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Amazon acquires Snackable AI to boost podcast offerings

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San Francisco: Amazon has quietly acquired audio content discovery engine Snackable AI to strengthen its podcast features for an undisclosed sum, the media reported.
The Snackable AI team joined Amazon Music to work on existing podcast projects.
Mari Joller, Founder and CEO of Snackable, is now working as an artificial intelligence and machine learning product leader at Amazon, reports The New York Post.

Founded in 2018, Snackable AI specialised in using AI to add structure and metadata to video and audio easily with AI-generated chapters, highlights and more.
Snackable will be working on podcast features offered through Amazon Music.
Prior to its acquisition by Amazon, Snackable had raised a total of $3.1 million from investors.
The deal came as Amazon and other Big Tech firms push to implement AI-driven features in their products in the ChatGPT era.
Inspired by the ChatGPT success, Amazon is now building a large language model (LLM) to power Alexa that’s much larger and much more “generalised and capable”, which is going to rapidly accelerate the vision of offering the world’s best personal assistant.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that ChatGPT is a good example of an application that’s being built.
“We’ll build some of those applications ourselves. So for instance, we think one of the most compelling applications that are going to be built in generative AI have to do with making developers much more effective with coding assistance,” he noted during the company’s latest quarterly earnings call.
“I think there’s a significant business model underneath it,” he added.
“We’ve been investing in building our own large language models for several years, and we have a very large investment across the company,” said Jassy.
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May 6, 2023
Prince Harry and the return of the phone hacking scandal – podcast

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April 28, 2023
Why are London’s schools disappearing? | podcast

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Over the past year, the number of schoolchildren enrolled at schools in inner London boroughs has been falling at an alarming rate. Headteachers in areas such as Lambeth, Camden and Southwark are finding that it is hitting their funding and making it impossible for some schools to remain open.
The Guardian’s senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty set out to discover why and found that at the heart of the story was gentrification. He tells Nosheen Iqbal how young working-class families are being priced out of these areas in ever greater numbers. Unable to afford to live in such areas, they are moving to further boroughs such as Barking and Dagenham. And all this is leading to a transformation of the city – and raising questions about who has the right to live and work in it.
It’s a pattern that is being repeated across the country. But what will it mean if the centre of cities become childless? One headteacher discusses how it feels to be running a school in an area ‘hollowed out’ by gentrification, and tells us his fears for the future.

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April 26, 2023
Embracing a childfree life – podcast

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Helen Pidd, the Guardian’s north of England editor, had always wanted to be a mother. The moment she realised that her third round of IVF had failed was devastating.
“I couldn’t see beyond how sad I felt,” she tells Hannah Moore.
Since then, she’s been trying to imagine what the next part of her life might look like by speaking to people who are childfree by choice.
Pidd speaks to 80-year-old Marcia Drut-Davis, author of Confessions of a Childfree Woman, who lost her job as a teacher after speaking on television about her choice not to have children. Asked what advice she gives to childfree people, Drut-Davis recommends good financial planning and emphasises the importance of “heart connections” with younger people.
Pidd also interviews Zoë Noble and James Glazebrook, the founders of the We Are Childfree network, and Lise Scott, a nanny who does not want children of her own.
“I hope that in talking about it and being open about how painful it can be, but also offering this kind of optimistic vision, that it might touch other people who have also felt alone and give them a bit of hope that all is not lost if you can’t have children and you wanted to,” Pidd says.

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April 24, 2023
Are we facing a summer of sporting protests? – podcast

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It began with a protest at Britain’s biggest horse racing event. Members of the activist group Animal Rising scaled the fences at Aintree and attempted to stop the Grand National. As stewards and fans intervened, the protest managed only to delay the race for 14 minutes. As if to help prove the protesters’ point, one of the horses in the race was killed in a fall.
As chief sports reporter Sean Ingle tells Nosheen Iqbal, it was followed just days later by a stunt by another activist group. This time the target was the World Snooker Championship; play was postponed when a Just Stop Oil protester managed to clamber on to the the snooker table and launch an orange powder bomb over proceedings. This weekend, all eyes will be on the London Marathon.
As environment correspondent Damien Gayle reports, the pivot away from mass protest to high-profile stunts shows a divergence in philosophies that still divides the climate action movements. Is building popular support more important? Or bringing the maximum attention to the cause?

