Starbucks has decided to discontinue an artificial intelligence inventory management tool that was deployed across North American stores less than a year ago. The decision marks a notable setback for one of the company's most ambitious efforts to modernize store operations through automation. The AI-powered system was introduced to help employees track milk, syrups, and other beverage ingredients more efficiently.…

Apple is reportedly preparing one of the most significant upgrades in Siri’s history by combining technologies from two of the biggest names in artificial intelligence. According to recent reports, future Siri requests may be processed through Google Cloud, where a customized version of Google’s Gemini AI model would run on Nvidia’s powerful Blackwell B200 data center GPUs. The proposed architecture…