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AI on the menu at McDonald's as > Next becomes the next transformation step and Archy makes its debut in-store

The founder of McDonald’s, Ray Kroc, had a saying he was fond of - if you're not green and growing, you're ripe and rotting. It’s a mindset that prevails to this day, according to current CEO Christopher Kempczinski as he announces the next phase of the fast food giant’s ongoing digital transformation.

Back in 2020, the company launched its Accelerating the Arches initiative, he says:

We were transforming the company for our digital-first future. Internally, our mantra was perform and transform. Our legacy technology infrastructure was outdated, inefficient and unstable. Hundreds of finance and HR systems, every country on its own app, data puddles instead of data lakes. Technology wasn't an enabler. It was a handicap.

That’s no longer the case, he adds:

We've done the hard work to re-structure our company and establish one McDonald's way of operating to better leverage our size and scale. This includes common technology...

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Mercedes-AMG’s first ground-up SUV is a 1,150hp electric beast

Earlier this year, Mercedes’ AMG performance brand grabbed our attention with the GT four-door coupe, a souped-up sports sedan with three axial flux motors delivering over 1,150 horsepower. Well, now meet its beefier cousin, the 2028 Mercedes-AMG GT SUV, an equally powerful, ultra-fast-charging electric people-hauler. The AMG GT SUV

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‘The premium market is dominated by two brands; I believe consumers would be interested in a third’: Oppo’s European CEO has a plan for narrowing the smartphone sales gap with Apple and Samsung — and chatbots like ChatGPT could hold the key

Recent data published by Counterpoint Research paints a bleak picture of the smartphone industry as it stands today. Q3 2026 (that’s the period between July and September) marked the lowest Q3 for smartphone sales in 14 years, with challenger brands like Oppo, Xiaomi, and Vivo all experiencing declines in

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I spent two weeks with those wacky headphone-loudspeaker hybrids, but they're the easiest 'pass' recommendation in a long time

I’ll give it to TDM: the Neo is a fun idea, and the company has really tried in the execution of it, with some neat in-box extras. Unfortunately, it really doesn’t work: the Neo sounds pretty awful however you use the product, lacking bass in speaker mode and

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Elon Musk settles lawsuits over $1 million voter giveaway

Plaintiffs claiming Musk’s $1 million voter lottery was a fraud are settling for an undisclosed sum. by Terrence O'Brien Oct 17, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the

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Mercedes-AMG’s first ground-up SUV is a 1,150hp electric beast

‘The premium market is dominated by two brands; I believe consumers would be interested in a third’: Oppo’s European CEO has a plan for narrowing the smartphone sales gap with Apple and Samsung — and chatbots like ChatGPT could hold the key

I spent two weeks with those wacky headphone-loudspeaker hybrids, but they're the easiest 'pass' recommendation in a long time

Elon Musk settles lawsuits over $1 million voter giveaway