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AI across the food chain — precision agriculture and agritech, restaurants and food service, and nutrition and diet. From AI-run drive-thrus and crop-disease detection to calorie-tracking apps and the future of how we grow, cook and eat.

242 stories tracked since December 2000, from 106 sources

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McDonald’s drive-thru change could mean AI takes more orders from drivers
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McDonald’s drive-thru change could mean AI takes more orders from drivers

McDonald's is quietly automating one of its most human-facing operations, deploying artificial intelligence systems to take drive-thru orders in hundreds of restaurants across the United States. The shift threatens to displace thousands of workers while raising questions about whether machines can reliably handle the chaos of real-world customer interactions—from regional accents to special requests that have long frustrated even the best human employees. As major fast-food chains race to cut labor costs, McDonald's move signals a pivotal moment in which automation is creeping into the last bastions of entry-level employment that have long defined the American workplace.

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Appetite for AI: Columbia restaurants weigh the use of generated photos and graphics amid backlash

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Exclusive: Yelp’s AI phone service for restaurants can now take food orders, too

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Agtech startup using AI to predict grain crops plants $1 million first raise

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Voice AI Drive-Thru Systems

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SoundHound AI (SOUN) Expands Restaurant Ordering Reach, Is The Valuation Upside Already Priced In?

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Meituan-W's share price rebounds, and its embodied intelligence initiatives may be entering a harvest period, with the AI narrative potentially driving valuation recovery.

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Can You Trust AI to Count Calories from an Image of Your Lunch?

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How to Build an AI Nutrition and Diet Planning App in 2026: Complete Guide
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How to Build an AI Nutrition and Diet Planning App in 2026: Complete Guide

by David Wilson Digital — The demand for intelligent health and wellness solutions has never been higher. Consumers now expect personalized meal recommendations…

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AI calorie-counting apps underestimate meals by up to 345 calories – why you should use with caution

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Your AI calorie-tracking app may be off by 345 calories

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Red Lobster's 37-year-old CEO says he's going to transform the seafood chain into the most AI-forward restaurant company that exists
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Red Lobster's 37-year-old CEO says he's going to transform the seafood chain into the most AI-forward restaurant company that exists

Red Lobster has been around since 1968. Damola Adamolekun, its millennial chief executive, has already pulled the company out of bankruptcy.

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Restaurants AI Slop Menu Draws Massive Backlash In AIs Ground-Zero

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Mamatha Chamarthy on The Harvest-to-Invest Flywheel: Why AI Must Pay for Itself Before It Scales
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Mamatha Chamarthy on The Harvest-to-Invest Flywheel: Why AI Must Pay for Itself Before It Scales

by Mamatha Chamarthi — The Investment Is Real. The Returns Are Not.

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AI Calorie-Tracking Apps Can Miscalculate By 345 calories, Says Study: 5 Things To Keep In Mind While Using These Apps
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AI Calorie-Tracking Apps Can Miscalculate By 345 calories, Says Study: 5 Things To Keep In Mind While Using These Apps

The researchers found that all four apps underestimated the calorie content by about 250 to 345 calories, and fat by about 30 grams. Researchers say these tools can still be useful, but users should...

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AI Powered Calorie Tracker with Claude AI and Notion Integration

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Big bank boards go back to the drawing board on cyberdefence playbook
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Big bank boards go back to the drawing board on cyberdefence playbook

For decades, the procedures were simple. Guidelines, executive responsibility. Now a crop of fast-moving, AI-powered hackers are forcing a dramatic rethink.

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LAI #135: The Useful Part of Graph Engineering Is Not the Graph
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LAI #135: The Useful Part of Graph Engineering Is Not the Graph

by Towards AI Editorial Team — When JSON hurts reasoning, Anthropic wins our dream-workplace poll, and bad statistics make chocolate look like a diet planGood morning, AI enthusiasts!The AI discourse has a new buzzword this week,...

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I Built a Pregnancy Nutrition AI at My Internship. The LLM Was the Last Thing I Worried About.
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I Built a Pregnancy Nutrition AI at My Internship. The LLM Was the Last Thing I Worried About.

by Vatsal Y Official — How designing a 3-layer hybrid agent for the Numaa.ai platform changed the question I ask at the start of every AI project.

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AI across the food chain — precision agriculture and agritech, restaurants and food service, and nutrition and diet. From AI-run drive-thrus and crop-disease detection to calorie-tracking apps and the future of how we grow, cook and eat.

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Best AI News Today has tracked 242 stories on AI & Food since December 2000, drawn from 106 distinct sources. The archive grows automatically as new coverage appears.