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Accounting & bookkeeping
- A KPMG partner loses more than A$10,000 for using AI to cheat on an AI test
- ACCA pulls remote exams for most students, saying AI cheating has hit a "tipping point"
- An accounting firm's AI audit pilot grew practice-wide, its vendor says, with "hours → minutes" on some tasks
- The UK audit regulator finds the biggest firms don't measure whether their AI tools improve audits
Agriculture
- A startup says its night-running UV robots can stand in for strawberry sprays
- ADM says its regenerative programs reached 56,000 farmers and cut about 946,000 tonnes of CO₂e in 2025, on fewer acres than the year before
- Agoro Carbon issues its first soil credits and makes its first delivery to Microsoft, claiming a 7.06% margin of error
- Verra publishes VT0014, a tool that lets soil carbon projects use machine-learning soil maps in place of some sampling
- Agreena gets Verra verification for 2.3 million soil carbon credits from European farms, at an undisclosed price
- Deloitte repays part of a $440,000 Australian government fee after AI errors in its report
- Agreena gets Verra verification for 2.3 million soil carbon credits from European farms, at an undisclosed price
- Verra publishes VT0014, a tool that lets soil carbon projects use machine-learning soil maps in place of some sampling
- Agoro Carbon issues its first soil credits and makes its first delivery to Microsoft, claiming a 7.06% margin of error
- Verra approves 3.03 million soil carbon credits from Boomitra's northern Mexico grasslands, the largest soil issuance once complete
- Alberta study: cattle stayed inside Nofence virtual fences more than 99% of the time and remembered them a year later
- Cargill says its RegenConnect program passed 1 million enrolled acres for 2025, with nearly 1,500 farmers on one-year contracts that pay for carbon sequestered
- Cursor's AI support agent invented a login policy, and users said they cancelled
- Canada licenses construction of its first BWRX-300 small reactor at Darlington
- An eight-model ensemble estimates no-till plus cover crops could store 16.4 million tonnes of carbon a year in Midwest cropland
- Cargill says its RegenConnect program passed 1 million enrolled acres for 2025, with nearly 1,500 farmers on one-year contracts that pay for carbon sequestered
- John Deere shows a driverless orchard tractor, shaped by a California grower
- Peer-reviewed study: Yard Stick's handheld probe predicted 0–30 cm soil carbon stocks with R² of 0.88 on six Illinois farms
- Boomitra says its Indian smallholder soil carbon project issued 47,311 credits, measured by satellite, under the Social Carbon standard
- Boomitra says Verra registered its Kenyan croplands soil carbon project, covering nearly 1,000 smallholders on 44,673 acres
- Medway's new AI search served up stale answers in its launch week
- Verra approves 3.03 million soil carbon credits from Boomitra's northern Mexico grasslands, the largest soil issuance once complete
- Boomitra says Verra registered its Kenyan croplands soil carbon project, covering nearly 1,000 smallholders on 44,673 acres
- Boomitra says its Indian smallholder soil carbon project issued 47,311 credits, measured by satellite, under the Social Carbon standard
- Verra approves 3.03 million soil carbon credits from Boomitra's northern Mexico grasslands, the largest soil issuance once complete
- Verra publishes VT0014, a tool that lets soil carbon projects use machine-learning soil maps in place of some sampling
- Cargill says its RegenConnect program passed 1 million enrolled acres for 2025, with nearly 1,500 farmers on one-year contracts that pay for carbon sequestered
- Halter raises NZ$165 million at a US$1 billion valuation for cattle collars and virtual fencing, then $220 million at $2 billion
- Nestlé now says 20.7% of its key ingredients came from farmers adopting regenerative practices in 2025, after changing how it measures
- Loam Bio says a New South Wales grain farm earned 4,867 carbon credits, but the company's own account mixes a seed treatment with years of farm changes
- Halter raises NZ$165 million at a US$1 billion valuation for cattle collars and virtual fencing, then $220 million at $2 billion
- Deloitte repays part of a $440,000 Australian government fee after AI errors in its report
- The UK audit regulator finds the biggest firms don't measure whether their AI tools improve audits
- Cargill says its RegenConnect program passed 1 million enrolled acres for 2025, with nearly 1,500 farmers on one-year contracts that pay for carbon sequestered
- Indigo passes 2 million verified tonnes as the registry's soil protocol tops 2 million credits
- Microsoft agrees to buy 2.85 million tonnes of soil carbon removal from Indigo over 12 years, Indigo says
- Agoro Carbon issues its first soil credits and makes its first delivery to Microsoft, claiming a 7.06% margin of error
- Albania's government says its AI assistant now takes voice requests. All the numbers are its own.
