Milkshakes and lattes to face sugar tax in UK

Pre-packaged milkshakes and coffees that are high in sugar will be hit with an extra tax from 2028, after the government said it was extending the tax on fizzy drinks to include milk-based products. “This government will not look away as children get unhealthier,” Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said in Parliament. That…

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What you need to know

Getty Images Milkshakes and lattes are expected to be included in the government’s sugar tax scheme for the first time in the UK in a renewed attempt to help tackle obesity. The sugar tax, known formally as the soft drinks industry levy (SDIL), is a tax on pre-packaged drinks such as those sold in cans…

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Accelerate generative AI innovation in Canada with Amazon Bedrock cross-Region inference

Generative AI has created unprecedented opportunities for Canadian organizations to transform their operations and customer experiences. We are excited to announce that customers in Canada can now access advanced foundation models including Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 on Amazon Bedrock through cross-Region inference (CRIS). This post explores how Canadian organizations can use…

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Power up your ML workflows with interactive IDEs on SageMaker HyperPod

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod clusters with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) orchestration now support creating and managing interactive development environments such as JupyterLab and open source Visual Studio Code, streamlining the ML development lifecycle by providing managed environments for familiar tools to data scientists. This feature introduces a new add-on called Amazon SageMaker Spaces for AI developers to create and…

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