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AI is changing to the way we buy. Andy Jassy has warned its employees that this will affect its jobs

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In your report ‘Future of Jobs Report 2025’the World Economic Forum advanced that by 2030 92 million jobs were going to move due to the effect of AI on the labor market. That means that some of the current jobs They will cease to existwhile new new jobs will be generated in place. Andy Jassy, ​​Amazon CEO, headed In a statement sent to its employees in those same terms, announcing that the Amazon template will suffer a displacement in its labor mass caused by the Automation of AI. Amazon will not be the same. In his statement, Jassy says that, In a few yearsthe Amazon structure will not be the same today. It cannot be if they want to remain a competitive company. “As we implement more generative and agents, it should change the way our work is done. We will need fewer people doing some of the work that is done today, and more people doing other types of work,” he wrote. In other words, Jassy confirms the theory that at the beginning of the year already raised the World Economic Forum: that the impact of AI would not mean the net destruction of employment in its workforce, but would force Amazon to restructure their departments to reduce employees in some and hire more employees in others. The elephant in the room. The Employment displacement theory In Amazon, however, he raises some doubts for which not even the Amazon CEO has an answer: at what rhythm will that change occur? Is Amazon capable of maintaining the balance of your template? “It is difficult to know exactly how this will be translated over time, but in the coming years we hope that this will reduce our total template as efficiency increases thanks to the extensive use of AI throughout the company,” Jassy wrote in his statement. According to StatistaAmazon currently employs 1.56 million people worldwide, making it the second largest private employer in the United States after Walmart. The change in their stores. Amazon is not the first time he faces a dilemma like the one posed by its executive director. The e-commerce giant already faced him when he began the automation of his logistics centers. On that occasion, a whole Robot Army replaced the employees who were responsible for searching of products. However, as they were implemented Those automated systemsSLA company created new positions of preparation, sending orders, maintenance and engineering. According to data from Amazon,This automation needed 30% more used for its logistics centers. The problem in that case It was the same which is currently raised: many jobs were eliminated with the arrival of robots, but the Creation of new positions It was gradual, leaving a temporary job deficit. Change is not among the same. Another of the problems posed by Amazon’s forecast and that makes a big difference between what happened in logistics centers and the arrival of AI, is that the new positions that, according to Andy Jassy, ​​will be generated, are not equivalent to those who will cease to exist. A warehouse employee It cannot develop a new AI function for the Amazon store. In that sense, CEO’s words to their employees mark A solution for your employees: “Be curious about AI, Edúquense, attend workshops and take training, use and experiment with AI whenever they can.” In addition, the statement insisted “the most transformative technology from the Internet is already here. Those who hug this change are familiar with AI, help us to build and improve our internal levels and contribute value to customers, will be well positioned to have a great impact and help us reinvent the company.” That is, paraphrasing a phrase that has run like gunpowder on the Internet in recent years, “AI will not take your job, it will be taken away from someone who knows how to use it.” If the client changes, you have to adapt. According to the document signed by Jassy, ​​the AI ​​”will change the way we all work and live”, so companies must change their structure to adapt to those changes. The manager referred to the change in habits in the form of search and buy products that users are already starting to use. Tools based on Amazon’s own as Alexa+, but must also respond to the changes that other companies are promoting like Google Lens and the Circle to Search functionor through searches engines based on AI as the overview that Google has integrated into its browser. If the user changes his way of searching for products, Amazon must adapt to it and, according to Jassy, ​​that will generate internal changes. “It will change the way we all work and live. In all companies and in all imaginable fields,” said the manager. Amazon scissors. Regardless of the announcement of great changes in the Amazon squad for the coming years, the company was already coming from a restructuring trajectory of its workforce that, such and as they detail In Laysoff.fyi, it began in 2022 and has already resulted in 27,940 employees without employment. The announcement of its CEO is nothing more than the confirmation that this restructuring process will be chronified and Amazon will continue to adapt its template to the needs and advantages presented by AI. In Xataka | Of engineers to keyboard operators: AI is converting software programming into a mounting chain Image | Amazon

If the question is “how tariffs are going to affect the price of mobiles”, none of the answers is optimistic

