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Updated Apr 18, 2026, 2:01 PM GMT Employees inside the Voyager building at Nvidia headquarters in Silicon Valley Bloomberg/Getty Images A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. A new side project, Lunches.fyi, takes the AI tooling craze in a lighter direction, ranking tech companies not by market cap, but by cafeteria quality. It was built by coding prankster Riley Walz in about an hour using voice-dictated commands into OpenAI's Codex (a task he says might

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