> Especially since McD is moving their POC to GCP McD has been using GCP for sometime now so it's unrelated to this fiasco [0] The IBM-McD Voice Assistant pro

> Especially since McD is moving their POC to GCP McD has been using GCP for sometime now so it's unrelated to this fiasco [0] The IBM-McD Voice Assistant project was actually a startup that McD acquired in 2019 that was sold to IBM in 2021 [1][2], and was even a thread on HN a couple years ago [3] [0] - https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/mcd-google-cloud-announce-partnership.html https://corporate.mcdonalds.com/corpmcd/our-stories/article/... [1] - https://www.verdictfoodservice.com/news/ibm-mcdonalds-mcd/ https://www.verdictfoodservice.com/news/ibm-mcdonalds-mcd/ [2] - https://web.archive.org/web/20180902173557/https://www.apprente.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180902173557/https://www.appre... [3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18151768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18151768