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Casual Tex-Mex restaurant chain On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina is closing its company-owned locations by the end of the day today, a spokesperson confirmed. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March 2025, and was acquired by Pappas Restaurants two months later. At the time of the acquisition, Dallas-based Pappas took on 60 U.S. locations and 20 franchised locations in South Korea, Franchise Times reported. Since then, the casual restaurant chain has continued to reduce its footprint. The brand’s official website currently lists 33 locations nationwide—17 of them are in Texas, the state where the chain…
Bernard Aceituno is Cofounder of StackAI and holds a Ph.D. and SM in Computer Science.The world has radically changed since the release of ChatGPT a few years ago. While chatbots seemed revolutionary then, enterprises are now shifting to agentic AI: systems that can execute processes from beginning to end, taking action across all the tools they already use. Ninety percent of enterprises are actively adopting AI agents, according to a survey by Kong, and 79% of enterprises expect full-scale adoption of agentic AI in the next three years. As enterprise teams scale automation of tedious, manual workflows with this technology,…
On April 15, we should have marked Polina’s 23rd birthday. But her 18th birthday was the last one we celebrated together. In September 2021, after years of struggling with her mental health, my niece died tragically. No family emerges unchanged from a loss like that. Nearly five years later, ours is still grieving. But grief can also become action. Shortly after Po’s death, we founded The Polina Fund, through which our family and community work to support young women facing mental health and substance abuse challenges, and to help destigmatize these struggles before more lives are lost. Polina’s too-short life…
Emily Lewis-Pinnell, Driving AI Adoption at Evaila.We’ve seen the AI adoption numbers. Organizational adoption has reached 88%. MIT’s NANDA lab found that 95% of generative AI pilots deliver zero measurable P&L impact. McKinsey and BCG tell versions of the same story from different angles: a small minority of organizations are capturing real value from AI, while most are not.These numbers have been circulating for months. What has been missing is a clear picture of what the organizations succeeding with AI adoption are actually doing differently.A new study from Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab offers the most useful answer I have seen,…
This article is republished with permission from Laser Wars, a newsletter about military laser weapons and other futuristic defense technology. Adam Warmoth is the founder and CEO of Chariot Defense, a San Francisco-based start-up building battlefield power systems to bridge expeditionary forces’ energy gap at the tactical edge. The company’s Amphora battery system provides modular voltage and low-signature power for everything from radios and drones to sensors and directed energy systems. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. How did you end up here? Was there an “aha!” moment for you where a light bulb went off over your head? What was…
Courts are getting fed up with AI hallucinations, including the latest involving both sides of a case.gettyIn today’s column, I examine the intriguing and beguiling situation whereby AI hallucinations are utilized and relied upon by attorneys on both sides of a court case. This is rare, but will arise on an increasing basis due to attorneys continuing to improperly make use of AI for generating aspects of their legal briefs and failing to double-check their work.The question at hand is what should happen if both sides of a case commit the same type of faulty professional efforts involving AI hallucinations…
Would you zap your brain to treat depression? In December, the Food and Drug Administration cleared a device that uses mild electrical currents to stimulate the brain, marking a shift in how the condition could be treated. Known as transcranial direct-current stimulation, or tDCS, the technology is designed for at-home use, potentially offering a more accessible alternative to traditional therapies, according to The New York Times. The approval applies to a headset made by Swedish company Flow Neuroscience, which has been studying the approach for years. While tDCS itself has existed for more than two decades and has been available in…
Physical AI is moving artificial intelligence from screens and software into robots, drones, self-driving vehicles and intelligent machines.Adobe StockAI is starting to leave the screen and move into the physical world.For the past few years, much of the AI conversation has focused on chatbots, co-pilots and tools that generate text, images or code. The next wave is different. It is about machines that can sense their surroundings, make decisions and act in the real world.That is the promise of physical AI, also known as embodied AI. Think humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, warehouse machines, drones and intelligent industrial systems that can…
Imagine your inbox empty, your calendar clear, your to-dos checked. With undivided attention, you and your senior team head into the conference room, ready to address the big issues over a daylong meeting. Big issues like determining how you’ll respond to AI, setting your three-to-five-year strategy or nailing down how you’ll attract and develop future talent. Keep imagining. Because that day isn’t coming. The reality looks more like this: you’ve got 60 minutes to plan strategy, in a meeting that took six weeks to schedule. Right before it started, you learned about the crisis of the day. Tonight you have…
A new launch from AT&T is aimed at iPad users only, but it doesn’t matter if you aren’t an AT&T customer. Here are the details and what makes it interesting. The new offer is called the Unlimited Day Pass, AT&T announced, and costs $3. For this, you get unlimited data for 24 hours, for compatible iPads. That means it has to be an iPad with Wi-Fi plus Cellular connectivity, and many people plump for a Wi-Fi only model as it’s cheaper and you can always tether to your phone for a connection. Additionally, if you have one that’s Wi-Fi plus…