
Photo illustration featuring a McDonald's restaurant sign. Coming (back) to a McDonald’s near you: AI-powered drive-thru lanes. That’s right. Those feeling déjà vu aren’t mistaken: this is McDonald’s second foray into using AI at its burger delivery pit stops, after the first attempt — a collaboration with IBM — fell apart like a soggy Big Mac. What, if anything, is different from the last rollout? The fast food chain is touting a new AI system called Arch