Luke Browning tells F1.com about why 1996 World Champion Damon Hill is his racing hero and serves as a source of inspiration.
Haas returned to the midfield battle over the 2024 and 2025 seasons, with new team boss Ayao Komatsu taking them from the foot of the Teams’ Championship standings to seventh and eighth respectively. But can the outfit get back to the highs of 2018 – when they placed fifth overall – as F1 heads into an all-new set of regulations?
Red Bull's powertrain project, in conjunction with American car giant Ford, had a lot of airtime during the Formula 1 team's impressive launch event in Detroit – and that's because it's a very big deal.
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This week Google "unveiled a set of tools for retailers that helps them roll out AI agents," reports the Wall Street Journal,
The new retail AI agents, which help shoppers find their desired items, provide customer support and let people order food at restaurants, are part of what Alphabet-owned Google calls Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience. Major retailers, including home improvement giant Lowe's, the grocer Kroger and pizza chain Papa Johns say they are already using Google's tools to help prepare for the incoming wave of AI-assisted shopping and ordering...
Kicking off the race among tech giants to get ahead of this shift, OpenAI released its Instant Checkout feature last fall, which lets users buy stuff directly through its chatbot ChatGPT. In January, Microsoft announced a similar checkout feature for its Copilot chatbot. Soon after OpenAI's release last year, Walmart said it would partner with OpenAI to let shoppers buy its products within ChatGPT.
But that's just the beginning, reports the New York Times, with hundreds of start-ups also vying for the attention of retailers:
There are A.I. start-ups that offer in-store cameras that can detect a customer's age or gender, robots that manage shelves on their own and headsets that give store workers access to product information in real time... The scramble to exploit artificial intelligence is happening across the retail spectrum, from the highest echelons of luxury goods to the most pragmatic of convenience stores.
7-Eleven said it was using conversational A.I. to hire staff at its convenience stores through an agent named Rita (Recruiting Individuals Through Automation). Executives said that they no longer had to worry about whether applicants would show up to interviews and that the system had reduced hiring time, which had taken two weeks, to less than three days.
The article notes that at the National Retail Federation conference, other companies showing their AI advancements included Applebee's, IHOP, the Vitamin Shoppe, Urban Outfitters, Rag & Bone, Kendra Scott, Michael Kors and Philip Morris.
The new retail AI agents, which help shoppers find their desired items, provide customer support and let people order food at restaurants, are part of what Alphabet-owned Google calls Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience. Major retailers, including home improvement giant Lowe's, the grocer Kroger and pizza chain Papa Johns say they are already using Google's tools to help prepare for the incoming wave of AI-assisted shopping and ordering...
Kicking off the race among tech giants to get ahead of this shift, OpenAI released its Instant Checkout feature last fall, which lets users buy stuff directly through its chatbot ChatGPT. In January, Microsoft announced a similar checkout feature for its Copilot chatbot. Soon after OpenAI's release last year, Walmart said it would partner with OpenAI to let shoppers buy its products within ChatGPT.
But that's just the beginning, reports the New York Times, with hundreds of start-ups also vying for the attention of retailers:
There are A.I. start-ups that offer in-store cameras that can detect a customer's age or gender, robots that manage shelves on their own and headsets that give store workers access to product information in real time... The scramble to exploit artificial intelligence is happening across the retail spectrum, from the highest echelons of luxury goods to the most pragmatic of convenience stores.
7-Eleven said it was using conversational A.I. to hire staff at its convenience stores through an agent named Rita (Recruiting Individuals Through Automation). Executives said that they no longer had to worry about whether applicants would show up to interviews and that the system had reduced hiring time, which had taken two weeks, to less than three days.
The article notes that at the National Retail Federation conference, other companies showing their AI advancements included Applebee's, IHOP, the Vitamin Shoppe, Urban Outfitters, Rag & Bone, Kendra Scott, Michael Kors and Philip Morris.
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BERLIJN (ANP/RTR) - Een grote Duitse brancheorganisatie voor machine- en fabrieksbouw heeft de Europese Commissie opgeroepen maatregelen te nemen tegen het plan van Donald Trump. De Amerikaanse president wil extra importheffingen opleggen aan een aantal Europese landen vanwege het conflict over Groenland.
VDMA, dat staat voor Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau, vindt dat Brussel moet overwegen zijn "antidwanginstrument" in te zetten. Dat instrument stelt het landenblok in staat maatregelen te nemen tegen landen die economische druk uitoefenen op EU-lidstaten om hun beleid te veranderen.
"Als de EU hieraan toegeeft, zal dat de Amerikaanse president alleen maar aanmoedigen om de volgende absurde eis te stellen en met verdere tarieven te dreigen", zei VDMA-voorzitter Bertram Kawlath zondag in een verklaring.
De Verenigde Staten voeren op 1 februari een extra importtarief in van 10 procent voor acht Europese landen, waaronder Duitsland, Nederland, Denemarken en Frankrijk.
MADRID (ANP/RTR) - De Spaanse premier Pedro Sánchez stelt dat een Amerikaanse inval in Groenland de Russische president Vladimir Poetin "de gelukkigste man op aarde" zou maken. Dat heeft hij gezegd tegen het Spaanse dagblad La Vanguardia.
"Als we ons richten op Groenland, moet ik zeggen dat een Amerikaanse invasie van dat gebied Vladimir Poetin de gelukkigste man ter wereld zou maken. Waarom? Omdat het zijn poging tot invasie van Oekraïne zou legitimeren", zei Sánchez. "Als de Verenigde Staten geweld zouden gebruiken, zou dat het einde van de NAVO betekenen. Poetin zou dubbel zo blij zijn."
De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump claimt Groenland nodig te hebben voor de nationale veiligheid, wat tot kritiek leidt vanuit Europa. Zaterdag dreigde hij met importheffingen tegen Europese bondgenoten, waaronder Nederland, die op Deens verzoek militairen naar Groenland hebben gestuurd. Ambassadeurs van de 27 EU-lidstaten houden zondag een spoedvergadering.
Negentien jaar oud en pas een jaar in de basis: AZ-middenvelder Kees Smit is een van de grootste talenten van het Nederlandse voetbal. Bondscoach Ronald Koeman ziet een nieuwe Pedri, AZ hoopt op de hoogste transfersom ooit. Ook in verloren duel tegen PEC Zwolle valt hij op met zijn spelinzicht en techniek.
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