McDonalds: More productivity with AI The fast food chain is rolling out an AI and software update to 43,000 stores to reduce stress for employees and increase customer satisfaction. https://www.heise.de/en/news/McDonalds-More-productivity-with-AI-10308963.html
Palantir is rolling out its first two artificial intelligence-enabled systems to the U.S. Army, the company said Friday. The Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node systems, or TITAN, act as a mobile ground station that harness AI to collect data from space sensors to assist soldiers with warfare strategy and improve strike targeting and accuracy, according to Palantir. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/07/palantir-delivers-first-two-ai-enabled-systems-to-us-army.html
Ukraine’s Future Vision and Current Capabilities for Waging AI-Enabled Autonomous Warfare https://www.csis.org/analysis/ukrai...bilities-waging-ai-enabled-autonomous-warfare
It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning "Today's military planning processes rely on decades-old technology and methodologies, creating a fundamental mismatch between the speed of modern warfare and our ability to respond," Goodman said. "Thunderforge brings AI-powered analysis and automation to operational and strategic planning, allowing decision-makers to operate at the pace required for emerging conflicts." https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/dod_taps_scale_to_bring/ It begins... maybe the beginning of the end
“We are at the very forefront of research” Artificial intelligence is seen as a key technology Computer science professor Kristian Kersting describes Europe’s strength when it comes to concrete AI applications in business. Professor Kersting, the EU is planning to invest around 200 billion euros in AI, according to an announcement made after the AI summit in Paris. Will Germany and Europe then be able to keep up with the big players - the US and China? The figures are indeed pretty impressive. There does appear to be greater willingness now in Europe to take the risk and invest massively in a technology despite nobody knowing exactly how it will evolve in future. I regard this as a positive step, though I do find Macron’s “Plug, Baby, Plug”, which essentially is just an advert for nuclear-powered AI factories, somewhat inappropriate. After all, the large-scale AI models still consume far too much electricity. We urgently need to think about how to build such models in a more efficient and resource-friendly manner. https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/business/europe-artificial-intelligence-kersting
Now this is easy. The markets (big banks) need suckers to lose their money so the answer is no, there will always be a need for flesh and blood pigs to be butchered.