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As the season progresses, Manchester United fans will be eagerly awaiting updates on the injured players and hoping for a speedy recovery for all those currently sidelined. It remains to be seen how quickly the squad will be back to full strength, but one thing is for certain – the team will be working tirelessly to overcome these injury setbacks and continue their pursuit of success on all fronts.
Overall, the potential merger with Ford in China and the second entry of Lincoln into the market offer a promising opportunity for the brand to revitalize its sales performance and establish a stronger foothold in the competitive luxury car segment. By leveraging the strengths of its parent company, redefining its brand image, implementing a comprehensive marketing strategy, and enhancing the customer experience, Lincoln can overcome its current challenges and embark on a path towards sustained success in the Chinese market.
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) must be a major force in attaining our economic development through nutrition. This was the conclusion that the Alyansa Agrikultura reached after the Dec. 11 hearing conducted jointly by five committees at the House of Representatives. The hearing’s agenda included the critical issue of nutrition. A lead resource person for this was Regis Chapman, head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Philippines. He pointed out that good nutrition is necessary for economic development and that the national school feeding program has a very high return on investment. This is supported by the World Bank when it stated: “For every dollar invested in addressing malnutrition, a return of $23 is expected. The economic benefits of nutrition far outweigh the costs of inaction.” Fortunately, our inaction was partly corrected last year with an P11-billion budget for school feeding last year. This was significantly increased by 50 percent to P16 billion this year. This past nutrition inaction has had disastrous consequences. The WFP website states: “The Philippines is among the countries grappling with extremely high learning poverty. Nine out of 10 children aged 10 years and older are unable to read and understand the age-appropriate text. The national learning poverty rate in the Philippines (9 percent) is much higher than the average for East Asia and the Pacific region (3 percent).” A key to solving this is identified: “Children require optimal nutrition to think, learn, and require skills that will fully develop their potential. The Philippines still faces the burden of malnutrition.” In the feeding program of the ADMU 616569 Foundation, which has so far covered 350,000 schoolchildren, three deficiencies were identified. First, when a feeding program targets only the malnourished, there is a social stigma on these participants, which limits the program’s effectiveness. Second, the national feeding program covered only the first half of 2023, losing the gains achieved then over the second half (thankfully, this was corrected for 2024). Third, the program must not only measure physical accomplishment, such as increases in weight and height, but also academic achievement in grade improvement for subjects such as mathematics, science, and English. However, what has been missing in the discussions is the emphasis on a circular economy. This means a model of production and consumption, which involves sharing, reusing and recycling. The materials are kept within the economy and reused to create further value. For the school feeding program, this means sourcing the food from the community instead of importing and relying on distant sources. The waste from the feeding program can then be used as fertilizer for the farmers. Other opportunities arise when using the circular economy approach. The WFP states that an innovative Home Grown School Feeding “promotes nutrition and learning for schoolchildren while linking with local smallholder farmers to procure food. It creates market opportunities for these farmers.” DA Undersecretary Cheryl Caballero is now taking steps for the DA to be more involved with the Department of Education’s (DepEd) school feeding program. The DA now plans to provide farmers who will provide the food for the program with assistance in production, technology transfer, logistics, marketing and possibly even credit. Subscribe to our daily newsletter By providing an email address. I agree to the Terms of Use and acknowledge that I have read the Privacy Policy . Caballero is now spearheading an effort to build on the current DepEd Gulayan sa Paaralan and LGU Gulayan sa Barangay with a supporting DA Gulayan sa Bayan. This will also use a mass-based household and community approach involving several government and private sector partners to address our severe malnutrition problem. This will link to the school feeding program to achieve our government’s stated objective “to expand the national school feeding program to reach 32 million children and create transformative change for 1.6 million smallholder farmers and families by 2028.” Indonesia plans to spend P266 billion on its school feeding program next year. This is more than 10 times our budget for the same objective. Our poverty learning rate is 91 percent, almost twice worse than Indonesia’s 53 percent. But if we are constrained by a low budget, the DA must work more closely with the DepEd using a circular economy framework to achieve physical and academic achievement, which must be paired with farmer improvement and empowerment. This way, our economic development will then be hastened.
