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AI on the Menu: Yum! Brands and NVIDIA Partner to Accelerate Restaurant Industry Innovation

NVIDIA AI Blog

The quick-service restaurant industry is a marvel of modern logistics, where speed, teamwork and kitchen operations are key ingredients for every order. Worlds Largest Restaurant Company Advances AI Adoption Spanning more than 61,000 locations, Yum! operates more restaurants than any other company in the world. Brands, Inc.

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Why the climate tech industry needs outsiders

Fast Company Tech

At Epic Cleantec, a company I cofounded to tackle water scarcity through innovative reuse technology, none of us came from an environmental background. Unsurprisingly, I often faced skepticism at conferences and industry events, where our company’s unconventional approach was met with doubt. Investors get it.

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Why job postings may be attracting narcissistic candidates—without companies realizing it

Fast Company Tech

When companies advertise job openings, they often use buzzwords like ambitious and self-reliant to describe their ideal candidate. Through a series of experiments , we found that rule-bender language attracts individuals with higher levels of narcissism for accounting-specific jobs, as well as other industries. But theres a catch.

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The 10 most innovative computing companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

The heated race to develop and deploy new large language models and AI products has seen innovation surgeand revenue soarat companies supporting AI infrastructure. And in October, the company opened its first global quantum data center outside the U.S., in Ehningen, Germany.

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The most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2025

Fast Company Tech

The AI industry hit a significant bend in the road toward artificial general intelligence in 2024. The chip company had been reading the tea leaves and built new features into its GPUs that made them even better suited to real-time inference than before. But one company is already reaping the rewards.

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The most innovative companies in applied AI for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Organizations across many industries believe their employees are more productive and efficient with AI tools such as chatbots and coding assistants at their side. Contextual AI lets organizations put a companys proprietary intelligence into a secure data store, then lets them build AI apps that can call on that data.

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The 10 most innovative data science companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

In the midst of an artificial intelligence boom thats reshaping almost every facet of the business world, companies are competing in an arms race to build the best and brightest models and fully embrace the nascent technology, whether thats as a product or service for customers or as an integralcomponent of their organizations processes.

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