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Thank-yous at the drive-thru window drop 23.9 points when AI takes the order

The 2026 QSR Drive-Thru Report finds voice AI is finishing more orders, and that window staff get quieter when it does.

Building Management

Altronix's ReServ24B pairs dual 24VDC inputs with rapid battery charging

Altronix's ReServ24B transfer switch supports two 24VDC power supplies and rapidly charges SLA or LiFePO4 backup batteries.

Article · October 8, 2026Read →

Architecture & Design

One merger skews $70B CRE volume as property sales cool

A record $70B August for CRE entity-level sales came largely from one merger. Single-asset sales are still growing, but slower than in 2025.

Article · October 7, 2026Read →

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Harbor Health to buy 27 Village Medical clinics in Greater Houston

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Food & Beverage

Thank-yous at the drive-thru window drop 23.9 points when AI takes the order

Building Management

Altronix's ReServ24B pairs dual 24VDC inputs with rapid battery charging

Building Management

NHL says the business case starts at community rinks

Food & Beverage

Seneca Trading names Roger Lund to run pet food division

Architecture & Design

One merger skews $70B CRE volume as property sales cool

Hospitality

Spire Hospitality puts hotel IT, forecasting and AI under one executive

Marketing Tech

HG Insights launches a platform to keep sales AI agents from misreading accounts

Hospitality

AI Hospitality Group aims for 500-basis-point margin gains in six months

Sports & Entertainment

Rice renames stadium in 20-year deal ahead of $120M renovation

Sports & Entertainment

Premier League and EFL are $179M apart over five years on a funding deal

Professional AV

Clear-Com Arcadia is the intercom hub at a Łódź skills centre running Dante and NETGEAR

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Amazon

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AWS, fulfillment, and advertising solutions for enterprise buyers
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B2B decision-makers in technology, supply chain, retail

GE HealthCare

Precision care tools built for clinicians and health systems.

AI-powered diagnostic imaging solutions for clinical decision-makers
Hardware, software, and intelligence across cardiology, oncology, radiology
Operational technology evaluation content for healthcare administrators

Intel

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The NHL wants Honeywell's building controls in youth hockey rinks too

Building Management

NHL says the business case starts at community rinks

NHL ties youth hockey to future fans amid energy talk

Healthcare

SCI recruits funeral sales as the career AI cannot replace

A recruiting video for Service Corporation International (SCI) doesn't start with funerals. It starts with the anxieties of today's job market: "AI is changing the way we work. Economic uncertainty is…

Seneca Trading names Roger Lund to run pet food division

Roger Lund will build Seneca Trading's pet food ingredient portfolio across North America as general manager of its pet food division.

Hospitality

Spire Hospitality puts hotel IT, forecasting and AI under one executive

Spire's new Strategic Asset Performance division hands SVP Shozib Khan IT, financial planning, hotel systems, AI strategy and the owner relationship.

Marketing Tech

HG Insights launches a platform to keep sales AI agents from misreading accounts

HG Insights' Contextual Intelligence Platform ties spend, installs and intent to each account's corporate hierarchy, and serves it to AI agents over MCP.

Hospitality

AI Hospitality Group aims for 500-basis-point margin gains in six months

Ex-Remington CEO Sloan Dean's new Dallas startup will run hotels with AI agents under management contracts, backed by a $7.5 million seed round.

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Sports & Entertainment

Premier League and EFL are $179M apart over five years on a funding deal

The Premier League raised its offer to $239M a year. The EFL wants $275M, and its chair is said to think $239M isn’t enough.

Professional AV

Clear-Com Arcadia is the intercom hub at a Łódź skills centre running Dante and NETGEAR

Clear-Com's Arcadia Central Station connects studios, control rooms and lecture rooms at Łódź's Sectoral Skills Centre.

Sports & Entertainment

DAZN's Timberwolves deal puts 15 free games on KARE 11 for 1.5 million homes

DAZN produces the show and KARE 11 airs it free. The same week, Memphis got an identical 15-game package on ABC24.

AI didn't break academic integrity, credentialism already had

Education Technology

AI didn't break integrity, it exposed credentialism

Hill argues AI exposed credential-first incentives. He cites competency-based education, authentic assessment, and Sydney’s two-stream framework.

