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With the Launch of Samsung Food, Samsung Hypes AI & Consolidates Food Features Acquired Over the Years
Over the years, Samsung has acquired and launched several products in an effort to become the king of the tech-powered kitchen. First, there was the launch of the Family Hub refrigerator, the company’s attempt to create a smart fridge built around the company’s own operating system and packed with technology like fridge cams to identify…
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Delivery Giants DoorDash and Uber Eats Join The Rush to Integrate AI Into Ordering Platforms
Over the last six months, we’ve watched as seemingly every quick-service restaurant chain jumped on the AI freight train, integrating new generative AI technology into apps, chatbots, and voice ordering tools to expedite the customer experience. Now, it looks like food-ordering platforms DoorDash and Uber Eats are taking their turn to roll out AI tools.…
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I Attended a Workshop on the Impact of AI on The Food World. Here’s What We Discussed
Last month, I headed down to San Luis Obispo to participate in a National Science Foundation-funded project analyzing the impact of automation and AI on the food system. I’d been invited to participate in a workshop headed up by Patrick Lin and Ryan Jenkins, professors at UC San Luis Obispo and the project leads. The…
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Strella Believes Its Machine Learning Tech Will Help Deliver The Perfectly Ripened Banana
Did you know that there’s a job in the banana industry called a ripener? It makes sense, right? After all, anyone who eats bananas knows the time it takes to go from rock-hard green banana to brown mushy mess can be as short as a week. This means the banana industry has to work hard…
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Innit Debuts FoodLM to Power More Contextually Relevant Answers from Generative AI Platforms
Today Innit, a startup best known for its shoppable recipe and smart kitchen software solutions, announced the release of FoodLM, a software intelligence layer that helps power more contextually relevant food-related answers from generative AI large language models (LLMs). The new platform, which itself is not a new LLM, is instead a software intelligence layer…
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As Jobs Disappear, Could Restaurants Become a Battleground For Pushback Against AI & Automation?
Last month, after 29 months straight of job gains, the number of total available restaurant jobs dropped. It wasn’t a huge dip – 800 jobs – but compared to the previous month’s gain of 24 thousand and monthly gains as high as 81 thousand at the beginning of the year, the dip was somewhat surprising,…
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The Spoon Weekly: The Edible Barcode
This is the online version of our weekly newsletter. Head here to subscribe to The Spoon and get it delivered straight to your inbox For the last few years, there’s been lots of excitement about blockchain’s potential to finally bring end-to-end transparency to the food system. After all, once we have an incorruptible record of where food comes from,…
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Researchers at Cal Poly Are Studying The Social Impact of AI & Robotics on the World of Food
Last fall, a group of researchers at Cal Poly was awarded a $700 thousand grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the social and ethical impacts of AI and cooking automation. The study will last four years and explore the benefits and risks to individuals and the impact on family and communal relationships,…
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SeerGrills Unveils the Perfecta, an ‘AI-Powered’ Grill That Cooks the ‘Perfect Steak’ in Two Minutes
AI is seemingly everywhere nowadays, so it was only a matter of time before it would show up at the backyard BBQ to help us cook the perfect steak. That’s the vision from a UK startup named SeerGrills, which debuted the Perfecta this week, which the company describes as the world’s first AI-powered grill. The…
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A Global Conference on AI’s Role in the Food System
Today the Spoon is thrilled to announce the Food AI Summit, the world’s first event focused exclusively on AI’s impact across the food ecosystem. The conference, which will take place on October 25th in Alameda, California, will convene scientists, investors, entrepreneurs, and others who are building the future of food using AI together for a…