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If you are wondering if the phones are going to rise in price in this scenario of Tariff warthe most honest answer in a “we don’t know.” But the most predictable “is practically impossible not to do so.” Apple and Samsung, two of the main names in the middle of this storm, They can completely move the current price photography as we know it. Although the phones from China can better alleviate the storm, the tariff war will also have an inevitable impact on its strategy. So if you were doubting to renew or non -device waiting for this conflict to be resolved, doing so is no longer a bad idea. The Apple case. Apple is, by far, The most affected manufacturer of this commercial war. Trump is convinced that it is possible to achieve 100% national manufacturing, but this is nothing more than a utopia. Apple has been with a strong agency for China for years to manufacture its devices, although trying to Diversify production chain betting on countries like India or Vietnam. Despite this, 80% of the iPhone continue to manufacture in China, a figure that will simply inevitable that Apple does not raise prices if you want to remain profitable. In a 54% tariff scenario, it was already raised as unassumable to absorb part of them to minimize the rise. With a 104% Apple tariff you need to move a file in another direction: get the manufacture of China. The Samsung case. Samsung is the most affected Asian firm by the commercial war, although the having moved the production chain mainly to Vietnam It will help you partially alleviate the situation. But there is no miracle: Samsung no longer manufactures in China, but Vietnam is also in the sight of Tru The company has been betting on this territory for almost 20 years, having minimized its dependence with China. However, the Vietnam tariff is 46%, the third highest after China and Cambodia. The US case. In the United States the photo is complicated for every national manufacturer that manufactures outside the country, such as Qualcomm. This semiconductor giant delegates to TSMC (Taiwan) the manufacture of its chips. Inevitable increases. These two cases are the most extreme, drawing a more than possible scenario of global ups. Except Milagro, it seems impossible to assume a 104 and 46% tariff in imported products from China and Vietnam to the United States, a situation that can only be solved by rethinking the product strategy in the rest of the markets. Moving production chain outside these countries is not profitable either. If Apple, Samsung and the rest of the manufacturers have been focusing on Vietnam or India for years, it is due to the cost of their qualified workforce. Produce outside and keep prices is pure science fiction. Chinese mobiles. Chinese manufacturers have been with a very clear strategy in the United States for years: not selling mobiles in the United States. Only some names such as OnePlus, TCL or Motorola sound with some force in the country, especially in the case of Motorola (property of the China Lenovo), third manufacturer there. Saving the Motorola case, with mainly China manufacturing and a little flattering scenario if you want to continue importing products from there, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo or Huawei do not impact this measure so directly. They are manufacturers that have been focused on both their local market and markets outside the United States. With overwhelming success, by the way. What will the climbs will be. The question we would all want to answer, and the one that will mark a new photograph in the global smartphones market. For years, the price of the iPhone has depended on the strategy in the United States plus the corresponding taxes and fees to be paid by bringing it to other countries. Apple will have more than complicated to maintain its historical rate of $ 999 for the pro model, a strategy that It would affect the global price. The rise in the United States, however, does not have to move exactly to other markets. The price of the iPhone will have to adapt to the new Apple calculations. Some in which you will need to juggle your margins so as not to cool the demand. An inevitable situation. The problem, despite the slightest tariff, is identical for Samsung. It faces a global readjustment scenario to alleviate the situation in the United States, where It is currently the second manufacturer. The situation of the rest of the manufacturers does not seem much better. Although Chinese manufacturers do not sell their mobiles in the United States, there is the presence of televisions, monitors, home products and more technologies. The doubt is whether they will absorb this impact by increasing the price in products of these categories, or if they will bet on a generalized increase, included smartphones (something very sweet, by sales volume of this segment), to square their accounts. Demand as a key. A basic law of the free market is that there is no price increase without demand. Manufacturers face a more than complex scenario: they need to raise prices to remain profitable, but consumers may not be willing to accept them. The smartphones market has been facing constant uploadsboth in devices prices and in The components and logistics costs. However, the Consumer tolerance margin It seems to be reaching its limit. We still do not know what the roof through which buyers are willing. Tariffs aim to bring us the answer. Image | Xataka In Xataka | China is doing business with tariffs in the most unexpected way: Reversing American gas to Europe

