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Building a multi-agent voice assistant with Amazon Nova Sonic and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Author7 hours ago016 mins

Amazon Nova Sonic is a foundation model that creates natural, human-like speech-to-speech conversations for generative AI applications, allowing users to interact with AI through voice in real-time, with capabilities for understanding tone, enabling natural flow, and performing actions. Multi-agent architecture offers a modular, robust, and scalable design pattern for production-level voice assistants. This blog post…

Primark’s Gran Vía store in Madrid contributed €83 million to Spain’s GDP in 2024

Author8 hours ago08 mins

Published October 21, 2025 In 2015, with the reverberations of the early‑2000s economic crisis still being keenly felt in retail, Irish low‑cost fashion brand Primark chose to step out of Spanish shopping centres, its natural habitat until then, and set up shop at 32 Gran Vía in Madrid, in a now century‑old building that originally…

How Google helps protect you from scams

Author8 hours ago02 mins

The threat of online scams and fraud is an ever-present reality in our connected world, and the volume of scams is only growing. Nearly 60% of people globally have experienced a scam in the last year. Yet while increased connectivity has certainly fueled this rise in scams, the bigger shift is this: widespread access to…

Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work?

Author8 hours ago04 mins

At the end of August, the AI company Anthropic announced that its chatbot Claude wouldn’t help anyone build a nuclear weapon. According to Anthropic, it had partnered with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to make sure Claude wouldn’t spill nuclear secrets. The manufacture of nuclear weapons is both…

Balenciaga unveils Pierpaolo Piccioli’s first campaign

Author8 hours ago03 mins

Published October 21, 2025 Balenciaga unveiled on Thursday its first campaign under newly appointed creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli, marking the beginning of a new era for the French fashion house. Balenciaga unveils Pierpaolo Piccioli’s first campaign. – Balenciaga Following Piccioli’s highly anticipated runway debut earlier this month, the campaign is brought to life through still…

‘I never thought I’d make it to this age’

Author9 hours ago010 mins

BBC 100-year-old May O’Shea survived the blitz during World War Two “I never thought I’d make it to this age,” says 100-year-old May O’Shea. “I thought I would have died by now.” May’s milestone is still one very few people achieve despite the number of centenarians in the UK doubling over the past 20 years….

Prada’s Lorenzo Bertelli on the Versace deal, the luxury industry’s challenges, and more

Author9 hours ago09 mins

Translated by Nicola Mira Published October 21, 2025 Lorenzo Bertelli, CMO and head of CSR for the Prada group, spoke at a conference organised by Deloitte at their Milan corporate headquarters on October 21. Bertelli covered a wide range of subjects, starting with his joining the group. “I was never pressured to work in the family…

Zebra acquires retail equipment specialist Elo

Author9 hours ago02 mins

Published October 21, 2025 US group Zebra, which specialises in point-of-sale solutions and scanners, has announced its acquisition of California-based Elo Touch Solutions, a specialist in retail terminals. Zebra The acquisition of Elo, majority-owned by Crestview Partners since 2018, will expand Zebra’s total addressable market to $8 billion. The value of the transaction has not been…

Retailers are curbing serial returners – report

Author9 hours ago04 mins

Published October 21, 2025 A reset in fashion retailers’ returns rules has seen a reduction in related traffic drop by a quarter. The welcome news to combat the “£6.6 billion thorn in the side” by delivery specialist ZigZag and Retail Economics means the numbers from serial returners has dropped from 11% to 8%, saving retailers a…

AI Is Changing What High School STEM Students Study

Author9 hours ago05 mins

In the early 2010s, nearly every STEM-savvy college-bound kid heard the same advice: Learn to code. Python was the new Latin. Computer science was the ticket to a stable, well-paid, future-proof life. But in 2025, the glow has dimmed. “Learn to code” now sounds a little like “learn shorthand.” Teenagers still want jobs in tech,…