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David Beckham made his wife Victoria her favoured breakfast on Tuesday. 

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times (via Ars Technica): Amazon employees are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks in a bid to show managers they are using the technology more frequently. The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house "MeshClaw" product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on a user's behalf, according to three people familiar with the matter. Some employees said colleagues were using the software to automate additional, unnecessary AI activity to increase their consumption of tokens -- units of data processed by models. They said the move reflected pressure to adopt the technology after Amazon introduced targets for more than 80 percent of developers to use AI each week, and earlier this year began tracking AI token consumption on internal leader boards. "There is just so much pressure to use these tools," one Amazon employee told the FT. "Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximize their token usage." Amazon has told employees that the AI token statistics would not be used in performance evaluations. But several staff members said they believed managers were monitoring the data. "Managers are looking at it," said another current employee. "When they track usage it creates perverse incentives and some people are very competitive about it."

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RTÉ will air the sitcom's iconic 1996 episode 'A Song For Europe', in which priests Ted and Dougal enter the 'Eurosong' contest, a parody of Eurovision, to represent Ireland.

RSL Media expands machine-readable licensing rules to cover AI use of identities and creative works

Alan Jones, 59, from Merseyside, was dismissed by Pilkington UK Limited after the company claimed he had been carrying out work for another employer while signed off sick.

Harrison Hanley was holidaying on the Spanish island on April 25 when his body was discovered at the Parque Santiago 2 apartment complex on the Avenida Rafael Puig Lluvina.

Camilla, 77, met with campaigner Hetti Barkworth-Nanton, a close friend of Joanna Simpson, 46, who was murdered by her estranged husband Robert Brown at the family home in 2010.

KITT, which has been sitting in the Volo Museum in Illinois was accused of going 36 mph in a 25 mph school zone in New York City.

An employment tribunal has ruled partially in favour of Amrit Bansal-McNulty, a half-Indian footballer who was called a 'curry muncher' by ex-manager John Yems. 

Charles's aides reportedly voiced fears to No10 about the impartial monarch being dragged into a Labour row over who should be party leader and Prime Minister.

The suspect was detained at his home on April 11 following a complaint made to police about an incident in London in January. He was then taken into custody at a police station.

Stan and Wallis were first romantically linked since May 2022 and have kept their relationship relatively private.

Google is teasing a new line of "Googlebook" laptops for this fall, powered by a new Android-and-ChromeOS-derived operating system that will run Chrome, Android apps, phone-connected apps and files, and deeply integrated Gemini features. The company says Chromebooks will continue "after the launch of Googlebook" and "...all Chromebooks will continue to receive support through their device's existing date commitment." The Verge reports: "We'll have more to share on the exact OS branding later this year," Peter Du of Google's global communications team tells The Verge. [...] Googlebooks will have a Magic Pointer feature that offers contextual suggestions whenever you shake your cursor and point it at something on the screen. Google's examples include setting up a meeting by pointing at a date in an email or selecting images of furniture and a living space to visualize them together. Beyond your mouse pointer, Googlebooks will also feature the custom AI-created widgets that Google is also debuting today for Android phones and Wear OS smartwatches. I don't know what kind of horrors people will be able to make into widgets, but Google gives the example of making one to organize your flights, hotel information, restaurant reservations, and another for creating a countdown timer for an upcoming family reunion. (It's always flights, hotels, and restaurants, isn't it?) While there are many outstanding questions to be answered about Googlebooks, the biggest and most obvious ones are what will these laptops look like, what chips will be in them, and what will they cost? We've got none of that so far. Google only has some initial renders of a mysterious Googlebook and the promise that it's working with Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to make the first models. There are no model names. No specs. Nada. Google isn't even saying if the laptop in its renders is made by a partner or a tease of some first-party Pixel-like Googlebook to come or is just a cool mockup. The one distinct hardware feature shown, the bar of glowing Google-colored light, will be a signature of all Googlebooks. (Sure, bring on the RGB. Why not?)

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In recent days, the former deputy prime minister has signalled she could fall in behind Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham in any leadership contest.

The veteran 70-year-old actor - who recently opened up about his rare health condition -  explained why he does not use his Hollywood platform to force his political or personal beliefs on others.

UK drone boats and Typhoon jets will be deployed to the Gulf in the aftermath of a peace deal over the Strait of Hormuz. The commitments were confirmed by the Defence Secretary last night.

A baby died after being 'smothered' and 'suffering non-accidental trauma and sexual abuse' by a teacher who was adopting him, a court heard on Tuesday.

The Saudi Arabia resident was seen in a brown and beige string bikini while posing at a white house by the ocean. She was also seen in a skimpy brown bikini.

Valdo Calocane, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020, fatally stabbed Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates in Nottingham in 2023, after 'red flags' were missed.

Snuggling comfortably in his mother's fur, newborn Atty was welcomed to the world just two days ago just as her namesake turned 100.