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Netflix signs US broadcast deal with FIFA for the Women's World Cup in 2027 and 2031Overall, the match between Real Madrid and Juventus was a showcase of top-quality football and a testament to the skill and determination of both teams. As the season progresses, both sides will look to build on this performance and continue their pursuit of domestic and European glory. With players of such caliber on display, football fans can look forward to more thrilling encounters between these footballing giants in the future.One of the standout features of "Indiana Jones: The Ancient Ring" is its attention to historical detail and authenticity. The developers have gone to great lengths to recreate the atmosphere of the 1940s, from the architecture of the game's environments to the uniforms and equipment of the Nazi soldiers. Players will find themselves fully immersed in a world torn apart by war, where danger lurks around every corner and every decision matters.
One of my top shows of 2024 actually premiered in 2021. That’s because it took a couple of years for the Australian series “The Newsreader” to make its way Stateside. Alas, it was only legal to stream in the U.S. for a handful of weeks in September and then — pffft! — it was gone before most people had even heard of it. Well, I have great news. The show will be available once again, this time via Sundance Now (accessible through the AMC+ streaming platform), which has licensed the first season. Premiering Dec. 19, it stars Anna Torv (“Fringe”) and Sam Reid (“Interview with the Vampire”) as TV reporters in Melbourne, circa 1986. At the outset, Reid’s character exudes big loser energy, which is such an amusing contrast to his work as Lestat. The show is unexpectedly funny and terrifically Machiavellian in its portrayal of small-time office politics, and I’m thrilled audiences in the U.S. will get another shot at watching it. Overall, 2024 offered a modestly better lineup than usual, but I’m not sure it felt that way. Too often the good stuff got drowned out by Hollywood’s pointless and endless pursuit of rebooting intellectual property (no thank you, Apple’s “Presumed Innocent” ) and tendency to stretch a perfectly fine two-hour movie premise into a saggy multi-part series (“Presumed Innocent” again!). There were plenty of shows I liked that didn’t make this year’s list, including ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” and CBS’ “Ghosts” (it’s heartening to see the network sitcom format still thriving in the streaming era), as well as Netflix’s “A Man on the Inside” (Ted Danson’s charisma selling an unlikely premise) and Hulu’s “Interior Chinatown” (a high-concept parody of racial stereotypes and cop show tropes, even if it couldn’t sustain the idea over 10 episodes). Maybe it just felt like we were having more fun this year, with Netflix’s “The Perfect Couple” (Nicole Kidman leading a traditional manor house mystery reinterpreted with an American sensibility) and Hulu’s “Rivals” (the horniest show of 2024, delivered with a wink in the English countryside). I liked what I saw of Showtime’s espionage thriller “The Agency” (although the bulk of episodes were unavailable as of this writing). The deluge of remakes tends to make me cringe, but this year also saw a redo of Patricia Highsmith’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley” on Netflix that was far classier than most of what’s available on the streamer. Starring Andrew Scott, I found it cool to the touch, but the imagery stayed with me. Shot in black and white, it has an indelible visual language courtesy of director of photography Robert Elswit, whether capturing a crisp white business card against the worn grain wood of a bar top, or winding stairways that alternately suggest a yawning void or a trap. As always, if you missed any of these shows when they originally premiered — the aforementioned titles or the Top 10 listed below — they are all available to stream. Top 10 streaming and TV shows of 2024, in alphabetical order: The least cynical reality show on television remains as absorbing as ever in Season 4, thanks to the probing questions and insights from the show’s resident therapist, Dr. Orna Guralnik. Everything is so charged. And yet the show has a soothing effect, predicated on the idea that human behavior (and misery) isn’t mysterious or unchangeable. There’s something so optimistic in that outlook. Whether or not you relate to the people featured on “Couples Therapy” — or even like them as individuals — doesn’t matter as much as Guralnik’s reassuring presence. Created by and