00:00Volkswagen will ramp up its restructuring program, the head of its core brand said on Monday,
00:05as German autoworker stage nationwide protests less than three days after the company's profit warning highlighted sectoral challenges from high
00:13-cost and fierce Asian competition.
00:15The protests at Volkswagen, BMW and parts supplier Bosch are in response to painful job cuts, possible production relocations
00:23and even plant closures for Germany's most important industry in a crisis that was also reflected in the result of
00:30two state elections on Sunday.
00:32Europe's biggest car-maker plans to cut a further 50,000 jobs as part of May's safety restructuring agreed with
00:39stakeholders this month,
00:40averting a full-blown dispute with powerful unions that send repeated calls on management to fix the issues.
00:46Volkswagen World's Consul Chief Daniel Cavallo and IG Metal Union head Christian Banner called for a stronger protection against unfair
00:54competition from China,
00:56a more effective European Union subsidy policy and continuation of a phased retirement program.
01:03Meta has been testing a human concierge for its new personal AI assistant MUSE,
01:08which entails having human contractors quietly handle some of the phone calls placed via the digital agent.
01:14The Facebook and Instagram owner told employees about the test last week,
01:19shortly after the company publicly launched a phone-calling feature for MUSE.
01:24The MUSE agent, which has stopped US app download charts in the two weeks since its debut,
01:29is designed to autonomously perform tasks like sending emails, shopping and booking travel on a person's behalf.
01:36With the phone-calling feature, a MUSE user can tell the agent to dial phone numbers for US businesses
01:43and talk with people on the other end to handle errands like booking haircuts,
01:47checking whether a store has an item installed, or getting quotes from different contractors.
01:52Some employees have raised privacy concerns about humans handling those calls,
01:57warning that the approach could result in sensitive information being shared unintentionally
02:01with contractors in call centres, the internal posts showed.
02:07Artificial intelligence start-up anthropic and medical knowledge platform Open Evidence
02:12are collaborating to bring AI-powered clinical decision support to physicians in regions
02:17without access to the technology, the company said on Tuesday.
02:21Open Evidence answers doctors' questions by drawing on peer-reviewed medical research and treatment guidelines.
02:28The platform is free to clinicians in the United States and Europe.
02:32The new initiative is a specialised version available to healthcare providers for free
02:36in dozens of low- and middle-income countries where limited access to medical literature,
02:42specialist expertise and continuing medical education can impair patient care.
02:47Healthcare Systems Robo are exploring whether generative AI can help address a shortage of physicians and specialists.
02:55Supporters argue that AI tools can help clinicians quickly navigate vast amounts of medical information,
03:00while critics caution that system trained primarily on data from high-income countries
03:05may not reflect local practice conditions.
03:08The initiative is being rolled out in about 100 countries, including Uganda, Angola, Sudan, Haiti and Mongolia,
03:16according to a list provided by Open Evidence.
03:22The initiative is being rolled out in about 100 countries,
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