Albania names its AI assistant a cabinet "minister" for public tenders. Experts ask how it works.
Prime Minister Edi Rama says Diella will make tenders "100% free of corruption." He hasn't said how. A decree now makes him responsible for her.
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Prime Minister Edi Rama says Diella will make tenders "100% free of corruption." He hasn't said how. A decree now makes him responsible for her.
Marc Benioff says half of Salesforce's customer support conversations now go to AI agents. The company says it stopped backfilling roles and moved hundreds of people elsewhere. Reports describe the change as layoffs.
Any adult with the app can ride along the Strip, but only between five stops and without paying. Zoox says it needs regulatory approval before it can charge.
Dot rides bike lanes, roads and sidewalks at up to 20 mph. DoorDash gave specs and a launch area, but not costs or merchant counts.
The Danish company's AgreenaCarbon Project covers 1.6 million hectares in 10 countries. Its CEO declined to give a price and said it'll sell on the spot market for now.
In a 110-day drought-year trial with 120 steers, virtual-fence rotations didn't reliably lower methane and raised emissions per kilogram gained in one pasture pair.
The 9th Engineer Support Battalion says it can print ramps, barriers and makeshift railheads. Nobody has published what the printing costs.
Short of talent and facing surging demand, Fab 7 used machine-learning maintenance, remote support, ML quality control and digital workflows, and cut prototyping time 30%. It earned Global Lighthouse status.
Faced with jetty congestion and more complex crude and products, the refinery joined up planning, inventory and logistics with AI forecasting. On-time delivery rose from 85% to 95%.
Lyft's Flexdrive unit is to clean, charge and maintain the fleet, and Waymo's cars are to appear in the Lyft app later. None of it had started when the deal was announced.
The seafood chain says an AI agent will answer every takeout call at all its locations. Neither company has published any results.
The Ohio pizza chain put an AI voice agent on the phones at 174 restaurants. Every figure on how it went comes from Donatos and its vendor.
Latin America's biggest online marketplace says 125 new robots shuttle products between warehouse zones. Its earlier robot fleet came from China's Quicktron; it hasn't named this one's maker.
BMW says every operation at its new Hungarian plant was tested in a digital twin first, including the position of nearly 1,000 robots. It also says Debrecen is its first car plant to run without fossil fuels.
Printing harness paths and attachment points into each panel replaces dozens of parts, long-lead tooling and bonding steps, Boeing says. The hardware is still in qualification and hasn't flown.