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Amazon’s cloud business is planning a major revamp of its AI application strategy, with a new bundled service, Business Insider has learned.Internally called Q Business Suite (QBS), the new service is described as a “unified workspace” that combines business intelligence and generative AI capabilities from existing Amazon tools such as QuickSight, Q Business, and Q Apps, according to internal documents obtained by BI.QuickSight is Amazon Web Services’s data visualization software, and Q Business is the company’s flagship AI chatbot service. Q Apps lets users create generative AI-powered apps, using natural language and company data.Amazon even considered the option to “retire”…
Recent years of rolling layoffs in tech have some Gen Z tech workers stressed — but not deterred.”I feel like everyone feels a bit stressed that there are layoffs,” said Merc Heredia-Ferran, a 26-year-old brand marketer at Google who joined the company last year. “I get sent articles that Google laid off people that I didn’t even know about, like I’m reading that in the news.”The job market has hit Gen Z hard. While older millennials faced higher unemployment rates following the Great Recession compared to Gen Z now, Gen Z experiences unique challenges such as increased Big Tech cost-cutting…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Game 6 of the NBA Finals had been over for only about 10 or 15 minutes, and the Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder were turning the page. What happened over the previous couple of hours in Indianapolis had already been deemed irrelevant.The only thing on their minds: Game 7.“A privilege,” Thunder coach Mark Daigneault said.“A great privilege,” Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said.A back-and-forth title matchup — Indiana led 1-0 and 2-1, Oklahoma City led 3-2 — will end on Sunday night with an ultimate game, the first winner-take-all contest in the NBA Finals since 2016.…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Editor’s note: Shift Your Mindset is an occasional series from CNN’s Life, But Better team. We talk to experts about how to do things differently to live a better life. Anti-aging aspirations have turned longevity products and services into a wellness-industry gold mine. But who wants to add on years only to spend them struggling to move, dependent on others and unable to enjoy basic activities? What’s the point of sticking around longer if you can’t actually live life? Building and maintaining strength and mobility helps preserve the independence you need to age with dignity —…
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Former NBA center Vlade Divac underwent emergency surgery after breaking a hip in a fall from his motorcycle in Montenegro, doctors said Friday.The accident happened Thursday on a road near the Montenegrin Adriatic Sea coast. Hospital officials said the 57-year-old Divac sustained a fracture and that an artificial hip was implanted.“During the day, a surgical procedure was performed,” said Ljubica Mitrovic, a spokeswoman of the hospital in the town of Risan. “He is in a stable general and physical condition and is under a careful supervision of the medical staff.”The 7-foot-1 (2.16m) Serbian center started and…
LIRA, Uganda (AP) — The bicycle parked in Lucy Abalo’s compound doesn’t belong to her. Any one of the hundreds of people in her village can show up and ask to use it.A man might wish to take his pregnant wife for a checkup. A woman might need transport to pick up HIV medication. An injured child might need a trip to a hospital.“The goodness about this bike,” Abalo said, is its availability to all.She is one of dozens of “village doctors” in rural Uganda who recently were supplied with the Buffalo Bicycle, so called because its steel parts are…
ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Football players were running, throwing, catching, blocking and tackling — with a steady stream of trash talk between whistles — as the sun set on a recent night in the Motor City.Other banged-up athletes stood or sat on benches behind each sideline, ailing from a torn calf and a torn knee ligament, unable to play in a game watched by about 100 fans cheering for the home team and 11 people backing the visiting squad from Canada.While the action and the setting was not unusual, the gender of the players did stand out. “We do…
The billionaire slated to take over the controlling interest in the Los Angeles Lakers has built a career leading businesses investing in everything from sports franchises to artificial intelligence.Mark Walter is CEO of the global investment and advisory company Guggenheim Partners, which is estimated to have more than $325 billion in assets. He’s also co-founder and CEO of holding company TWG Global.Forbes estimates Walter’s net worth is $6.1 billion. The publication ranked him at No. 216 on its Forbes 400 list last year.Walter received an undergraduate degree in business administration from Creighton University and a law degree from Northwestern University,…
KAKUMA, Kenya (AP) — Martin Komol sighs as he inspects his cracked, mud-walled house that is one rain away from fully collapsing. Nothing seems to last for him and 300,000 other refugees in this remote Kakuma camp in Kenya — now, not even food rations.Funding for the U.N. World Food Program has dropped after the Trump administration paused support in March, part of the widespread dismantling of foreign aid by the United States, once the world’s biggest donor.That means Komol, a widowed father of five from Uganda, has been living on handouts from neighbors since his latest monthly ration ran…
Country music star Kelsea Ballerini says her fitness goals have changed since she entered her 30s.In her 20s, her focus was to look good. Now, it’s all about being healthy.She practices Pilates, enjoys walking, and follows the 80/20 diet rule.In her 20s, Kelsea Ballerini says she worked out to look good. Now that she’s in her 30s, it’s all about feeling good — physically, mentally, and emotionally.In an interview with People published on Wednesday, the country music star spoke about how her approach to fitness has changed over the years.”Especially in my early twenties and mid-twenties, the idea of fitness…