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April 21, 2023
‘Truth about campism, bootlicking within #Bollywood..’ Amaal Mallik reacts to Priyanka Chopra’s podcast

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Mumbai: Priyanka Chopra seems to have empowered many voices in the Hindi film industry since she revealed her experience of having ‘beef with people’ as the prime reason behind her exit from Bollywood.
Reacting to a news article covering Priyanka Chopra’s version of the truth, singer-composer Amaal Mallik wrote on Twitter, “Well it’s something that I face on a daily basis. When fans ask me why I don’t do as many Bollywood films? Now you know 😉 The truth about campism, bootlicking & powerplay within #Bollywood needs to come out more often…See what they tried to do to this amazing woman…”
During a conversation with Dax Shepherd on his podcast ‘Armchair Expert’, Priyanka Chopra revealed why she started looking for work in the US, saying, “I was being pushed into a corner in the industry. I had people not casting me, I had beef with people, I am not good at playing that game so I kind of was tired of the politics and I said I needed a break. This music thing gave me an opportunity to go into another part of the world, not crave for the movies I didn’t want to get but I would require to schmooze certain clubs and cliques of people. It would require grovelling and I had worked a long time by then that I didn’t feel like I wanted to do it.”
The ‘Fashion’ actor marked her singing debut with the single ‘In My City’ in 2012, also featuring American rapper Will.i.am.
The song was a hit and Priyanka garnered a lot of appreciation for her singing. Post that, she released another single, ‘Exotic’, also featuring Cuban-American rapper Pitbull in 2013, which went on to become a chartbuster.
She also released a cover version of the song ‘I Can’t make you love me’ in 2014.
“So when this music thing came I was like ‘fu** it I’am going to America’,” Priyanka said in the podcast.
Amaal Mallik is the voice behind popular numbers such as ‘O Khuda’, ‘Kaun Tujhe’, ‘Buddhu Sa Mann’.

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March 29, 2023
Soccer Podcast | “We are missing a Giakoumakis in the Dutch league”

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Brobbey, Douvikas, Pavlidis, Simons. They are the footballers with the most goals in the premier league so far: 11. There is no clear top scorer this season. ,,That is striking” responds Maarten Wijffels. “I had to think back to 2012/2013. Then Siem de Jong was Ajax’s top scorer with 11 goals. And the following year Klaassen and Sigthorsson were both with 10 goals. They became champions with that. You can do that this year too. Brobbey has eleven hits, Kudus nine and the first of Feyenoord, Danilo and Kökçü, have scored eight times.’
While there is still reasonable scoring in the premier league. The sanctuary for a striker. “You don’t see a player from Heerenveen or AZ scoring so many goals this season. There is no Giakoumakis. Luuk de Jong is also missing from that list. That can be explained. It is not served at PSV. The early cross a la Arias or Willems is missing in Eindhoven.”
The first pre-selection of Ronald Koeman will be announced next Friday. Maarten Wijffels looks at the possibilities of the national coach in the AD Football podcast. “Koeman has plenty to choose from in the back, but in the front… I think he will reward Feyenoord as leader of the Eredivisie with players in the pre-selection. Gertrude is interesting to me. As far as I’m concerned, he can be added, but there are already so many defenders. And Koeman wants to play with fewer defenders. Offensively it will be a challenge. Memphis is not playing. Gakpo does, but with a team out of shape. Mountain wine out of shape. Weghorst. I was recently at Club Brugge, which was positive.”
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February 28, 2023
Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation: the end of an era for Scotland – podcast

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Nicola Sturgeon has announced her resignation after more than eight years as first minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National party.
“Essentially, I’ve been trying to answer two questions: is carrying on right for me? And more importantly, is me carrying on right for the country, for my party and for the independence cause I have devoted my life to?” Sturgeon said at a press conference at Bute House in Edinburgh.
Severin Carrell, the Guardian’s Scotland editor, tells Hannah Moore why he believes Sturgeon chose this moment to step down. At the press conference, Sturgeon said her party was “awash with talented individuals”. Carrell discusses who is likely to succeed her, and what her departure means for the SNP and the Scottish independence movement.

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February 16, 2023
Why is the Prevent counter-terrorism programme review so controversial? – podcast

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Since its inception two decades ago, Prevent, part of the UK government’s counter-terrorism strategy, has attracted controversy. Its aim is to ensure that those at risk of radicalisation can be stopped and turned away from extremist ideologies, reducing terrorist attacks.
For many years there have been criticisms that Prevent has impinged on civil liberties, and has discriminated against Muslims. And, the Guardian’s crime correspondent, Vikram Dodd, tells Nosheen Iqbal, with increasing numbers of referrals to Prevent concerning the far right, there have been growing criticisms it has lost its way.
Now an independent review has been published, offering recommendations that the government says it will accept in full to overhaul the programme. But with the review itself mired in controversy after human rights and community groups boycotted it, will it make Britain safer?

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February 15, 2023
Why anger is growing in Turkey a week after catastrophic earthquakes – podcast

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In the past week the death toll from the earthquakes that hit Syria and Turkey, flattening buildings and laying waste to towns and cities, has rocketed.
Journalist Ruth Michaelson has been travelling around the devastated area, meeting survivors who have been waiting for days for rescue and relief efforts to reach them. One man told her how he waited five days for his in-laws to be pulled from the rubble, another that he had to not only help extract his grandparents’ bodies from the rubble but drive them to the graveyard himself. The long wait for support is taking its toll.
There is a growing frustration in Turkey with the government of President Erdoğan – who himself came to power after dissatisfaction at how a previous administration dealt with an earthquake. Meanwhile in Syria, the US has had to make an exemption to its sanctions to allow aid through, while a rebel leader previously affiliated with al-Qaida has called for international aid. So how likely is it that the survivors will get the help they need?

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February 14, 2023