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Jeff Bezos has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) company, Prometheus, with former Google executive Vik Bajaj, aiming to develop an “artificial general engineer” capable of designing and manufacturing complex products such as jet engines. The business, valued at approximately $41bn and backed by $12bn from investors including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and BlackRock, plans to use AI to improve productivity across the engineering process. Mr Bezos argued that AI will ultimately create a labor shortage rather than mass unemployment, saying productivity gains will generate more opportunities than the jobs displaced. He added that AI is ushering in “a multitude of golden ages” and described the current environment as “the best time to start a company.”
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Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said disabled people have lost their jobs and employers have become less willing to hire them because of long delays and “arbitrary” decisions in the Department for Work & Pensions’ administration of the Access to Work scheme. In its report on the scheme, the PAC warns that these issues are having damaging consequences for people’s employment, income, and health and wellbeing, as well as undermining Access to Work’s effectiveness. PAC Deputy Chair Clive Betts MP said: “It is hard to overstate what value a well-run Access to Work could ideally provide. Many people made clear to our inquiry how highly they value the support that they receive through the scheme . . . But too often getting that support is taking far too long, and at worst the delays and mismanagement in Access to Work by the DWP seem to be having the reverse impact the scheme is designed to address - actively causing employers to hire fewer disabled people, and causing distress and frustration for those attempting to access the scheme to provide them with the proper support they need.”
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Europe
The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) has found that while AI can enhance efficiency, it does not guarantee increased productivity. TNO investigated how four organisations deployed AI. “The results show that AI accelerates and simplifies work processes at the organisations, but that productivity gains are not a standard consequence,” said the researchers, who also highlighted that employers need to give more consideration to how AI affects employees' working conditions. “AI influences not only the quantity of work, but also the quality of work.” According to the researchers, employers often focus only on improving productivity through task automation, and do not consider the consequences for their workers' day-to-day.
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Middle East
Elon Musk's assets in the Middle East may be at risk amid threats from Iran's military, according to state media. The Fars News Agency has reported that the use of Musk's Starlink internet platform and the X social media service by US and Israeli forces justifies the targeting of his facilities. An unnamed source claimed that Musk's companies are involved in US military operations, including alleged war crimes in Iran. The Islamic Republic has said it reserves the right to strike Musk-affiliated sites across the region, including Starlink stations in several Arab countries. Meanwhile, Musk's company SpaceX has become an increasingly important contractor for the US military and intelligence community through its Starshield program.
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