McDonald's will spend big on restaurant upgrades, training to drive growth

McDonald's Corp. signage on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025.

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McDonald's on Wednesday announced new financial targets for higher operating margins, a training program to improve food quality and plans to support franchisees financially as they invest in their restaurants.

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Council Post: The Real Reason Your Business Is Burning Too Many Tokens

Kognitos Founder & CEO Binny Gill holds nearly 100 patents in computer science.

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​The biggest worry I hear from enterprise leaders right now is the cost of AI. Teams are consuming tokens faster than their budgets anticipated, and the value coming back rarely feels commensurate. The instinct is to blame the technology or wait for prices to fall. I believe the problem is older and more familiar. Forget technology for a moment and go back 100 years.​

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Council Post: Why AI Teams Should Never Treat Training Data As Evidence

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In Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson described people as living inside their own “reality tunnels.” In other words, we filter reality through attention, language, memory and prior beliefs. He also wrote that “the human mind is a verbalizing circuit.” Read today, that sounds unexpectedly close to one feature of a large language model (LLM): learned relationships between symbols can produce useful language outputs.

South Korea pushes for Trump summit with renegade North Korea, seeing opportunity for peace

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 25, 2025.

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A U.S.-North Korea summit might bring peace, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said, in advocating for a meeting with the renegade state.

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Trump-Xi summit puts AI safety talks on the table but neither side wants to slow down

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) gestures to China's President Xi Jinping as he leaves after a visit to Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing on May 15, 2026.

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A generational tax battle has arrived. Millennials struggle to build wealth — while boomers seek tax breaks.

Cuts for boomers, bigger bills for millennials: Inside America’s new age fight over who pays taxes

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