We have just discovered that food can also affect the risk of developing lung cancer

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We know well that certain ways of life can affect our risk of suffering certain types of cancer. A clear case is that of the relationship between smoking and respiratory system tumors, especially lung. We also know that our diet It can affect to the probability that we develop cancers such as liver or colorectal. However, relationships can be somewhat more complex. Diet and lung cancer. A new study has linked The diet with the risk of lung cancer, a relationship that until now had remained, if it does not hide, at least in the shadow of other better known and explored connections. Adenocarcinoma and glycogen. The study focuses on the Pulmonary adenocarcinomaa tumor at the origin of 40% of cases of globally diagnosed lung cancer, explains the team responsible for the study. It is the cancer that causes more deaths in the United States, but it is also the most common lung cancer among people who have ever smoked. The new study focuses on glycogen accumulation. Glycogen is a polysaccharide, a sugar composed of simple sugars or monosaccharides, in this case a glucose chain. This sugar is used by our body as an energy reserve. The role of glycogen. The accumulations of Glycogen They had been observed in some types of cancers as well as in other diseases. Now, the team responsible for the new study, studied through computational and laboratory models how this complex sugar acts as “oncogenic metabolite.” As they explain, the greater the accumulation of the polysaccharide in cancer cells, greater and more dangerous will be tumor growth. In mice. The analysis in animal models (in mice) served to validate the theoretical results. The team found that, by feeding the mice with a diet that they catalog as “western”, capable of facilitating a greater presence of blood glycogen, cancer in the animals of the animals grew. In contrast, when glycogen levels fell, tumor growth was reduced. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Nature Metabolism. Diet and cancer risk. The team responsible for the study emphasizes that, although it is one of the first times (if not the first time) that lung cancer is linked to the diet, there are already numerous occasions when the diet has been put in the center of the strategies for cancer prevention. The diet is also an important pillar in treatments against this disease. “In the long term, our approach to cancer prevention should reflect the success of the antitabaco campaign (putting a greater emphasis on public awareness and policy -based strategies that promote healthier dietary choices as a fundamental component for disease prevention,” explained in a press release Ramon Sun, who led the team responsible for the study. Route for treatment. The good news is that the finding can open a way to improve treatments against this type of cancer. And we count at our disposal of drugs capable of controlling the level of glycogen in our body. Without the need to resort to pharmacological treatments, the study also allows highlighting the importance of a balanced diet in our health. In Xataka | Quantum computers begin to make a difference in a crucial field: the development of cancer vaccines Image | ROD Long

IPS blocks that affect Cloudflare are the new Internet condemnation. Spain Italy, and the United Kingdom already suffers them