- John Deere shows a driverless orchard tractor, shaped by a California grower
- Peer-reviewed study: Yard Stick's handheld probe predicted 0–30 cm soil carbon stocks with R² of 0.88 on six Illinois farms
- Satellites show Arkansas farmers planted far more cover crops without subsidies than with them, and a U.S. study finds a yield cost
- A startup says its night-running UV robots can stand in for strawberry sprays
- Loam Bio says a New South Wales grain farm earned 4,867 carbon credits, but the company's own account mixes a seed treatment with years of farm changes
- Cargill says its RegenConnect program passed 1 million enrolled acres for 2025, with nearly 1,500 farmers on one-year contracts that pay for carbon sequestered
- Halter raises NZ$165 million at a US$1 billion valuation for cattle collars and virtual fencing, then $220 million at $2 billion
- Microsoft agrees to buy 2.85 million tonnes of soil carbon removal from Indigo over 12 years, Indigo says
- Microsoft agrees to buy 2.85 million tonnes of soil carbon removal from Indigo over 12 years, Indigo says
- Nestlé now says 20.7% of its key ingredients came from farmers adopting regenerative practices in 2025, after changing how it measures
- Cargill says its RegenConnect program passed 1 million enrolled acres for 2025, with nearly 1,500 farmers on one-year contracts that pay for carbon sequestered
- Boomitra says its Indian smallholder soil carbon project issued 47,311 credits, measured by satellite, under the Social Carbon standard
- Halter raises NZ$165 million at a US$1 billion valuation for cattle collars and virtual fencing, then $220 million at $2 billion
- Peer-reviewed study: Yard Stick's handheld probe predicted 0–30 cm soil carbon stocks with R² of 0.88 on six Illinois farms
- PepsiCo counts 4.7 million acres under farming practices it backs, and puts $2 million into its largest farm-pilot slate yet
- Verra publishes VT0014, a tool that lets soil carbon projects use machine-learning soil maps in place of some sampling
- Boomitra says Verra registered its Kenyan croplands soil carbon project, covering nearly 1,000 smallholders on 44,673 acres
- John Deere shows a driverless orchard tractor, shaped by a California grower
- Satellites show Arkansas farmers planted far more cover crops without subsidies than with them, and a U.S. study finds a yield cost
- Soil Capital says it has paid European farmers £12.4 million for regenerative results as its program grows to 1,100 farmers
- France's WEST tokamak holds a plasma for 22 minutes, a duration record
- Boomitra says its Indian smallholder soil carbon project issued 47,311 credits, measured by satellite, under the Social Carbon standard
- Halter raises NZ$165 million at a US$1 billion valuation for cattle collars and virtual fencing, then $220 million at $2 billion
- USDA-Colorado State trial: virtual fences kept steers in place 94–99% of the time but cut weight gain 9%
- Verra approves 3.03 million soil carbon credits from Boomitra's northern Mexico grasslands, the largest soil issuance once complete
- Boomitra says Verra registered its Kenyan croplands soil carbon project, covering nearly 1,000 smallholders on 44,673 acres
- Verra publishes VT0014, a tool that lets soil carbon projects use machine-learning soil maps in place of some sampling
- Boomitra says its Indian smallholder soil carbon project issued 47,311 credits, measured by satellite, under the Social Carbon standard
- Verra publishes VT0014, a tool that lets soil carbon projects use machine-learning soil maps in place of some sampling
- Agoro Carbon issues its first soil credits and makes its first delivery to Microsoft, claiming a 7.06% margin of error
- Agreena gets Verra verification for 2.3 million soil carbon credits from European farms, at an undisclosed price
- Verra approves 3.03 million soil carbon credits from Boomitra's northern Mexico grasslands, the largest soil issuance once complete
Construction
- A Japanese rail station's printed shell goes up overnight, between the last train and the first
- A solar contractor built its own robot crew to lift 80- to 100-lb panels. Here's what the field trials showed.
