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A year after promising hundreds of stores, Taco Bell's tech chief says the chain is rethinking where the AI should take orders, and when people should step back in.
At Mass General Brigham, burnout among surveyed clinicians fell from 52.6% to 30.7% over 84 days of use. The study calls that an association, and only 22% of pilot users answered. MGB has an institutional investment in Abridge, per the study's disclosures; the study doesn't name the vendors it tested.
Commonwealth Bank said the customer service roles weren't redundant after all and apologised to the staff. The union says calls rose after the bot went live, with team leaders pulled onto the phones.
The CEO now says the memo lacked context and that Duolingo has never laid off full-time staff. Contractors were the ones named in it.
A proposed Part 108 would replace case-by-case waivers with permits and certificates for delivery, farm, survey and public-safety drones. The FAA did not put a dollar figure on the benefits.
An MIT Media Lab project says nearly all companies are getting nothing back from generative AI. Its own fine print calls the numbers directional, and critics want the data.
Great River Energy's year-long dynamic line rating trial with Heimdall Power projects $3.175 million in avoided congestion costs over five years. Other connected equipment capped what the wires could deliver.
Perennial led the tool's development with Verra. It applies to two Verra farm methodologies. Neither organization put a number on how much it cuts measurement costs.
Two in-house systems, AiTriz and MAIVS, flag misfitted connectors and missing parts at the station, before end-of-line checks. Ford hasn't published what they've saved.
The university says students asked for it. What it pays, and what students pay, isn't in the release.
TRIC Robotics runs tractor-sized machines that shine UV-C light on strawberry plants and vacuum up bugs. Growers pay per treatment, not for the robot. The results so far are the company's own.
The deal provides for a first plant making Fortera's ReAct cement at a Graymont site and a framework for more, the companies' lawyers say. Fortera claims its process cuts CO₂ by 70%. No site, cost or schedule was given.
GE's Celma overhaul shop was holding more than 24,000 parts in work-in-process against a standard of 19,000. Sending one blade at a time through the whole repair route cut turnaround time 58%, GE says.
Using its production system that 3D-prints structures and assembles them automatically, Divergent says it readied a decades-old Raytheon design for production in under five months, without the original tooling, and cut another airframe's part count by 80%.