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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City, U.S., February 26, 2025. Brendan Mcdermid | ReutersAmazon, in an effort to infuse generative artificial intelligence across a wider swath of its e-commerce universe, recently began testing a shopping assistant and a health-focused chatbot with a subset of users.AI has become a major area of investment across Amazon, including in its retail, cloud computing, devices and health-care businesses. Within the retail business, Amazon has already launched a shopping chatbot, an AI assistant for sellers and AI shopping guides.The new services Amazon is testing appeared on its…

Salt Lake City has become a thriving metropolis with a booming population and plenty of job opportunities in banking and tech.Many residents, like former Gov. Michael Leavitt, point to the 2002 Winter Olympics as the catalyst for the city’s transformation.  “A lot of good things came together at the right time. We had a growing population. Tech was becoming — it was in its infancy and was expanding. A startup culture was important,” Leavitt said. “We were in the position to be able to educate a lot of engineers at the right time, and then to be able to close that…

Join Fox News for access to this content Plus special access to select articles and other premium content with your account – free of charge. By entering your email and pushing continue, you are agreeing to Fox News’ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive. Please enter a valid email address. Having trouble? Click here. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained a Tufts University student in Somerville, Massachusetts, according to the agency and a statement from university President Sunil Kumar.ICE confirmed Rumeysa Ozturk’s detention to Fox News on Wednesday. She is originally from…

A 15-year-old girl is dead after she was struck by a driver in Scarborough on Wednesday morning, police say. Toronto police said they were called to the area of Bridley Drive and Brimwood Boulevard, not far from Finch Avenue and McCowan Road in Scarborough, just before 10 a.m. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Officers and paramedics rushed to the scene where a female pedestrian had been struck by a vehicle. Police said the driver remained at the scene, where the…

League or Union? Kangaroos or Wallabies? Liverpool or Twickenham?…Rugby lovers are set to be handed an unprecedented ‘decisions, decisions’ moment when Australia face England in two mouth-watering Ashes duels in the different codes 275km apart at the very same time this November.The confirmation of the Kangaroos itinerary to England in October and November in the first three-Test rugby league ‘Ashes’ series since 2003 has brought delight in both countries that one of the great rivalries in world sport is being rekindled after 22 years.But there’ll be disappointment that the second of the three Tests will be played at Everton’s new…

British authorities issued a record fine against one of the country’s universities on Wednesday for failing to “uphold the freedom of speech and academic freedom,” an escalation in the debate over student and staff rights on campus.The Office for Students, the regulator for higher education in England, imposed a penalty of 585,000 pounds, more than $755,000, on the University of Sussex. The fine followed an investigation into the university that began more than three years ago after Kathleen Stock, a philosophy professor, resigned saying that she had faced a campaign of harassment from students and activists over her views on…

Trump administration officials say the Atlantic “conceded” that its article providing a firsthand account of a Signal group chat involving the nation’s top national security leaders discussing an attack on terrorists in Yemen did not contain “war plans.””The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT ‘war plans,'” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted to X Wednesday morning. “This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin.”National security advisor Mike Waltz posted to X Wednesday, “No locations. No sources & methods. NO WAR PLANS. Foreign partners had already been notified that strikes were…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld federal restrictions aimed at curtailing access to kits that can be easily assembled into homemade, nearly untraceable firearms.In a 7-to-2 decision, written by Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, one of the court’s conservatives, the justices left in place requirements enacted during the Biden administration as part of a broader effort to combat gun violence by placing restrictions on so-called ghost guns.The ruling in favor of gun regulations is a departure for the court, which has shown itself to be skeptical both of administrative agency power and of gun regulations. Two conservative justices — Samuel A.…

MIAMI — After two decades of professional tennis, 99 career singles titles and 24 Grand Slam triumphs, Novak Djokovic has become a mystery — to tennis fans and to himself. Both parties are trying to answer the same question, from match to match and tournament to tournament, as his career moves towards an as-yet unknown end.Who is the greatest player of the modern era at this moment?Is he the player who faded two weeks ago against Botic van de Zandschulp, in his opening match at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, Calif.? Or is he the player who has…

By Tara Deschamps The Canadian Press Posted March 26, 2025 12:21 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Hudson’s Bay is asking an Ontario court to approve a restructuring agreement that will give it a short timeline to save the six stores it recently spared from liquidation. Lawyers for the ailing department store want permission to move forward with an agreement it struck with lenders that will force it to start liquidating the stores it rescued on April 5, if it hasn’t found a likely transaction that will repay some of what it owes lenders…