- Australia's first two-storey printed home took 18 hours of printing, and Contec says its walls cost 22% less than brick
- Commonwealth Bank cut 45 jobs after launching a voice bot. A month later, it called the cuts an "error."
- Taco Bell is putting AI on the drive-thru speaker at hundreds of US stores. Here's what Yum has shown so far.
- Cargill says its RegenConnect program passed 1 million enrolled acres for 2025, with nearly 1,500 farmers on one-year contracts that pay for carbon sequestered
- Bangkok takes over a 3D-printed canal footbridge that SCG built in two and a half months
- CarbonCure says producers have poured 10 million truckloads of its CO₂-injected concrete
- Germany's first subsidized 3D-printed apartment building opens in Lünen, with €1.7 million of state money in a €2 million budget
- Graymont and Fortera agree to make low-carbon cement at lime plants
- Habitat for Humanity of Long Island hands over its first 3D-printed home, and says it cost about half as much
- Heidelberg opens Brevik carbon capture plant and starts selling captured-carbon cement
- Ireland's first 3D-printed homes go to three Dundalk families, at about the same cost as block-built houses
- Lennar and ICON finish 100 3D-printed homes outside Austin, and Lennar says costs fell by half along the way
- Marines on Okinawa become the first in the Corps trained on the Army's 3D concrete printer
- Meta and Amrize say an AI-designed concrete mix went into a Minnesota data center slab
- Microsoft agrees to buy up to 622,500 tonnes of Sublime's low-carbon cement
- Microsoft builds its first datacenters with cross-laminated timber
- Mighty Buildings' creditors and shareholders get nothing after the 3D-printing builder's assignment
- MIT used language models to read 88,000 papers in search of cement substitutes
- MIT's carbon-cement supercapacitor now stores ten times more energy, in the lab
- Printing the last of six Danish student-housing blocks took five days, down from several weeks for the first, its printer maker says
- Reclinker raises £10 million to turn demolition waste into cement inside steel furnaces
- Rosendin showed off its solar robot in Texas. Weeks later, it put the robot up for sale.
- Rosendin's solar robot patents went to the company that built it, then to a solar tracker maker
- Rosendin showed off its solar robot in Texas. Weeks later, it put the robot up for sale.
- A solar contractor built its own robot crew to lift 80- to 100-lb panels. Here's what the field trials showed.
- Walmart and Wing say drone delivery is coming to 100 more stores within a year. Here's what they've shown so far.
- Starbucks opens its first 3D-printed store, a Brownsville drive-thru with an estimated $1.2 million build cost
- Terra says its first low-carbon cement plant in Texas is on track for mid-2027
- The Army opens the Defense Department's first 3D-printed barracks at Fort Bliss
- The Army's ten 3D-printed barracks at Fort Bliss come in, with the savings reported three different ways
- The Energy Department cancels clean-cement awards to Sublime and Brimstone
- Starbucks is testing an AI assistant for baristas. It hasn't said how it will judge it.
- Albania names its AI assistant a cabinet "minister" for public tenders. Experts ask how it works.
- Albania's top court lets its AI "minister" stand. A year in, the AI procurement system she was meant to run hasn't been built.