starring Diarra Kilpatrick, the eight-episode series defies categorization in all the right ways. Part missing-person mystery, part comedy about a school teacher coming to grips with her impending divorce, and part drama about long-buried secrets, it has tremendous style right from the start — sardonic, knowing and self-deprecating. The answers to the central mystery may not pack a satisfying punch by the end, but the road there is as entertaining and absorbing as they come. We need more shows like this. A comedy created by and starring Brian Jordan Alvarez (of the antic YouTube series “The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo”), the show has a sensibility all its own, despite a handful of misinformed people on social media calling it a ripoff of “Abbott Elementary.” There’s room enough in the TV landscape for more than one sitcom with a school setting and “English Teacher” has a wonderfully gimlet-eyed point of view of modern high school life. I’m amused that so much of its musical score is Gen-X coded, because that neither applies to Alvarez (a millennial) nor the fictional students he teaches. So why does the show feature everything from Laura Branigan’s “Gloria” to Exposé’s “Point of No Return”? The ’80s were awash in teen stories and maybe the show is using music from that era to invoke all those tropes in order to better subvert them. It’s a compelling idea! It’s streaming on Hulu and worth checking out if you haven’t already. A one-time tennis phenom accuses her former coach of coercing her into a sexual relationship in this British thriller. The intimacy between a coach and athlete often goes unexplored, in real-life or fictional contexts and that’s what the show interrogates: When does it go over the line? It’s smart, endlessly watchable and the kind of series that would likely find a larger audience were it available on a more popular streamer. There’s real tenderness in this show. Real cruelty, too. It’s a potent combination and the show’s third and strongest season won it an Emmy for best comedy. Jean Smart’s aging comic still looking for industry validation and Hannah Einbinder’s needy Gen-Z writer are trapped in an endless cycle of building trust that inevitably gives way to betrayal. Hollywood in a nutshell! “Hacks” is doing variations on this theme every season, but doing it in interesting ways. Nobody self-sabotages their way to success like these two. I was skeptical about the show when it premiered in 2022 . Vampire stories don’t interest me. And the 1994 movie adaptation starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt wasn’t a persuasive argument to the contrary. But great television is great television and nothing at the moment is better than this show. It was ignored by Emmy voters in its initial outing but let’s hope Season 2 gets the recognition it deserves. Under showrunner Rolin Jones, the adaptation of Anne Rice’s novels is richly written, thrillingly inhabited by its cast and so effortlessly funny with a framing device — the interview of the title — that is thick with intrigue and sly comedy. I wouldn’t categorize the series as horror. It’s not scary. But it is tonally self-assured and richly made, rarely focused on the hunt for dinner but on something far more interesting: The melodrama of vampire existence, with its combination of boredom and lust and tragedy and zingers. Already renewed for Season 3, it has an incredible cast (a thrilling late-career boost for Eric Bogosian) and is well worth catching up with if you haven’t already. It’s been too long since the pleasures of banter fueled a romantic comedy in the spirit of “When Harry Met Sally.” But it’s all over the place in “Nobody Wants This,” one of the best shows on Netflix in recent memory. Renewed for a second season, it stars Kristen Bell as a humorously caustic podcaster and Adam Brody as the cute and emotionally intelligent rabbi she falls for. On the downside, the show has some terrible notions about Jewish women that play into controlling and emasculating stereotypes. You hate to see it in such an otherwise sparkling comedy, because overall Bell and Brody have an easy touch that gives the comedy real buoyancy. I suspect few people saw this three-part series on PBS Masterpiece, but it features a terrific performance by Helena Bonham Carter playing the real-life, longtime British soap star Noele “Nolly” Gordon, who was unceremoniously sacked in 1981. She’s the kind of larger-than-life showbiz figure who is a bit ridiculous, a bit imperious, but also so much fun. The final stretch of her career is brought to life by Carter and this homage — to both the soap