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The situation we are living these days in Spain with the Internet is worrying. Indiscriminate IPS blockages caused by the fight against illegal soccer broadcasts have made Complaints about Movistar’s service, O2 or Digi multiply: When these sporting events are held, various web sites and services cease to be accessible. The measures are resulting to have notable collateral effects, but this is not only in Spain. The situation. In recent days we have seen how Movistar clients, O2 or Digi have criticized the cuts in the service in networks that prevented them from accessing various sites and platforms on the Internet. The reason has been the blockade of IPS to fight the illegal broadcasts of football matches. In several cases, blocked IPS, some of which belong to Cloudflare, are not linked to a single service, but thousands, and not make a selective block – which is complex, but feasible – causes numerous problems. Italy was also a pioneer in this crusade. In Spain LaLiga keeps a crusade Against the illegal broadcasts of football matches, but Italy also has been fighting this type of problem for years. Already in November 2022 the iutalian authorities They identified thousands of subscribers to IPTV channels to which he later sent fines. Shared IPS. Giorgio Bonfiglio, Amazon Web Services engineer, already explained the problem of IPS blocks In a thread in x. As he highlighted, in many cases the blocked IPS are shared IPS, although it is very difficult (or impossible) to find out if they are shared. The IPV6 protocol has facilitated that service providers can access a colossal number of addresses, being able to change them dynamically and even assign one for each request. During IPS blocks, connectivity in various parts of Italy was very affected. Source: Torrentfreak The selective block is very complex. “Block one by one would not be possible. You would have to block the entire class, but that is not feasible because it is almost never possible to determine how many IPS are owned by a certain client,” He added. And that is what is happening with these indiscriminate blockages. The Italian Parliament raised a law proposal precisely for that in July 2023. It ended up approved and was baptized as “Piracy Shield” or “Privacy shield.” AGCOM acts in Italy. The Transalpino country has AGCom communications regulator (authoritá per le Garanzie Nelle Communicazioni), which is the one that manages the privacy shield blocking system. In February 2024 there happened there exactly what is beginning to happen here: the indiscriminate blockages of IPS that belong to Cloudflare OA services like Zenlayer (another CDN) e even Google They caused hundreds, perhaps thousands of legitimate and lawful websites were inaccessible while those blockages were active. Even the ISP, forced to comply with those blockages, also They criticize the situation. United Kingdom adds to the crusade. The use of dynamic IPTV emissions blockages is becoming the norm also in the United Kingdom. Over there They started working in a regulation in respect in 2017, and have collaborated with specialized companies in illegal emission struggle such as FRIENDMTS. Content suppliers such as Sky obtained in July 2023 block illegal streaming services sports. Those blockages, of course, too They caused What legitimate services will cease to be accessible. And more problems in Austria. These types of problems have also been lived in Austria. At the end of August 2022 Cloudflare clients began to complain about sites on their network that were not accessible in the country. As They told later Those responsible for Cloudflare, everything was due to an IPS blockade executed by the Austrian ISP. Austrian authorities They reacted later To avoid IPS blocking for the protecting neutrality in the network. But the locks are everywhere. These types of situations are being suffered around the world. Judicial orders that force ISPs to block IPS denounced for illegitimate contents have occurred in countries such as Canada, Holland either Franceand in those cases once again the impact is not only for those illegitimate services, but for users and companies that lose access due to the blockade of IPS. Image | Tourettes In Xataka | If you get a letter from LaLiga, it is not necessary to pay what they ask: this is what the lawyers recommend

Trump freezes aid that could affect feeding of children and older adults

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President Donald Trump ordered to freeze financial aid to several programs, including federal loans, in an attempt to eliminate expenses, but whose decision would even affect food aid programs for children, single mothers and older adults. The measure enters into force at 5:00 pm on Tuesday and has caused outrage, in addition to a group of general prosecutors from several states to submit a lawsuit. This effort of the Trump administration will affect millions of Americans, regardless of whether the State is governed by Republicans, Moveon Civi Action warned. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that the freezing of funds is a federal expenditure review and said that direct help to people would not be affected, although several organizations that receive aid funds may not exercise their programs and even congressmen alert the negative consequences. “It doesn’t matter who has voted or where you live, because Trump is taking measures to eliminate programs that help common Americans,” said Rahna Epting, executive director of Moveon Civic Action. He warned that among the programs are those who help children for food, as well as older adults. “(The preschool centers will be blocked), the freezing of Head Start’s help to face the hunger for young children and the end of the Meals On Wheels program for the elderly in need,” said Epting, who accused that, at the same time, Trump defends exemptions for the richest Americans. There is no official report of how many programs will be affected, but it will be known once the executive order enters into force. “In the next few hours and days, we will know more and more about how many programs and people will be affected by the suspension of Trump’s financing,” said Epting. “We will not allow faint -hearted republicans who stay on the sidelines while Trump harms their voters. (…) Most Americans still fight to get ahead and need stability and help, not Trump’s chaos that will worsen their lives and increase costs and ruin our economy. ” Congressmen warn damage Democratic Senator Rubén Gallego (Arizona) criticized Trump’s decision and warned consequences in vulnerability, in addition to affecting various social groups. “Children will go hungry, older Americans will not be able to pay the rent and police departments will suffer budget cuts due to the chaotic freezing of Trump team funds,” Gallego said. “They can’t even write a clear memorandum and now their incompetence is creating chaos in communities throughout the country.” (Tagstotranslate) Food Infant (T) Donald Trump

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