- Walmart's 3D-printed store additions grow to five, a trade article says, with 30 more planned
Energy
- An AI cluster cut its power 25% for three hours on cue from Phoenix utilities
- AWS says AI agents built with Duke Energy cut grid-study data prep from weeks to hours
- Canada licenses construction of its first BWRX-300 small reactor at Darlington
- Canada's largest battery, Oneida, comes online early and C$100 million under budget
- Four privately built reactors go critical in a month under DOE authorization
- France's WEST tokamak holds a plasma for 22 minutes, a duration record
- Helion starts building Orion, the fusion plant it promised Microsoft
- Kairos wins permits for Hermes 2, a salt-cooled test plant meant to make electricity
- NIF hits a record 8.6 MJ of fusion energy at a target gain of 4.13
- NRC approves NuScale's uprated 77-MWe small reactor design ahead of schedule
- NRC clears Palisades to return from decommissioning, a U.S. first, Holtec says
- Old EV batteries now power an AI data center: Redwood and Crusoe's 63-MWh microgrid
- Palisades starts loading fuel, then pauses after an assembly tilts
- Peak Energy installs a sodium-ion grid battery with no cooling system
- PJM brings in Google and Tapestry to put AI on its interconnection backlog
- QuantumScape says its 'Cobra' process makes battery separators 25 times faster
- Sensors found up to 63% more line capacity at peak; one line could use less than half its gain
- SunZia, billed as the largest U.S. renewable project, is fully online after 18 years
- TerraPower's Natrium plant in Wyoming gets the NRC's construction permit
- The $6 billion buried power line from Québec to New York City is running
- Three Mile Island Unit 1 gets a $1 billion federal loan to restart as Crane
- TVA gets a permit to build a BWRX-300 small reactor, the first in the U.S., GE Vernova and TVA say
- U.S. adds a record 15 GW of grid batteries in 2025, and plans 24 GW for 2026
- Wendelstein 7-X shares a long-pulse fusion record with JET
Financial services
- A Danish bank bets its phone lines on a voice bot
- A French insurance broker hands routine calls to AI voice agents
- A year after reversing 45 AI-linked job cuts, Commonwealth Bank won't promise AI won't take more
- Commonwealth Bank cut 45 jobs after launching a voice bot. A month later, it called the cuts an "error."
- Microsoft says AI pointed Rolls-Royce blade inspectors at likely defects and raised machine use 30%
- Microsoft agrees to buy 2.85 million tonnes of soil carbon removal from Indigo over 12 years, Indigo says
- Commonwealth Bank cut 45 jobs after launching a voice bot. A month later, it called the cuts an "error."
- Klarna's AI now handles 80% of support chats and headcount is down a third. Its customer service and operations bill still went up.
- Klarna's CEO says AI let it stop hiring. Its own jobs page and press office tell a more complicated story.
- Klarna's CEO says cost-first AI support led to "lower quality." Now it's recruiting people again.
- Klarna's AI now handles 80% of support chats and headcount is down a third. Its customer service and operations bill still went up.
- Cursor's AI support agent invented a login policy, and users said they cancelled
- Klarna's CEO says cost-first AI support led to "lower quality." Now it's recruiting people again.
- Klarna's CEO says AI let it stop hiring. Its own jobs page and press office tell a more complicated story.
- Cursor's AI support agent invented a login policy, and users said they cancelled
- Klarna's AI now handles 80% of support chats and headcount is down a third. Its customer service and operations bill still went up.
Government
- Albania names its AI assistant a cabinet "minister" for public tenders. Experts ask how it works.
- Albania's top court lets its AI "minister" stand. A year in, the AI procurement system she was meant to run hasn't been built.
- Albania's government says its AI assistant now takes voice requests. All the numbers are its own.
- Starbucks is testing an AI assistant for baristas. It hasn't said how it will judge it.
- Albania's government says its AI assistant now takes voice requests. All the numbers are its own.
- Albania names its AI assistant a cabinet "minister" for public tenders. Experts ask how it works.
- Albania's top court lets its AI "minister" stand. A year in, the AI procurement system she was meant to run hasn't been built.
- Deloitte repays part of a $440,000 Australian government fee after AI errors in its report
- Albania's top court lets its AI "minister" stand. A year in, the AI procurement system she was meant to run hasn't been built.
