Inside McDonald's 'Edge': What Google Cloud Bought the Golden Arches
McDonald's quietly buried its IBM voice-AI failure and built a different stack. Edge — a Google-Cloud co-designed restaurant platform — is now live in hundreds of US stores, and operators in any chain should read it as the new reference architecture.
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