Amazon wants software, not supervisors, to decide warehouse staffing; managers say the AI ‘overreacted to a brief slowdown’ and recommended cuts that didn’t reflect…

Amazon is quietly building software that decides where warehouse workers should go, and it’s running into a problem the company didn’t fully anticipate: the humans still in charge keep ignoring it. According to internal documents and Slack conversations obtained by Business Insider, some managers at Amazon’s fulfillment and sort centers have been overriding the AI…

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Hawaii: In 1955, Hawaii released a cannibal snail to control another invasive snail, but the predator instead helped push the islands’ rare native tree snails toward extinction

Still, the outlook for Hawaii’s snails is uncertain, symbolizing a new era in the conservation of endangered species. In 1955, wildlife officials in Hawaii released a meat-eating “cannibal” snail to control an invasive pest. But the plan went terribly wrong. Instead of eating the pest, the predator turned on the islands’ rare native tree snails,…

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‘AI will kill us all anyway’: Days before SpaceX IPO, former xAI engineer says he was fired after warning about Grok’s safety risks |

Just as investors prepare for what could become the largest IPO in history, a lawsuit from inside Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence empire has pulled back the curtain on a very different drama. At its centre is Devin Kim, a former engineer at xAI who claims he lost his job after repeatedly raising concerns about the…

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Ex-US President Joe Biden’s cancer ‘painful, spread into his bones and further’, says son Hunter

Joe Biden’s cancer has metastasized into his bones and further, said his son Hunter Former US President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread beyond his bones and is causing significant pain, his son Hunter Biden said in a BBC interview recently.“The cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and further,” Hunter Biden told BBC’s Newsnight,…

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Capex push stays despite fiscal stress: Govt to retain Rs 12.22 lakh crore spend amid global uncertainty

The government will continue with its planned capital expenditure of Rs 12.22 lakh crore in the current fiscal to sustain growth momentum despite rising fiscal stress linked to the ongoing Middle East conflict, a senior finance ministry official said on Friday, reported PTI.Expenditure Secretary V Vualnam said capital spending would remain a priority even as…

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US designates 2 Mexican cartels as foreign terror groups, expands crackdown on drug networks

The United States has designated Mexico’s Juarez Cartel and Los Viagras as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), expanding terrorism-related sanctions and legal penalties against the two criminal groups as part of President Donald Trump’s intensified campaign against Latin American cartels.The designation, published in the Federal Register on Thursday after being filed by the State Department a…

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