- Deloitte repays part of a $440,000 Australian government fee after AI errors in its report
- Denver council votes down a $3.9M extension for its 311 chatbot
- FAA proposes rules to make drone flights beyond the pilot's sight routine
- Medway's new AI search served up stale answers in its launch week
- Miami Beach police launch drones as first responders ahead of spring break
- OpenAI apologizes after a test agent broke into an Australian Medicare portal
- Residents tell a village board its phone chatbot won't put them through to a person
Healthcare operations
- A Minnesota health system puts an AI agent named Alli on its patient phone lines
- A study links AI scribes to less burnout. The health system behind it says they caused it.
- A Surrey GP practice cut waits for routine appointments from 13 days to 4 on average after adding AI triage, an evaluation found
- AI reads chest X-rays first in north east London. Urgent results at one trust came back in 5 days instead of 13.
- Atlantic Health has an AI agent call patients before their colonoscopies
- Nurse-driven early-warning AI was linked to a 35.6% lower risk of death in a trial; a grant to adapt it for children was canceled
- Sutter put an AI scribe in its hospitals. Physicians used it for 3% of their notes.
- A study links AI scribes to less burnout. The health system behind it says they caused it.
- Two health systems move AI scribes from pilot to rollout. The results so far are their own.
- Nurse-driven early-warning AI was linked to a 35.6% lower risk of death in a trial; a grant to adapt it for children was canceled
- Two health systems move AI scribes from pilot to rollout. The results so far are their own.
- Zurich wants to keep its hospital robots for CHF 303,000 a year. It will still rent them, and the supplier may change.
- Zurich's Triemli hospital put four delivery robots on the night shift. Here's what their supplier says they do.
- Albania names its AI assistant a cabinet "minister" for public tenders. Experts ask how it works.
- Albania's top court lets its AI "minister" stand. A year in, the AI procurement system she was meant to run hasn't been built.
- Zurich's Triemli hospital put four delivery robots on the night shift. Here's what their supplier says they do.
Legal
- A federal appeals court fines a lawyer $2,500 for an AI-drafted brief and evasive answers
- A Utah judge fines BYU's outside lawyers $3,000 over AI-hallucinated briefs
- Alaska's courts launch a probate chatbot after a "three-month project" took more than a year
- The 'robot lawyer' settles: FTC orders DoNotPay to pay $193,000
- The first SRA-authorised AI law firm helps a freelancer win £7,000 at trial
Logistics & warehousing
- Agility says its humanoid hit a throughput milestone at GXO. It didn't say how long it took.
- Amazon unveils a warehouse robot that can "feel" and an AI model to steer its robot fleet
- Aurora says its driverless network and customer list grew. The observer is still in the driver's seat.
- Aurora started hauling paid freight with no one at the wheel. Two weeks later, a person was back in the driver's seat.
- Aurora's trucks now run with the driver's seat empty. It posted a $266 million operating loss in Q2.
- CVS leans on robots to stock its stores from a New Jersey warehouse
- Footasylum's robot warehouse goes live before peak season, its builder says
- GXO is testing humanoid robots from three makers. So far, two Digit robots are at work at one site.
- Koch says Gatik box trucks now deliver with nobody aboard
- Aurora started hauling paid freight with no one at the wheel. Two weeks later, a person was back in the driver's seat.
- Aurora's trucks now run with the driver's seat empty. It posted a $266 million operating loss in Q2.
- Aurora says its driverless network and customer list grew. The observer is still in the driver's seat.
- Leaked Amazon documents describe robots avoiding 600,000 US hires. Amazon says they reflect one team.
- Mercado Livre adds sorting robots to its São Paulo warehouses to pack multi-item orders faster
Manufacturing
- Audi says moving production systems to its own cloud has already retired more than 1,000 factory PCs
- BMW 'started' its Debrecen plant in software in March 2023. Real iX3 production was set for late October 2025
- BMW confirms its Figure 02 pilot supported 30,000+ X3s. Now it's trying a newer model on a logistics job.
