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[ad_1] AI is finding its voice — and using it to take your weeknight pizza order.Restaurants, including Domino’s and Wingstop, have used voice AI assistants for years to chat with customers on the phone and take their orders. Lately, though, they’ve been finessing those assistants by adding region-specific accents, adjusting their tone, and making other changes that make them more natural for customers to converse with.”If someone hears a really off-putting, unrelatable voice, they’re going to hang up,” said Lily Clifford, the CEO and founder of Rime Labs, which developed the text-to-voice model that Domino’s and Wingstop use.Multiple restaurant chains…
[ad_1] 2025-05-31T10:02:01Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. The Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America is an all-new $7.6 billion EV factory. HMGMA, located near Savannah, Georgia, opened its doors in March of this year. The factory will be able to build 500,000 EVs and Hybrids for Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis every year. The $7.6 billion Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant…
[ad_1] My husband and I are in our second year of marriage and are finally starting to think seriously about homeownership.Between scanning Zillow, reading housing studies, and even scrolling through social media, one thing is clear: buying a new home has never felt so out of reach, even for two working people with decent salaries.For my job as a real estate reporter, I’ve interviewed 10 people who built accessory dwelling units, or ADUs. Many of them did so because moving to a new or bigger home wasn’t an option for them or their loved ones, so they resorted to a…
[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Greg Petronzi of True Patina, a watchmaker specializing in vintage Rolex repairs. He is also a licensed psychologist and professor at New York University. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve always had a fascination with watches, starting at a young age. Around middle school, I had a Swatch with a see-through plastic case and an automatic movement. You could see all of the parts of the watch as it was working, and I always found that so interesting.In college, I pursued psychology. That was my practical career…
[ad_1] CNN — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would set tariffs on steel imported into the United States at 50%, double their current rate. At a US Steel facility in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, Trump said he had a “major announcement.” To an applauding crowd of US Steel employees, Trump said he would jack up the tariff to protect America’s steelworkers. “We are going to be imposing a 25% increase,” Trump said. “We’re going to bring it from 25% to 50%, the tariffs on steel into the United States of America, which will even further secure the steel industry…
[ad_1] The Department of Defense is scouting the next Palantir — and it’s starting on college campuses.This week, the Defense Innovation Unit — the Pentagon’s emerging tech arm — launched a university accelerator, open for applications through late June. The 12-week program will be a military-grade Y Combinator of sorts, offering early-stage startups funding, mentorship, and DoD connections. Fifteen teams spun out of US universities — working in AI, cyber, space, and more — will evenly split $500,000.The initiative builds on the National Security Innovation Network’s earlier Emerge program, which also targeted college founders, according to DIU project manager Josh…
[ad_1] CNN — Haribo is recalling bags of its fizzy cola bottles in the Netherlands after cannabis was found in some of them. Authorities began investigating when several people, including children, became unwell after eating candy from one-kilo (2.2-pound) bags of Haribo Happy Cola F!ZZ, the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) told CNN. Samples taken from the cola bottles revealed that the product was laced with cannabis, NVWA said, adding that Dutch police are now investigating how the candy became contaminated. “How the cannabis ended up in the sweets is still unknown,” the food standards regulatory body…
[ad_1] CNN — President Donald Trump’s swipes at Apple aren’t just bruising the company’s bottom line — they may also be taking a bite out of your 401(k). The president’s chaotic trade war continues to threaten Apple’s business model, which relies extensively on international supply chains. Apple’s stock has tumbled 20% this year after hitting a record high in December. The company’s stock dropped 3% in one day earlier this month after Trump demanded Apple move all of its production to the United States. As the tech giant grapples with the president’s tariff threats, Americans’ retirement savings have taken a…
[ad_1] Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writer is the founding partner of Verdad Advisers and the author of ‘The Humble Investor’US equity markets have had a banner run in the years since the Covid-19 market panic. Yet despite the S&P 500 surging nearly 95 per cent over the past five years, US private equity firms are struggling to profitably sell the portfolio companies they have accumulated — nearly 12,000, according to research by Cherry Bekaert. At the current exit pace of 1,500 companies a year, it…
[ad_1] A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. New York CNN — If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality. Yet when tech CEOs do the same thing, people tend to perk up. ICYMI: The 42-year-old billionaire Dario Amodei, who runs the AI firm Anthropic, told Axios this week that the technology he and other companies…