New Brazil development law risks Amazon deforestation

A new law in Brazil could cause “significant environmental harm and human rights violations”, and represents a “rollback for decades” of protections in Brazil, including for the Amazon, a UN expert has told BBC News. Plans to speed up approvals for development projects were criticised by Astrid Puentes Riaño, a UN special rapporteur, as the…

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Generate suspicious transaction report drafts for financial compliance using generative AI

Financial regulations and compliance are constantly changing, and automation of compliance reporting has emerged as a game changer in the financial industry. Amazon Web Services (AWS) generative AI solutions offer a seamless and efficient approach to automate this reporting process. The integration of AWS generative AI into the compliance framework not only enhances efficiency but…

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exuding authority or petty and vindictive?

House of Commons This July, just like last July, the prime minister has decided to kick some of his MPs out of the Parliamentary Labour Party. A year ago, just weeks after winning the general election, seven Labour MPs had the whip removed, to use the Westminster jargon, having voted against the two-child benefit cap….

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Manufacturers ready for more demand

Chris Baraniuk Technology Reporter Chris Baraniuk Octopus makes heat pumps at its factory in Northern Ireland On the day I visit Octopus Energy’s heat pump factory in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, temperatures in London reached 29C. Some of the staff meeting me, who are usually based in the south of England, are beaming. It’s wonderful to…

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Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target

Mark Zuckerberg is on a warpath to recruit top talent in the AI field for his newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs. After trying to gut OpenAI (and successfully poaching several top researchers), he appears to have set his sights on his next target. More than a dozen people at Mira Murati’s 50-person startup, Thinking Machines…

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