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Starbucks Using AI To Build Software Replacing Applications It Buys From Microsoft, IBM Corporate America has been desperate to see a burst of productivity (i.e., cost cutting) emerging from the latest flood of agentic AI euphoria, and it is slowly starting to get it. Not everyone will be pleased. Starbucks is developing in-house tools with the help of artificial intelligence that could replace some software applications it now buys from companies such as Microsoft and IBM.  According to Bloomberg, the coffee chain, whose stock price has gone nowhere in the past 3...

President Trump on Monday issued a series of posts on his Truth Social account defending his war with Iran and a potential diplomatic deal that he may reach with Tehran, though the state of the negotiations remains unclear. The president started with a post where he said that the state of Israel didn’t talk him […]

"Don't Be Evil": Google's Motto Becomes A Jury Verdict In California Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org, Google once had a motto: “Don’t be evil.” In its reorganization in 2015, the motto was changed to “Do the right thing.” According to a California jury this week, neither motto stuck. In a historic verdict against both Google and Meta, a jury found that the companies maliciously designed their social media products to addict children, including the plaintiff, who was known only as Kaley or KGM. The jury heard testimony of efforts to “target” young users and feed...