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AI woes are coming for the food service industry, and social media can’t help but celebrate. This week, both Starbucks and Pizza Hut made headlines for negative news about their internal applications of artificial intelligence. At Starbucks, an inventory tool got the chop after making frequent counting mistakes, while at Pizza Hut, a delivery tool drove a franchisee to file a lawsuit. Social media users are saying the two stories may point to a larger trend—that for the first time in the AI era, more companies will pull away from AI than embrace it. Starbucks walks back an AI tool…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways If your company doesn’t land in the first 10 seconds, people don’t slow down and give you more runway; they just quietly file you under the closest thing they already know and move on. Being specific about what your product is and is not is one of the most underused tools in early-stage messaging. There’s a version of this conversation that happens all the time. A founder is pitching, doing an interview or just talking to someone at a conference, and somewhere around minute three, it becomes clear that the…

After officially releasing One UI 8.5 to Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S24 phones, which included a suite of advanced new AI tools, Samsung is now rolling out the update to older flagships and midrange Galaxy phones globally, but they won’t receive all of the AI features that launched with the Galaxy S26. Read on for more and don’t forget to subscribe to my newsletter for instant deal updates and Samsung news.Samsung’s One UI 8.5 Releases To New Phones In More CountriesThe Galaxy S23 Ultra will receive the new One UI 8.5 update today. (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto…

Last summer, I stumbled onto a brilliantly useful tool that ended up being one of the most well-received discoveries we’ve ever shared in these quarters. It was seemingly so popular, in fact, that its hobbyist nature couldn’t keep up with the demand. The service struggled to juggle all the requests we (and other enchantingly informed internet-dwellers) sent its way. I lost count of the number of emails I received from readers who were wondering why their requests to the service were taking longer and longer to result in any action—if any action ever even occurred. That tool was a simple…

Digital generated image of multicolored particles forming eye shape against black background.getty It’s no secret that smart wearables are becoming a big industry, and in the context of that, the “awareness” of hardware through sensory apparatus is a big factor. The machines that see (in their own ways) and experience the world around them utilize sensory items like cameras and other analytical tools, to feed data into the LLM or brain of the system.I wrote last week about a doubling in the smart glasses sector last year, making that a bigger part of tech retail. Then there are all of…

AI-generated images are already all over the internet, and now magazines are getting in on the act, too. Los Angeles magazine recently released its special election issue featuring mayoral candidates Nithya Raman and Spencer Pratt posing for the cover. The choice seems obvious—local political candidates for an election issue—except the cover did not actually feature Raman and Pratt, but rather AI-generated versions of them. As a whole, the cover looks like an obvious AI-generated collage, with Raman leaning into Pratt, and the flag of Ghana next to a burning landscape of Los Angeles in the background. “The cover is fake.…

All change for your inbox.NurPhoto via Getty ImagesNow you can “wee what matters most,” Google told Gmail users last week. With the new AI inbox first announced in January, users can essentially put Gemini in charge to “to help you better manage and stay on top of your inbox.”“Today, 3 billion users rely on Gmail to connect and get things done,” Google says. But email is a comms platform. Getting things done may involve sending emails, but until now the inbox hasn’t actually been “getting things done” itself. Forbes‘Never Google’—Save These Phone Numbers Before You TravelBy Zak DoffmanThat all now…

For years, Apple has put a lot of effort into providing users with ways to extend their iPhone’s battery life. But while iOS slowly introduced more battery-management features for iPhone, Apple’s other big battery-powered device, the MacBook, was left behind.  Lately, that’s changed. Today, Apple’s laptops, particularly those running macOS 26, offer numerous battery and charging management features that aim to keep your MacBook’s battery lasting as long as possible. Best of all, they work whether you have the most powerful MacBook Pro or Apple’s most affordable laptop, the MacBook Neo. Here’s how to extend battery life: Turn on Low…

Formula 1 data use and consumption has exploded in the past two years. (Photo by Mario Renzi – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images)Formula 1 via Getty ImagesImagine streaming 130 million songs in a single weekend. Or binge-watching 162,500 hours of 4K Netflix. Or reading the entire Library of Congress, 32 times over, in just three days. That’s basically the equivalent of how much data Formula 1 moves every single race weekend.Two years ago, Formula 1 streamed roughly 500 terabytes of data between its trackside technical center and its UK broadcast hub on race weekends. Today that number is up…

It was a bad week for AI’s public image. The concept was booed on mention at several commencement speeches, tarnished a literary prize, drove more layoffs, and tangled local politics in a number of data-center squabbles. A hyped new book about AI’s impact on “truth” was dragged for including fake quotes made up by AI. Pope Leo XIV’s forthcoming encyclical will concern “safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence,” Vatican News reported. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen something intensify this quickly,” mused one of the researchers behind a recent poll from Stanford University and the University…