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Images of police officers and FBI agents outside a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia where an employee shot and killed six people before turning the pistol on himself, according to authorities. IMAGES
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson Former Amazon employees alongside other organizers protested in front of Jeff Bezos' Beverly Hills home on Sunday. Demonstrators had a list of demands, including "adequate protective equipment and cleaning supplies, as well as an increase of $2 per hour for hazard pay," the Los Angeles Times reported. While workers have been protesting for months and some have even sued, Amazon has maintained that it's been taking good care of its employees. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Protesters led by a former assistant manager at Amazon took their frustrations to the gates of Jeff Bezos' home in Beverly Hills, California over the weekend.
Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES
The director of Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA), Graeme Biggar, says the agency has disrupted ransomware specialist LockBit "as part of an international task force of 10 countries". LockBit was targeted as part of a dedicated taskforce called Operation Cronos involving the NCA working with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and agencies in nine other countries. SOUNDBITE
At CES, the BMW Group and Amazon showcase voice assistant LLM capabilities based on a current development project that the companies are working on in preparation for a potential series rollout. This makes the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant the ultimate vehicle expert thanks to generative AI that is powered by the Alexa LLM. At CES, visitors experience how the voice assistant provides quick instructions and answers about vehicle functions in a much more human, conversation-like manner, while at the same time being able to control some vehicle functions.The BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant has been using artificial intelligence for speech processing for a long time and this demo is the latest proof point of the continued innovation BMW and its partners are bringing to customers. Complex processing capabilities, which enable human-like interactions and dialogs, have not yet been integrated into BMW series vehicles. Such capabilities are now made possible by LLMs, which are AI models that are designed to process human language at a high level and generate responses accordingly. The BMW Group is also taking careful steps to build a safe and trusted experience for customers, and continues to test and iterate these LLM capabilities over time with its partners.Since the introduction of the first BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant in 2018, language interaction has been an essential part of BMW iDrive. Today, the voice assistant gives customers control over many vehicle functions so that they can keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road. Leveraging Amazon’s Alexa Custom Assistant — a solution that is based on Alexa technology and enables companies to create their own customized voice assistant — the next-generation of the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant will soon become more powerful over the course of the year in vehicles with BMW Operating System 9.