- BMW tested Figure's humanoid robot in its South Carolina body shop for several weeks. Here's what it actually did.
- BMW says one humanoid robot worked at a time, off-hours. Figure's CEO had said "fleet."
- Figure published its BMW humanoid results. BMW hadn't confirmed them, and the speed results are missing.
- BMW puts a wheeled humanoid robot to work in its Leipzig plant
- BMW tested Figure's humanoid robot in its South Carolina body shop for several weeks. Here's what it actually did.
- BMW says one humanoid robot worked at a time, off-hours. Figure's CEO had said "fleet."
- BMW confirms its Figure 02 pilot supported 30,000+ X3s. Now it's trying a newer model on a logistics job.
- BMW says its virtual factory turns almost four weeks of physical collision checks into three days
- BMW says one humanoid robot worked at a time, off-hours. Figure's CEO had said "fleet."
- BMW confirms its Figure 02 pilot supported 30,000+ X3s. Now it's trying a newer model on a logistics job.
- BMW tested Figure's humanoid robot in its South Carolina body shop for several weeks. Here's what it actually did.
- Figure published its BMW humanoid results. BMW hadn't confirmed them, and the speed results are missing.
- BMW tested Figure's humanoid robot in its South Carolina body shop for several weeks. Here's what it actually did.
- Boeing says 3D-printed solar-array panels cut up to six months from a satellite solar-array program
- Microsoft builds its first datacenters with cross-laminated timber
- Salesforce opens Agentforce to every customer. Its showcase result is a customer quote in its own release.
- A Surrey GP practice cut waits for routine appointments from 13 days to 4 on average after adding AI triage, an evaluation found
- Daikin tests an AI agent that tells factory technicians why a machine broke
- Divergent says a cruise-missile airframe went from clean sheet to first flight in 16 weeks
- Divergent says it cut a legacy Raytheon weapon airframe's part count 80%
- Figure published its BMW humanoid results. BMW hadn't confirmed them, and the speed results are missing.
- BMW confirms its Figure 02 pilot supported 30,000+ X3s. Now it's trying a newer model on a logistics job.
- BMW tested Figure's humanoid robot in its South Carolina body shop for several weeks. Here's what it actually did.
- BMW says one humanoid robot worked at a time, off-hours. Figure's CEO had said "fleet."
- Ford has cast 5,000 unicastings that turn 146 truck parts into two
- Ford's home-grown AI cameras check for defects at nearly 700 workstations
- GE Aerospace rolls its AI blade inspector out to LEAP shops after halving GEnx inspection time
- GE Aerospace says a redesigned fixture and an air bubbler helped halve F404 shaft lead time
- GE Aerospace says moving blade repair in Brazil from batches to single-piece flow cut turnaround 58%
- GE Aerospace says re-laying one Pune line raised parts per day 67% before any further changes
- GlobalFoundries' Singapore fab raised labour productivity 40% with 60-plus AI and digital fixes, WEF says
- Hadrian opens its $200 million Factory 3 in Mesa, six months after announcing it
- Honda cut a battery case from more than 60 parts to 5. Then it cancelled the cars it was for
- Hyundai's Georgia EV plant uses Spot robot dogs to check welds, and trains new hires to work beside them
- Mercedes says AI control of Rastatt's topcoat booths cut their energy use 20%
- Microsoft says AI pointed Rolls-Royce blade inspectors at likely defects and raised machine use 30%
- Navy says 3D printing cut lead times 70% in 2025; a supplier says it printed submarine parts in under five weeks, not 17 months
- PepsiCo says digital twins can flag up to 90% of potential issues before any equipment moves
- Rivian starts building the R2, a car it says lost 2.3 miles of wire before reaching the line
- Siemens says virtual ramp-up can cut PCB engineering effort at Erlangen by up to 85%
- Slate prices its no-paint-shop electric truck at $24,950. Production hasn't started yet
- Tesla says Cybercab production has started in Texas and the cars are carrying Robotaxi riders in Austin
- Toyota says letting factory workers train their own AI models saves more than 10,000 man-hours a year
- Tüpraş's İzmit refinery cut average truck loading time 75%, WEF says
- A Surrey GP practice cut waits for routine appointments from 13 days to 4 on average after adding AI triage, an evaluation found
- A Minnesota health system puts an AI agent named Alli on its patient phone lines
- Albania names its AI assistant a cabinet "minister" for public tenders. Experts ask how it works.
