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Starbucks quietly retired its AI agent just months after deployment after it miscounted coffee shop inventories and slowed down baristas
“It started off not particularly accurate and got less accurate over time,” one Starbucks employee told Fortune.
Source Fortune Story Brief Updated May 28, 2026
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“It started off not particularly accurate and got less accurate over time,” one Starbucks employee told Fortune.
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