Actually Works

Sometimes the most valuable lessons come wrapped in spectacular failures. Intuit's initial AI launch—a chatbot bolted onto QuickBooks like a digital...

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Reese Witherspoon's AI advocacy reveals Hollywood's pragmatic pivot—but are we celebrating disruption or accepting defeat? A reality check on entertainment's digital transformation.

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Reese Witherspoon's AI Advocacy: "It's Here, Deal With It"

Reese Witherspoon just said the quiet part out loud: AI isn't coming for Hollywood—it's already moved in, redecorated, and started charging rent. Her...

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Taco Bell's AI drive-through disaster—from 18,000 water orders to endless drink loops—reveals why automation theater often beats actual automation. A reality check on AI implementation.

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TacoBell Rethinks AI After Man Orders 18,000 Waters

Nothing quite captures the absurdist comedy of our AI moment like a Taco Bell customer accidentally ordering 18,000 water cups and breaking the...

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Google quietly launches NotebookLM audio upgrades and Stax evaluation toolkit while dodging Chrome breakup talks. Smart strategy or regulatory deflection?

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Google Launches NotebookLM Audio Upgrades

While regulatory wolves circle Chrome's doorstep, Google just pulled a classic magician's trick: Look at the shiny new AI features while we quietly...

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Anthropic's $183B valuation signals dangerous market exuberance. We examine why this funding frenzy might be building the next tech bubble—and what marketers should actually focus on.

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Anthropic's $183 Billion Question: Have AI Valuations Lose Touch with Reality?

Here's a thought experiment: What if we told you that a company with $5 billion in revenue—impressive, sure—just convinced investors it's worth more...

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The AI Slang Dictionary: 15 Must-Know Terms

The AI revolution isn't just changing how we work and create—it's spawning an entirely new vocabulary that separates the digitally fluent from the...

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Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla and OpenAI researcher, challenges the AI industry's reinforcement learning obsession, arguing that RL reward functions are

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The Karpathy Contrarian: AI's Most Respected Voice Is Pumping the Brakes on Reinforcement Learning

When Andrej Karpathy speaks, the AI community listens—and his latest message is one the industry desperately needs to hear. The former Tesla and...

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South Korea's Hyodol dolls use ChatGPT to provide companionship and health monitoring for elderly residents, offering a technological solution to loneliness and caregiver shortages while raising questions about authentic human connection.

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South Korea's ChatGPT Dolls Are Redefining Elder Care

South Korea has deployed over 12,000 AI-powered dolls across the country, each one designed to be the perfect grandchild—attentive, caring, and...

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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