Media
Mining
Restaurants & hospitality
- Bojangles' AI takes orders at more than half its drive-thrus. Its customers are split.
- Chick-fil-A says it won't hand drive-thru orders to AI as rivals expand voice bots
- Taco Bell is putting AI on the drive-thru speaker at hundreds of US stores. Here's what Yum has shown so far.
- Wendy's plans to put its drive-thru AI in hundreds more restaurants. Its accuracy figure comes from a 2023 pilot.
- Chick-fil-A says it won't hand drive-thru orders to AI as rivals expand voice bots
- Donatos hands its phone orders to Revmo's AI, and the two report the results
- McDonald's wires kitchen equipment with sensors to predict breakdowns
- Red Lobster puts SoundHound's AI on its takeout phones chainwide
- Researchers say a "123456" password exposed McDonald's hiring-bot records. Paradox disputes how many.
- Starbucks is testing an AI assistant for baristas. It hasn't said how it will judge it.
- Starbucks rolls its AI barista assistant out across North America, but hasn't said what it changed
- Albania names its AI assistant a cabinet "minister" for public tenders. Experts ask how it works.
- Albania's top court lets its AI "minister" stand. A year in, the AI procurement system she was meant to run hasn't been built.
- Starbucks rolls its AI barista assistant out across North America, but hasn't said what it changed
- Sweetgreen says its robot kitchens save at least 7 points on labor
- Taco Bell is putting AI on the drive-thru speaker at hundreds of US stores. Here's what Yum has shown so far.
- Taco Bell's AI took orders at 500+ drive-thrus. Someone ordered 18,000 waters.
- Taco Bell is putting AI on the drive-thru speaker at hundreds of US stores. Here's what Yum has shown so far.
- Chick-fil-A says it won't hand drive-thru orders to AI as rivals expand voice bots
- Taco Bell's drive-thru AI is now in 890+ stores. Yum says it helps keep workers, but hasn't shown the numbers.
- Taco Bell's drive-thru AI is now in 890+ stores. Yum says it helps keep workers, but hasn't shown the numbers.
- Wendy's plans to put its drive-thru AI in hundreds more restaurants. Its accuracy figure comes from a 2023 pilot.
Retail
- Aldi's reply to a complaint arrived with its AI prompt still attached
- Amazon blocks Meta's Muse agent from shopping its site, saying it never agreed to let it in
- An AI agent ran an office shop for a month and lost money
- Czech grocer Albert tests Brain Corp's shelf-scanning robots, and the vendor reports strong results
- DoorDash builds its own delivery robot and starts in the Phoenix suburbs
- Kroger agreed to pay Ocado $350 million to close three robot warehouses and scrap a planned fourth. The doors close this month.
- Kroger is closing three of its robot grocery warehouses and expects a $2.6 billion charge
- Kroger says online grocery is now profitable. Its new plan runs through stores.
- Loblaw says its ChatGPT grocery app is ahead of plan. It hasn't said what the plan was.
- Old Dominion University adds Starship delivery robots, ordered through Grubhub
- Serve's robots reach Dallas-Fort Worth, while its cost of revenue runs four times its revenue
- Shipt puts its cart builder inside ChatGPT and Claude. Checkout still happens in Shipt.
- Sidewalk robots head to Miami on Uber Eats
- Starship delivery robots roll onto the University of Minnesota campus in a one-year Minneapolis pilot
- Starship pulls its delivery robots off U.S. college campuses to chase grocery orders
- Walmart and Wing promised drone delivery at 100 more stores by June 2026. We count 20 named in launches so far.
