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Ervin said the minimum wage for his workers under Amazon's contract was $19.75. “If you ask people to make this a career, you should have better working conditions and pay your drivers more,” said Ervin, a 26-year Air Force veteran. Amazon did not directly respond to this criticism. The company noted that its contractors, which it calls delivery service partners, have created 279,000 driver jobs over the past five years. “Helping DSPs create a good overall work experience is important to us, which is why we have invested more than $8 billion in cutting-edge technologies, safety features, pricing, programs and…

Biden's trade agenda is "very, very aggressive," said David Autor, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has extensively documented the effects of trade with China on the U.S. economy, including factory job losses . In his view, there are key distinctions between Biden's and Beijing's trade strategies as both nations seek to lead the clean energy race. China has focused more on sending cheap exports to global markets, Autor said, and on preventing foreign companies from dominating China's domestic markets. Biden, he said, is more focused on blocking imports from China and denying China access to some…

The USDA said the fact that inspectors identified the diseased cow and prevented its meat from entering the food chain is proof that its protocols are working. But some infected cows are asymptomatic and may not be detected by such inspection systems. The agency found no virus in ground beef samples collected from outlets in states where the cows tested positive. So far, the agency's Food Safety and Inspection Service has tested tissue samples from 96 dairy cows that had been condemned for signs of disease. Only samples from one cow tested positive for the H5N1 virus, according to the…

The European Commission will investigate them territorial limitations and restrictions to the minister of some products that change price depending on the Member State in which they are sold to study, in the capitals, what solutions can be brought in this regard to the reason for the fine of 337.5 million euros by Bruselas to the Mondelez group, producer of chocolates and biscuits such as Oreo, Milka and Toblerone, to impose unjustified bars on the trade of its products in the countries. As indicated by the European Commission responsible for Competence, Margrethe Vestagertras meet with ministers of the Veintisiete branch…

The arrival in Aragon of technology giants, such as Amazon Web Services, which for a year and a half have been managing three large data centers in the municipalities of Zaragoza and Huesca, will support a reversal of 15,700 million euros and the creation of 6,800 community jobs before 2034. In addition to strengthening the three centers, a new one was being created on 147 hectares of the Parque Empresarium de Zaragoza. In total, the multinational will plant its cloud region across 400 hectares of the community. «Never before have we announced such a powerful turnaround in Aragon». The Aragonese…

According to the OpenAI presenters, ChatGPT-4o brings "a little more emotion, more drama" to the program. Users can also ask him to tone down to suit their mood – and he obliges, with gusto. When ChatGPT is asked to interpret a user's mood based on a facial expression, it correctly guesses that a smile means the user is happy. “Care to show the source of those good vibes?” he asks. Told to the user that he is happy because ChatGPT is so good, he replies: "Oh, stop it, you're making me blush." This is, in its essence, the response of…