she starred in and the way she carried it on her back — is from Russell T. Davies (best known for the “Doctor Who” revival). For U.S. viewers unfamiliar with the show or Gordon, Carter’s performance has the benefit of not competing with a memory as it reanimates a slice of British pop culture history from the analog era. The year is 1600 and a stubborn British seaman piloting a Dutch ship washes ashore in Japan. That’s our entry point to this gorgeously shot story of power games and political maneuvering among feudal enemies. Adapted from James Clavell’s 1975 novel by the married team of Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks, it is filled with Emmy-winning performances (for Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada; the series itself also won best drama) and unlike something like HBO’s far clunkier “House of the Dragon,” which tackles similar themes, this feels like the rare show created by, and for, adults. The misfits and losers of Britain’s MI5 counterintelligence agency — collectively known as the slow horses, a sneering nickname that speaks to their perceived uselessness — remain as restless as ever in this adaptation of Mick Herron’s Slough House spy novels. As a series, “Slow Horses” doesn’t offer tightly plotted clockwork spy stories; think too deeply about any of the details and the whole thing threatens to fall apart. But on a scene-by-scene basis, the writing is a winning combination of wry and tension-filled, and the cumulative effect is wonderfully entertaining. Spies have to deal with petty office politics like everyone else! It’s also one of the few shows that has avoided the dreaded one- or two-year delay between seasons, which has become standard on streaming. Instead, it provides the kind of reliability — of its characters but also its storytelling intent — that has become increasingly rare. Nina Metz is a Tribune critic.Food photography has never been more popular — all you have to do is open TikTok or Instagram and you’ll be flooded with an array of recipe videos and stunning photographs of culinary creations. In a bid to elevate the art of food photography, FujiFilmAustralia has launched an exciting new experience for Sydneysiders — Foodtography Tours. Designed to help food lovers and content creators level up their social media game, the exclusive tours will run until November 30 with tickets available from $60. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today They offer a unique opportunity to explore some of Sydney’s hottest culinary spots while learning the ins and outs of capturing the perfect food shot. The initiative comes on the heels of new research conducted by FujiFilm revealing that 32 per cent of young Aussies struggle to snap good food photos, with many admitting they lacked the right tools or skills to do justice to their meals. 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In the upcoming 16th round of the English Premier League, all eyes will be on the highly anticipated Manchester derby between Manchester City and Manchester United. Adding to the excitement is the appointment of referee Anthony Taylor to officiate this crucial clash. Moreover, the "Tiger Vanguard" has received a stunning visual upgrade to match its enhanced moves, making it even more intimidating and awe-inspiring on the battlefield. Its ferocious appearance and majestic presence will leave players in awe as they prepare to take on this mighty opponent.The 25+ best Black Friday smartwatch and fitness tracker deals 2024: Sales are live nowInvestors have been hit with an increased amount of short reports from some of the most well-known names in the space, which could be due to high valuations for stocks or could be coming after the 2024 presidential election results . What Happened: Over the past three months, big names in the short report space have taken on small and large companies claiming high valuations, accounting irregularities and other reasons that the stocks should trade lower. Muddy Waters recently issued a short report on e.l.f. Beauty , which was the first report from the short seller in months. Kerrisdale Capital recently issued a short report on Oklo , its first published report since June. Hindenburg , who has been issuing short reports on a monthly basis was the talk of the investing world when they took on technology company Super Micro Computer SMCI , accusing the company of accounting, governance and compliance problems. While the call was not popular at the time, given the company's soaring valuation, the stock is now down 28% over the last month after some of the alleged claims from Hindenburg were