- Walmart and Wing say drone delivery is coming to 100 more stores within a year. Here's what they've shown so far.
- Woolworths tones down its 'obnoxious' AI agent
- Zipline says businesses are piling onto its drone app as it heads to Austin and Cleveland
- Zipline says demand for its Texas drone deliveries is surging as restaurants sign on
- Zipline starts Walmart drone deliveries in a Dallas suburb, free for now
- Zipline says demand for its Texas drone deliveries is surging as restaurants sign on
- Walmart and Wing say drone delivery is coming to 100 more stores within a year. Here's what they've shown so far.
- Walmart and Wing promised drone delivery at 100 more stores by June 2026. We count 20 named in launches so far.
Software
- Apple pauses AI news summaries after mangled BBC headlines
- Cursor's AI support agent invented a login policy, and users said they cancelled
- Duolingo's "AI-first" memo drew a backlash. Its user numbers kept climbing.
- Replit's AI agent deleted a live database during a code freeze, then said it couldn't be restored
- Salesforce opens Agentforce to every customer. Its showcase result is a customer quote in its own release.
- Salesforce's CEO says AI agents let him cut support from 9,000 people to about 5,000
- The MIT report behind "95% of AI pilots fail," and what it measured
Transportation
- A robotaxi stopped for a school bus and asked a remote helper about it. The answer was "No."
- Austin riders get matched with a robotaxi inside the Uber app
- Budget airline's AI-first support draws dozens of FTC complaints
- California regulators let Waymo expand driverless service to 18 counties
- Cruise admits it filed a false federal crash report after its robotaxi dragged a pedestrian. The bill: $2 million in penalties.
- GM spent about $10 billion on Cruise. Now it's shutting the robotaxi business down.
- Insurer Swiss Re and Waymo find 88% fewer property-damage claims for robotaxis
- London's robotaxi rollout slips as TfL's guidance for operators is still missing
- Lyft will run the depots for Waymo's Nashville robotaxis, the companies say
- Mexican airline Volaris moves its customer service to bots
- Robotaxis burn in downtown LA, and Waymo pulls back
- San Francisco blackout leaves Waymos stalled at dark intersections
- SF supervisors grill Waymo over 1,593 robotaxi stops in the blackout
- Tesla adds four robotaxi cities around two earnings calls. Trackers show few cars.
- Tesla brings its "Robotaxi" app to the Bay Area, with a driver behind the wheel
- Tesla removes the safety monitor from some Austin robotaxis, but videos show a chase car following
- Tesla starts robotaxi rides in Austin, with an employee in the passenger seat
- Tesla's Cybercab starts carrying riders in Austin. Federal regulators opened a review the same day.
- Waymo and two Japanese partners aim for driverless taxis in Tokyo in 2027
- Waymo drops its Los Angeles waitlist and lets anyone ride
- Waymo hands its depot work to Moove, and names Miami next
- Waymo opens in Atlanta through Uber
- Waymo opens Nashville rides, with Lyft set to run the fleet
- Waymo opens paid driverless rides in Miami
- Waymo opens San Antonio to all riders, nearly six months after a robotaxi was swept into a creek
- Waymo readies driverless rides in San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa and Denver, staff first
- Waymo recalls 1,212 robotaxis after collisions with gates and chains. The fix was already on the road.
- Waymo recalls 3,067 robotaxis after they drove past stopped school buses
- Waymo recalls 3,791 robotaxis after one drove into a flooded road and was swept into a creek
- Waymo says it gave 4 million driverless rides in 2024 as Cruise bowed out
- Waymo says it will run driverless rides in London in 2026
- Waymo starts carrying riders on freeways
- Waymo stretches its driverless map across Silicon Valley
- Zoox opens its steering-wheel-free robotaxis to the Las Vegas public, for free
- Zoox recalls software on 105 robotaxis after one drove into a smoke-filled fire scene
- Zoox starts charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas under a federal exemption