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• Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Lead Meta

  22-03-2026 19:34 via eweek.com
  Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent to help him run Meta, turning the company’s AI push into something far more personal.First reported by The Wall Street Journal, the project shows the company experimenting with AI as a leadership tool. It also opens a window into Meta’s wider internal changes, where speed, access to information, and decision-making are becoming a bigger part of the company’s AI agenda.The CEO project also fits a much bigger idea Zuckerberg has been talkin
  
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• McDonald’s Puts a Humanoid Robot on the Floor, Diners Can’t Look Away

  22-03-2026 14:15 via eweek.com
  McDonald’s is testing a humanoid robot on the restaurant floor, putting the machine in direct view of diners. The appearance turns a routine fast food stop into the kind of moment that makes people stop, stare, and pull out their phones.The footage, posted by Keenon Robotics on YouTube, shows the machine operating inside a popular fast food chain.Built to be seen, trained to assistThe humanoid at this McDonald’s in Shanghai is working in the part of the restaurant that customers actu
  
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