amplified with the resignation of the company's independent auditor. Citron Research published an update on their Geo Group bullish case in September, the last post made on the company's website. However, the firm led by Andrew Left has been active on social media, with a post this week announcing the firm had shorted shares of the high-flying software company and Bitcoin BTC/USD holder MicroStrategy Inc MSTR . The announcement of the short report by Left comes as the investor recently pleaded not guilty to fraud charges in July. Along with the recent growth of short reports from the firms who hadn't published in awhile, there are also regular short reports coming monthly from Grizzly Research and bi-weekly reports from The Bear Cave. Read Also: ‘Dead Company Walking’: Short Seller Sets Sights On ViaSat, Expects Elon Musk’s Starlink To Take Share After Trump Win Why It's Important: While short reports have been a regular fixture for investors for years, both from investors who are betting against the stocks themselves with their own short positions, newer reports from the likes of The Bear Cave by Edwin Dorsey come from an investor who claims to never take stakes in the companies he writes about. Whether short reports are being done to make profit betting against the stock or to provide public information for investors to make their own decisions on investments, the big question is why the increase in reports over the last several months. There's likely two big reasons why. The first big reason for the increase could be because of the narrative that short sellers and short reports will be targeted by the new White House administration. Muddy Waters' CEO Carson Block said Elon Musk and Donald Trump have both publicly criticized short sellers in the past. "We've already had some rhetoric, we might have some more anti-short seller rhetoric," Block told Bloomberg . Block said Republican-led administrations are often lighter on enforcement, but he's not sure if Trump will roll back regulations. "It is a question as to who is going to head the SEC," Block added. The comment comes as SEC Chairman Gary Gensler recently announced he will step down on Trump's inauguration day, ahead of the assumption that Trump was going to replace him with a new leader. Trump Media & Technology Group DJT , which was co-founded by Trump, has targeted short sellers and alleged that naked short selling is the reason the stock has fallen in price several times. Musk, who has often publicly criticized short sellers, recently said he wanted to "obliterate" short sellers. The other reason for the increased short report volume could be due to stock market indexes trading near all-time highs and strong year-to-date gains. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY , which tracks the S&P 500, is up 26.0% year-to-date. This return is currently the fourth best in the last 10 years and the ETF could still pass the returns of 26.2% (2023), 28.8% (2021) and 31.2% (2019) to move up the list. Read Next: Musk, Ramaswamy Should Target TransDigm In Budget Cuts, Short Report Says: ‘Target #1’ For D.O.G.E. Image: Shutterstock © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
As Sudan continues on its path towards democracy, the legacy of Omar al-Bashir looms large over the country. His rule, marked by repression and violence, has left deep scars on Sudanese society, which will take time to heal. While Bashir's era may be over, the challenges facing Sudan remain daunting, requiring strong leadership and a commitment to justice and reconciliation.CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) — Carter Welling's 21 points helped Utah Valley defeat West Georgia 77-74 on Tuesday night. Welling had 11 rebounds for the Wolverines (4-1). Trevan Leonhardt added 11 points while going 4 of 5 from the field while they also had three steals. Dominick Nelson shot 3 of 11 from the field and 4 of 7 from the free-throw line to finish with 10 points, while adding six rebounds. Shelton Williams-Dryden finished with 18 points for the Wolves (0-7). Kyric Davis added 16 points and four blocks for West Georgia. Malcolm Noel had 14 points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .In its response to the incident, Alibaba outlined the steps taken to mitigate the impact of the fire on its operations. The company confirmed that backup systems and data redundancy measures were in place to ensure continuity of service and data protection. Alibaba also stated that it was working closely with its customers to assess any potential data loss or disruption to services and to provide support in restoring operations.
