McDonald’s Is Betting on AI to Reinvent the Drive-Thru Experience

McDonald’s is once again experimenting with artificial intelligence at the drive-thru, this time with a new Google-powered platform designed to handle customer orders while also helping restaurant managers monitor operations behind the scenes. The system, known as ArchIQ—or “Archy”—is currently being tested at a small number of US locations. Unlike previous voice-ordering pilots that focused […]
Visa’s AI Commerce Push Could Change How Consumers Shop Online

Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving beyond answering questions and making recommendations. The next phase is enabling AI systems to complete transactions on behalf of users, and Visa is positioning itself at the center of that shift. By integrating its payment infrastructure with AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Visa is helping transform AI assistants from information […]
How Coinbase Is Turning AI Agents Into Autonomous Portfolio Managers

Artificial intelligence has become a powerful tool for analysing markets, identifying trends, and researching investment opportunities. Large language models can process enormous amounts of financial information and provide sophisticated insights, but one major limitation has remained: they cannot directly act on those insights. Coinbase is looking to change that with a new platform designed to […]