Grocery Vision AI takes the blame for failures the network underneath causes

Retail

Grocery Vision AI takes blame for network failures underneath

At peak hours in a grocery store, things start to slip. A self-checkout lane lags and customers get impatient. A camera feed drops. A Vision AI system misses the movement it was installed to catch. To…

Beyond the Ledger episode art: Financial Independence, Retire Early, with guest Jimmy Tran

Business Services

Financial freedom buys time for work that never pays a dividend

How Jimmy Tran built a financial cushion to leave corporate America for a portfolio life including nonprofits, coaching, and advisory work.

Retail

Retail tech rollouts slip when nobody plans for the live store

Most retail technology rollouts are planned as installation projects: order the hardware, schedule the technicians, swap the equipment, move to the next site. The part that usually goes unplanned is t…

Some hospices saw daily patient census rise 50% in the 18 to 36 months after rebranding

Healthcare

Some Transcend clients saw daily census rise 50% after rebranding

Some hospice clients saw daily census rise 50% within 18 to 36 months of a rebrand. Expanding service lines is the biggest driver, a marketer says.

Healthcare

Answering a licensing board complaint without a lawyer can make it worse

Don’t rush to answer a licensing board complaint yourself. Learn what to do first and how a careful response can keep things from getting worse.

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Power generation equipment and decarbonization solutions for utilities and industry.

Energy executives navigating decarbonization through proven power infrastructure
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Autonomous mobile robots for warehouse and logistics automation

Self-driving forklifts and tuggers integrate seamlessly into existing warehouse operations
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N-able tells MSPs to stop marketing to everyone and pick one problem

Software & Technology

Hammond tells MSPs to pick a vertical and one problem

N-able's Stefanie Hammond gives MSPs a 10-step playbook: one niche, one problem, a 100-account list, and a sales process checked before buying more leads.

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Professional AV

Telefónica fits its new Madrid broadcast monitoring room with an 11.4-meter Alfalite LED wall

Telefónica's TSA has commissioned an 11.4-meter Alfalite LED wall, fed by servers over NDI, for a new TSAmediaHUB monitoring room in Aravaca, Madrid.

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Business Services

The Early Scale: Bain Capital backs Kahua with $250M, propelling valuation to $1B

Explore Kahua's $250M boost in construction tech, brownfield packing automation's quick returns, and solar panel recycling opportunities.

Transportation

Michelin's X Multi Energy D2 drive tire cuts rolling resistance 9% over its predecessor

Michelin positions the D2 as a next step for fleets running the X Multi Energy D in common regional sizes. Footnotes tie its test gains to 11R22.5 LRG tires.

Education Technology

Lewis University picks Ellucian Student to support its 2026–2029 strategic plan

Lewis University is moving to Ellucian Student, HCM and Finance through Project Tailwind, part of its Taking Flight strategic plan for 2026–2029.

Drive-thru crews talk less at the window when voice AI takes the order

Voice AI finished 40% of the drive-thru orders it touched in 2026, up from 20%. At the window, crew behaviors that require speaking dropped sharply.

Industry Spotlight

Hospitality

Nobu's San Juan hotel keeps it to 50 rooms and leads with the restaurant

Nobu Hospitality plans to open Nobu Hotel and Restaurant San Juan in 2028, with 50 rooms, a street-level restaurant and bar, and a rooftop lounge and bar.

STONEY ginger beer trades its brown bottle for clear PET in South Africa

Coca-Cola's STONEY ginger beer is moving from brown to clear PET, starting with the 2.25-litre bottle. SPRITE already made the same switch from green.

Energy

Solar panels installed in 2020 could supply 21% of solar silver by 2035

Rystad Energy's recycling math, plus new panel-recycling techniques, turn retired clean-energy hardware into a supply source with a schedule.

Marketing Tech

ZoomInfo Agent Teams now available, no new contract required

A day after announcing its DoubleO.ai deal, ZoomInfo made Agent Teams available in GTM Studio. What the plays do and what to test first.

Packsize says brownfield packing can pay back in under two years

Industrial IoT

Matt Kelly says packaging automation pays back under two years

Matt Kelly and Joe Bradley say brownfield warehouses often miss packing until faster picking exposes the pack-out bottleneck.

Energy

Massachusetts queue delays put 2027 solar tax credits at risk

Catalyst Power says a Massachusetts project tied to a 2029 upgrade could lose 30% to 50% of ITC value before grid work is done.