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AI is ahead of its time. For many organizations, the push to adopt full-blown cloud-native technologies (or at least those stemming from public cloud services, rather than a private cloud or hybrid halfway house) is still quite a leap. To suggest that cloud is a ubiquitous de facto standard for many application types is something of an exaggeration, even though migration and penetration is indeed moving on an upward trajectory (if not quite exponentially). With that grounding in mind, can we perhaps suggest that a chasm leap to productionalized, functional AI-based applications is also still some way off? Suitably sanguine yet technically realistic given his experience and position on this matter is Swami Sivasubramanian , VP for AI and data at AWS. Sivasubramanian suggests that as generative AI now transitions to production systems in 2025, early adopters are reaping rewards like accelerated productivity and customer experiences. So then, how do software engineers build this stuff? How To Build AI Applications “The lines between data analytics and machine learning are blurring, reshaping the way we access and interact with our data, create predictions with ML and build the next wave of foundation models," suggests Sivasubramanian. “Through a convergence of tools, data and AI, we are making it easier for ML scientists, data engineers and developers to access all they need to build generative AI applications in a single place, with principles like security and privacy built in from the start. This has allowed organizations of all sizes and across industries to unlock productivity improvements, delivering improved experiences and realizing substantial cost reductions by leveraging our services for generative AI.” But there are some practical considerations to bring into question here i.e. when it comes to building and operating modern data strategies, at what level should architectural provisioning for data ingestion be part process of this and, are organizations ready to swallow what could be a relatively big spike in their data ingestion throughput, requirement and responsibility? “ Building generative AI models requires a data ingestion infrastructure that can scale effectively with demand. Think of it like a highway that needs to accommodate fluctuating traffic patterns - if it’s too narrow, bottlenecks will form,” explained Sivasubramanian. “For organizations, this means planning data ingestion pipelines that not only handle current volumes but also adapt to future needs. With AWS, we’ve created flexible tools like AWS Glue for data preparation and integration, Amazon Kinesis for real-time streaming, Amazon S3 for durable storage to build data lakes and Amazon Redshift for data warehousing. These services scale as demand grows, so customers can ingest, manage and transform data efficiently and maintain control over costs and performance. By provisioning architecture that’s adaptable and cost-effective, businesses can support the growing data needs of AI-driven applications without getting bogged down in complexity.” Synthetic Data Is Getting Real As we have been analyzing repeatedly this year, the use of synthetic data is also surfacing as an important element in the total data pipeline, especially in area where sensitive personal information is involved or where data generation sources are hard to find (such is rare medical event data) and where data diversity is limited. It’s not surprising to see an organization as expansive as AWS working in this space. This approach allows for safer experimentation, faster model training and more equitable AI development. By incorporating synthetic data, we can accelerate model creation, reduce costs and build more inclusive AI solutions. However, advises Sivasubramanian, synthetic data is not a panacea as fully relying on it to train a model can potentially lead to "model loss" in his view. So, we need to have the right mix. With all these factors to juggle, how does the AWS AI leader think we can push past prototypes and start to productize AI? “Today, the tipping point for ‘productionizing’ AI is about providing organizations with robust, scalable and secure tools that integrate into existing workflows while maintaining high standards of governance. Rapid advancements in AI technology are transforming AI from an experimental tool into a production-ready, business-critical capability,” said Sivasubramanian. “At AWS, we focus on making AI not only more powerful but also practical, so it can be reliably deployed across industries. Our scalable infrastructure powered by Traininum and GPU instances, advanced model training powered by Amazon SageMaker and easy application development using Amazon Bedrock and generative AI assistants like Amazon Q allows organizations to integrate AI into real-world use cases, moving beyond prototypes into full-scale deployment.” The AWS team say that we’re now seeing “real world AI” being used in scenarios stretching from software development acceleration to supply chain optimization and customer support enhancement. The key enablers are said to be trust, cost-efficiency and enterprise-grade performance. Sivasubramanian doesn’t think the reason for this tipping point is a single chatbot or model, it’s a wider total play that encompasses a whole variety of factors. He suggests that generative AI application development requires developers to know how to pick the large language models they need and then have the competency to customize them with their own data, figure out the guardrails and then understand how to build AI agents. Amazon Q Developer “Ultimately, generative AI needs to meet people where they are working. That's why we launched Amazon Q. With Amazon Q Developer, we provide the a coding assistant which is used by Accenture, BT Group and National Australia Bank, amongst others. Additionally, with Amazon Q Business, business analysts can analyze data. For instance, Smarsheet can enable more than 3,000 workers to get insights from their data using Q without writing a single line of code,” said Sivasubramanian. “Generative AI is set to reshape the developer experience and we’re advancing quickly to make that transformation a reality. Amazon Q