Coronavirus | The Guardian Good Law Project finds items were priced up to four times higher by companies referred through scheme by UK ministersPPE was on average 80% more expensive when the government bought it from firms referred through a special “VIP lane” by Conservative ministers, MPs and officials, new information has revealed.The Good Law […]Continue reading
Coronavirus | The Guardian Ex-PM says No 10 staff were unfairly maligned and some representations were ‘absolutely absurd’Boris Johnson was accused of “shocking disrespect” by families bereaved by Covid after he claimed it was unfair to have expected him to stop parties held by “hard-working” aides in Downing Street during lockdown.In a second lengthy and […]Continue reading
Coronavirus | The Guardian Boris Johnson says Downing Street staff were unfairly maligned and some coverage was ‘absolutely absurd’Covid inquiry live – latest updatesMedia coverage and TV adaptations of lockdown-breaking parties in Downing Street were “absurd” and “a travesty of the truth”, Boris Johnson has argued, saying the gatherings primarily involved staff trying to work […]Continue reading
Coronavirus | The Guardian Analysis of in-custody deaths show mortality rates were more than three times the increase in general population in 2020A study of US prison deaths at the height of the Covid-19 crisis in 2020 has found that mortality rates soared by 77% relative to 2019, or more than three times the increase […]Continue reading
Coronavirus | The Guardian Exclusive: State government has admitted 33,000 Covid fines were invalid but questions remain about additional 29,000 fines issued during pandemicGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA New South Wales supreme court judge considering a challenge to a $3,000 Covid fine imposed on a homeless woman […]Continue reading
MIT News – Artificial intelligence This semester, students and postdocs across MIT were invited to submit ideas for the first-ever MIT Ignite: Generative AI Entrepreneurship Competition. Over 100 teams submitted proposals for startups that utilize generative artificial intelligence technologies to develop solutions across a diverse range of disciplines including human health, climate change, education, and […]Continue reading
15Five If you were one of the millions of people who obsessively tuned into the HBO series “Succession,” then you’ve seen how a poorly executed succession plan can throw an organization into chaos. But while succession planning isn’t nearly as dramatic in real life as it is on TV, it is still an important business […]Continue reading
AWS Machine Learning Blog Today, we’re excited to announce that the OpenAI Whisper foundation model is available for customers using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Whisper is a pre-trained model for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation. Trained on 680 thousand hours of labelled data, Whisper models demonstrate a strong ability to generalize to many datasets and […]Continue reading
Coronavirus | The Guardian Young people’s needs were forgotten, with no one made responsible by UK government for ensuring their rights were met, says legal expertChildren were disproportionately affected by pandemic policies, with their voices not listened to and no one made responsible by the government for ensuring their legal rights were met, the Covid […]Continue reading
AWS Machine Learning Blog We’re excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Canvas now offers a quicker and more user-friendly way to create machine learning models for time-series forecasting. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click service that enables business analysts to generate accurate machine learning (ML) models without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single […]Continue reading
