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Amazon has formed a new group within AWS dedicated to creating AI agents, systems that help people automate parts of their lives, Reuters reported on Tuesday. In an email to staff seen by Reuters, AWS CEO Matt Garman said agentic AI has the potential to be “the next multi-billion business for AWS.” A longtime AWS executive who previously led the company’s AI and data teams, Swami Sivasubramanian, will reportedly lead the new agentic AI group. Amazon seems to be the latest company to join the tech industry’s shift toward AI agents. Last week, Amazon showed off some agentic capabilities that…

Representatives from dozens of nonprofit organizations attending a major human rights conference in Taipei, Taiwan, last week woke up Thursday to devastating news. Over the previous night in Asia, the Donald Trump administration had abruptly announced it would end nearly 10,000 contracts and grants from the US State Department, including the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) as well as the US Agency for International Development, representing about 90 percent of USAID’s contracts overall.The announcement was the latest in a string of efforts by the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to curtail…

Deepgram has unveiled Nova-3 Medical, an AI speech-to-text (STT) model tailored for transcription in the demanding environment of healthcare. Designed to integrate seamlessly with existing clinical workflows, Nova-3 Medical aims to address the growing need for accurate and efficient transcription in the UK’s public NHS and private healthcare landscape. As electronic health records (EHRs), telemedicine, and digital health platforms become increasingly prevalent, the demand for reliable AI-powered transcription has never been higher. However, traditional speech-to-text models often struggle with the complex and specialised vocabulary used in clinical settings, leading to errors and “hallucinations” that can compromise patient care. Deepgram’s Nova-3…

It’s dangerous to have epiphanies while shaving. But in this case it was unavoidable: My epiphany was about shaving.For the past few weeks, my bathroom routine has been a little like George Clooney in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, minus the smelly Dapper Dan. I’ve been lathering shave soap with a brush and bowl, and shaving with an old-fashioned single-blade, single-edge, unmedicated safety razor.Specifically, I’m using the Leaf Thorn—a stylish and well-marketed and self-avowedly “aggressive” single-edge razor whose house blades are so wafer-thin the company imprints them with the words “I am not plastic.” The less aggressive Leaf Single Edge…

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Importance of SAP Training for Organizations SAP is one of the number one providers of business software solutions towards better work and data management in organizations across industries. When Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (SAP) was founded in June, 1972, it was centered to only A type or big businesses. However over a period of time, small and medium size companies adopted SAP towards achieving organizational goals and today SAP is the leader in enterprise applications. Various SAP modules have been developed over time focused on different areas. Professionals can become SAP Network Specialists, SAP FI/CO course for finance and accounting control, SAP…

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Budget and staffing cuts at the Food and Drug Administration orchestrated by President Donald Trump could prevent new drugs “from being developed, approved, or commercialized in a timely manner, or at all,” according to dozens of annual reports sent by pharmaceutical companies to the Securities and Exchange Commission in late February.“The Trump Administration has enacted several executive actions that could impose significant burdens on, or otherwise materially delay, the FDA’s ability to engage in routine regulatory and oversight activities,” says one filing from Xenon Pharmaceuticals, a company based in Canada that researches treatments for epilepsy. “If these executive actions impose…

The impacts have hit the National Park Service as well. One employee was poised to go on a trip to oversee road maintenance at a national monument when the change went into effect on February 20. “Unless I want to pay for it myself, I can’t go, I can’t pay for my hotel, my rental car, fuel for the car. Now I can’t carry out the mission,” the employee says. “Today, instead of focusing on other work, I’m focused on three different contingencies on how to handle this. Do I go? Do I call my engineering team and tell them…

The author of California’s SB 1047, the nation’s most controversial AI safety bill of 2024, is back with a new AI bill that could shake up Silicon Valley. California state Senator Scott Wiener introduced a new bill on Friday that would protect employees at leading AI labs, allowing them to speak out if they think their company’s AI systems could be a “critical risk” to society. The new bill, SB 53, would also create a public cloud computing cluster, called CalCompute, to give researchers and startups the necessary computing resources to develop AI that benefits the public. Wiener’s last AI…