Developer gives organizations an AI-powered assistant that supports all phases of software development. It boosts productivity by generating code, providing real-time recommendations and enabling efficient workflows like debugging, security scanning and resource optimization across the AWS ecosystem.” Software developers are able to customize Amazon Q with their organization’s own codebase to get more relevant recommendations, which seems to be a pretty logical feature. That data is never shared with AI model providers or used to train the underlying models and this is a key aspect of any enterprise-grade solution. Also here we come into the realm of “inline chat functions” designed to enhance productivity in developer workflows, a function that is also powered by generative AI. But developers need contextual support right where they work i.e. whether in their integrated development environment, the AWS Management Console, or directly within code repositories. So Amazon Q Developer’s inline chat functions let developers ask questions, request code suggestions, troubleshoot issues, or perform environment within the same workflow and tools. This is said to reduce cognitive load and help developers make faster, more informed decisions. AWS also recently launched an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Lambda developers, that sounds fairly technical, so is there a more digestible explanation of this technology that we need to take on board? “ The enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Lambda is an exciting development because it makes it far easier and faster for developers to build, test and deploy their applications directly from their local environment,” enthused Sivasubramanian. “This update brings AWS Lambda closer to the developer’s workflow, letting them code and debug in a familiar setup without needing to constantly switch between their local machine and the cloud. This means developers can test their code locally, troubleshoot issues quickly and iterate faster... all of which lead to shorter development cycles and quicker time to market.” From a business perspective, AWS says that this improvement helps organizations be more agile and efficient, as it reduces downtime, accelerates feature development and ensures a smoother transition to production. Plus, since it works with the AWS ecosystem, teams can take get additional scalability and security. No More Developers? There’s a huge amount of smart tooling for programmers on offer here, any suggestion that AI will replace coding and coders as a profession seems somewhat premature and unlikely. Sivasubramanian agrees with this sentiment and says that generative AI assistants when done right, (he again brings up Amazon Q as his favorite illustrative example) will come to take tasks that developers don't want to do. So in more realistic terms, we’ll see AI coding robots will handle things like software upgrades, security scans and writing tests. Moreover, with generative AI assistants we can perhaps look forward to enabling everyone (including business analysts) to be deep experts in data and not have to wait for their data engineers or business intelligence experts to get them answers. “While some jobs will inevitably become obsolete, using AI tools will transform the way people work – for the better. The shift we’re seeing is about eliminating the undifferentiated heavy lifting so that developers spend less time on tedious, time-consuming work and have more time to focus on strategic and creative work. This shift is about augmenting developers’ capabilities. AI will open up new opportunities for developers to drive innovation at a faster pace. This is about equipping developers with better tools to enhance their work,” said Sivasubramanian. “Additionally, generative AI will democratize IT-related tasks because no-code and low-code tools will enable more tech-adjacent roles like sales, HR and marketing with the ability to create chatbots, analyze and summarize data, etc. We encourage organizations to upskill and reskill people to offset job loss as much as possible.” AI As A Functionality, Eventually As we know then, AI discussions are ubiquitous. Every technology vendor wants as much “share of voice” and there’s a lot of potential “AI washing” out there with what appears to be the entire tech trade now bolting on (sorry, they’d prefer us to say “innovating”) new AI services into their existing platform and tools. This landgrab throws up obvious questions i.e. surely not every database specialist, ERP vendor or CRM, HR and FinOps player can have all constructed new AI services at an advanced level that operates safely, without bias and within appropriate guardrails and governance, right? Given the level of prototyping and productization pandemonium, it is perhaps worthwhile listening to a player as large as AWS to attempt to get a realistic view on where we really are right now with AI. Sivasubramanian has said that AI is already on its way to becoming embedded functionality and the transition is happening faster than many realize. “At AWS, we’re focused on integrating AI into everyday workflows, where it can provide real, tangible value without requiring special attention or complex setups. We see this happening in applications like (and I know I’ve mentioned this tool already) Amazon Q Developer, where AI is already helping developers with tasks like code generation, debugging and even security scanning - all with minimal friction,” concluded Sivasubramanian, in a private AI deep dive for press & analysts this month. “In other industries, AI is powering customer support chatbots and virtual assistants - helping organizations address inquiries instantly and at scale - or handling predictive fraud detection in finance, where it identifies and flags potential risks in real-time. As AI continues to evolve, it will become more deeply embedded in business processes, powering everything from customer support to supply chain optimisation,” In a few years, he believes AI will be ubiquitous in the background of many applications, working quietly and seamlessly to improve user experiences, drive efficiency and help organizations make data-driven decisions. 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